Evaluation

Questions to answer in evaluation1. 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 institution 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 full product?

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

• Copy and paste your front cover, contents and double page spread so they are all on one page next to each other. And write a brief summary about how you have used CONTINUITY by creating a HOUSE STYLE through out your product:

-Same font throughout your magazine.

- Same colour scheme using 3 colours.

-Making sure page numbers match contents features.

-Same artist on your front cover, contents and DPS

-How does your lay out match or challenge conventions (a brief description) etc.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• When discussing how your product represents stereotypes and age groups link back to your research.

• How did you make the choices you did in relation to content?• Look at your research in to demographics and your social

economic table, how and in what way did this help you?• Look at your reader profiles, how do they show how social

groups are represented.• How did you stereotype your audience? Think about the

types of bands featured and competition prizes offered. Consider assumptions made in relation to bands featured and mise en scene chosen.

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

• Look back at your research some students will have already covered this aspect in their LIIAR analysis.

• Look at what magazine you have based your magazine identity and genre on. Look at who publishes and distributes that magazine. (Bauer, IPC media)

• State: Who you would want to distribute your product, why you would want them to distribute your magazine, what benefits would you gain from being associated to this institution? What advantages would you have if your product were to be distributed by this institution.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

• Talk about your chosen audience and why you targeted that audience.

• If you created your own reader profile show a deconstruction of your choices in your evaluation. What made you put certain features on to this? What type of audience were your trying to re create?(show this in your evaluation.)

• What other research did you carry out in relation to target audiences? How did your research help i.e. your videoed focus groups.

• Construct a secondary audience feed back video with your final product to see if it was successful for your targeted audience.

How did you attract/address your audience?

• What is it about your magazine that will appeal to your audience specifically?

• - Any special offers / plugs . . .• - The importance of feeling like part of ‘the

scene’ • - Audience feedback (graphs, charts and video

clips, questionnaires etc.)• Artists featured, imagery, and meeting the

requirements of an audience.

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

• Think about EVERYTHING you have done in / learned about using Photoshop

• provide proof via before and after pics if you have them or by slideshows as some students have already created.

• Imagery is important. You could also video your self with an over the shoulder shot to show how exactly you created certain effects (to reach higher grade bands)

• Use your print screens you have used in your planning and research and talk about the tools you used.

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

• Print screen your preliminary task: front cover of your college magazine along side your final front cover.

• What have you learnt?• How have you developed?• What would you change?• Why was it useful carrying out the preliminary task?• What skills and knowledge did you learn in order to

produce a music magazine?

What the chief examiner wants

• When having a meeting at the start of the year with the chief examiner he told us that being more creative and original in your evaluation process would gain more marks, your evaluation accounts for 20% of your over all blog.

• Try producing your evaluation in the most creative way possible . This ppt is a guide you MUST ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS but how is up to you.

• DO NOT WRITE A 2000 WORD REPORT

Examples

• Talitha Roberts • http://talitha-roberts.blogspot.co.uk/

• Megan Noble http://megnobleasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

• Nusuri Bibi• http://nusuribibib.blogspot.co.uk

• Tara Burton http://taraburtonasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

The questions to be answered• 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?