This document provides instructions for students to fully plan their answers to evaluation questions for their media project on A3 paper. It lists the evaluation questions and signs they should consider for each, such as conventions, representation of social groups, intended audience and distribution channel. Students are advised to use their journal notes and conduct additional research. They are also instructed on various formats for presenting their answers, such as text, flowcharts, or multimedia formats. Students must post their response to the first question on their blog by the next Monday. The document emphasizes organization and preparation for the upcoming exam.

2. Read through the pack.
On A3 – you are going to fully plan your answers to
each evaluation questions.
You will need to use your journal.

3. Q1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
What are the conventions you will evaluate? Eg masthead,
image, straplines, sell lines, pugs, banners etc
Front cover conventions
Contents conventions
DPS conventions
Don’t forget: signs and signifiers, mise en scene, font styles
and sizes, layout, how your pages signify the music genre,
costumes, props, make up, locations, text
YOU DID ANSWER THIS IN YOUR JOURNAL – COPY IT
AND DEVELOP IT ON TO THE A3

4. Q2 - How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
Social groups : class, wealth, streets, towns, cities, rural,
housewives? Communities/ fan base/ lifestyle?
Age: child, teen, single parents, homosexual, parents,
grandparents, old, young, middle aged
Friendships - Work colleague groups - Associations
Disability, health, representations of professional bodies
Cultural groups and ethnicity –
USE YOUR JOURNAL –
CHALLENGE- add in representational theory

5. Q3- What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
You will need to look at your blog here – if you didn’t
do this research properly in the first place, you will
find this difficult.
Find all your handouts on Guardian group, Bauer,
Development Hell etc – that will help you to plan this.

6. Q 4 – and Q 5 do these two together.
Q4- Who would be the audience for your media
product?
Q5 - How did you attract/ address your audience?

7. How did you attract/ address your audience?
Camera – what kind of shots did you take to appeal to who?
Give a specific example
Features? Content? Cover stories?
Language and formality?
Adobe Elements 11 – how did you layout your pages to
appeal? How did you edit shots to attract your TA? Give a
specific example
Combining images and text – did you use text wrapping to
make your pages look more interesting – give a specific
example.
Social networking sites for TA research

8. Q6 - What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
You should have an extensive list in your journal.
Consider ALL you have used. List these on the A3.
You will need to give specific examples and detail.

9. Q7- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do
you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to
the full product?
It must be an account of your journey!

10. Now consider HOW you will answer each question and
post it on your blog.
1. Text and cutaways
2. Flow chart
3. Prezi embedded in blog
4. Ppt on slideshare embedded on blog
5. Audio recording – you could learn how to put this on
FinalCutProX and then add images to it – this would
really challenge you and give you prior knowledge for A2.
6. Screen recording
7. Annotated pages

11. Q1 In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
The question is the post title. This must be posted
to your blog for next Monday.
Additionally! Some of you need to come up to Media this
week and improve/ finish pages. Some of you need to
speak to me about missing research & planning posts –
this was your Christmas homework.

12. Folders and journals every lesson
Make sure your class notes and work is collated and
organised.
We will begin the exam lessons on Friday.
Your exam class work will need to be kept in two
sections Section A must be kept separate from Section
B.