Assignment Assessment Record.

NAME: Michaela Ives-Kingshott.

TARGET GRADE: C

COLOUR KEY         GREEN:   On or above target grade                  AMBER:  1 grade below target grade                         
RED:        2 or more grades below                    BLUE:     Incomplete assignment

C/W or EXAM		ASSIGNMENT #/NAME	Targets to improve		LEVEL	GRADE	DRAFT2 GRADES	DRAFT3 (or more) GRADES
c/w		Assignment 1: Creative Media Task	include more information. better presentation.		2c	N/A
c/w		Assignment 1: blog analysis
both		Assignment 3: Genre group task	describe how you developed/challenged/ reinforced stereotypes in your scene. make storyboard more accurate.			C/D
both		Assignment 1: Genre exploration task	include more examples. include images		2/3	C/D	E2
Exam (A)		Assignment 1: Denotation & Connotation	learn how to identify Denotations and Connotations more effectively.		1/2	D/E	D/C
both		Genre Test	more revision needed to improve grade. make sure I gain a clear understanding of different keywords and theories.			E2	C3
	CURRENT GRADE			Grade Comment:

Self Assessment.

Here is a self assessment based on my target grade in media, how I think I am doing generally in media studies so far and what I feel I could do to improve in media studies.


My target grade in media is a grade C.


So far in media studies, I think the following things are going well:

• Creating and organising my online blog.

• Working in groups to produce work to the best of my ability.

• Learning the key features of media and what media is used for in the modern day society we live in.

To improve in media, I need to:

• Better my understanding of the more complicated key terms and theories.

• Better my understanding of being able to identify different sub-genre's.

• improve my understanding of identifying denotations and connotations of objects.

Thinking about my overall performance and considering the grades I have received so far, I think I am working at a grade D level.

Film Enrichment; Crash.

 In film enrichment we watched ‘Crash’ (2004) starring..

• Sanda Bullock

• Don Cheadler

• Matt Dillon

• Jennifer Esposito

• Brendan Fraser

• Terrence Howard

• Chris "Ludacris" Bridges

• Thandie Newton

• Ryan Phillippe

• Larenz Tate

• Michael Peña

• Directed by Paul Haggis.

• Crash is a gripping and powerful American Drama film, Crash is based on a true life incident in which the director 'Paul Haggis' had his car 'carjacked' on Wiltshire Boulevard in 1991. Crash is a movie based around racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. There are many different people from different social and ethnic groups involved in the movie, there is a racist white police officer, a Persian Immigrant father who is wary of others, a Mexican locksmith, an African-American Hollywood director and his wife who find themselves dealing with the racist white police officer. There is also a black detective who finds himself estranged from his mother and younger brother. The movie is based around a two day time period in which during that time all the characters in the movie, from every background collide.

• Some of the main themes present in the movie are Love and Romance, Violence, Action, Poverty and Family

•  I really liked the character ‘officer John Ryan’ because he was a very mysterious and interesting character, he enforced the meaning behind the racist views within the police force. 

•  My favorite scene in the film was the car fire scene because it was a great cliff hanger, you didn't know if the couple were going to make it out alive, or before the car blew up.

• I enjoyed this film because it was very gripping and interesting, even though the conventions were typical of a drama movie 'crash' had an interesting twist to normal drama movies. I liked the way eventually everyone in the movies lives collide in some way.

Conventions	Scene example from film Crash	Scene example from other films that are similar
Love/Romance	When the district attorney called up his wife after he shot the innocent man and set his car on fire to tell her he loved her. The attorney and his wife seem to have a strained relationship due to her lifestyle and his job.	Titanic, is an example of strained love, an upper class girl falls in love with a lower class boy on a ship, the ship begins to sink, however they do everything in their power to stay together through the tradgedy.
Violence	When the officer assumed the black man had a gun in his pocket when he didn't and shot him as a consequence of his wrong thought.	Freedom Writers, the upper class white teachers who work in the school advise the new teacher not to wear her pearl necklece to school, this suggests that the other teachers have reason to believe the children would rob the teacher due to their social backgrounds.
Ethical/Racial Stereotypes	The white officer assumes the black man was carrying s gun, the people in the movie living in poverty are immigrants to the USA.	Adulthood, the general public feel intimidated by the younger generation due to the way in which they dress and behave. The gangs members tend to all be young, black and a member of a working class family.
Action	Carjacking, car fires, shooting  weapons, chases, explosions.	James Bond. typical action movie involoving the use of weapons such as guns and grenades, car chases, violence, explosions, fires etc.
Family	When the man is being held at gunpoint and his young daughter comes running out to him and is almost shot.	Taken, an action film in which a mans daughter is kidnapped and he is determined to get her back.

Cabin Fever Offical Trailer.

During our previous group work, which is under this video as a group we were given a DVD that fits into our genre category  my group was given the horror movie 'Cabin Fever' to study and analyse to find typical features of a horror movie. the movie 'Cabin Fever' was released in 2002 and the trailer is shown below.

Assessment Record For Genre Group Work.

SELF ASSESSMENT	N/A
PEER ASSESSMENT	N/A
TEACHER ASSESSMENT
GRADE	The grade I received for this task was  C/D .      This is    below   /   on   /   above my target grade of a C .
TARGETS TO IMPROVE	To improve this work I need to:  ·         Use a more accurate storyboard template. ·         Aim to use a more un-conventional storyline.

Genre Group Activity Work.

Below is the work I produced on my assigned genre which was horror, this task was supposed to be a group activity however I had to do it independently due to absence.

Here is picture evidence of my script, storyboard, genre information.

Here is my research and notes taken on my given genre.

Here is my handwritten script.

Here is my hand drawn storyboard.

Genre Group Activity.

In class we was put into groups and given a particular genre of movie to discuss as a group, we was asked to discuss the conventions of the typical things in which are seen in the particular genre we were given, my groups assigned genre was horror.

CONVENTION	EXAMPLE FROM FILM	How we applied this convention (re-enforcing)	How we applied this convention (challenging)
Blood	Cold Blood. Cold Blood is a movie which involves a lot of blood, violence and brutality.		Violence is not shown as the scene ends of a cliff hanger.
Brutality	Spit On Your Grave. A very brutal and horrific movie involving a seriously brutal act of revenge.		Brutality is not shown as the scene ends on a cliff hanger.
Death	Sweeny Todd. The demon barber slits peoples throats in a bid to kill them, he commits a number or serial murders.		No graphic detail is shown.
Teenagers	Cabin In The Woods. A group of teenagers go on a camping trip to the woods unaware of what the trip holds for them.	The girl is a teenage girl simply at home leading her normal life.
Violence	Saw. Saw is a very violent movie involving all the typical features you expect a horror movie to contain, Saw the movie has many sequels and parts to continue the story.		Violence is not shown.
Victim	The Coleman Family- Orphan. The family adopts a young girl to replace the biological child they lost, however the child they adopt is troubled and begins destroying there lives and family unit.	The girl is an average teenage girl.
Villain	Toby- Paranormal Activity. A young child's spirit in which hunts a typical American family, Toby haunts the young children of the family until the youngest daughter agrees to spare the soul of her first born son to the demon named Toby.	We are unsure of what type of villain the story is using.
Fear	The Unborn. The main character a young woman called Casey is hunted by her unborn twin brother, who is known as 'Jumby.'	The girl is shown to feel fear due to the fact she is alone.
Paranormal Presence	Paranormal Activity. The family present in the movie are being haunted by a paranormal presence, a small child's spirit called Toby.		We are unsure if the villain is a human, monster or paranormal presence.
Out Of Body Experience	The Last Exorcism. The girl is taken over by a demon who causes her to have out of body experiences.		Not used.

Our main character represents a stereotypical victim of a horror movie because she is a teenage girl, home alone leading her normal everyday life.
Her body language and facial expression is calm and relaxed at first but later turns scared and uncomfortable because she is not alarmed by being in the house alone but then hears abnormal sounds and becomes scared and anxious.
Her costume would be casual wear such jeans and a jumper as this connotes that she is at home and is comfortable where she is. This is her costume because it works well with her characters description. It relates to the stereotype of teenagers because they always want to appear as fashionable and trendy. 
The setting is the girls house this setting connotes that she is leading her normal everyday life It relates to the genre because it shows that the girl doesn't expect or have any idea of what is you to occur.
She is  isn’t stereotypical because most horror movies are set in places where people shouldn't be such as abandoned houses or the woods. This relates to the conventions of the genre because it creates tension. I tried  to re-enforce the representations of the character because most victims in horror movies are stereotypical looking  teenage girls. 

       SELF ASSESSMENT  (rate yourself with level 1, level 2, level 3 or level 4)

a.      independent work  I worked well with my group

b.      independent work  I contributed well to the group task

c.       3  I was confident in my understanding of what I was being asked to do

d.      3  I have confidence I understand genre

e.      2  I have confidence I understand conventions

f.       3 I was creative

g.      3  I was good at remember to apply appropriate conventions to the idea

h.      4  I can write a script

i.        3  I can make a storyboard

j.        Other things that went well were I ensured my scene wasn't to typical but also wasn't to challenging of my given genre.

k.       To improve I could have made a more detailed and creative storyboard.
l.        Overall I would give myself a level 3
m.    Overall I would give myself a grade  C/D