MIGRAIN Assessment 3 - Learner response

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

Good use of analysis and media terminology. Points are clearly written and explained out.
However, not enough is written in that time frame. Pages have not been filled out all the way.
2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Write down the number of marks you achieved for the two questions: 5/8; 5/12. If you didn't achieve full marks in a question, write a bullet point on what you may have missed.

Q1- "Gender is a performance" Women should be "good girls" while men should be "bad boys".
Q2- Reinforcing white western beauty standards.

3) For Question 2 on the social and cultural contexts of gender representations, identify three potential points in the mark scheme that you didn't include in your answer.
Links to Gillette advert "Boys will be boys".
The woman is in a submissive pose (representation of gender performance.)
Masculinity is in "crisis" theory is over exaggerated.

4) Having read the whole mark scheme, pick out one media theory that you didn't include in this assessment and summarise it briefly here so you can use it confidently in future.
    Mulvey's theory of the male gaze.

5) Based on your experience in this assessment, identify three aspects of Media (e.g. skills/particular theories/examples) that you need to work on for your next assessment.
Learn name of theorists.
Write down more examples of what the question is implying.
Describe the connotation more in detail and the representations of stereotypes being either subverted or reinforced.

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