Evaluation- Extra Information and Advice

Have a look at the the extra information and advice on here to help you successfully address each question on the blog and in your PowerPoint presentation.


1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Compare and contrast your own sequence and one which you think has generically influenced you.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? Take a still of one of the main characters from your film and one from a real opening sequence that you think has similar representational issues. Compare and contrast these.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Analyse your own production company (including the logo) alongside another company that you think would distribute similar films.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product? Look at the BBFC website. Which classification criteria do you think would be most appropriate for your film and why? Also mention your audience profile and have one or two key ideas about who your target audience is.

5. How did you attract/address your audience? Use four stills from your sequence and identify how the micro features (such as costume, location, camera shot etc) attempt to engage your target audience.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product? Include screen grabs illustrating the equipment and software you have used. What did you learn about using each of them?

7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the final film? Include a still from each project. What technical and analytical skills have you learnt from the first project to the second?

Evaluation questions

These questions need to be answered in draft on your blog and in your PowerPoint presentation:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

How to improve your blog.

To improve these further you need to add some more elements.

Try to add some/all of these:

• Animatic of your storyboard (video or slide show).
• Your production logo from LiveType.
• Choice of fonts for titles, with reasons why.
• Examples of songs (embedded as YouTube video) that offer a similar vibe to what you want to create.
• Stills from other films that you have taken inspiration from, perhaps particular scenes or characters, with reasons why.
• Stills of locations, costumes, props etc again with reasons why.
• A full list of titles, in order, including crew list and film title.
• A rough cut of your opening (upload when you have organised your basic order, basic titles and music). It is very important to get feedback before going on to finalise your film.