Evaluations 10.09

To be completed by 12C1 students by Monday 02-11.

Your responses will be used to help write your Interim Reports and help us to plan a better course for you.

1. SELF EVALUATION

Write an evaluation of your progress on the Media course so far.
Post the work up on your blogs.

a. Comment on each of the following, giving yourself a grade with an explanation outlining why:

(Grading should be1-5: 1 = excellent, 2 = v. good, 3 = good/average, 4 = poor, 5 = v. poor)

• Attainment
• Effort
• Punctuality
• Submission and quality of homework
• Ability to work independently
• Quality of writing
• Organisation of blog
• Oral contributions in class

b. Make a list of three achievements (www) and three targets/areas for improvement (ebi) over the next half-term.

2. COURSE EVALUATION

Write an evaluation of the actual course/teaching.
Please submit the work as a comment on this blog after this post. Include your name!

a. Answer each of the following with a grade (1-5), giving reasons/examples:

(Grading should again be1-5: 1 = excellent, 2 = v. good, 3 = good/average, 4 = poor, 5 = v. poor)

• How well is the course organised?
• How interesting is the content that is covered?
• How useful are the handouts?
• Have the lessons been well-paced?
• What is the standard of the teachers’ presentation/subject knowledge?
• How well has the course met your expectations?
• Have the extra-curricular events been useful? (eg. Awards Eve.)
• Has the Macguffin Blog been useful?

b. Make a list of three things you like and help you to learn (www) and three suggestions of things you’d like to see changed/improved (ebi).

12A1 Cover Work for Miss Van der Sanden P1, 2 & 4

Please see work set for 12C2 cover work set on the blog for 30.09 (analysis of the newspaper front page using all the relevant media language and audience or narrative theories as appropriate). Read this carefully and complete the task. Remember this must be in essay format, not in notes or bullet points and posted onto your blog along with the image. You have 3 periods to focus on this and the standard of work must reflect this amount of time spent on it. For homework then find a front page of a broadsheet newspaper (if you don't understand this term look it up in your media dictionaries) and complete the same exercise.

12A1 Homework Film Trailer Analysis

Find a trailer for a low-budget contemporary (within the last 5 years) British Independent film, post it into your blog and analyse how it creates enigma for an audience through: mise-en-scene, editing & sound. Remember to use all of your key concepts and the application of narrative theory (e.g. Propp's Spheres of Action and Todorov's theory of narrative structure). Use screen grabs to assist you but the written content should be equivalent to at least 1 side of A4.

12C2 Cover Work, P2 Mon 05.10

Stay in DF07 for the whole of the lesson (period 2). Work quietly and sensibly on the computers. Mr Babu will be monitoring you, and I may be back to check on you too....please sign in on a piece of paper and leave on my desk.

This work has to be done by everyone by the next lesson (Wed 7th), including the people who are on the English trip on Monday - no excuses!!

Watch a complete episode of Hollyoaks online. Everyone should choose a different one. Make notes while watching and then answer the following questions on your blogs...

1. Is it a linear or non-linear narrative? Is this typical of the genre? Give examples from other texts.

2. Is there an obvious protagonist in the narrative? How is it communicated to us that this is his/her role? How are we encouraged to identify with him/her?

3. What are the action codes? (The sequence of events that happen within the story).

4. What enigmas (mysteries) are suggested, developed and (perhaps) finally resolved?

5. What is the equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium?