Y13 Baseline assessment: Learner response

 1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).

WWW: A fair attempt with some knowledge of the CSPs in this paper and able to identify relevant theories.

EBI: Not enough depth or detail in your response. need to validate your responses with specific examples from the CSPs and theories.
2) Focusing on the BBC Newsbeat question, write three ways it helps to fulfil the BBC's mission statement that you didn't include in your original assessment answer. Use the mark scheme for ideas.

Inform: election news coverage

Educate: current news on A levels or GCSE

Entertain: music behind bulletins thats recognisable

3) Question two asked you how useful media effects theories are in understanding the audience response to War of the Worlds. Complete the following:

• Gerbner's Cultivation theory: Useful as people werent used to lies
• Frankfurt School's Hypodermic Needle model: useful or not useful? Why?
• Stuart Hall's Reception theory: useful or not useful? Why?

4) Write a full essay plan for the 25-mark Magazines question. The mark scheme contains plenty of ideas you can use here. Your plan should include notes/bullet points addressing the following:

• -GQ and gentlewoman mainly attract their target audiences through them keeping up with technology, representations and the magazines contents itself.

  Paragraph 1 content/ideas: Technology - GW website

  Paragraph 2 content/ideas: Representations - Ramala Ali

  Paragraph 3 content/ideas: Contents of the magazine - Bridgerton + Interviews or Isabella tree

  Conclusion: sum up your argument a final time in one sentence

5) Finally, identify three key skills/topics you want to work on in A Level Media this year before the final exams in the summer.

Key theories, csp deep knowledge, magazine depth