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:
- Terms – Using media specific language to describe micro features (camera, editing, sound & mise-en-scene).
- Examples – Your ability to pick out examples of micro features from the sequence and describe them clearly.
- 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.
- 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.