question 3 of A2 media evaluation

question 1 of media evaluation

DVD Cover Conventions

  DAZED EYES         UNCONVENTIONAL TEXT       NEGATIVE ADJECTIVES
         BLOOD       FROSTED EFFECT ON PICTURE   THE COLOUR RED
THE COLOUR WHITE     BLOOD SPATTER      CLOSE UP OF FACE (EXPRESSION)

Critical Evaluation Questions

1  In what ways does the media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (ESSAY?)

a) At a technical level, how well did you observe the conventions of continuity, and the language of film and editing?

b) In terms of the content, how does your film reflect or challenge the conventions of the genre you are working in? Does it fulfil the nature of film genre or will it subvert expectations deliberately?

c) Are there any elements of deliberate pastiche or parody, where you ‘play’ with the genre’s codes and history? Are there any intertextual moments where you hint at a reference to another film?

d) What kinds of audience pleasure are you trying to provide, and how confident are you that you have achieved this?

e) Make comparisons with real media texts you have studied

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2  How effective is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts? (POWERPOINT/PREZI/SLIDESHOW/VIDEO?)

a) What were you trying to achieve in your main production? Was this also reflected in the two advertising products?

b) How effective do you think the two ancillary texts are in selling your production?

c) Make comparisons with real advertising products.

3  What have you learned from your audience feedback? (MODEL MAP/MIND MAP/VIDEO?)

a) How did you respond to the original brief with the audience in mind? Give details of audience research carried out at the planning stage.

b) In filming and editing how did you ensure meaning would be apparent to the audience? What creative decisions did you make in planning, rehearsing, filming and editing that were influenced by your sense of the audience and how they might interpret your finished film?

c) How did the audience respond when you trialled aspects of your film? Are there a variety of             different possible interpretations of your film that will depend on the cultural situation of the viewer?

4  How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? (ESSAY/VIDEO/MIND MAP?)

You will have used digital cameras and editing resources and digital sound recording equipment. You have also used the internet for research and you have created a blog.

a) How did digital technology enable you to develop creatively and are there examples of the technology obstructing or preventing your creativity?

Please note that this must be done as an individual exercise. Post your evaluation on your blog and don’t forget this should be a multi-media product, so include links illustrations, video and audio.

For examples of good evaluations, look at: 

http://a2msbarnsleycollege.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Particularly Group 1 (Kirsten, Andrew, Daniel) and

Group 8 (Clare, Emma)

Question 2 of A2 Media evaluation

Question 2 of A2 media evaluation from LewisMarcelRoscoe

Question 4 of A2 Media evaluation

Question 4 of A2 Media evaluation from LewisMarcelRoscoe

Critical evaluation- Q3

Planning stage.
Before I started filming our film I went around and asked people within my target audience some questions, I filmed this using a Sony HCV Camera. We showed the storyline to our target audience and asked them questions about it. we later used final cut express to edit our questionnaire. This was incredibly useful as I could then make an informed choice about my characters, meaning they would appeal to the audience more. As I filmed I constantly thought back to what my target audience would think about the character, this helped me shape the characters in a way that  would again appeal to the target audience.

Filming and editing stage.

While we where filming we made sure to use creative shot that would appeal to my target audience by referring back to our audience feedback. we used a rang of shots to make Alex look insignificant and smaller on screen (I.E high angled shots) we made the shots have more effect on the audience by integrating quick shots of a letter through out our film. We did this to make the audience curios about the letter and make them want to watch to find out what this is to do with the main character. as the film came towards the end we made the letter more readable making the audience empathies with Alex more.  we also used a filter called 'Bad Tv'. this made the screen fuzzy and represents Alex's decent into madness.

 Audience Feed back
From the start of my project I referenced to my audience feedback as much as i could. This made major inputs when i started working on the setting and the mood of my film. by using drama students that study at Barnsley college i could get a wide rang of emotions that were critical to convey the emotions i wanted to use in my film.