1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 1: Scene
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
1.1.1a Evaluating your choices
Student Book
pp 14–23
Extension activity
Often there is more than one way to investigate a particular subject.
Think carefully about the research method you chose at the beginning of this task, then fill
in the grid below, listing the advantages and disadvantages of using this method.
Considering carefully the potential drawbacks of your chosen method will help to prepare
you for any problems that may arise, and will mean that you have considered alternative
ways to find this information.
When weighing up the advantages and disadvantages, consider the time this method will
take, the practical considerations (e.g. bad weather if you are going to be outdoors), what
resources your method needs and the chances that something beyond your control will
affect your ability to use this method.
Method chosen Advantages Disadvantages Alternative method
should problems occur
- Internet Research - Quick and easy access - Computer can crash - If a problem should
as most people have it. and you can lose all occur with me using the
your work. internet then
- Can save and alternatively I would go
bookmark the page so - The information isn’t to the library and see if
that I can revisit it. necessarily reliable as there are any books
anyone can add available on the subject
- Has a wide range of information on to it. or use one of their
information
computers.
- Might not have access
to it.
Going to a cinema or a - It is a primary source, - A person may not - If a problem like this
place which screens therefore is more have the time to be was to occur then
films. reliable. interviewed. instead of me going
down to the place, I
- By going down there, - Their may not be any
would call them and
I may retrieve more public transport
talk to somebody over
information because available therefore
they are actually a leaving me unable to get the phone which is just
as beneficial.
person working within there.
that field.
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2. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 1: Scene
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
You should consider all of the methods you employ in your research in this way.
Sometimes you will find that there is a quicker, safer, more efficient or more reliable way
to do a task if you consider it carefully enough.
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