AS Media

Evaluating your magazine

The Evaluation

The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks

20 marks for your research and planning60 marks for your production20 marks for your evaluation

There are 7 criteria to your evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

•Identify forms and conventions of real magazines•How does your product use, develop or challenge these forms and conventions?

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•Identify forms and conventions of real magazines•How does your product use, develop or challenge these forms and conventions?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

•What is representation? •What social groups are you targeting? •What representations do your photographs construct? •What representations does your textual content construct? •What representations does your design construct?

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•What is representation?

•What social groups are you targeting?

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•What representations do your photographs construct?

•What representations does your textual content construct? •What representations does your design construct?

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

•Who distributes magazines? •Who produced your example of an existing magazine? •Where is your magazine likely to be sold?

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•Who distributes magazines?

•Who produced your example of an existing magazine?

•Where is your magazine likely to be sold?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

•What is the audience for your magazine? •What are their aspirations and how does your magazine address these? •What are their demographics?

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•What is the audience for your magazine?

•What are their aspirations and how does your magazine address these?

•What are their demographics?

How did you attract/address your audience?

•What specific techniques did you use? •How did you manipulate representations? •How did you select content?

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•What specific techniques did you use?

•How did you manipulate representations?

•How did you select content?

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

• What ranges of technologies are available? • What hardware and what software is available?

How accessible are they? • How difficult/easy are they to use?

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• What ranges of technologies are available?

• What hardware and what software is available?

• How accessible are they?

• How difficult/easy are they to use?

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? •What skills have you learned? •What skills have you developed? •What have you learned about planning? •What have you learned about manipulation of representations?

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•What skills have you learned?

•What skills have you developed?

•What have you learned about planning?

•What have you learned about manipulation of representations?

Creating your evaluation

• Your evaluation is NOT an essay

• You will submit it on your blog as a PowerPoint file (this is the simplest way to present it)

• Use images, diagrams and anything else you think will make your evaluation interesting

• You don’t have to write everything, you can use videos…

Deadline

• Your deadline for this is the 13th December (Next Tuesday)