Pete Fraser

Pete Fraser

'It's important to understand the 'aggregation of marginal gains'. Put simply.... how small improvements in a numbers of different aspects of what we do can have a huge impact to the overall performance of the team.' Dave Brailsford

In the video clips which are created you tend not to think about the little details, however all of them add up and they end up getting you better marks.

There are 9 steps you can take which will eventually get you better marks, these include:

Step 1: take stock

- What's the task?

- What's the assessment?

- What's the timeframe?

- What's the equipment?

- Build up skills

- Build up your research

- Build up your planning

- Give yourselves time to shoot and edit

- Keep evidence throughout the whole process

Step 2: Set up a blog

 - Keep evidence of everything that you do

Step 3: Build up skills
- Sound
- Camerawork
- Editing

Step 4: Investigate
- What do film openings actually look like?
- What does other student work look like?
- What do you need to know about titles?
How are you going to do something that stands out?

Step 5: Brainstorm ideas
- Possible sceneries for pitches/treatments
- 25 word pitch
- Moodboard treatment
- Peer and teacher feedback
- Realistic expectations (keep it simple)

I found Pete Frasers talk extremely interesting and I liked how he taught us how to get a good grade and how to do well in media. He got us to think about ways to do well in media by asking a lot of questions throughout the talk. The 9 steps which he told us about is a really successful way to get good grades.