Assessment (SUMMER WORK) 18/09 SJA

WWW:
- You have clearly taken so much time and care in composing excellent contact sheets for all posts Emma. All posts are visual because of the use of contact sheets.
- I like that you have numbered the shots in your contact sheets, and several of your analytical posts make specific reference to certain shot types to demonstrate your understanding.
- Evidence of particularly careful thinking and analysis for every post completed as part of the summer work. Some very good reference to specific conventions / techniques, and a clear understanding of the features of a successful music video. You clearly gained a lot of useful ideas from the 'In The Sun' class shoot. You blog is looking very good so far.

EBI:
- Just some suggestions to help you improve the work: The contact sheets are very good Emma, and it's good to see each post is visual, but try to show a more varied use of media to create visual posts.
- I'd suggest that you try to take short extracts (clips) from some of the music videos you have anaylsed instead of relying on contact sheets for all posts. This would really boost marks for 'creativity' and 'skill in the use of media and ICT'. Try creating a 'voice over commentary' perhaps for your analysis of the low budget videos from 'The Fix' maybe -  to talk through the ideas you liked and the approaches (lighting / certain decisions with camera movement and edits) that you felt were successful. This would make make your blog visually more engaging and show your skills in analysing camera movement and editing techniques. Remind yourself of the range of ideas we covered in Year 12 when discussing how to make the best use of media when creating your blog posts. You could even film yourself watching and analysing some music videos - recording your comments.
- You have a very good grasp of the terminology we use in Media Studies, but make sure sure you are using as much media language as possible when referring to lighting (high key / low key) and mise-en-scene.
- In your post on 'Conventions of a Music Video', you might want to come back to this and explain that music videos are frequently a combination of 'performance' and 'narrative'. It would be nice to learn your comments about the tips you hope to try in your own production.

Effort for Summer Work: Very good - could certainly be 'Excellent' if just one or two posts pushed your use of media beyond your wonderful contact sheets and screen grabs Emma.