Assessment of Textual Analysis

Assessment

You need to understand very clearly how to get the marks in your textual analysis essays.

There are four areas where you can improve on your performance:

  1. Terms – Using media specific language to describe micro features (camera, editing, sound & mise-en-scene).
  2. Examples – Your ability to pick out examples of micro features from the sequence and describe them clearly.
  3. Analysis – Your ability to explain how the micro features you’ve seen communicate ideas about the nature/feel of the characters, places or events in the sequence.
  4. Significance – How the example & analysis illustrate wider values, attitudes, opinions & beliefs around particular social groups. In other words how those groups are represented.

Always have lots of synonyms for the term represent: signify, portray, infers, implies, connotes…etc

Your targets for improvement should always refer to one of these areas and your revision and practice should always focus on one of these areas.

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