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Film Industry assessment 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).

WWW: Close to perfection: superb!

EBI: Keep an eye on the basics ; spelling, capital letters. Don't give the examiner any reason to make a negative judgement on your paper! A little more on Hesmondhalgh for full marks on Q 3

2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Write down the number of marks you achieved for the three questions: _/3; _/6; _/9. If you didn't achieve full marks in a question, write a bullet point on what you may have missed.

Q 1. 3/3
Q 2. 6/6
Q 3. 8/9

  • I had missed more information on what Hesmondhalgh said about commodification

3) For Question 2 on the promotion of Blinded By The Light, use the mark scheme to identify at least one strategy used to promote the film that you didn't mention in your answer and why it was used. The key lesson from this question was to make specific reference to the CSP in your answer and ensure each explanation was different.

Music of Bruce Springsteen in order to attract his loyal fans to the film

4) Now look at Question 3 - focusing on Hesmondhalgh's point that making media products is a 'risky business'. Write three bullet points from the mark scheme that you could have added to your answer. Try and include a specific reference to the CSP where you can and ensure you understand the key contexts to Hesmondhalgh's quote. Additional reference to Hesmondhalgh's ideas would help here too - you may want to look back at our work on Hesmondhalgh and the Cultural Industries.

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  • 89% on rotten tomatoes

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