Peer Review Michael

PROBLEM:

The SMART goal for the course COM 215 during the Spring of 2023 was to improve the quality of the final cut for the Motivational Video Assignment.

The motivational video is a new assignment that I have only implemented two times.

The description explains the requirements as follows,

Title: MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO

Course: COM 215

Date: RC: 04:18 FC: 04-20

Description: The submission should be at least one-minute long motivational video for one of the sports teams at Barton College.

Objectives: Testing your storytelling skills to motivate your audience.

Individual or Group: This is a group assignment. Each group should have three members; a director, a video editor, and a sound recordist.

Creative Guidelines: Try to get the best idea to motivate your audience, then, try to find the best way to execute it. This project should be created using the professional equipment available in the Department: Panasonic 4K cameras, Boom Mics, and Zoom recorders. You have creative freedom to achieve your goals.

Technical Specs: The format should be mp4, 1920 x 1080, H-264, AAC 48khz.

Submission mode: You will submit your project two times, first as a Rough Cut, RC, and then as a Final Cut, FC.

More info: Don’t hesitate to contact me if you need additional information at melizaldepedrouso@barton.edu

Rubric:

Project/ 40 points	No/Limited Proficiency	Some Proficiency 15	Proficiency 20	High Proficiency 20
Submission/ Formatting	Plagiarism or no submission.	The final project was turned in but needs much more attention to presentation and labeling. The structure of the folder shows some mistakes.	There is evidence of time and effort, but much more could have been used to make it better. Some minor elements of the required format of the submission are missing.	There is evidence of ample time and effort put into the submission. The format and the content relate to the final project requirements.
Creativity	Plagiarism or no submission.	The final project shows no vision or understanding of how to communicate an idea using sound.	The final project shows vision or understanding of how to communicate an idea using sound.	The final project shows vision and understanding of how to communicate an idea using sound.
Project/ 60 points	No/Limited Proficiency	Some Proficiency 30	Proficiency 40	High Proficiency 60
Execution	Plagiarism or no submission	The project cannot be run or most of the elements are missing.	It shows professional quality in the conceptual or technical aspects of the project.	It shows professional quality in the conceptual and technical aspects of the project.

Points: 20 points for the final grade. The grading base is 20 points. RC: 10, FC 10.

Deadline: RC: 04:18 FC: 04-20

The process involved presenting the rough cut in a critique in front of the class, receiving suggestions from the class about changes to improve the video, and presenting it again as a final cut in a critique where the class will provide feedback one last time.

Last semester this assignment was the last assignment of the semester and the students complained that they couldn’t reshoot anything because the student-athletes already finished the season.

SOLUTION:

I moved the Motivational video to the second video project of the semester finishing the videos one month before the end of the semester.

Below you will find the submissions of the five groups.

I don’t think that the change was successful, in terms of better resubmissions as final cuts. There are several circumstances that also affected the development of the class as a team. This semester the students achieved the goals of the course slightly later than in previous sections of this course. The presence of several student-athletes in their 5 and 6 years of academic careers changed the demeanor of the group. Have of the teams, wanted to do their projects on their own terms without paying too much attention to the feedback of the class.

Also, last semester they had one week between the rough cut and the final cut while this semester they just have 48 hours to change their videos.

Possible solutions to explore in the future are to add at least one more class day between the rough cut and final cut and enforce a written reflection on the changes they need to perform in the resubmissions.