Blog feedback and learner response

WWW: You’ve made an excellent start to A Level Media on the coursework side – well done! It really comes across strongly that you’ve studied the subject before and picked up a lot from the GCSE in Media (the use of media theory in both your analytical tasks is so good to see!) Your mise-en-scene recreation was excellent and shows that you have the interesting cross-section of skills required for this course – both practical and analytical.

EBI: You just need to post your learner response to the recreation and your blog will be fully up to date. In terms of your analytical work, it’s great to see media theory but also make sure you are exploring the potential meanings in all the different aspects of a text. When using CLAMPS, for example, you may want to focus in on just two or three of the areas but really write in detail about the meanings created.

LR: Create a blogpost on your Media 2 Coursework blog called ‘Blog feedback and learner response’, copy this feedback in and then complete the following learner response.

Reflect on your first month of Film & TV Language. What aspect of Film & TV language have you most enjoyed studying? What is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop before we start coursework at the end of Year 12?


I enjoyed studying the mise-en-scene (CLAMPS) aspect of media as this can create a storyline just by itself with no movement of camerawork or dialogue. One my strongest piece of work has been the mise-en-scene recreation video as all of the aspects of mise-en-scene (Costume, Lighting, Actors/movement/placement, Props, Setting). My weakest so far has been when analysing the posters for the mise-en-scene as I need to go into more detail in deeper, potential meanings. At the moment, for coursework, I need to work on focusing the camera with the lighting, as when I had dark lighting (in my recreation) the camera went a bit out of focus. 

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