LO3 - Evaluation

Weekly blog updates are required, as with every unit. Please remember to take photos/screenshots as you film/edit. You might find it easier if you note down a record of what you did each day in a diary form.

Please use the following guidance to help you with each week.THESE MUST BE COMPLETED IN DETAIL. INCLUDE IMAGES AND BE SPECIFIC!

Week 1 This week was spent on idea generation

What have you been asked to do?Why have you chosen this target audience?What two productions have you decided to make? How do they allow you to improve your skills?How did the focus groups help you to select your idea?Are you on track for the week?What work needs to be completed for you to catch up?

Week 2 This week was spent researching target audiences

What did you find out about your target audience through your secondary research?How will this help you in adapting your idea to meet the chosen audience?How useful was interviewing people from your chosen target audience?Was it difficult to get a large response to your survey? How could you improve the amount of respondents for your FMP?What have you found to be the

key things that you should be targeting your audience with? What makes this audience different to the one you never chose?Are you on track for the week?What work needs to be completed in your own time?

Week 3 This week was spent researching codes and conventions

What genres have you chosen and why?What have you learnt from your secondary research this week?How will this influence what you include in your productions?What are the key conventions for your chosen genres? What MUST you include for it to be that genre?Are you on track for the week?What work needs to be completed in your own time?

Week 4 This week was spent researching codes and conventions

What have you learnt from you primary research this week?What developments do you need to make to your production for it to meet these codes and conventions requirements?How did processing the results of your research help you to understand it thoroughly?Are you on track for the week?What work needs to be completed in your own time?

Week 5 This week was spent planning your productions

What did you learn from your planning?How will this be useful as your production process continues?What issues did you encounter whilst planning and how did you overcome them?How much work did you complete outside of the lessons?Are you ready to film next week and if not, what do you need to complete to be ready?Are your storyboards up to standard?

Week 6 This week was spent filming

How did you find the filming process?Did you encounter any problems during filming? How did you overcome them?After reviewing footage, what do you feel you need to reshoot?What new techniques from your previous units have you tried to use?Are the locations you filmed at suitable to your production? Are you keeping up with your production schedule?What footage still needs capturing?

Week 7 This week was spent filming

How did you find the filming process?Did you encounter any problems during filming? How did you

overcome them?After reviewing footage, are you happy with what you have captured?Have the techniques you planned on using turned out well?

Week 8 This week was spent editing

How are you finding the editing process this week?Have you encountered any problems whilst editing? How did you overcome them?Are there any new techniques you are trying to use during this editing process?Are you on track with all of your work?What work needs to be completed outside of lessons?

Week 9 This week was spent editing

How did you finding the editing process?Have you encountered any problems whilst editing? How did you overcome them?Are you happy with the outcome of your productions? Why?How did your productions meet your target audience?What aspects of your productions could have been better targeted to your audience?How effectively have you matched the codes and conventions you researched earlier in the unit?

How do you feel your work compares to existing professional productions?Are there any areas where your production falls short? How would you improve it next time?What have you learnt about yourself to take into the Final Major Project? What do you personally need to improve on?Are you on track with all of your work?What work needs to be completed outside of lessons?

Week 10 This week you pitched

How did you choose to pitch your idea?What made your pitch stand out and be different? Why would it convince someone to invest?How did the pitch go?Is there anything you would do differently in your next pitch?