Note for moderator

Hi

Thanks for taking the time to look at the students' blogs, which I hope you will find of interest. All assessment materials can be found on candidate blogs. All students undertook the Opening Sequence for a Film brief.  Each student created an individual blog, which can be accessed via the BLOGHUB link on the menu bar above, via the sidebar. or from the links below. Videos are mostly hosted on Vimeo.

For your convenience, videos have also been sent on  DVD along with CCS and CAF.

Please contact me if you have any queries.

Chris Earl (chris.earl@fram.durham.sch.uk)

Candidate Blogs:

• 3286 - Charlotte Dyer
• 34254 - Luke Tiplady
• 3440 - Eughan Wooding

Evaluation presentation

Blog Alert

Looking at some of the blogs, it is clear that a lot of material has not been posted. It's crucial that your blogs contain detailed research and planning as well as a clear log of what you have been doing over the course of the last few weeks of editing.

You also need to think about how you are going to approach the evaluation. I would like to see a post where you map out exactly how you are going to answer the seven questions - by next Monday (14th March) please.

Final Cut and Evaluation Package

Just to outline the dates and times for submission of your remaining Foundation portfolio materials. Interviews and presentations will be recorded and can be used to augment your evaluation posts.

• SUNDAY 13th MARCH - final cut uploaded onto blogs, including initial reflexive comments - this forms the end of your research and planning section
• WEDNESDAY 16th MARCH - period 5, interviews with Charlotte and Eughan
• FRIDAY 18th MARCH - period 5, interviews with Luke
• WEDNESDAY 23rd MARCH - period 5, 15 min presentations by Charlotte, Eughan and Luke

Over Easter - finalise multi-media responses to evaluation questions. To remind you, these are:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

You are advised to use a range of approaches. For example:

• With the first question you could compare footage from your project with footage from the films which inspired you to demonstrate how you used or challenged conventions.
• For the second question you could use stills which you analyse and compare to existent material, using a platform such as Prezi.
• For the third question, you could use information you have derived during your research and create a simple documentary about distribution.
•  For the audience questions, you could show people from your target audience your work and interview them, embedded in a PowerPoint or other form.
•  For the technologies process you could compare work in progress with the final piece, discussing how you used various effects and so on.

Although you can use written blog posts to support your answers, you should aim to use the full multi-media functionality of your blog; otherwise, you will be unlikely to get a +L3 mark.

McBain

"Mendoooooooza!"

Rough cut

Tommy Mac says - don't forget, the deadline for your Rough Cut is FRIDAY 12th Feb).
Tommy will be very upset if you don't post your Rough Cut on your blog. I will also be looking at your planning and research over half term, so do make sure that this is all complete and uploaded.



Who let the blogs out?

At this point, you should have entries covering:

• Initial feelings about the shoots you have undertaken, including exemplar footage/ screengrabs/ evidence
• Analysis of material, considering pros/ cons/ things to consider
• Overview of the work in progress with relevant links to the evaluation
• Any other details you think are appropriate

Remember, if you're not doing at three detailed entries a week you're not doing enough.

Don't forget - the blog is an integral part of your assessment for this element of the course and will form a foundation for 40% of your mark (20% of the entire AS) so you need to get into the habit of maintaining it on a regular basis (at least every couple of days you are working on a project). I will be marking the research/ planning sections during half-term, so you need to be up to speed by then...