2. Questions to answer in evaluation
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?
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
• Copy and paste your front cover, contents and double page spread
so they are all on one page next to each other. And write a brief
summary about how you have used CONTINUITY by creating a
HOUSE STYLE through out your product:
-Same font throughout your magazine.
- Same colour scheme using 3 colours.
-Making sure page numbers match contents features.
-Same artist on your front cover, contents and DPS
-How does your lay out match or challenge conventions (a brief
description) etc.
4. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• When discussing how your product represents stereotypes
and age groups link back to your research.
• How did you make the choices you did in relation to
content?
• Look at your research in to demographics and your social
economic table, how and in what way did this help you?
• Look at your reader profiles, how do they show how social
groups are represented.
• How did you stereotype your audience? Think about the
types of bands featured and competition prizes offered.
Consider assumptions made in relation to bands featured
and mise en scene chosen.
5. What kind of media institution might
distribute your media product and why?
• Look back at your research some students will have
already covered this aspect in their LIIAR analysis.
• Look at what magazine you have based your magazine
identity and genre on. Look at who publishes and
distributes that magazine. (Bauer, IPC media)
• State: Who you would want to distribute your product,
why you would want them to distribute your magazine,
what benefits would you gain from being associated to
this institution? What advantages would you have if
your product were to be distributed by this institution.
6. Who would be the audience for your media
product?
• Talk about your chosen audience and why you targeted that
audience.
• If you created your own reader profile show a
deconstruction of your choices in your evaluation. What
made you put certain features on to this? What type of
audience were your trying to re create?(show this in your
evaluation.)
• What other research did you carry out in relation to target
audiences? How did your research help i.e. your videoed
focus groups.
• Construct a secondary audience feed back video with your
final product to see if it was successful for your targeted
audience.
7. How did you attract/address your audience?
• What is it about your magazine that will
appeal to your audience specifically?
• - Any special offers / plugs . . .
• - The importance of feeling like part of ‘the
scene’
• - Audience feedback (graphs, charts and video
clips, questionnaires etc.)
• Artists featured, imagery, and meeting the
requirements of an audience.
8. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
• Think about EVERYTHING you have done in /
learned about using Photoshop
• provide proof via before and after pics if you have
them or by slideshows as some students have
already created.
• Imagery is important. You could also video your self
with an over the shoulder shot to show how exactly
you created certain effects (to reach higher grade
bands)
• Use your print screens you have used in your
planning and research and talk about the tools you
used.
9. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to
the full product?
• Print screen your preliminary task: front cover of
your college magazine along side your final front
cover.
• What have you learnt?
• How have you developed?
• What would you change?
• Why was it useful carrying out the preliminary
task?
• What skills and knowledge did you learn in order
to produce a music magazine?
10. What the chief examiner wants
• When having a meeting at the start of the year
with the chief examiner he told us that being
more creative and original in your evaluation
process would gain more marks, your evaluation
accounts for 20% of your over all blog.
• Try producing your evaluation in the most
creative way possible . This ppt is a guide you
MUST ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS but how is
up to you.
• DO NOT WRITE A 2000 WORD REPORT
12. The questions to be answered
• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this
product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
