1. AS Media
Evaluating your magazine

2. The Evaluation
The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks
20 marks for your research and planning
60 marks for your production
20 marks for your evaluation

3. There are 7 criteria to your
evaluation

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In what ways does your media product use, develop
or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
•Identify forms and conventions of real magazines
•How does your product use, develop or challenge
these forms and conventions?

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•Identify forms and conventions of real magazines
•How does your product use, develop or challenge
these forms and conventions?

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How does your media product represent
particular social groups?
•What is representation?
•What social groups are you targeting?
•What representations do your photographs construct?
•What representations does your textual content construct?
•What representations does your design construct?

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•What is representation?
•What social groups are you targeting?

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•What representations do your photographs construct?
•What representations does your textual content construct?
•What representations does your design construct?

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What kind of media institution might distribute
your media product and why?
•Who distributes magazines?
•Who produced your example of an existing
magazine?
•Where is your magazine likely to be sold?

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•Who distributes magazines?
•Who produced your example of
an existing magazine?
•Where is your magazine likely to
be sold?

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Who would be the audience for your media
product?
•What is the audience for your magazine?
•What are their aspirations and how does your
magazine address these?
•What are their demographics?

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•What is the audience for your
magazine?
•What are their aspirations and how
does your magazine address these?
•What are their demographics?

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How did you attract/address your audience?
•What specific techniques did you use?
•How did you manipulate representations?
•How did you select content?

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•What specific techniques did you
use?
•How did you manipulate
representations?
•How did you select content?

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What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
• What ranges of technologies are available?
• What hardware and what software is
available?How accessible are they?
• How difficult/easy are they to use?

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• What ranges of technologies
are available?
• What hardware and what
software is available?
• How accessible are they?
• How difficult/easy are they to
use?

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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do
you feel you have learnt in the progression from it
to the full product?
•What skills have you learned?
•What skills have you developed?
•What have you learned about planning?
•What have you learned about manipulation of
representations?

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•What skills have you learned?
•What skills have you developed?
•What have you learned about
planning?
•What have you learned about
manipulation of representations?

19. Creating your evaluation
• Your evaluation is NOT an essay
• You will submit it on your blog as a PowerPoint
file (this is the simplest way to present it)
• Use images, diagrams and anything else you think
will make your evaluation interesting
• You don’t have to write everything, you can use
videos…

21. Deadline
• Your deadline for this is the 13th December
(Next Tuesday)