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1. Evaluation
Luke Ross

2. Production Process Evaluation

3. Research
• I feel that my research was a strength overall, being able to look at other similar existing products was a strength as it provided a format to
follow to see what quality the video should be and the standard to look like, I feel that my work fits to the style of what the reviews I looked
at, one review I looked at was by a youtuber called “ihateeverything” and this followed a style of showing the clips in the background as he
talks through what's happening looking into the film he's talking about discussing different topics comparing it with evidence to back up his
points and I found this to be important to follow for my work as its how a in-depth movie should be done, it opens up unbiased as he talks
about what the character development is like and how the story fits together, by backing up points and adding a joke that memorable to it he
makes the points memorable and gets you to think about them, there was a strength in watching this as research because it showed me what
a well structured video.
• Another strength of research was looking and re watching Thor Ragnarok, which was the film that I am going to be reviewing, in my research I
was able to watch the movie repeatedly, this is not something that I want to do but I was able to take notes on the movie while watching it
and do a scene by scene analysis of the characters and lines seeing how it is fits together and picking out things that don’t work or are to
generic or overdone. It was good to watch the film multiple it gave me time to really think on my opinion and give me opportunity to back up
points and find new points to make.
• Also in research I looked into reviews that of low quality and found that some people that don’t review the film properly but think they do
proper ones that don’t pay attention, while looking at these in my research I was able to see what I should stray away from on prodject. I
found it interesting looking at different videos that are similar to what I could make for my factual project, but I felt that this similar existing
product to long to watch and to make notes on so this would be a weakness in the research.
• I felt another weakness was that I didn’t have a questionnaire, as my product is aimed at an audience that should be aged 12 and above a
questionnaire would have been useful to keep recorded data of people from that age group.
• I know timing was a big issue for me as I struggled to get the work in on time with the amount of detail that I had decided to into and this
meant that when it came down to finishing off other parts of the work I didn’t have time to go into the same amount of detail.

4. Planning
• The biggest strength of the planning document was writing the script for my video, I felt it was important to spend time making sure the script was
on point, as well as this it makes my video well structured, I have put work into structuring the category's for the script so that I can back up my
arguments and make statements that are clever and well written, the planning allows me to do this as I was able to make different drafts of scripts
and rehearse what my script and alter it as I go making my project as good as it can be, the scripting by far was a strength.
• The second biggest part was finding my clips that I would use in the video, without the time planning, writing the script I wouldn’t of known what
clips to look for and definitely use unless I had planned it instead. This was a strength in planning as I was able to find the clips I would need as well
and have them ready and prepared for my factual video.
• The third part was making notes while watching the film, as I was watching the film I spotted so many things wrong with the movie different parts
and points that I could talk about in my video review, I feel that without this I wouldn’t of been able to write a strong script with points and I was also
able to make notes on what clips I should use and where they are in the movie with time points to follow to it, if not for this I would have struggled a
great deal in writing my script and collecting the clips.
• I would say that overall the planning was a strength or at least the majority was, without the planning my project would have not been near as
thought out.
• A weakness of the planning was time management, if I created a schedule to follow and stick to I could have kept track of my work better this would
have given me more time making my final production which is a major part of what I needed in my final project/ video.

5. Time Management
• I felt I had mixed time management. On my initial plans I managed my time well keeping my work to a good standard and getting up and on my Wix
site, my theory work was on time and done to good standard however I can do much better and in time I will improve on this I feel that if I had more
time I could have written more compelling and better structured theory work, side note my website is not something that I am happy with at the
minute and when I have more time I will be starting a new one and making it easier to understand, it will look nicer and be easier to follow. I feel I
could have had more time on my research, if I had more time to look at different products and review them I could have a more in depth look at
what I should of included in my products if I did not. If I had more time on my script I could of refined it, making it sound better but keeping all my
points the same, with more time I could have improved the notes that I had made, I feel that the notes I made where inclusive to the first viewing,
the second viewing was to verify the notes. A third viewing would have been good to collect more notes and see anything that I had missed in the
first two viewings.

6. Comparison 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=9BTkd5kHsRg
Style
My video is a commentary style video where I talk
over the footage, it is still a review of Ragnarok but
unlike the video I am comparing it to I am behind the
camera where as seen in this similar existing product
he is on facecam. This is an important difference nd
the reason that I feel my work is superior in this style
is because the viewers attention is drawn to the
footage I'm discussing rather than a face , this
provides evidence of points I put across.
Tone
The tone of my film is light which is similar
to the existing product we both utilize a
cheery attitude to present our work.
The clips shown in the similar existing
product are after he makes the point where
as my clips are as I make the point, I think
that my way works better because people
pay more attention to what's been said if
they watch it at the same time and its easier
to see.
Music/ soundtrack
My video has music in the background and
in-between scenes and each transition slide
has its own soundtrack, and this is to make
my points stick as they link to the track
however in the similar existing product there
is no music and there is no soundtrack which
makes the video simple and lacking I feel if
there was something in the background it
would have a much better feeling to it.
Audience
The audience that I have aimed my project at have
been people with an interest in movies as a
demographic, between the ages of 12 and up as
that’s the age rating of the movie, this is similar to
the existing product however I also include
references in my work to other movies and games
and I think that this is important for an audience
that is going to stick, plus when referencing
different things it gives more validation to my points
if I show understanding in different areas which is
something that the similar existing product just
doesn’t do.
Characteristics
One big characteristic that my work has is
the transition slides, the reason for this is
because they are animated and had effort
put into them, this is what the similar
existing product is lacking because there is
nothing in the video that is personal, if you
type in reviews, this YouTube video is
essentially a generic review video that
every video will be, just the something the
fact that this video doesn’t try anything new
is the difference from my work and his and
its what makes mine personal to me.
Overall review
My review overall was structured unlike his, a
similarity is that we both tried to look at the
good and the bad. A difference is how we
present our work, I presented my work as
someone that was trying to get a point across
where as the other presented himself as if he
didn’t want to be there, was lost and didn’t
actually know what he was thinking, in my
opinion his review was generic and if he had of
tried something new it could have been much
better and more entertaining to watch.

7. Audience Appeal
The main audience that I was appealing to with my product was an age rating between 12 and above, this is because of my style of video
and the age rating of the film, I feel that the specific parts of my video that appeal to this age are the references in between the points in
the video that I created. I feel that another part of my project that appealed to my audience is when I aimed for an audience of style, the
style that I was aiming for is a well structured easy and fun to follow video, I feel that I have appealed to them with the transition slides and
these slides are animated so they are fun to watch and I have a soundtrack that if people know the name of the soundtrack then it will
appeal to the audience, the soundtrack for the comedy transition slide is “no time for caution” from interstellar this reference is to
represent how my script goes into the subject. Another part of the my audience appeal is that I aimed my work at is those that are fans or
dislike the movie Thor Ragnarok or even the character Thor and I have appealed to this audience by making my video about that movie and
him. From my research I was also able to find that my audience liked a certain way of speaking I saw this from researching the different
types of reviews on YouTube and how dialogue was said and how things where worded, I feel that I followed this structure and this has
appealed to my audience.

8. Peer
Feedback

9. Feedback 1
• What did you like about the product?
• What improvements could have been made to
the product?
“I think that this could be improved by having
shorter transitions so the there's more time to
make points.”
“I liked the transitions and music, I could follow
and understand the points in the video.”

10. Feedback 2
• What did you like about the product?
– “I liked the style and references in the video I
found them funny”
• What improvements could have been made to
the product?
– “I feel that the dialogue could be better and more
spaced out.”

11. Feedback 3
• What did you like about the product?
• “I Enjoyed listening to the points that where
made.”
• What improvements could have been made to
the product?
• “I think that the length of the transitions could
have been shortened.”

12. Summary
Strengths of my work
A big strength of my work is that I put lots of effort in trying something new from a film review, when researching YouTube for film reviews and
how they had styled there work I found that the most popular videos where the same from person in them to what they where talking about they
all follow a protocol of creating a thumbnail with there mouth open and thumbs up with the film in the background, when watching each video
from different people they are all identical in almost everyway. My strength is that I took a brand new approach personal to me I took things and
inspirations from videos that I enjoy, from creators that put effort into work into just parts of videos I enjoyed I took this and added it into my
own work to create something personal to me.
Weakness of my work
I would say the weakness of my work is the time limit, unfortunately I wasn’t able to make the video the length that I had of intended to make, I
wanted to make a long and detailed structured review, unfortunately I wasn’t able to make the video the length that I wanted to make it. I had to
make sure that the length was 5 minutes but had it of been unlimited and as long I wanted then I could have followed my script to the letter. I
would have changed how I recorded my voice, in the video the voice is very quite and that is because of the poor quality faulty device that I was
using in the video, I would improve this by re recording my voice or getting better equipment in future projects and double checking that they are
fine before making it.

13. Action plan
Plan of action for future project based on what I learned from this one:
• Better organisation
• More concentration on time
• Time keeping
• Schedule – creating a schedule to follow to the letter
• Recording better audio
• A script more accurate to the time requirement
• More research