Homework: Feedback and Evaluation Part 1

These notes are simply to reinforce what I am saying in class and to give you a reference point for your work!

FEEDBACK (to be finished and on blog by Thursday next week (4 Feb) at the latest)
- use the questions on pp 49 or 50 of the blue booklet and obtain feedback from at least 10 people on your project - try and ensure they are from your target audience...
- set up a post in your blog entitles "Audience Feedback"
- explain how you have obtained feedback and about who your sample is taken from and why
- summarise your feedback - put the question and then sum up key responses below it? Could do as a PowerPoint and embed via Slideshare?
- add an overview at the end - what are the key messages from your feedback - what has worked well and what could be improved?

EVALUATION (draft of question 1 to be printed out and handed in to edit suite by Friday 4pm next week - 5 Feb)
- you can find the seven questions in the blue booklet and the marking criteria. However, use the handouts in class for ideas of how to do this!
- focus on qn 1 first - I'll set the other qns at a later date!
PREPARATION
- find and store nine images corresponding to the nine elements listed on the handout - use tech sheet to find out how to print screen, crop parts of images etc.
- find a similar real product and do the same for it
WRITING
- set up a new post and label "X's Evaluation" - use for all evaluation entries
- write qn 1 in bold and write answer in normal
- you could put a 3x3 grid of both sets of images at the start?
- explain what the images are and that you intend to compare your product to a real one to see how it measures up
- add first element title e.g. titles...
- compare your product to the real one - explore how it uses (does the same), develops 9adds something a little new) or challenges (does something really unexpected) to the usual conventions of the genre
- do this for all nine elements
- at the end, put a brief paragraph saying why you have used some elements in common and why you have added something new... and why this mix is important for your media product
HAND IN
- cut and paste answer into Word , print out and hand in - you should be able to do the images for this....
- hand in by 4pm on relevant day BUT note the notices about hand-in times - limited due to practicals!

Mrs Doggart

Week Starting : 25th January

You should now have completed your production task. We now need to focus on three things:

- embedding your final video in the blog
- obtaining audience feedback
- evaluation of product

The plan for this week is as follows:

Tuesday: final tweaking of video if needed; see Nikki or Rachel to embed video in blog; discuss feedback task; h/w produce 10 copies of feedback questionnaire for Thursday lesson

Thursday: record feedback session of video products with a group of 4 in class, edit and place on blog; h/w get further feedback and ensure results are on blog for next Monday

Friday: Introduction to evaluation and start work on first question - draft version to be produced as homework for next Friday

Alongside all of this, you need to check that your research and planning are up to date on your blog Before you add your final product, feedback etc.

We will be placing your video on your blog BUT also like to make a DVD copy - usually the quality of video is better on DVD adn we prefer to send these to the examiner. So, we need you to bring in one blank DVD per group for us to download your video - this needs to be done by the end of this week. If you want a personal copy, then you will also need to bring a blank DVD in. Make sure that your group DVD has a sheet with the names of all group members and the title of the video and your class (MEDIA1D). Make sure any personal DVD copies have your name and class and project title clearly on them.

All in all, enough to keep you busy!

Mrs Doggart

Week Starting 18th January

Okay, so we're down to the last week! What you have achieved by Friday is what you will be graded on, so it is vital that you work hard this week to make your product as good as you can.

I think both groups have virtually all footage, so the main task is to get a rough cut and music asap - by the end of Tuesday's session at the latest. It is only at this point that we can see if your sequence works and makes sense.... Then you need to fine tune your sequence - editing to get the pace and interest levels right, adding effects and transitions, adding in titles.... It is this attention to detail that gets the good grades.

You may need to put in some extra time - if so, please see Nikki or Rachel to explore when you could do this.

Please also keep your blog updated with progress reports about who is doing what etc.

Mrs Doggart

Week Starting 11th January

Okay, so last week didn't quite turn out as expected but hopefully things will get back to normal next week....

I will discuss deadlines with you when we get back - we may need to try and push them a week but this has knock-on effects elsewhere...

Your main focus this week is what I had intended for you to do last week, so look back at last week's post and take your aims for the week from there...

Obviously, whilst snowbound, you can all be working on your blog - ensuring you have all your research and planning up to date....

Hopefully see you soon

Mrs Doggart

Week Starting 4th January

Hello and welcome back! Hope you've all had a great break, enjoyed the snow and managed to make some progress with your media work....

We are now embarking on our penultimate week - in other words, you have this week and next to get a good product finished....

The first session back, I will be auditing where you are at - you should have all your footage by now. If not, I may need to make referrals and you may need to come up with an emergency Harry Houdini plan.

The main focus for the week is to create your rough cut for me to see by Friday. This means you need to put all your footage on the timeline in the order you want it to appear, together with the music and captions. you will also need to do some cutting work, so that it flows. I would then like you to save the rough cut and place it in your blog, so I can leave some feedback and you could get a few friends to offer some feedback and record this too. This will then allow you to see if the story communicates clearly and what you need to do to make it even better - fine tune editing next week!

The other task is to investigate titles and where to use them - I have a sheet for you on this. This can be done outside of class - each of you could find an opening for a similar product to yours, place a clip in the blog and describe what titles are used and when/how placed. You can then decide in class, what titles you will use and where they will go and add a short post about this too.

You have a lot to do this week, so no time wasting or messing about please. This is for 50% of your grade and no one has a rough cut yet - it is only at this stage that we can see if your product actually works or not ....

Mrs Doggart

Week Starting 14th December

By now, you should have all your initial footage! The main task of the week should be constructing a rough edit - putting all your footage in the right order in i-Movie. Getting to this stage means that you are in a good position to create a class product.

If you are not at this stage, then your priority is getting to this stage. You may be able to come in on Thursday or even early on next week - if this is something you want to do, then see Rachel as a matter of urgency, as we need to co-ordinate who is coming in and to ensure that you can access your computer when you come in.....

I will be auditing your progress the first lesson back - so make sure we get the New Year off to a good start.

Other areas to work on:

• outside of class, go over your blog and make sure it is complete - check the list and check your content - get all that research and planning in good shape
• make sure you have your copyright free music to edit to - you cannot really edit and then add music - often the timings are out and you need to re-edit!!!

This is your coursework and you get what you put into it - effort and time usually yield good marks, so please make me happy as we break up for Christmas and then you too can enjoy a well-earned break!

Mrs Doggart

Instructions : Week Starting 7th December

This is a week when you should be out filming! Your main focus this week is to get all your footage by next Monday, 14th December. Obviously, this will require a lot of commitment outside the lesson BUT the product does count for 60% of your marks for this section of the course and you don't get something for nothing!

Obviously, when you have some footage, please download it onto your Mac asap, so you don't lose it.

You need to ensure you use lesson time efficiently. You can:

• edit your footage (you need your soundtrack to do this)
• ensure all research is done
• ensure all planning is done and on your blog.....

On Friday, you should add a post entitled 'Production Update' and log what you have done in terms of production and how it has gone.... Why not take some photos of yourselves in action and add them to this post???

Mrs Doggart