EVALUATION AND REFLECTION – Bad girls

PART 1

On your BLOGS you need to evaluate and reflect on: ‘How am I doing at this stage of the project’s progress?’

You MUST evaluate and reflect after EVERY Season rehearsal. You can copy and paste your Practical Skills videos into your blog to talk about the rehearsal if you wish. It sometimes helps to reflect on what you did by watching it.

Description

Keep it brief, like a title – tell us what you are going to write about in this reflective blog e.g. Blocking act 1 scene 1 of ‘Hamlet’ following initial read through of script

Initial Thoughts

• Write in full sentences but separate out each of your thoughts into different bullet points

• Lots of bullet points

• How do you feel about this, how is it going?

• Don’t sort them out into good and bad

 

Breaking This Down (Bear in mind that some points will naturally fit into both sections.)

Good

• Look at your initial thoughts and identify if each one is a good thing, what is good about this? You don’t need a big explanation as this will come in your analysis.

Bad

• Look at your initial thoughts and identify if each one a bad thing, what is bad about this? You don’t need a big explanation as this will come in your analysis.

Evaluative Analysis (What sense can I make of this? How can I make sense of this?)

• Go back to each of the points you have made in your initial thoughts but reflect them on them in the light of how you have classified them as good or bad
• Write in full sentences
• Examine each point
• Why do you think this? Why do you think you feel this way?
• Make sure you have justified or backed up every statement you make
• You can ask yourself questions here and try and answer them

Action Plan

• Specific and direct action points for what you are now going to do, based on what you have discovered or suggested in your analysis
• Avoid saying ‘I need to’ or ‘Try to’, instead use more direct language such as ‘I will’ and give yourself a time frame to get them done by – they should be things you can tick off as being completed and you can then reflect on how this is helping you progress

(This will also provide evidence towards your Planning and Production grade)

 

PART 2 (at least 1,000 words)

On this page you need to evaluate and reflect on the total production from beginning to end based on YOUR experience and engagement with it. Use your blogs to help you consider each stage of the production process and be constructively critical. Pay particular attention to your own roles, contributions and responsibilities throughout this whole process and how you have worked with others (collaboration):

• Research, Blocking and Rehearsing the show
• Rehearsing and Refining the show
• Polishing the show (including production elements – costume, props, set, lighting, sound & visuals etc.)
• Actual performance

Provide an overall summary of the learning you have taken from doing this project and identification of areas you will need to develop going forwards.

Remember to link back to your Context page and analyse whether you achieved what you set out to do.

Evaluation and Reflection

UAL definition: the application of intellectual curiosity and rigor in making judgements and establishing meaning and values, and the level of contemplation and deliberation necessary to progress and achieve identified goals

Fail: Insufficient evidence of ongoing evaluation, lack of or only basic analysis and little or no justification for ideas.

Pass: Clearly communicated evidence of valid evaluation and realistic analysis independently used to inform and develop ideas.

Merit: Effective communication of analysis and interpretation, independent synthesis of information and application of reasoned decision making to inform development of ideas.

Distinction: Accomplished and professional communication of perceptive analysis and interpretation, demonstrating clarity and sophistication in thinking and maturity in decision making to progress ideas.

The above statements are guides to how evidence for the final unit (8) will be assessed. Tutors will let you know in their feedback how your evidence for these units compares to these achievement standards so that you are aware of the level you are currently working at.