Evaluation Questions

The final part of your blog will be your evaluation. Below is the blurb and the questions from the specification.

Candidates will evaluate their work electronically. This MUST contain an element of audience feedback and may be either integrated with the presentation of the research and planning material or may be presented separately. Where candidates have worked in a group, the evaluation may be presented individually or collectively but the teacher must allocate a mark according the contribution/level of understanding demonstrated by the individual candidate.

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:
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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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Who would be the audience for your media product?
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How did you attract/address your audience?
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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Target Audience

You might find this link useful when looking at your target audience. The research is based in Australia but could probably be extrapolated as similar to Britain. Hover over to the title to get the link.

Planning Documents

In addition to your research, which was outlined in the previous post, there is a range of planning documents which need to be on your blog.

1 A storyboard animated using Windows Movie Maker
2 A time plan. When are you filming, capturing, editing, adding sound and effects etc.
3 A detailed filming plan for one shoot including names, resposibilities, times, locations etc
4 A brief narrative description of the making of your film from genre choice to final cut. Include any problems you had and how you overcame them.

Portfolio Deadlines

Final Deadlines:
1. Film. Friday 12 Feb
2. Completed Blog Friday 26 Feb

Interim Deadlines
1. You should start filming as soon as we return after Christmas
2. Fri 8 Jan Posting research on Repertoire of elements:
3. Fri 15 Jan Posting research on similar films watched:
4. Fri 22 Jan Posting reaearch on target audience:
5 Fri 29 Jan Posting planning documents:
6. Fri 29 Jan Posting Animated storyboard and locations:
7. Fri 5 Feb Posting details of how and why you filmed:
8. Fri 12 Feb Posting evaluation question answers:

Foundation Portfolio

The Film
The opening two minutes of a fiction film including titles and sound

The Blog
Blog has 3 sections
Research

Genre: Repertoire of Elements. From sources

Similar films: Conventions, style.etc from watching the films

Target Audience: Why? Be specific. How are you going to appeal to them? How do you know?

Theories and issues

Locations photos



Planning

Storyboard

Time plan

Step by step, what you planned to do and what you did do



Evaluation

Questions will appear later
 
 
Repertoire of Elements includes


Mise en scene
Themes/Ideas
Style - Lighting, use of camera, editing
Characters and relationships
Representation - Gender, class, age. race, disablity
Examples of films which illustrate these ideas
Conform / subvert

Things I found out recently

James Murdoch (son of Rupert Murdoch) gave a speech in which he claimed that the only guarantee of quality in television was "profit". 

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