Year 13 A2 Evaluation Tasks

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products
You should go through the final version of your project and select 9 distinct frames which you export and save to your own area.  Create a blank A4 document in photoshop then drop each image in so they appear on the page as a block.  Number them 1 to 9.  You will be using these to write about how typical or not of soap trailers your particular design is, so choose them carefully.
Once you have the 9 frames neatly in photoshop, save as a jpeg file to your own area then upload the image to your blog.  You now need to write an analysis of how you have used the conventions of soap in your trailer.
The aspects to consider are:
The title,  setting/location, costumes & props,  camerawork & editing,  Title font and style,  storylines/plot and how the trailer sets it up, how characters are introduced, special effects, use of logo.

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
 Create a script for a voiceover discussing why the combination is effective.  This will be recorded over the top of your soap (you will unlink the original sound and replace it with the voiceover) You should export the image of your TV listings magazine and your poster and insert at suitable points in your trailer.  Choose some points where you can discuss similarities (e.g. if you have used the same characters, is there a theme that runs through all of them e.g. use of spotlights or fire to symbolize something) and some that are very different. Discuss the images to show how effective they would be as an overall promotion package for your new soap and why they work together well. Say which images/props/characters/colours/titles/fonts/effects you have chosen to use and discuss why.
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 3

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
Present the audience feedback you have received from other groups in the form of a graph, pie chart or other diagram form and post to your blog.  You should then select screengrabs of particular changes that you made to your project as a result of what the feedback results showed you and discuss how those changes have made an improvement to your work. 
EVALUATION ACTIVITY 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages
Upload some of the photos you took during the planning and filming of your trailer to your blog. Using these photos discuss what media technologies you used during the process and also what you have learnt during it (e.g. We used Panasonic HD video cameras and a tripod to achieve a steady shot. )
 For magazine cover and poster, use screengrabs of your magazine on the page to illustrate special effects used (on titles for example, or outer glows round images).  Also discuss how difficult/easy you found it to manipulate images for these.
 Don’t forget to include screengrabs of other technologies used such as  if you have used your phones to take some of the photos, youtube, facebook to arrange meetings etc and using the blog, email etc. You could screengrab your actual blog, photoshop image, youtube, your project on final cut and arrange as a block in the same way you did for activity 1.