Evaluation

How to write an evaluation: (NOTES)

Reflection- Rolfe et al

What, So what, Now what.

What Includes- Where was it, who was you with, the situation you were dealing with, how did I feel about the situation I was in?
So What Includes- previous experiences, and how that compared (feel)
Now What Includes- What did I learn from this?, Overall how did I feel?, How will I apply this outcome in the future?

• What is it you are talking about?
• So what is it that you did and how did you feel about what you did?
• Now, what do you think you could have done better. 
• Finishing the Paragraph- What was the Goal achieved- (e.g. interview, the goal was what was achieved and how is my competencies.), How will I improve?

Mock Interview-

I was in the studio and we were going to create a mock interview, Foxy was recording this and Tao was my interviewer. I was nervous as I knew the people who were interviewing me, I think it was because of that fact and the fact I was getting recorded. I had prepared as I did look at the S.T.A.R answering method and I knew some situation I wanted to talk about. I have been to interviews before and I feel like I have used parts of S.T.A.R but not the whole technique. I was worried I would forget the result as that is the one I usually forget. Looking back at the video you can tell I am really nervous as my voice kept wavering. When I talk about my weaknesses I only say what it is instead of following S.T.A.R and giving a situation where my weakness was bad vs where it has improved. I also think that the further I got into the interview I used less and less of S.T.A.R, the reason I think I stopped using S.T.A.R is that I just wanted to get it over with. Next time I would take shorthand notes of times I have been in situations and prompts to keep me on track of S.T.A.R. This would help me because I could look at them if I am struggling to think of S.T.A.R or to bring me back to that structure whenever I feel like I am straying from it. Overall this project was here to teach us about competency and I think that I improved on this skill but I feel like I could improve a lot on my skill by using the noting technique I talked about before.

Interview Drama-

Pre-Production-

When we were given this project we were put into groups of 4, my group decided a plot line of having the good and bad example together. This way we could show we could good and bad examples in one shoot and after have the characters explain what went wrong without breaking the fourth wall with the audience. I wrote the character bios and script/screenplay. The script I wrote was something I was proud of, however, I do think it was a little wordy as I am used to writing fictional scripts they tend to be wordy compared to a documentary or non-fiction scripts which are a lot less wordy. This was fine though as the production team cut it down to what they wanted to use. I think that I need to practice and write more non-fiction things to train myself to tell the difference between those two types of scripts. I think that overall the script did its job the character bio was an oversight to each character, their personality and how they overall act.

Production-

We were then handed someone else works to film, we were given Courtney's groups Pre-production. We went to the place they booked out for us to film to look at the space we had and how we were going to film there. The pre-production we were given to work with were: shortlist of the shoot, booking of the room, Script, Character bio and risk assessments. This was really helpful as all of it showed us what we needed to film and what angle they wanted it shooting. This made our job a lot easier because after we planned it out we re-booked the room and got our talent ready. We filmed two days after and we successfully got each shot and a few different takes so overall it was pretty successful. 

Post Production-

When we switched the footage over we got someone else's work to edit, my edit involved green-screens and multi-camera. I decided to focus more on the interviewee than the interviewer because the video is for people who are going to an interview and it is teaching them what is good to do and what is bad to do. I keyed out the green screen and put the presenter in the corner and behind them a freeze-frame of a part of that clip summing up what the presenter is talking about. 

UCAS Statement-

The statement that is on here is the exact one I sent to my choice of uni. I think it does show who I am and what I want to achieve by going to uni, in life and in general for my career. I do think my first few write-ups of it were bad, really bad. I also really struggled to keep to the character limit and some of them where over 1000 characters over it. I think it is because I am a writer and I am used to writing every little detail and creating an image so when the limit was so low it was hard for me to sum me up with next to nothing to work with, as I wanted to write out every thought I wanted them to know. I also wanted to make them want to learn more about me and leave them intrigued once I learnt that I couldn't tell them everything. Overall, I a happy with the end result and I had MANY people check it before uploading it, including the LRC help we have. They were really helpful and I did manage to get a conditional offer so it must have offered some sort of 'correct' statement. 

C.V-

My CV is very updated as it was made for a job application last October, some of the educational areas are the only thing that could be out of date but only slightly. I think it is a good example of a C.V however I think now after writing my UCAS statement I think I should revisit it now that my skills in statements have improved. Overall, I think that my C.V could be improved when I am talking about myself and updating a little but other than that it is fine as it did get me a job.

Letter Skill-

My letter skills before I started this Unit was, I thought, good as I went over it so much in high school but when I started this I learnt a lot more details about the overall skills I already knew, for example, if you write Sir / Madam, you should end the letter with Yours Faithfully and if you write Dear Miss Example Name Here, you should end with Yours Sincerely. I also learnt why the layout is like how it is. For example, the three paragraphs are minimum to make a point each paragraph needs its own point so it is easy to read, like opening sentences in books the opening statement in letters is to draw the reader in to want to keep reading your letter. 

Telephone Skill-

My telephone call is not the best as I do say umm, a lot and I do trip on my words when answering, I think with a little work on what I am saying combined with some experience I think I will be able to get the hang of it. I don't like talking on the phone as it gives me major anxiety but again with time, practice and expirence I think I could get the hang of it.