This document provides guidance for a student to evaluate a preliminary media production task. It outlines three key stages to evaluate: planning and pre-production, production and shooting, and post-production. For each stage, it lists several questions for the student to consider in their evaluation, such as what planning methods they used, how the shoot went, what software and editing decisions they made. It also prompts the student to reflect on how they documented the process in their blog and how they will present their evaluation.

1. Preliminary Task: Evaluation
You need to cover the following
areas in this evaluation:

2. The aim of the preliminary task is to get you
used to the way of working in preparation to
your main task. In all media production there
are three stages. You should aim to evaluate
each stage.
Planning and research (Pre-production)
Filming and production
Editing and changing (Post-production)

3. Planning and pre-production
• What did you do to get ready for the photo-shoot?
Consider some of the planning stages you may have
used and explain how useful they were:
– Shooting list
– Storyboard
– Timing plan
– Use of research for camera work
– Action plan
– Viewing of YouTube and research on the camera
techniques
– Etc…etc…
• Did you change any of your decisions? Why?

4. Production and shooting
• Explain how the film shoot went. What lessons did you learn
from the process?
• Did you have to re-shoot? Explain why.
• How did you organise the shoot? How did this work? Did you
film it in stages? What were the issues with this? The
benefits?
• How useful did you find your shooting list and storyboard?
• What equipment did you use?
• When you viewed your footage were you happy with it?
What might you have changed?
• How did you film to allow for the camera shots listed in the
brief? Was this done ‘in-camera’ or did you need to do this
post production?

5. Post-production
• What software did you favour to complete any post-production
editing? How did you find this? What would you
like to learn about the software programme for the future?
What other technologies did you use?
• Did you use an edit decision list? If so how useful did you find
it? How might you change this in the future?
• Consider some of the editing decisions you made. What
effect did these have?
• How pleased were you with the final product? What would
you change?
• What targets would you give yourself for the next main task?

6. And finally….
• How did you use technology to record all
these processes?
• How did you use your blog?
• What would you like to do in the future to
make sure your work is presented in an
interesting, multi-media way?

7. The Presentation
Your work will need to be loaded onto your blog
with all the other work. Your blog will need to
be carefully organised so that your work is
accessible to your teacher and the examiners.
You will be asked to present your first
evaluation to a group of students who will
give you feedback on what you have done in
the evaluation.

8. The Presentation
• Prezi etc…
• Podcast
• DVD extra
• Visual
• Collage
• Peer comments – DVD interview
• Etc…etc…

9. Mr Smith’s Blog
www.englishwithmrsmith.com

10. Mr Smith’s Blog
www.englishwithmrsmith.com