Evaluation TasksAS

Your evaluation must answer…• 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?• What kind of media institution might distribute your media

product and why? • Who would be the audience for your media product? • How did you attract/address your audience? • What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product? • Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you

have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

PLTS: Take responsibility for making sure that goals are achieved, and pushing things forward

despite any setbacks

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

• All about showing your understanding of genre.

How did you adopt conventions?How did you challenge them?

CHALLENGE TODAY:Using information from your blog-Create a prezi (presentation) to give to the class which visually demonstrates the ways in which you used conventions and ways in which you deliberately challenged conventions of your chosen genre.This should have print screens from films that inspired your film opening and print screens from your own film.

Objective: Achieve a level 4 for evaluationOutcome: A presentation using prezi demonstrating the connections between their final film opening and ‘real’ film openings in the same genre

Demonstrating your knowledge of genre

EVALUATION TASK ALERT

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• All about showing your understanding of representation.

Write a textual analysis on your finished production.

CHALLENGE TODAY:In the same way that you would address the AS exam – make notes on how gender is represented in your film opening. Make notes on: editing, sound, camera and mise en scene and then write an essay style answer and post it on your blog.

Objective: Achieve a level 4 for evaluationOutcome: A textual analysis: how is gender represented in your film opening – focus on editing, camerawork, mise en scene and sound.

Demonstrating your knowledge of representation

EVALUATION TASK ALERT

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

You must demonstrate that you understand about distribution companies in relation to genre and budget.CHALLENGE TODAY:Write a post answering the following questions:Which company would you want to distribute your film? Why would this company be suitable?(Use info from imdb to back up your response, where you can use images to support)

Objective: Achieve a level 4 for evaluationOutcome: A blog post discussing the importance of institution

The importance of institution

EVALUATION

TASK ALERT

Who would be the audience for your media product? How did you attract/address your audience?

• All about showing your understanding of audience.

What have you learned from your audience feedback? (PREPARING FOR EVALUATION)How are you setting up opportunities to gain it?

CHALLENGE TODAY:Show your footage so far to someone else in the class. Prepare some questions to gain some constructive ways to help you improve your work. Create a short video (in a journalist style) answering who your audience is for your film opening and how you attracted/addressed them? summarizing at the end what your group have learnt from your audience – include their responses.

Objective: Achieve a level 4 for evaluationOutcome: A short group video recording audience feedback

USING AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

EVALUATION

TASK ALERT

You must demonstrate that you understand the importance of targeting audiences.CHALLENGE TODAY:Look back at your original voki’s. Who are they based on? Find a real life representation of your voki and take their photo – add to your blog with a short description of who they are and their response to your film opening.

Objective: Achieve a level 4 for evaluationOutcome: A post showing target audience

The importance of audience

EVALUATION

TASK ALERT

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

• All about you demonstrating the skills that you have learnt.

How have your skills developed over the course of the production.CHALLENGE TODAY:Take photos of you using the equipment – editing machines, tripods, cameras etc.Add the photos to your blog with a description of what you learnt.See Kamini’s blog for an example: http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/what-have-you-learnt-about-technologies.html

Objective: Achieve a level 4 for evaluationOutcome: A post showing the skills and progression made across the project

The importance of skills development

EVALUATION TASK ALERT

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?