Help in AO2 please - Identity and Belonging

[Sayf44]

I've been really weak in area of study 2, scoring much lower than AO1 and AO3. I feel completely lost when attempting SAC's for this AO2. I have no idea where to start, I "can't come up with any complex ideas", and my "responses are too simple and show no complexity" (my teacher). I've read many of those threads on AO2 but I feel that they are too general. I think I need more specific explanation and examples.

I'm trying to write a practice SAC. The prompt is "No relationship is static." And the film is "Skin". Can someone please give me ideas, along with the appropriate form. Thanks

[Smiley_]

With context there is no such thing as an “appropriate form” 

What form have you been writing in previously? If you usually write essays then try and look for some other forms. Whereas if you tried some more of the “creative” type styles then maybe try an essay. I found it really hard to score well when I wrote essays so I explored other forms such as interviews and reflections.
Here is a couple of links to some examples of different pieces http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XYR4bm0eYgsJ:www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/documents/vce/english/english3-4aos2samwriting.doc+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

English Work Examples Directory

For the actual ideas it can be good to read about the background of a film like skin as well as drawing in some external ideas like ones in this thread.

~*Context External Examples Guide*~
With an area like context, just explore what you are good at, maybe short stories maybe essays and work from there.

For the prompt “No relationship is static."

You could brain storm ideas about how relationships both positive and negative affect your sense of self and identity.
About how forming or losing relationships can affect your personality and character.
How a change in relationships can lead to feelings of belonging or a loss of belonging.
Or about how belonging or feeling as if you do not belong can alter relationships. 

Hope this helps

[meganrobyn]

^ I absolutely agree.

If your main feedback is that your ideas are too simplistic (rather than that your writing is crappy), I 100% agree to stop writing a standard expos or essay (unless you're not doing that, in which case different advice is needed!).

An expos or essay has all the ideas on the surface - explicitly. So it can be difficult to make them sound complex or sophisticated.

Something more 'creative', on the other hand, has most of its context (eg I&B) ideas and arguments kind of hidden under the surface. The risk of this is that the examiner won't find them; the benefit of this is that any ideas they do find will kind of be partly their own wording (because they have to interpret them). Which means markers are often less likely to think they're superficial.

Yes, you absolutely have to make sure that whatever you write HAS ideas that can be found under the surface, and if you write a story it has to be a great story on its own terms - or a speech has to be a great speech on its own terms, etc - but switching to creative is a little trick that often helps overcome the problem of 'ideas too superficial' feedback.