Evaluation Essay

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Evaluation Essay

• What the heck does that mean?

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Evaluation

• Evaluating something means to judge it in terms
  of its importance, usefulness, or degree of
  goodness.
• These ideas are what we call value what we
  think about something based on a set of standards.

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Standards

• Standards are those things that we measure other
  things to.
• For example, what makes something important or
  good?
• A lot of our values are expressed in terms of
  like (I like this) or need (I dont need one
  of these).

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Values Standards

• Where do we get them?
• From our parents, family, friends, etc. What
  others like or value, we tend to like or value,
  too.
• From our experiences. What has been good in the
  past is likely to be good in the future.

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Standards

• How do they work?
• First, you have to identify the elements that
  make something valuable.
• Then, you need to identify the standard scale
  that will apply.
• Last, you compare the elements in what is being
  evaluated to the applicable standards.

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Example

• Lets evaluate a movie. Well call it Invasion of
  the Star Wars Clones South Georgia

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Movie Evaluation

• What standards will we apply?
• First, we need to decide what makes a movie a
  good movie.

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Movie Standards

• For the purpose of this example, lets look at
  these elements
• Plot the story and what happens
• Cinematography the way the movie is filmed.

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Setting the Standards

• Plot What makes a good story?
• It has to be interesting
• It has to have reasonable conflict
• The outcome has to be happy
• Cinematography What makes the movie-making
  good?
• Clear, steady picture (not shaky)
• Great special effects
• Good music that doesnt detract from the story

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Invasion of the Star Wars Clones South Georgia

• Plot the story tells of Star Wars clones
  landing in a field outside Tifton and taking
  over the Tifton Mall. No one notices that
  anything is different until pets start
  disappearing.
• Weak story not very interesting, no real
  conflict, lacks a happy ending

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Invasion of the Star Wars Clones South Georgia

• Cinematography filmed using a hand held digital
  camera, no additional lighting was used, many
  scenes shot at night and hard to see, characters
  make up looked fake, the pets were clearly
  stuffed animals, no music only interstate
  traffic noise
• Hey, what can I say this is not a good movie!

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Evaluation

• Based on our standards, this would be what kind
  of a movie?
• Thats right, it is a bad movie.