Class evaluation of our current work

As a class, we decided to watch each others work to give them feedback, criticism and give few suggestions on how to make their work better or perhaps more appealing. As we did this, we worked against the marking scheme to ensure that we are working amongst the requirements of the examiner. We have ticked the box that we thought was most appropriate to the current work. Here are the results of our work, marked by our class:

By looking at figure 1.1, I am actually very satisfying and pleased with the results that was given by our class, bearing in mind that our music video is incomplete at the moment.

We have been categorised on the 'Excellent Ability: Level 4' for the following skills:

- Framing a shot
- variety of shot distances
- shooting material appropriate to the task set.
- manipulating video as appropriate to the context for presentation, cropping and resizing
- accuratel using Mode of Address and performance
- appropriately integrating performance and narrative
- understanding of generic conventions
AND
- Using ICT appropriately.

This suggests that we are working really well on the rise-en-scene, understanding and portraying the context of our music video, understanding the conventions of a music video and expressing originality through manipulation and appropriate ICT skills to enhance our ideas. As part of the group, I am very pleased with the given feedback because it has ensured that we as two A2 Media Studies students are working excellently towards the mark scheme that we will eventually get marked against on. To self evaluate, I am quite surprised that we have managed to get to Level 4 when our work is still incomplete therefore I would majoritaly put our work into Level 3/4 as I do think we have parts that we are going to refer back to edit more, improve and make clearer. However, in the eyes of the audience, our current work successfully comes across as aesthetically pleasing, original and political in which meets our specification.

However, as seen in figure 1.1 and 1.2, some of our friends have ticked Level 3 for some of our skills like:

- Manipulating video
- Mode of address
AND
-Integrating performance and narrative

We as a group, are open to criticism as we do believe that it will help us to improve further and meet our potential. I partly agree with this level given because we are currently working on clarifying our intentions, context and storyline so I would personally put myself on Level 3 for Narrative for now, but I do believe that we can secure Level 4 after adding our new footage for clarification.

However, I do not agree with the manipulation of our video and mode of address because we have clearly identified and highlighted our interaction with our audience in our current work. For example, the rhetorical question that we have used, 'How many MP's have bought houses with your taxes?' this is a way of involving and engaging with the audience to get them to become more active rather than passive which is one of our aims to meet by the end of this production. In addition, we have used a lot of Mode of Address to alienate and awaken the audience about the political injustice that some of us are facing in our society. For instance, at the beginning of our video the following models; Ilan, Kayode and Janat directly look at the audience with different facial expressions to suggest how they feel about the social system. Ilhan had a very dominating and define facial expression to suggest that she is part of the higher hierarchy that is dominating our society and is benefited from capitalism. Whereas, Kayode smiles at the audience to show false consciousness. Lastly, Janat is neutral to show the passiveness of our society towards fighting for our beliefs and rights, therefore she is not expressive and is accepting.

Overall, we have been given 31/36 which is a great mark bearing in mind that our work is still incomplete. We are hoping and willing to get 36/36 by the end of our media product.