EVALUATION

Monitoring

Targets and Milestones

To measure Progress and Achievements

Planned Inputs and weather they produced Planned Outputs

Did what you put in make what you wanted to get out?

Difference between Monitoring and Evaluation is:

Evaluation is placing a personal judgement on information gathered during a project.

Monitor and then Evaluate.

The assessment of a project's success is Evaluation.

Who is Evaluating?

Evaluation page: 7+1 Paragraphs

Words:

Activities: Tasks done in order to achieve project Outputs.

Efficiency: The extent to which Activities, Outputs, and desired effects are achieved with the lowest possible use of resources/Inputs (Time, Money).

Effectiveness: The extent to which the project meets its Outputs/Objectives.

Impact: Measure of change that results from the Outputs being completed. E.g Number of Actions taken up.

Qualitative: Refers to data that are words. Open Questions. 

Quantitative: Numerical or Boolean/Yes or No data.

Outcome: Measures the change in Behaviour or Resource Use in relation to the Goal of the project. (Sort term, Mid term, Long term)

Outputs: Product or Service delivered as part of project's Activities.

Relevance: Does the Goal meet the target group's needs or priorities?

Sustainability: Likelihood of change continuing once intervention has ceased. Continuity.

Formal Letter

One of the Outputs needed in this project was a Formal Letter directed at a prospective job. To make it as relevant as possible, I directed it towards the dream job I had previously researched: Scale Prop Modeller. Since I knew about the job I was writing about, I chose the qualitative data within the Letter to fit, be as relevant and effective as possible. The potential impact of this is that I'll have a well made letter to send to a potential employer. I feel that I could have improved sustainability by making another version that has only got basic information that I can change based on the job I'm sending it for. The less specialised one would have been more useful for me in the short term, and wouldn't have impacted my efficiency completing the activity much at all, as the more generalised one would require less information and thus wouldn't have consumed much time at all. In short, I feel the specialised letter I made was very effective, but I feel I could have made a more sustainable output without costing much efficiency. 

CV

Learning from the Formal Letter, I made 2 versions of this. I created a general CV that can be altered first to achieve high sustainability, and then from that made a more effective and relevant CV directed towards the aforementioned dream job. I feel because I made the general CV before the specialised CV, the second output lost effectiveness, although at the same time I feel this is in part due to my weaker execution of the activity as a whole. I feel if I added more to both CVs' "Why Me?" sections would have improved it'e effectiveness. Also if I made the improved the presentation of the qualitative data in the "What I Can Do" section with sentences as opposed to lists it would have a greater potential impact than I feel it currently does. Otherwise, both currently serve their purpose, although my details are likely to change. making both less sustainable than they could be. In short, the nature of being in education makes the CVs less sustainable than they could be, but I supplement that with the creation of the general, more editable one. In the future I'll change the list in the "What I Can Do" section for sentences , and add more to the "Why Me" section.

Phone Call

I feel the phone call lost a lot of relevance due to my choice in fake profession. Also the way I chose to speak lessened the effectiveness and impact it had. I wasn't nearly as clear as I could be, and my voice wasn't as clear as it should have been. What it does effectively is show me where I can improve and served as good practice. Next time I should take it more seriously, use my normal voice in a clear manner, and chose a relevant job.

Training Drama

This is what we made from the plans we received from another group. The first task was rewriting the script, which we found was rushed and not as understandable as it could have been. I feel we did that effectively and efficiently, keeping most of the source material while improving the overall quality. Had we had more time or a more direct hand in it's creation I feel it would have been even better, but as it stands it was still effective. The next activity was recording it, which went smoothly despite my personally lacklustre performance. We managed to find multiple relevant locations to film in and did it in a matter of days. The downfall was the lack of practice I had with my lines, making it clear that it was scripted in the recording. Finally we had to edit it, which also was fairly efficient. Personally I feel I could have done a lot of work on the sound to make it sound more realistic and fill quiet spaces which would have increased its effectiveness without loosing too much efficiency, but as it stands it's still effective. All in all, we would have preferred more effective plans, but they where far from unusable. I could have improved effectiveness by practising the script without loosing much, if any, effectiveness, but otherwise we recorded efficiently. And the edit was effective, but could have been more so if I had added more to the sound. 

Mock Interview

The Mock Interview I feel went very well, with me answering the questions to the best of my ability clearly and effectively. While I missed some things I wanted to include I went over everything needed, using STAR to create an effective answer and then memorising as much of the answer I could. Personally I feel it would be even more effective without the pauses and filler sounds, but that's purely habit based and is difficult to work around in the short term. In the long term I shall train myself to be able to talk without the filler noises, and aside from that I'll remember STAR in the future when I go into interviews so I can give everything to the interviewer they're looking for. 

Showreel

Without a doubt this is singularly the thing I'm most proud of not just within Unit 11 but in Media as a whole. I feel it shows not just what I'm capable of as a person, but how far I've come. It's incredibly effective and has a great impact on those who see it, multiple people telling me they'd employ me based on that alone. Our Course Director's words just after he saw it where "It's one of the best I've seen in a long time. Bloody brilliant.", along with praise on my use of timing with the music in combination with imagery relating to the emotion or vocals of the music to immensely increase the impact it has on the audience. Despite all of this I can't say it's without flaws. Firstly the lack of a hard drive containing all of the content I wanted to use for the first 2 hours of editing (Over half of the total time it took), I had to salvage what I could from YouTube, which was a mere 6 clips, only 4 of which I could easily use in the piece. This drastically reduced the effectiveness and the efficiency of my work for 3 reasons. I had to work with a limited pool of content to achieve the goal, which reduced the efficiency. Also, YouTube's compression reduced the quality of this content somewhat, which I only realised later when the content from the hard drive had a higher aspect ratio and had to be scaled to around 70%. Then the efficiency was reduced even more when I had to change several of the prior clips out when I had the far superior range of choices from me finding the hard drive. Suffice to say that from now on I'm keeping more than one backup in case something like this happens again and I don't find the hard drive. Another major flaw is that it relies heavily on footage from my Echo music video: my 2019 FMP. While that is my most impactful piece having been viewed 124 times by a range of people as of today, it doesn't help the variation and effectiveness of my Showreel. Next time I'll attempt to use an equal amount of content from everything I used, and hopefully I'll have more content to use by then. Furthermore, I feel the end sequence of credits is just filler, and could have had more content if I had been more efficient and put more effort into it. It works well to close it all off, but I still feel it's a missed opportunity to proverbially knock it out of the park. Finally, I feel I could have done a lot more with the sound of the piece, having only shortened it and made it pan left and right at the very start. I could have kept up the panning, added background effects, or even synced some of the visuals better than I feel I did, even if that's this video's strong suit. Again, I feel I missed out on an opportunity to increase its effectiveness and potential impact more than I already have. In shot, it's far from perfect, no matter how good it may be or how proud I am of it. I can learn so much more from it, and hopefully I will.

Online Bio

Having never created one of these before yesterday, I can't truly say if I have or have not done well. That being said, I feel I did well based on what I found out about online bios, which almost entirely came from what Grammarly had to say about them. Using the tips and advice it gave, I feel it's effective at getting an essence of myself across to anyone looking at it, is relevant to media and me in general, and would potentially have enough impact in comparison to others and make me stand out. Despite this, I probably could have done better with the third paragraph that talks more personally about me, but aside from that I don't know exactly how to improve it without feedback since this is the first I've ever made.