Time Management Evidence

This is my group's long term planning of what we need to do in a month

This is my group's short term planning of what we need to accomplish during half term

Assignment 16: Assessment Record

Self Assessment	WWW: -researched a range of magazines and double page spreads -brief annotations -good exploration of the newspapers EBI: -explore more effective double page spreads -focus more newspaper adverts
Peer Assessment	N/A
Teacher Assessment	N/A - teacher just checked for completion
Grade	N/A
Targets to Improve	N/A

Assignment 16: Research of Magazines & Newspapers

Catfish The TV Show: Season 2 - Episode 7

In this episode, I recognised different documentary conventions and forms from the usual ones that are used in Catfish episodes. For example use of time manipulation to speed up the pace of something

Some conventions and forms in this episode:
Voice over
Archival photos
Close up shots
Cutaways
Titles & credits
Fast forward editing

In this scene, fast forward editing is used on a calendar to emphasis how time has passed

Interviews are conducted in a natural environment to maintain realism

Titles are also used in interviews to introduce the person and their role/relation another person (Mike)

A steady, close up shot is used here so that the audience can read what is on the phone screen
Focus pull is used  in this shot as the background of the phone screen is blurred while the words in the front are not

Assignment 15: Assessment Record

Self Assessment	WWW: -got info from different soucres -good primary research by getting audience feedback on topic -explored both sides to the topic EBI: -use different color font on purple background -less bulky text
Peer Assessment	N/A
Teacher Assessment	N/A - teacher just checked for completion
Grade	N/A
Targets to Improve	N/A:

Assignment 15: Primary & Secondary Research

Research Resource Checklist

Rely Questions on Peer's Topic

Today, in lesson we did 'rely questions' to give audience feedback to our peers.

This was useful because:

-gave my group more ideas of what exactly to include in our documentary

-it made me think about the possible questions I could ask about my topic in public interviews

-made me realise that if a topic is not explained properly it will be hard to know what to include 

Media Magazine Article #1 ' Technology & Creativity; Curse Or Cure?' (Sept 2010)

For homework, I read an article titled 'technology & creative, curse or cure' by Elinor Block and Peter Block in the September 2010 issue

'Technology & Creativity, Curse or Cure' article, September 2010 issue (1/4)

'Technology & Creativity, Curse or Cure' article, September 2010 issue (2/4)

'Technology & Creativity, Curse or Cure' article, September 2010 issue (3/4)

'Technology & Creativity, Curse or Cure' article, September 2010 issue (4/4)

In reading this article I learned/found interesting the following things:

• It explores how new technologies in today's society can be both good and bad
• This articles teaches the reader how new technologies such as equipment used to make 'Avatar' film raises questions such as "is the actor's work more technical than talent?"
• reason 3
• I learned how social networking sites such as Twitter are huge marketing tools in today's society
• I found it interesting that new technology goes through a business consulting organisation called 'Gartner' before early adopters can buy these products
• I could compare this to how technology is advancing and how people have more variety of technologies to chose from to fit their lifestyle

Media Magazine Student Video - 'Angst'

Opening Sequence 'Angst'

WWW:
-good placement of credits
-range of shots and angles
-background music builds tensions and creates right atmosphere


EBI:
-each credit should be on screen long enough so it can be read by the audience

Assignment 14: Assessment Record

Self Assessment	WWW: -Presentation is clear and organised -Completed on time EBI: -go into more detail
Peer Assessment
Teacher Assessment
Grade	The grade I received for this task was C1 This is below my target grade B
Targets to Improve	To improve this work I need to: -identify audience's age and gender -when using a dark purple background use white writing -explore possible topic in more depth

Assignment 14: Coming Together As A Group

Assignment 14 from abigailmenzies

Catfish The TV Show: Season 2 - Episode 6

Today I watched another episode of Catfish,even though the same conventions are used in most of the episodes, I found conventions that were used developed such as the use of titles to highlight that its the 'next morning'

Some conventions and forms in this episode:

-Animation

-Titles & rredits

-Archival photos

-Voice over

-Interviews

-Range of camera shots

Use of animation to show the location of the 'catfish'

Close up shots are used here to show the expression on the presenter's face

Titles are used here to introduce the different locations visited within the episode

Mid shots are used during interviews so the audience focus on what is being said

Assignment 13: Assessment Record

Self Assessment	WWW: -good exploration of location ideas -annotations to explain images used EBI: -research into a wide range of people to interview
Peer Assessment	N/A
Teacher Assessment	N/A - teacher just checked for completion
Grade	N/A
Targets to Improve	To improve this work I need to: -explore wider range of possible people to interview (public and expert)

Assignment 13: Music, Locations, Social Actors

Assignment 13 from abigailmenzies

iMovie Tutorial

What I learnt from this tutorial:
-How to reduce the background noise
-How to edit the audio of a portion of the clip
-How to fade in and out the audio of a clip

Assignment 12: What I Learnt From Audience Feedback (Video)

Assignment 11: Assessment Record

Self Assessment	WWW: -good annotated pictures - range of documentaries used as inspiration EBI: -try to challenge more conventions than just reinforcing -explore more conventions
Peer Assessment	N/A
Teacher Assessment	N/A - teacher just checked for completion
Grade	N/A
Targets to Improve	To improve this work I need to: -challenge some of the conventions rather than just using them -explore more conventions

Assignment 11: Conventions In Individual 5 Minute Plan

Catfish The TV Show: Season 2 - Episode 5

This episode uses a variety of conventions that I think I could apply to my documentary, also the reflexive mode is more evident in this episode as the cameras and camera men who are filming are shown more

Some conventions and forms in this episode:
-Archival photos
-Voice over
-Case Study
-Interviews
-Range of camera shots

Archival photo of the social actors, this is also accompanied with a voice over by the presenter

Second presenter 'Max' holding the camera, this reinforces the reflective mode

Close up shot of the email so its readable to the audience, this is supported by a voice over that reads what is on screen

Background is blurred during interviews so there is more focus on the interviewee