- How successful is the rough cut of my documentary?
- What improvements should I make?
- When must I submit my completed Documentary & Production Log (including storyboard).
After todays lesson, you will have until we break up for Xmas to complete the following tasks;
- Make improvements to your documentary based upon audience feedback.
- Submit the final cut of your completed documentary (upload to School Vimeo account).
- Complete a storyboard for your final documentary (each person in your group must draw and annotate an individual storyboard; you can't submit a group one! We have storyboard templates for you to use though).
- Submit your completed Personal Production log (use the checklist and the Individual Progress Grid to make sure that all elements are fully completed).
To support you, here is a countdown to this deadline;
After Xmas, you will have just 3 lessons to complete the Evaluation before the final unit deadline.
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Collecting Audience Feedback in Today's Lesson
You have a page in your Production Log called "Audience Feedback". This is the page we are addressing today. Your first task is to identify what areas of your production you would like to receive feedback on. Is it the camerawork? The editing? The narrative structure? The soundtrack? Maybe you will want to ask more general questions such as "What went well?" or "What could we improve?". You decide what you want to ask the audience at this test screening (but don't have too many questions).
You must also decide how you are going to present your audience feedback in your Production Log. If you want to present a written summary with qualitative data, you will need comments to analyse and to use as quotations. If you want to present quantitative data, you will need some scores to turn into charts or graphs. Maybe you want to use a mixture of both methods? You will have 15 minutes to decide what questions you want to ask your audience and how you want them to answer (comments or score). Type them into a Word document so that I can turn them into an computer questionnaire (Socrative Test) that students can complete whilst we exhibit your film on the Interactive Whiteboard.
You will have a maximum of 20 minutes to exhibit your film and collect your feedback. At the end of the lesson, I will send you your feedback as an Excel document (so you can turn the data into charts if you wish) and a pdf document (so that you can easily read everyone's comments and quote them). You can take this feedback away and complete the 'Audience Feedback' page of your Production Log in your own time. (but before the deadline).
As mentioned above, after this lesson you will only have until the end of term to address the issues raised by your test audience, to draw your storyboard, to finish your Individual Production Log and to complete the final cut of your film (see deadline above).
Peer Satisfaction Survey
I am hoping to have time for you to complete the Peer Satisfaction Survey too, identifying the value of the contribution each group member has made. If not today, we will complete this very soon. I will use the results of this survey to allocate final marks for the documentary.
