Peer Assessment Importance

Peer assessment is hard to give - as we don't want to be mean to classmates - and sometimes tricky to receive because, well, who likes people criticising something they worked hard on?

However, we tend to forget that peer assessment actually helps us. It gives us opinions of people as viewers, and it goes towards to make our work better. For instance, if someone has made a short video but there's some faults - such as lighting, or whatever - then, with peer assessment, people can help you realise that and correct such faults before actually handing it in.

Earlier, we all created a short piece in groups, and, in class, we peer assessed them. Here's a copy of what I wrote for my peers:

 Everyone did this after watching the film, and then we all gave feedback on said film.

On my group's film, we got good comments about the angles and focus of the camera, but some comments on how some shots were a bit too long and it made the entire piece a little awkward. This means now I can keep in mind in editing to keep exaggerated shots at a minimum and for a reason - but I also know that the filming was good and to stick to that quality of filming.