THE EVALUATION

QUESTION: WHAT ARE THE EVALUATION QUESTIONS?

ANSWER: THERE ARE 7 QUESTIONS, THEY ARE LISTED HERE:
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

QUESTION: HOW SHOULD WE POST OUR ANSWERS?
ANSWER: HERE ARE SOME GUIDELINES ON POSTING YOUR ANSWERS:
1. Your evaluation should form part of your individual blog
2. Put the question as the heading for each evaluation answer post
3. When completing posts to answer these questions, always label with EVALUATION as well as the specific question number ie QUESTION 1, QUESTION 2 etc. One post per question/ answer.
4. Your answers MUST answer the question as set. Make sure you specifically answer the question, right at the start of your post. Then go onto develop/ illustrate your answer. If previous posts are relevant, work these into your answer.

QUESTION: WHAT IS EXPECTED FOR A LEVEL 4 EVALUATION?
ANSWER:
1. Application of theory to your own and real film openings
2. Analysis of your own and real film openings
3. A good range of examples to support points made
4. Well prepared, thoughtful answers that demonstrate wider understanding of
• film audiences
• film institutions
• forms and conventions (genre, film openings)
• representation
• new technologies

4. Creative, imaginative and visual presentation of answers that exploits the full range of opportunities provided by the blog format (please note: an essay is NOT acceptable). You would be expected to include video clips, stills, diagrams and sketches, moodboards, tables, charts, lists, bullet points, headings and sub headings and so on - in the same way that you did for your prelim evaluation (which you will need to have a look over anyway, for Q7)

QUESTION: WHAT FEEDBACK CAN WE GET ON OUR EVALUATION ANSWERS?
ANSWER: You will need to produce a basic draft of your evaluation answers in WORD for your teachers to check. There is no need to include anything other than the actual answer itself, in basic paragraphs. We will check through them, with you, during lessons to make sure you are going along the right lines. No work, no feedback.

QUESTION: HOW LONG HAVE WE GOT TO PRODUCE THE DRAFT?
ANSWER: You have 1 week to complete this. You will then have until the final deadline to post your final answers and finish off your portfolio.

APART FROM THIS BLOG, IS THERE ANYWHERE ELSE WE CAN GET HELP WITH THIS WORK?
ANSWER: yes there is!
1. Have a look at some of last year's evaluations; follow the links to the group blogs and choose some individual blogs to look at
2. Read through your foundation folder, there are plenty of theory revision/ summary pages which we especially included to help you at this stage.

Deadline for draft portfolio answers
12C + E: Monday 28th March by the lesson