Link to our presentation: France (Jemma Hosegood, Molly Carver and Sian Cumming)

On Friday 10th July, we had the whole morning with Tom Pope and Gareth from the Societe Jersiasie to come and review our final pieces. I was in a group of six and we had to make two presentations on what we had learned from this topic by presenting our final images/videos with research to back them up and evaluate what we thought of them. Our presentations lacked research therefore, I want to back up my ideas with there I got them from. The criteria we had to include in our presentations were as followed:

• A wide range of ideas is explored with exciting and imaginative developments;
• evidence of purposeful ideas, independence, perseverance and enthusiasm
• Researches a diverse range of others’ work, conveying ideas and meaning;
• a critical vocabulary is used to express an understanding of the more complex issues involved.
• A diverse range of experiments;
• extending and refining studies
• risks sometimes taken
• use a range of visual language skills
• consistent command skills/technique
• Selection of final material is clear and consistent
• skillful outcomes that show a consistent level of knowledge, skill and understanding;
• Work that has personal identity
• final pieces well constructed
• perceptive connections linking own work to sources

As a group our feedback were quite positive from everyone, but we did lack research which was our downfall.

The original perspective for the trip was to focus on getting audience reaction by doing something that was n’t socially acceptable/would be looked down upon but in a way that we weren’t actually being illegal. Also, videos that would capture positive feedback such as my flower giving. The flower idea came from a Facebook video that I watched, where this guy handed out gifts randomly to strangers as an act of kindness. I thought this idea was perfect to do in France but instead of gifts, I thought handing our a bunch of flowers would be a nice gesture. This was my favourite idea and best final as I did exactly what I wanted to do, which was get audience involvement in my videos. My other videos were much more spontaneous as we walked around inside the walls of St Malo and saw objects such as the cardboard boxes and the round-a-bout.