Suggested Evaluation Platforms

Prezi
Slideshare
Voki
Videoscribe (1 month free subscription)
Youtube/Video
Voice over narration
Cartoon strip

Audience Profiles

Q Magazine: http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/uploads/QMediaPack-Feb2013.pdf

Kerrang Magazine: http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/uploads/Kerrang!-MediaPack-2011.pdf

NME Magazine: http://www.ipcadvertising.com/audiences/young-men

Evaluation Questions

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

• This is where you will compare how your product looks either similar to or completely different from existing products. 
• DO NOT tell me what you have done
• You need to pick out HOW your product is similar to or different from existing products
• Use images from your Research to reinforce how they helped form your decisions.
• Do not use random images of existing magazines they MUST be from earlier in your blog, if they're not then find a way of including them in earlier posts. 
• Make it interesting
• Don't use large chunks of texts, for each element that you're talking about then you need to refer to images of it this will help you break down your writing. 
• TALK ABOUT ALL THREE PARTS OF YOUR PRODUCTION! DO NOT focus on the Front Cover, you need to look at Contents page and Double Page spread too and how they compare to existing products.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• Use videos of the type of audience citing how you have used mise en scene to refer to how you have done this.
• How has the language you have used in your article reflected the type of audience/social groups you have? Have you used slang (colloquial language)
• How does your headline represent the social group?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

• This is where you need to look at one of the following Media Publishers and decide why they would publish your magazine.
• IPC
• Bauer Media
• Development Hell
• Blaze Publications
• Edgemont
• Future PLC
• Immediate Media
• Look at the examples of other magazines they publish, perhaps put in a video from their website or some images of the other magazines they publish.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

• Use references to your questionnaire
• Use Images from the internet
• Do a profile of the average reader

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

• Explain how you have used the information from the questionnaire to ensure your audience wants to read your magazine.
• Use lots of images from both your questionnaire, such as the popularity of people highlighting they will pay £3 for your magazine for example and then an image of your magazine with £3 as the price.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

• This is how has your use of photoshop developed?
• How have you used New Media (Internet) in your response?
• Google Docs
• Blogger
• Youtube
• Google Search
• Have you become better accquanted with all of these forms?
• Have you been able to identify how the use of these technologies makes your work easier?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (college magazine), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

• How have you become better at constructing a magazine since your college mag?
• Have you planned your work better?
• Have you developed in your use of Desk Top Publishing (DTP) which is photoshop?

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Camera details

For those who need it for their Equipment information. This is the camera that you used if you used my camera.

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Risk Assessment

Hi Lads, here is a risk assessment with an example. Feel free to adapt but this format should be fine.

Example of a Production Log

Remember that this is a basic/proficient example. The more detail you add the better. It may be good to include hyperlinks to evidence of what you did or links to blog posts to show what you did at each stage. Try to make the dates look like you're organised.


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Miss Walsh

I will put the risk assessment up this afternoon if I can.

Use of the Green Room

I'm disgusted lads! The state of that green room today is beyond a joke! The screen is damaged and equipment is lashed all over the floor.

You need to carefully consider what type of people you are. The school have invested a lot of money for you to use top of the range equipment that you should feel is a priviledge not an entitlement. I'm fed up with immaturity and silly behaviour.

The way some of you have used my personal camera and now the facilities shows a lack of respect for me, Mr McCann, the school and yourselves, not to mention the students coming after you who will not have the opportunity to use these facilities because of your selfishness.

The room is now closed to year 12. Find somewhere else to take your photograp

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Front Covers

This is what the exam board are expecting and most of this is achieved through your photoshoot! You need to stop being lazy! A levels are not achieved in the classroom time they are achieved by hard work, ambition and a drive to succeed. I've never ever encountered such complacency from a whole cohort of students. I genuinely have yet to see a student who has gone outside of the school building to take their photographs.

I don't know what you're playing at, I really really don't.

Blogs

Lads,

I've spent the last 12 hours stressed over your blogs...something not right here!

I've had enough of seeing school uniform, in some case with no attempt to hide school lanyards, I made EXPLICITLY CLEAR in September the demands of this course and what you need to do. If you're not prepared to do it, then you need to make sure you see Ms Lees or Mr Phipps to get yourselves removed from the course. This is what it is, this is what you have to do and therefore DO IT!

The Mark Scheme is below, this is what you are getting marked on...pull yourselves together please!

There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;

• showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;

• showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;

• accurately using language and register;

• using ICT appropriately for the task set;

• appropriately integrating illustration and text;

• shooting a variety of material appropriate to the task set;

• manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing.