Evaluation Questions

Here are the evaluation questions for your A2

1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2 How effective is the combination of your main and ancillary texts?
3 What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Getting Started

Some tips to help with your blog.

Remember we need academic tone and reference to media theorists, not just Wikkip.


Research

Film: you should write up your viewing of a range of films to explore

Generic iconography – how does it use it? How do we know the genre? What does the film do with the iconography – conform, subvert? Is there anything new about the iconography – think about genre cycles and where the film is on the cycle.

Target audience – How does the film speak t its target audience, can we identify the target audience

Narrative structure – get some theory in

Trailers. Much as above but there is more opportunity for some close textual analysis.


Film magazines – you should look at several including “Total Film”, “Empire” and “Sight and Sound”.
Look at layout, what is on the front cover or a review page.
Target audience – who is this mag aimed at?


Posters – look at several and analyse them – colour semiotics etc. How do they show genre? What else might be important? How are they laid out .


Planning

Locations_ where and why

Time plan – for filming, capturing, editing, post production, test screenings

Location shooting plan –how does everybody know what’s happening where and when?

Planning revisions – production meetings to discuss progress and re set dates if things are not right

Storyboard (WMM file)