SOME KEY POINTS ON YOUR BLOGS

I'll write up a more detailed review at the weekend if I get the chance, but some brief, though rather fundamental observations on your blogs:

1. too many lack the more basic, prosaic posts - eg on the hardware, software, the task etc. Not a good idea as..
2. You've 4 weeks of term time left!!! All of you still have to shoot, edit, soundtrack your productions. Having a long list of posts to add in - to safeguard marks for Research and Planning - in the midst of this is not a good plan
3. audience feedback is absolutely critical at every stage - test out your title, your narrative; get some test footage asap and seek aud feedback on this. 
4. Making constant links between your production and real life examples is equally critical: Have you clearly compared yours to actual texts when writing up your audience profile for example?
5. many of you are simply failing to reflect your learning from AS: when writing about narrative for example you should be considering the theories of Propp, Todorov, Levi-Strauss, Barthes etc - and then there is the extensive terminology for both semiotics and the film industry
6. nobody seems to have started planning their ancillary texts yet. Remember, you are producing a PACKAGE of texts, so need to get some research into magazines/posters (radio trailers if you're confident you can do this well) underway
7. re-read any and all comments made, especially by me - too few of you are actually acting on the points made in these