Advanced Portfolio - Evaluation

Below you will find the Evaluation Questions (in bold) that have to be answered as part of your Advanced Portfolio, I have included prompts to help you. The evaluation doesn't have to be written, and to be honest the exam board like you to steer clear of written evaluations and find more creative ways to present answers to the set questions e.g. perhaps a voice over on the trailer for question 1.

For now, for preparation and to allow you time to think about what you have done so far - AND if you need to do anything else e.g. re-shoot for magazine and poster photos - see question 2. Also note question 3 AND WHY I KEEP BUGGING YOU ABOUT AUDIENCE RESEARCH/FEEDBACK!

Please attempt to answer all questions do this in your note books not on your blogs.

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

¨ What are the main conventions of soap operas and soap opera trailers? You will find them here

¨ How have you used/implemented of these conventions?

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

¨ Look at your ancillary texts – how have you used conventions? (Remember conventions is not just content, e.g. most magazine covers include generic features such as date, barcode, anchorage text etc. - but you need to say more than that – how are the images framed, lit, angled etc? How are colours used etc)

¨ What connections/similarities are there between your texts and how/why?

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

¨ You need to evaluate the feedback that you have received.

¨ Explain how you got the feedback

¨ Split your answer into 3 sections and evaluate comments on each of your three texts

¨ Refer to real media texts and theorists to support your ideas

¨ You should cast a critical eye over your own work – never blame equipment or other people – take responsibility. Be positive where appropriate and negative where necessary

4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

¨ DO NOT describe (I used a Canon digital camera to take images of my storyboard and used Final Cut Pro to edit)

¨ Evaluate your use of technologies for each section of your construction – e.g. a paragraph for each of Research, Planning, Trailer, Poster, Magazine Cover, Evaluation