Preparing for the SHOWCASE

You will soon be engaged in testing your work in front of an audience and you need to prepare for this. You need to think about what sort of questions you want to ask the test audience and post three possible questions on your INDIVIDUAL blog.

Of course, your film should also be ready in an exported quicktime movie format and placed in the drop box on resources which will appear TWO days before the showcase itself. the SHOWCASE dates are on the dates shown below.

12B1 - Thursday 31st March p2 (-3)

12B2 - Thursday 31st March p3 (2-)

12E1 - Tuesday 29th March p4

This date constitutes the FINAL DEADLINE FOR YOUR FILM ELEMENT. You will be able to make adjustments in response to the audience feedback you receive but you will primarily be undertaking the intensive process of recording your evaluations so you must not rely on this time to make any major adjustments to your work - there is time for snagging only.

 Snagging: to check for little jobs, corrections and issues that need to be seen to in order to consider a piece of work completed.

so for you that means:

• checking all your edits are tight
• checking your work and colour correcting where needed
• ensuring sound is cohesive and there's no extra snippets lurking far beyond the realms of your current timeline
• looking for MES issues
• checking for typos in your titles
• getting your group and individual blogs up to date
• and other issues that need detailed and careful attention

We don't just rush off at the end of the filming and editing - all parts of the process are important and reflection and evaluation are crucial in media studies practice.

You will need to prepare for evaluating your coursework and you will be asked to prepare notes for this purpose. You will, of course, be given guidance and notes to help you. Your filmed/multimodal evaluation must be complete, along with your finished AND EXPORTED film opening plus groups and individual blogs by the end of this term - i.e. EASTER HOLIDAYS - no exceptions.