OCR Media Studies Year 13 G324 Evaluation

See:
http://musicvideoalexanderwhitcombe.blogspot.com/

for example of good practice

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of teaser trailers/poster/magazines)

You should go through the final version of the project and select nine distinct frames which you screengrab and drop into a photoshop. You will be using these to write about how typical or not of teaser trailers your particular design is, so choose them carefully.

Once you have the nine frames neatly in Photoshop, screengrab the whole thing and post to your blog, then write an analysis of how you have used such conventions.

The aspects you should consider across your nine frames are:

The title of the film
Setting/location
Costumes and props
Camerawork and editing
Title font and style
Story and how the trailer sets it up
Genre and how the trailer suggests it
How characters are introduced
Special effects
Remember to discuss narrative/genre/representation/media language/audience in your evaluation

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 2
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

You could record a voiceover to your trailer and make posts discussing how the 3 texts complement each other in advertising your film and appealing to your target audience

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 3
What have you learned from your audience feedback?

You need to show your video to the group and record the audience feedback.
You also need to put it on a social networking site and encourage others to comment on it.
In what ways does my trailer remind you of other trailers?
What do you think are the strengths of my trailer?
What do you think are the weaknesses?

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 4
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

In pairs, take a picture of each other holding the kit you have used. This might just be the camera and tripod, and your PC but there may be other things you want in the shot.

Drop the image onto your blog and annotate it, adding all the programs and other technology you have used as screengrabs and what you learnt about it/from using it. Your written text need only be minimal. You could include reference to all the online and computer programs you have used such as youtube, blogger, adobe premier, etc.