2. • Seven questions (and you need to use seven different
technologies proficiently - videopodcast, Voicethread
discussion wallwisher, whizzy powerpoint, prezi, edited
piece to camera, Bubbl, Glogster, Pixton, Scrapblog,
Voki, Wordle etc)
• Can be done as a group or individual….
• Worth 20 marks
• Needs to be carefully planned/scripted/ produced
• You must achieve a Level 3 or higher
3. • 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 institutions 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 main
task?
4. • Skills in the use of appropriate digital technology or ICT
in the evaluation.
• Understanding of issues around audience, institution,
technology, representation, forms and conventions in
relation to production.
• The ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.
• Understanding of personal development from preliminary
to full task.
• Ability to communicate.
5. • In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
• Clearly, you need to able to demonstrate that you have
an understanding of the conventions of the thriller genre
and any specific sub-genre within that – briefly analyse
the research you did for this, illustrating with screen-
grabs from your blog to show the ‘real’ media products
referred to in the question. What impact did research
have on your ideas and final film?
• How does your work adhere to these conventions? Why?
Pick out some specific examples and illustrate them
visually – again, screen grabs or selected video can be
very powerful to really make your points clear
• Have you been unconventional in any way? How? Why?
Why not? Be specific and illustrate it.
• If you can talk about narrative theory and how they apply
6. • How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
• Think about what groups you have chosen to show in
your film – teenagers, adults, different classes, genders
and ethnicities. How have you shown them – think about
clothing style, language choices (dialogue), locations,
use of colours, the actions of these groups etc.
• Explain why you chose to represent things in the way.
• What stereotypes are you using, which are you
challenging? Why?
• What messages are you trying to give the audience?
Why?
7. • What kind of media institutions might distribute your
media product and why?
• Find out about different companies that produce and
distribute films, especially Thriller films.
• Decide who you would like to produce and distribute your
film – a conglomerate, an independent, a UK based
company, an US one
• Come up with reasons for why you would use that
particular company or companies. What would be the
advantages (and possible disadvantages)
8. • Who would be the audience for your media product?
• Describe them in detail.
• Talk about age range, interests, media usage.
• Explain why this target audience
• Talk about research that you might have done into this
target audience
9. • How did you attract/address your audience?
• Talk about the audience research that you did before you
started your film especially any surveys you completed
and how you used this information to construct your
produce.
• Talk about specific things you did to make your film
appeal to the target audience – choice of actors,
narrative, music, location, costumes, props etc
• Pick out some specific examples and illustrate them
visually
• Discuss why attracting a specific target audience is so
important.(£££££)
10. • What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
• This is the time to show how far you have come in terms
of your ability to use a wide range of technology.
• Talk about the technologies you have tried. Which were
the best ones? Why? Which ones did you try and then
not use? Why
• Which technologies are best for what? Why?
• How have new technologies changed media production?
• How did you learn to use these technologies?
11. • Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you
feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
main task?
• Think about the mistakes you made while making your
preliminary tasks and how did avoid making the same
mistakes in your Thriller film
• How has your understanding of editing techniques
improved as a result ( think about the editing techniques
you learnt about)
• Talk about how you have become better at planning,
storyboarding, creative decision making, camerawork etc
• Make yourselves sound amazing (cos you know you are!)
12. • Lewis, Chris, Declan – Level Four
• Shannon and Cristina – Level Four
• Aidan, Nicole and Hazel – Level Three
• Amelia – High Level 3
• Sam – Level 4
13. • You need to look at past evaluations – they don’t have to
be from our school but remember the keys things we
have told you to do!
• You need to watch/ analyse at least three examples and
blog about them
• Use them to help you decide:
• What to say
• How to use technology
• How to be creative, communicate clearly
• What not to do
