Question Four: How did you use media technologies in the research and planning, construction and evaluation stages?

Media technologies

Question Three: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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Question Two: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Question 2 from meganhi

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

Planning for evaluation

'Candidates should be discouraged from seeing the evaluation as simply a written essay and the potential of the format chosen should be exploited through the use of images, audio, video and links to online resources' (OCR)

Format

• A blog
• DVD extras
• A podcast
• A powerpoint / Prezi
• A website
• A combination of above

You should see the evaluation as a creative task and the potential of the format chosen should be exploited through the use of images, audio, video and links to online resources.

What do you need to do?

• Use your blog and upload your video to YouTube to gain effective audience feedback
• Show creativity in the presentation of your evaluation 
• Embed still images, video/audio, Powerpoint with callouts added to annotate production examples
• Use screen grabs and annotations of process with FCP or photoshop
• Compare portfolio work with existing commercial media products and describe in what ways generic media conventions have been adhered to or subverted
• How effective have the brand/products been in appealing to the target audience?

What do you need to do for the evaluation?

• How effective have the main and ancillary tasks worked in combination? Was the house style maintained throughout? Were there coherent links between all products?
• How has digital media technology been used in the research, pre-production, production and evaluation stages
• Be specific and discuss the fine details of production
• What improvements can be made to the products? What evidence is there of audience feedback? How has it been used to inform discussions regarding improvements to the products?
• Use, re-use, deconstruct information from your planning blog
• USE MEDIA LANGUAGE