Assessment - Final Planning check 08th Nov SJA

WWW:

• Jack, the post on 'technical tutorials' is very good - I am pleased you have responded to some of my earlier feedback
• List of 'props, costumes & locations' is quite good - could possibly have more development...
• I really liked your photoshop work on Advert Designs. Really good layout, use of colour and stylised effects. Looks very 'urban' and suits your genre well. I hope you continue down this direction for your digipak cover design.

EBI:

• You still have al arge  amount of work to do to get this section of your blog complete and up to an 'B' standard Jack. You have the 3 hours in lesson today - and that is it. I do understand that your group had a change of song, but there is NO evidence to suggest that you have spent enough time outside of lessons on developing posts and changing planning to suit your new song. I can see that the last time you posted anything to your blog was Nov 1st. That was a week ago??? So, you are clearly not going home from lessons and investing any time of your own towards achieving in your A Level studies??
• Lots of posts are missing and your group needs to work together to get these sorted out today:
• - Song details - missing?
• - Lyrics Annotation / Image Annotation / Concept - all of these need updating for your new song
• - Storyboards?
• - Location shots - these have no written explanation? I have no idea from this post what you intend to do at each location - it is just a collection of images that are meaningless. Why did you choose these locations? How do these locations represent your artist? I can see that these photos are just from Google images - you need to make the effort to scout out your own locations for filming interior and exterior shots - and actually bother to go and take photos of these...
• - Shooting schedule - missing? (We will not let your group go anywhere to film without these posts complete)
• - Location permission letters?
• - Talent release form?
• - Track permission letter?

Lots of work to do Jack. You achieved an 'A' in media last year - but this was only just an 'A' - not a secure confident 'A'. You clearly did well in the exam last year. The exam in year 13 is a lot tougher Jack. It requires you to comment on issues happening across the world in the news at the moment, and requires a lot of sophisticated thinking and analysis. To be as confident as possible, you must must sure your coursework is going to achieve a really high grade.

You desperately wanted to be with your friends to shoot the music video - but it will only be successful if all of you are prepared to plan thoroughly and think every detail through.

Currently there is so much work missing from your blog, I have to mark it as Improvement Needed. 

You have 3 hours to complete to a 'B' / 'A' standard today. This is actually possible - your group needs to stop wasting time and develop a far more mature approach to completing work. If you understand this, you can work together to get the work done.

SJA