Magazines and Music Video assessment learner response: blog tasks

 Create a new blog post called 'Magazines and Music Video assessment learner response' and complete the following tasks:

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

www = Q2 shows potential but overall this needs to be a lesson in the amount of work and knowledge required at gcse level 

ebi = learn and revise the csps you can provide evidence in your answers.

lr = see the blog

2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Write down the mark you achieved for each question: 

Q1: 0
Q2: 3
Q3: 2

Q4:3

Q5: 1

3) Look specifically at question 2. Use the indicative content in the mark scheme for question 2 to write three connotations of the design and layout of Tatler.

• the denotation of one central image directly addressing the audience enables the audience

to see the aspirational Tatler reader – an upmarket, sophisticated woman

• the choice of white and black font/typography against the natural setting connotes that the

magazine is both fresh and modern but from a classy, traditional base. This is likely how the

Tatler audience would like to see themselves

• the soft focus also draws the eye to the image, in particular the model’s gaze, which

connotes equality between the model and the reader, given the model’s body language

4) Now look at question 3 - Heat magazine. Use the indicative content in the mark scheme to write three ways celebrities are represented in Heat magazine.

• Some of the paparazzi photography is designed to make them look like ‘normal’ people so

readers can identify with them or feel closer to them.

• Celebrities on cover tend to be reality TV or pop stars – celebrities generally from more

working class backgrounds so again creating a point of contact with a working or middle

class audience.

• Focuses on celebrities’ relationships – ‘double life’, ‘secretive star’, ‘baby daddy’, ‘Giovanna’s

heartache’ etc. Suggests these are important developments audiences want to hear the

latest on.

5) Look at question 5 - Arctic Monkeys and audience identity. This is a real AQA past question with lots of potential answers given in the mark scheme. Choose three answers that specifically refer to the Arctic Monkeys CSP and write them here. 

• the audience might watch music videos to reinforce values and behaviour. The lead singer

seems to not care about the filming of the music video, rarely making eye contact with the

camera and stating at the beginning ‘don’t believe the hype’. The audience gain a sense of

identity as they can relate to the lead singer’s both nonchalant and rock and roll

representation.

6) BLACKPINK - How You Like That didn't come up in this assessment. If this CSP comes up in your end of Year 1 exam, what three things about BLACKPINK and How You Like That could you try to include in your answer? 

• the performance element of most music videos directly addresses the viewer with the

artists, connecting with the fans through use of close-ups and breaking the fourth wall. The

drummer winks and mugs to the camera and the band laugh and gurn as they ‘perform’. The

audience has a sense they are seeing the ‘real’ Arctic Monkeys as they are not putting on an

act