Evaluation:•Decide what electronic

forms your evaluation will take. You need to use seven different technologies (e.g. videopodcast, Voicethread discussion wallwisher, whizzy powerpoint, prezi, edited piece to camera, Bubbl, Glogster, Pixton, Scrapblog, Voki, Wordle etc. It can’t be just a written post on your blog.

•Film, edit, create the evaluation and get it onto your blog. You could do each question as a separate post. However, better would be to combine them all as a prezi and just post a single link on your blog to the prezi.

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

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?6. What have you learnt about technologies from

the process of constructing this product?7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do

you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?

Set Questions:

Marking Criteria:You should all be aiming for Level 4. You are all capable of excellence.

L4 example: http://prezi.com/uolomjd09nvc/untitled-prezi/ Level 4 (16–20 marks):

Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.

Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes. Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.

Excellent ability to communicate. Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation

Level 3 (12–15 marks):Same as above but replace excellent with proficient.

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• • •1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and

conventions of real media products?• Clearly, you need to able to demonstrate that you have an understanding of the

conventions of the thriller genre and any specific sub-genre within that. Briefly analyse the research you did, illustrating with screen-grabs from your blog, Youtube, IMDB etc to show the ‘real’ media products referred to in the question.

• What impact did research have on your ideas and final film?

• How does your work adhere to these conventions? Why? Pick out some specific examples and illustrate them visually – again, screen grabs or selected video can be very powerful to really make your points clear.

• Have you been unconventional in any way? How? Why? Why not? Be specific and illustrate it.

• If you can, talk about narrative theory and how they apply to the Thriller genre. Discuss how, in turn, you used narrative theory ideas.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• Think about what groups you have chosen to show in your film – teenagers, adults, different classes, genders and ethnicities. How have you shown them – think about clothing style, language choices (dialogue), locations, use of colours, the actions of these groups etc.

• Explain why you chose to represent things in the way.• What stereotypes are you using, which are you challenging? Why?• What messages are you trying to give the audience? Why?

3. What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

• Find out about different companies that produce and distribute films, especially Thriller films.

• Decide who you would like to produce and distribute your film – a conglomerate, an independent, a UK or US based company.

• Come up with reasons for why you would use that particular company or companies. What would be the advantages (and possible disadvantages).

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

• Describe them in detail. • Talk about age range, interests, media usage.• Explain why you selected this target audience (relating back to existing thrillers).• Talk about research that you might have done into this target audience.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

• Talk about the audience research that you did before you started your film especially any surveys you completed and how you used this information to construct your product.

Possible Things to Cover:

• • •• Pick out some specific examples and illustrate them visually.• Discuss why attracting a specific target audience is so important.(£££££)

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

• This is the time to show how far you have come in terms of your ability to use a wide range of technology.

• Talk about the technologies you have tried. Which were the best ones? Why? Which ones did you try and then not use? Why

• Which technologies are best for what? Why?• How have new technologies changed media production?• How did you learn to use these technologies?

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

• Think about the mistakes you made while making your preliminary tasks. How did you avoid making the same mistakes in your Thriller film?

• How has your understanding of editing techniques improved as a result (think about the editing techniques you learnt about)?

• Talk about how you have become better at planning, storyboarding, creative decision making, camerawork etc.

• Make yourselves sound amazing.

FINALLY:Go back and look carefully at the last two points in the marking criteria. Are you communicating clearly? Is there obvious skill in your use of digital technology? Is it engagingly and informatively presented? Is it interactive? Does it flow?

Script what you are going to say and think how you are going to display it visually as well.

Make sure at least one of your answers involves digital video editing.

DEADLINES:First draft (of EACH question) - P3 Monday 24th February. You have my lessons and hwk time to complete.

Final draft (of each question) - date to be confirmed. Amendments will be completed as hwk only.

Links to different programmes:• Animoto (make short videos with clips and photos)• Authorstream (upload and share ppts)• Bubbl (mind map creator)• Evernote (upload photos with notes and annotations on

top)• Gliffy (flowchart creator)• Glogster (poster creator)• Prezi (interactive presentations)• Pixton (comic creator)• Slideshare (upload and embedd ppt & word docs)• Spicy Nodes (organisational tool)• Vcasmo (synchronize ppts and videos)• Voki (convert text to speech)• Wall Wisher (comments board and display)• Word it Out (like WORDLE - makes word clouds)