AS BLOG FEEDBACK 2014

Since you are all in the undesirable position of not having completed your projects yet it makes it rather difficult for me to mark them properly and provide your with feedback.

Therefore what I will do is mark and give feedback on the planning and preparation part of the blog. Check out my other recent posts for advice on this.

The way to approach it is this:

• Set some time aside to go over some of the exemplar blogs I've created links to. 
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• Divide up who will work on what blog posts
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• Do the necessary blogging work before Thursday April 17th. This is the day I will spend marking the blogs.

If you hope to have the time to complete your coursework well enough (and have the time to make adjustments based on feedback) to get a good mark, it essential that you do this work over Easter.

REMEMBER: You have all wasted a ludicrous amount of time. In previous years all other groups were finished film and blog and were just completing their EVALUATION QUESTIONS at this stage. You are badly behind. You need to put the work in or it will not get done. If any part of the coursework is incomplete it will automatically get a Level 1 (U). 

Everybody needs to be aiming for at least a B grade in their coursework to buffer you for the exam.

A-C GRADE BLOGS

Below are links to a selection of differently graded blogs.

Look over them carefully. Note the difference in quality. But also note how much effort has gone into ALL of them.

A Grade

B Grade

C Grade

CHECK OUT THE OLDER FOR AS PRACTICAL FEEDBACK

If you want to avoid making more work for yourself at stage where the last thing you want is more work, t recommend you look at some of the posts labelled AS student feedback.

Here you will find feedback on the practical work from previous years. It may give you some tips about what you should be including that you are currently over-looking or simply not bothering with.

The blogs are still seriously lacking so I would have a look and see if you're making the same mistakes as others have made.

Think about:

• Use of visual references - pictures/posters/trailers/links
• Is there enough detail?
• Are you just describing what you've done or are you being reflective?

Level 4 Blog for Planning and Research

http://www.a2coalition.blogspot.co.uk/

This is a high quality blog in almost every regard.

Something about the content of the blog:

Note the frequent use of visual references both still and moving; screen grabs, audio references, links to other clips, related webpages etc. All of these posted with a comment which identifies (and where appropriate analyses) their relevance and relation to the group's media product.

Something about the layout of the blog:

Note how, down the right hand side of the page there is the BLOG ARCHIVE, which list all posts by date of entry, month-by-month.

Once you click on the respective month another menu drops down listing individual posts.
If you have given a post a title then it is clearly displayed here.
YOU MUST GIVE YOUR POSTS A TITLE because this provides much easier navigation for the viewer (me and the moderator).

If you want to make it super user friendly then use the LABEL function just below the post window (where you write your entries).

Give each post one of the following labels:

PRELIMINARY TASK
PLANNING
RESEARCH
CONSTRUCTION (when you're making it)
EVALUATION (to be covered by the answering of 7 specific questions - 4 for A2)

Dating your posts:
What you don't want is to have 40 posts all made in the last two weeks of April. You can do this but it won't look good - after all, you don't RESEARCH and PLAN after you've made the film. However, help is at hand. Using "post options" located just below "labels" you can reset the dates on your posts. Doing so will at least make it look, like you've been organised and followed a process to get to your finished product.