Evaluating your choices 1.1.1a
- 1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 1: Scene Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene 1.1.1a Evaluating your choices Student Book pp 14–23 Extension activity Often there is more than one way to investigate a particular subject. Think carefully about the research method you chose at the beginning of this task, then fill in the grid below, listing the advantages and disadvantages of using this method. Considering carefully the potential drawbacks of your chosen method will help to prepare you for any problems that may arise, and will mean that you have considered alternative ways to find this information. When weighing up the advantages and disadvantages, consider the time this method will take, the practical considerations (e.g. bad weather if you are going to be outdoors), what resources your method needs and the chances that something beyond your control will affect your ability to use this method. Method chosen Advantages Disadvantages Alternative method should problems occur • Internet. Quick and easy access. Advertisements may Call the media venue or interrupt and you may travel there to find be given false information. information. • Telephone. Accurate, straight-up Costs money and may Browse the internet or information. not get a description of travelling to the media the film. venue. • Travelling. Accurate information Costs money and it Telephone call or and your free to ask takes time to travel. browse the internet. questions. Travelling may be unsafe. • Books. Accurate information Takes time and may Telephone call, browse from a reliable source. display irrelevant the internet or travel to information. the venue. You should consider all of the methods you employ in your research in this way. Sometimes you will find that there is a quicker, safer, more efficient or more reliable way to do a task if you consider it carefully enough. © Pearson Education Ltd 2008. Copying permitted for purchasing institution only. This material is not copyright free. 1