Genre- Smith.

Understanding Genre

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White Blank Page                     :Mumford & Sons
Bring Me To Life             :Evanescence
I'm Yours                                   :The Script
I Need This                                 :Jessie J
Nothing Left To Loose                  :The Pretty Reckless
Pass That Dutch             :Missy Elliott

Back To Bed                             :Erik Hassle

IB and FC essay.

Jack Reid IB and FC Essay

Evaluating My Work.

Jack Reid

Smith

How have your research and planning skills progressed and allowed you to make more creative decisions?

Looking back from AS to A2 I feel as though my skills for research and planning have developed, this meaning I was able to make a more creative finished product. At AS I collectively made with my group an introductory sequence for a dance film, and at A2 I again collaborated with a group to make an alternative rock music video.

 By looking at either product it is clear that my research and planning skills have developed as the a2 product contains far more signs and symbols of the chosen genre (Barthes theory). For instance I was able to use ‘Google’ and ‘Wikipedia’ properly to gain important background knowledge, knowing how to correctly search for information and understanding what first appears is the most popular and generally what I am looking for. This then enabled the group to give a clear representation of the chosen genre.

 To give a clear indication of how my knowledge has progressed in research and planning I feel as though I have followed the theory of Tim O’reily’s DIKY triangle. The internet has enabled me to select data that I find relevant to then extract the information that will better my product, I then combine this information with the knowledge I already have/ to build new knowledge, this then combined with wisdom and creativity shows that I am capable of making a ‘realistic’ product. Before the above I found I wasn’t being thorough enough with my research, picking out things that I thought were correct opposed to what others considered correct and fitting for the selected genre, for instance Location in our AS product. The second half of my video was set in a field which completely contrasted with the first half, and the overall genre that I had chosen to work with. My knowledge and capability of using the internet (programmes such as Google and Wikipedia) has bettered, as I know no that being more specific with my search means my outcome will be more accurate and specific, i.e. ‘rock clothing’ to ‘Taylor Momsen The Pretty Reckless Stage outifts’.

 All research and planning was documented on Blogger for both tasks, looking back there is an incredible difference in clarity between the two, The AS blog appears more vague than the A2 blog. This is because in a2 I understood that blogger was their to gain audience feedback and that’s its not just a nice organised way of displaying your work. Instead of just posting pointless posts, I would post question’s to teachers which would then either better my knowledge and understanding or better my final product. This ensured that the task stayed on track and my final product had taken all sorts of opinion into account, meaning that it was appealing to all.

 In A2 the knowledge I have taken from research and planning helped me to be more creative, instead of just researching on the internet and ‘copying’ ideas (for instance in AS watching video’s on Youtube and only noticing and copying the obvious) I was able to take others ideas and general conventions to then adapt them into my own work. This taking into account the theory of Steve Neil and his idea of repetition and change, the fact you have to know your genre inside and out to then adapt it. “You need to know the rules to break the rules” this then tying into research and proving that thorough searches will better knowledge which will then meant I was capable of creating something creative.