Class Peer Assessment Of Assignment One.

In lesson, my peers have presented their presentations on a range of documentaries they watched.

The three presentations/documentaries I enjoyed the most were 

1) Name of documentary - Food Inc 

    Name of person who presented - Rosie Zein

    WWW - 1) Good presentation 

                 2) Good use of screen grabs 

                 3) Good identification of a wide range of conventions and forms

Food Inc is a documentary which explores food and what goes into the food we consume, this documentary looks at food in which is surved in supermarkets and fast food chains such as Mcdonald's and Taco Bell.

 2) Name of documentary - 74 stone babysitter 

     Name of person who presented - Rianne Wright

     WWW - 1) Good use of images and screen grabs 

                 2) Unusual documentary topic 

                 3) Good presentation

This is a documentary in which a woman is accused of murdering her nepthew, this documentary explores her court case and the struggles in which she faces.

3) Name of documentary - Transgender; Pakistan's open secret 

    Name of person who presented - Jhanè Ormsby 

    WWW - 1) Good of documentary due to different cultures being represented

                 2) Good identification of different conventions 

                 3) Good use of trailers and video clips

This documentary shows a rare insight into Pakistan's transgender community.

    

Documentary Trailers.

Justin Bieber; Never Say Never, Released on 11th February 2011.


Michael Jackson; This Is It, Released on 28th October 2009.


Bansky; Exit Through The Gift Shop; Released on 5th March 2010.


An Inconvenient Truth; Released on 24th May 2006.

Documentary Log.

Here is a simple mind brainstorm consisting of the titles of all the documentaries I have watched before starting my A2 media course.

Catfish Trailer.

Catfish Post.

In lesson, we watched a film documentary called 'Catfish' by Henry Boost & Ariel Schulman.


I did enjoy the documentary because it showed an insight into social media and the problems in which can evolve  from popular social networking sites such as facebook, twitter and chat sites.


Here are some interesting screen grabs from the documentary:

Here is a picture of the main female character in catfish.

Here is a picture of the main male character Nev, holding a picture of Megans mother.

Some forms and conventions in the documentary are: 
1. Cutaways 
2. Point Of View Shots 
3. Voice Overs 
4. Archival Pictures 
5. Quoted Material 

Assignment One; Draft Two.

Here is the second draft to my first assignment.

Assessment Record For Assignment One.

SELF ASSESSMENT	Better time management  Better research on forms and conventions   Explore a more challenging documentary
PEER ASSESSMENT
TEACHER ASSESSMENT
GRADE	The grade I received for this task was C2.      This is    below   /   on   /   above  my target grade of a  C .
TARGETS TO IMPROVE	To improve this work I need to: Ensure my work is titled correctly  Indentify more forms Fix my title page

Assignment One; Forms And Conventions In Documentaries.

Here is my first A2 assignment, based on the forms and conventions present in the channel 4 documentary, 'whats my body worth?'