studio reviews

You will show each of your documentaries to the whole class for a studio review.

Here are the ways in which we will structure our formal studio review
sessions in this class:

• We will start with what works well in the text (audio, video, visual) before
going on to talk about what doesn't work so well. Praise first; critique
second; offer suggestions third.

• We will focus feedback on rhetorical criteria (audience, purpose, content, and
form) of the text under consideration,

• We will talk about personal understandings and responses to a piece, your
response as an individual reader of—or listener to—a text (rather than
making claims about how audiences in general will respond to the piece).

• We will focus on the project itself (rather than on the author/composer of the
text).

• Class members will offer specific, concrete help (contributing a piece of
music that may be more appropriate, identifying a source of photographic
images, pointing out a useful web site, offer to help teach someone an
application).

During these formal studio review sessions the following things will happen:

• The teacher or a designee will keep time to make sure that everyone has the same amount.

• Every member of the class will respond in writing to the scheduled authors.

• Some class members will be encouraged to respond verbally.

• The author will take notes on the feedback. They will not talk. They will definitely not defend their decisions.

• Every student is responsible for scheduling a formal studio review session for each of their documentaries.

• During studio review sessions, every student is responsible for bringing their project on CD or a jump drive. Students are also be responsible for making sure that their project files are accessible in the classroom studio environment.

• Absences on the day of studio review sessions cannot be made up.

Adapted from Kara Alexander’s “Chapter 9: More about Reading, Responding, and Revising” In C. Selfe (Ed.) Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Forthcoming. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

On the day of your assigned studio review, bring your project to class on a jump drive or CD.

Before the day of your review, you are responsible for checking that all files can be viewed on the teacher's computer. If your files are not in a form we can view, the class will not conduct a studio review of your work. Missed reviews cannot be made up, so please take this responsibility seriously and test your files.

See Studio Review Form (Course CD)