Marlborough Media: April 2011

Thursday 28 April 2011

A2 Advanced Production Evaluation

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

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

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

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

OCR Media Studies Specification

AS Evaluation Questions

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

AS Blog Content

AS blogs must contain the following information.

Research into similar products

- Film genres

- Compare and Contrast

- Scene/shot analysis

Research into a potential target audience

- Questionnaires

- Focus Groups

- Polls

- BBFC

Organisation of actors, locations, costumes and props

- Casting shots

- Location scouting

- Pictures/sketches of costumes

- Prop lists

Work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting and storyboarding.

- Sketches

- Photographs

- Animated storyboards

- Time management is excellent.

- Diary

- Gantt chart

- Production schedule

There is excellent use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation.

- Images

- Audio/music

- Video

- Podcast

- Slideshows

- Animation

- Weblinks

- Discussion forums/twitter/media website