How Peer Feedback Helped Us Within Our Work

For this example of peer feedback, Jack and I were unsure on which picture to use as a feature on our Digipak, and I decided that it would be a good idea to upload the picture via the social networking site Facebook, this was an efficient way of receiving feedback as I have over 600 'friends' on Facebook, and if I asked many nicely I knew they would kindly help me out by giving me their opinion. I posted this picture on my Facebook walla asking people to comment on which picture was most effective, I added a description which showed informed people what the picture was for, and also to let them know that this was not our finished product, is was more a prototype in order to ensure we made the right decision. Because Facebook has a recent updates function, the picture was able to be published quickly and effectively on the Facebook home page, allowing many people to be able to see and add their opinion to the picture.

Here you can see that people were very helpful and efficient with the feedback they gave to us, and this helped Jack and I to decide that the photo on the right was more effective. Not only did they comment on which they thought was most effective, people gave us constructive criticism too, which enabled us to cater for many peoples' needs and all in all get a better look out to the audience. Typically my age of audience is our target audience for this music video, which was why it was even more helpful that I put it on Facebook, as is it enabled me to get a grasp on what people's opinions were. I will definately be using Facebook again if I need anymore help when choosing between another 2 images. I will be using things such as Youtube to help me with feedback too, as many viewers visit that site each day and a variety of different locations and ages will be able to view our video, and via the comments functions, they will be able to give us their thoughts and opinions of what our music video could be improved on.

Peer Feedback of Ancillary task



Having looked at the peer assessment that I received from Charlotte Hannah, I can determine areas of concern and areas that I excel in. For example, I can see that the she has rated the variety of shot distances 1 out of 4 which is not good and this definitely needs to be changed in order to gain higher marks. Although this is a bad mark, it is not that concerning to me, as we only had 2 sides of our DigiPak done, and we knew our ideas contained different shot ranges, so in that respect we knew we could add to our DigiPak, changing the views of our peers.

However what I was pleased with was the level 4 for framing a shot. This showed that our camera skills and tripod skills were good, as the things included within the picture were fit to purpose and were all relevant. The angles that we used for example of the wall, where we decided to take it at an angle, so it looks like it is straying further out. We then added text on top of this panel, and also made the text get smaller as it goes along, and this was to make it fit the purpose of the angled shot.

The majority of levels we got as a group were 3 and 4, and this was due to unfinished products. Although the grades we recieved were not brilliant Charlotte did say it had the potential to be a level 4 in the majority of areas.

Evaluation Question 4

Technologies I Used in Research

JIN Evaluation 1st Draft Assessment

Ryan. I see Ms Jarratt has given you some VERY detailed and supportive feedback. Please follow this up asap! I also see you have uploaded your evaluation plan. I would have liked to ALSO have seen some drafts of these questions. I am a bit disappointed as YOU haven't seemed to have done any work since I saw you last. You must also work on this after school Ryan.I look forward to a real development here. I know you can do it as you have lots of potential! JIN 15/1/2012 

Plan of Evaluation

Mood Board Genre

Here is a mood bood that I created of Mike Skinner and other artists, such as Plan B. As you can see the same sort of pattern is evident throughout, like the grimy kind of urban setting. Even in the bottom right hand picture where he appears to be in a more rural area, you can still see the lampost, relating it back to an urban area. In the majority of 'the streets' album covers you can see landscape figures, and quite obvious deliberate choice of setting. For example, in the top left one, you just have a plain old building, however he has made it look interesting an different by having it dead in the centre of the frame, and also by having some of the lights on, it adds to the mystery of the front cover. Also as you can see he has the trademark lighter on the bottom left of the screen and this pattern features on al of the streets' front covers in different colours.

Even with Mike Skinner's dress sense, you can tell the sort of environment he likes to film in, as there is a grimey atmosphere and a run down environment. This relates to the name of the artist 'the streets' as many people in this type of genre use the kind of environments that Mike Skinner uses. The graffitti and writing on the walls represents the un cared for poor quality area and this usually connotates the kind of background these artists come from, and the reaccuring locations throughout such music videos. His name is clever and relates to his album cover, as clearly the buildings featured in many of them are on the street, and even ones without bulidings, like the bus shelters and cars, you are still able to see the street featured in the picture.

Location Permission Letter

The purpose of setting up this email was to confirm with the teacher that it would be OK to use the dance room facilities. After sending it out we shortly recieved an email that confirmed us to use the dance studio. We specifically thought of using this for a location as we believe that it fit into our genre by using a black room with effective spotlighting whilst lip syncing.