This document provides guidance for a media studies evaluation assignment. Students are instructed to copy the PowerPoint into their area and add materials weekly. The evaluation consists of 7 questions relating to the student's media product and process. Students should demonstrate their digital media skills through visual and engaging responses. They are asked to submit at least 5 slides per question, which can include links, charts and embedded media. The document models how responses should be formatted and provides examples of the types of questions that will be asked, including about audience, representation, technologies used, conventions, distribution and lessons learned.

1. WELCOME to the SEVEN AS MEDIA STUDIES EVALUATION QUESTIONSYou will need to copy this powerpoint into your area and save it carefully. You must add materials to it at least once a week and your teacher will check it regularly. Please ask for help at any time to make sure you get support for your target grade in this unit.IN A2 MEDIA YOU WILL BE ASKED TO WRITE ESSAY ANSWERS ON ALL OF YOUR MEDIA STUDIES. THIS EVALUATION WILL BE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO YOUR FINAL A2 GRADE AS WELL Dont submit this page for the final exam. It is just to guide you

2. A good EVALUATION is worth 20 out of 100 marksBut it is NOT just a powerpoint; you can embed sound and movie files as well. You can make YouTube videos and link them to this PP....Make sure you have the links working. You can insert internet hyperlinks and charts.The links can take you to your BLOG or to a PREZI presentation; click this to see more.. PREZI; online presentationDont submit this page for the final exam. It is just to guide you

3. There are SEVEN questions that relate to all parts of the production of your music magazine and also your planning processes. You must find interesting and VISUAL ways to interest the moderator in your work. Use plenty of graphics and thumbnails. You will be given marks based on your skills in digital media.You will be expected to submit at least FIVE slides per question but this can vary if you have a hyperlink on a single slide.You are asked to demonstrate good communication skills.Here is a good example of a powerpoint page that can be easily read by an audience. Please keep the page style as plain as possibleThe next part of this powerpoint belongs to you...Dont submit this page for the final exam. It is just to guide you

4. NameAS SubjectCodeCandidate numberBrief from OCR syllabusContents; evaluation questions 1-7

5. THE SEVEN EVALUATION QUESTIONS 1 Who would be the audience for your media product? (Show the IDEAL READER as FC star and other fans. ABC demographic is good here) 2 How did you attract/address your audience? (Show the tiny details of all parts of your magazine and refer to uses, needs gratifications) 3 How does your media product represent particular social groups?(this needs questionnaire results and UK TRIBES research) 4 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? (Refer to at least 6; Powerpoint, Picnik, Publisher, Photoshop, Prezi, Camera, web, and say what you achieved with each). 5 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (Finished Aquinas FC & contents) Use – Existing convention, no alterationsDevelop – Existing convention, AlterationsChallenge – Goes against conventions. 6 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? (use mostly digital marketing strategies eg websites, e-zines and iPhone apps) 7 Looking back at your have learnt in the progression from Aquinas magazine to the full product? Refer to the need for DRAFTING, EDITING, DESIGN, and PHOTOGRAPHY skills. Need for consistent BRAND and GENRE + AUDIENCE awareness always. Marketing and distribution and advertising is very important as there are advertisers and costs involved. Cross platform/format overlap might also appear in your discussion

6. Q1.Who would be the audience for your media product?

7. Q2 : How did you attract/address your audience?

8. Q3 : How does your media product represent particular social groups?

9. Q 4. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

10. Q 5. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

11. Q 6. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why ?

12. Evaluation Q 7; Looking back at your preliminary task (Aquinas College magazine/pop promo DPS), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?