Evaluation Questions Notes

Suggested ways to present each question of your A2 coursework evaluation

 Q1: How did you USE, DEVELOP or CHALLENGE codes and conventions of real media products?

-         Compare your soap/music video to real examples within your sub/hybrid genre.

-         To frame your answer and show the examiner what you have been studying, show first of all the basic codes and conventions of the genre and your sub-genre.

-         Show a screenshot from a real soap alongside your version, with colour coded annotations for similarities (using), differences (development) and subversions (challenge)

-         Do this several times for your trailer to show the depth of your research and understanding of the genre

-         Do the same for your poster and front cover

The best ways to present this question are either in a PowerPoint, or a short film with a script where you talk the examiner through all your points and give evidence.

Example short film from last year (A Grade)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WweS4m708-s&feature=player_embedded

 Q2: How effective is the COMBINATION of your main and ancillary texts?

-         How convincing are the links between all three of your products? Same characters and representations, storylines, character names, soap name and channel needs to be consistent

-         Front cover needs to do all this AND match the sub- genre of TV magazine you are making e.g. needs to closely follow the conventions of TV and Satellite Week

-         Poster needs to do all this AND match the conventions of your channel and institution

Best way to present this is using Prezi.

If you don’t want to use Prezi, you could make a mind map in Publisher using JPEGS, screenshots and numbered bullet points to show the examiner your thought processes and the consistencies between all three pieces

 Q3: What have you LEARNED from audience feedback?

-         Feedback from drafts and how you acted on it to make more professional products

-         Copy and paste feedback so it is all in the same post and demonstrate how you used it and what you learned

-         OR print screen and insert feedback into a blog post as JPEGs so the examiner can see the actual feedback, THEN show what you have learned.

-         OR as a series of interviews in iMovie: show original footage, have an audience member read feedback off cue card, the show amended footage with notes saying what you learned.

-         PowerPoint for ancillaries could work but isn’t very creative

Best way to present this is in the blog as a post or series of posts, or in iMovie as a number of short interviews.

 Q4: How did you use TECHNOLOGIES in the research and planning, construction and evaluation stages?

-         Best way to present this is, first of all LIST the technologies you have used and which part of the coursework you used them for.

·       Garageband

·       Keynote

·       Photoshop

·       iMovie

·       Publisher

·       Blogger

·       PowerPoint

·       YouTube/Vimeo

·       Stills cameras

·       HD cameras

·       DSLR cameras for photography and filming

·       Green screen

·       Slideshare

·       Twitter

For software and technologies you used in the Mac Suite, do a series of short screen recordings.

For all other software and technologies, print screens and PowerPoints that show your processes will work, like you did for your AS magazine.