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- Very pleasing to see a much more organised and up-to-date blog from the last time I assessed you Becca- I hope this approach continues!
- You have clearly taken some time to complete all Summer Work posts and care has been taken to compose good contact sheets.
- All but one of your posts are visual - because of your use of contact sheets and YouTube uploads.
- Some good reference to conventions / techniques, and you show an understanding of the features of a successful music video.
EBI:
- Some suggestions to help you improve the work - I hope you create some time to make some improvements. The contact sheets are good Becca, and it's good to see each post (except Post 8) is visual, but try to show a more varied use of media to create visual posts. Screen grabs, contact sheets and whole 3 minute music videos uploaded from You Tube just won't be enough to earn you higher marks for the blog. Two really important criteria for this are: 1. Creative use of the Media to compose posts 2. Skill in the creative use of ICT. It just gets a little bit dull and repetitive seeing yet another contact sheet... and yet another whole 3 minute music video (which no one assessing your work will ever bother to view in full) for your analytical posts.
- I'd suggest that you try to take short extracts (5 - 10 second clips) from some of the music videos you have anaylsed instead of relying on contact sheets for all posts. This would boost marks for 'creativity' and 'skill in the use of media and ICT'. Try creating a 'voice over commentary' parhaps for your analysis of the low budget videos to talk through the ideas you liked and the approaches (lighting / shots) that you felt were successful. Yes, all of this takes extra time, but if you made the effort to do it for one or two of your Research posts, the poverall grade for your blog would improve.
- Check that your analytical posts to make sure you are using as much media language as possible (mise-en-scene, etc).
- Your comments in the written analysis for some posts are a bit vague, and do not really show your grasp of media terminology. For example, when you write about Beyonce's video, you say it used "a wide range of shot types and angles...". Too vague, be specific. What types of shots / angles - exactly? Show the specific screen grabs to demonstrate your points and your observations. You could refer more to 'mise-en-scene' in your analysis of Katy Perry's video. Your analysis of the Saturday's video is very brief (only 7 lines) and needs to be more developed I think Becca. You should be referring specifically to mise en scene, cinematography, editing. In your analysis of the Arctic Monkey's video, you comment on the editing used - but simply uploading the whole video from you Tube doesn't show anyone assessing your work what you are referring to. Again, if you take the time to do a voice over commentary of the Arctic Monkey's video, or take a short 5 second extract only to really deomonstrate your point, this would be a much more meaningful post overall.
- Post 8 - 'Conventions of a Music Video' - needs more development - and VISUALS!
Effort for Summer Work: Some Improvement Needed - can very easily move right up in effort grades if you pick up on some of the suggestions I have given you in the EBI's.
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