Audience essay feedback and learner response

1) WWW-Taranpreet, I am so impressed with the commitment and effort you have shown me in your first term studying Media. If you carry on with this conscientious attitude then I have no doubt you will be able to achieve or exceed your high target. All your work is up to date even when you have missed lessons for exams and had to catch up in your own time. J You have clearly shown an aptitude for the subject and an understanding of the media language and theory we have studied since you are applying these to your own analysis of products and all of your written work. Your blog posts are detailed and you always try to get to the extension to push yourself. Well done.

Your essay on the power of audiences is well written with clear examples given for each industry. You have used media terminology (such as ‘User generated content’ and ‘platform’) accurately and confidently to enhance your examples. You have weighed up both sides maturely and given examples to back up your points which is very impressive at GCSE level. You write very nicely.

EBI- Could you examine the success of a film franchise such as Harry Potter, Marvel films or The Hunger Games or a TV drama series like Humans or Stranger Things and have a look at ways in which these films have used social media as a means of marketing? Look at marketing campaigns such as using hashtags, web sites, Apps, games, free downloads, Instagram / Snapchat to generate hype.  This will give your film and television section a wider scope when examining the advantages that the internet offers audiences. What are all the different options for how to access films and television, such as streaming, ‘appointment to view’, downloads, piracy and catch up? You have mentioned the ‘detrimental’ effects of binge watching but that’s a bit alarmist – I would say more about the fact that so much competition exists that consumers are saturated with content and people your age tend to have shorter attention spans and expect instant gratification (such as series’ all released simultaneously) and they prefer watching short sound bites or vloggers on Youtube.

In your introduction, you could also say some more general things about disadvantages and advantages of the internet such as the unregulated nature of the world wide web (meaning young people can access inappropriate material / films that are not suitable) and the dangers such as cyber-bullying, trolling and identity theft, to name but a few.

 LR- See blog. Re-do your introduction and focus on the TV and film paragraph. Also, add examples of a time when citizen journalism has made a difference to news reporting (e.g Grenfell Tower coverage, the Ian Tomlinson police incident) and an example of ‘fake news’ 

2) Introduction-89 words

    Paragraph 1-255 words

    Paragraph 2- 276 words

    Paragraph 3-132 words

    Conclusion-46 words

    Total: 798 words

3) I think my strongest paragraph was paragraph 1 because it included facts and statistics to back up my points and it made my reasons stronger as there was evidence to support it.

4) I think my weakest paragraph was paragraph 3 as I didn't include any facts and my points were more repetitive.

5) Introduction:

    I believe that the internet has given the audiences more power than ever before. With an almost constant access to the internet and technology, it means audiences have larger opportunities to share or produce content of their own. Consumers are becoming prosumers due to the rapidly increasing number of  'User Generated Content' (UGC). This means the power of the audience is increasing as well as their chances to share their own content. Audiences have the ability to do a lot more now than ever before.