Evaluation of AS Work - Ettie Greenwood

Detailed Evaluation of One Element- Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer.

I believe that this part of the assessment criteria was a little weak as when doing audience feedback, some of our audience were confused with what happened to the dog.

Here is one respondents' answer:

This highlights that without knowing the rest of the plot line, it may be confusing for some of the viewers. However this was harder to spot ourselves as we knew the context of the opening so everything for us made sense. 

Therefore, to overcome this, I think we should have asked people though out the editing process whether the piece made sense. This meant that we would be able to get an outside view and ensure that the editing made the meaning of the piece apparent to the viewer. However we could have also made the meaning clearer by editing our piece better: we decided not to show the object that the girl found in the opening, but this could have been the source of the confusion as instead this lead to people thinking that the dog had disappeared.Therefore, when we create our A2 piece, we need to ensure that we carefully edit our work to make the meaning easy to understand.

Also, now watching back our opening whilst knowing about the confusion, I am able to see what people think. This means that I am more likely to not make this mistake again which will hopefully make my A2 product more successful. 

Here is the part of the piece that people were getting confused about: