Evaluation on Individual Presentations

1. Comments from students in my class

WWW:
* Good Ideas.
* In depth research of ideas were good.
* Second and Third idea could be produced by going into schools and talking to teachers.

EBI:
* Ideas need to be explained slightly better.
* To text heavey - in some slides.

2. Comments from Teacher

WWW:
* Clear, confident speaker.
* Organised - vivid colourful slides.
* Superb video and research - Amazing topic.
* Excellent research of the articles.
* Institutional research is excellent.
* Inspiration from "underage and pregnant"
- the voiceover = reflects the message/ portrayal of characters.
* Understand audience.
* Planning of 1-6 episodes (IDEA 3)
- questions are excellent (1, 2 and 4).
* The concept of the language documantary (IDEA 3).
* Aim for the language documentary could be the first question in episode plan - "Why street slang and text message speack are becoming increasing popular, is Standard English dying out?"
* Could link IDEA 1 and 3 together - say the effect technology has on language nowardays.

EBI:
* IDEA 1 -> What technology - must be more specific - to much information.
* IDEA 2 -> Drama or Horror? - maybe each episode is a different genre - OR - sexulaity, crime, intelligence, speech.
* IDEA 3 -> Explore the debate of Standard English and Slang.
- what is the connection between language and region/ use personal history - why has it changed.
- what are the effects of increasing technology.
- questions for the series 1, 2 and 4 where the best questions to ask.
* Why was underage and pregnant one of influences - why do people watch it.
* A lot of information on channel slide.
* BBFC is wrong - Documentaries use Ofcom.

First A2 Individual Media Presentation

We had 3 choices from the Advancements Production Options (APO)

1. Music Video - A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music video promo video. With - a DVD design and a magazine article

2. TV Documentary - An extract from a new documentary TV programme. lasting approximately five minutes together. With - a magazine cover (feature) and a poster.

3. Advertising Package - An advertising package for a new product or service. With - a web pop-up and a TV programme sonsorship sequence.

After brain storming the Advertisement and TV Documentary ideas.

I chose to develop ideas i had for the TV Documentary because one of the ideas i thought of really interested me.

Below is my individual presentation.

Evaluation of Previous 13 Production Work

I evaluated Claire and Fiona's Year 13 Blogger;

New Year

So it's another year of media before Uni.
At first the idea of doing media was quite daunting for me, but i feel that continuing with media was a good idea. I'm quite excited to see what i will come up with this year.

My Grades for last year;

For the Production side i got a - B

I was pretty surprised when my teacher told me that i had gotten a B. This was because my group and i had a few problems getting along at the start so my enthusiasm was really low and i didn't feel motivated to help out. However after a meeting or two with our teacher we managed to sort out our differences and work everything out with our production. I thought it was to late to be able to get a good grade and i would have accepted a low grade. But i am really glad that Miss saw how much effort i was trying to put into our production toward the end and how much i was willing to help out, so I'm really happy about my Production Grade.

For the exam side i got a - D

I was a little disappointed at the grade i got because i thought i had done quite well in the exam, i thought i made sure i had written down all the information i remembered and that i would have gotten at least a C but i must have been missing something from what i had written, or a piece of vital information i hadn't remembered to put in.

Overall I'm pretty pleased with the grades i got because it means that i got a C with both parts put together and I'm feeling very confident about this year that i can achieve a B maybe even possibly an A and i can't wait to get started.

Targets for me to improve this year;

Target 1 - Blog a lot more and often so remembering details through the year about my production won't be as hard as it was last year.

Target 2 - Keep myself motivated and focused through the year so i can achieve the grade i want at the end of the year.

Target 3 - Finding more time to spend in the media room working on my production and research etc.