1. Evaluation Activities Due in 17th December!! No extensions!!

2. 16th December – 7.30pm Gives us 1 day to ammend and mark. Must be sent to examiner 20th Dec. Please email me if any questions OR to mark before you post. Gouldsj@harrissouthnorwood.org.uk Help = blog, PPT, Worksheet Make sure your question number is the title

3. 1. 'In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?' Can do in 2 parts (see: http://musicvideoalexanderwhitcombe.blogspot.com/2009/11/nine-key-frames.html and http://musicvideoalexanderwhitcombe.blogspot.com/2009/11/evaluation-task-one-part-two.html Discuss the ways in which your opening incorporates generic conventions, identify specific scenes. How does your opening develop or challenge these conventions? Does the use of conventions indicate what sub-genre or hybrid genre your opening is? Does your use of conventions indicate what other openings have influenced your work? If so, then be specific with examples.

4. 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? What are the social groups represented in terms of gender, age, class, race .etc? Is gender represented in a stereotypical way? I.e. men dominant and women passive How does this link into the target audience? (Explore this fully in question 4). Can do as a PPT with images see examples on blog. http://www.slideshare.net/sophiekennedy/how-does-your-media-product-represent-particular-social-groups

5. 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Would this be something that could be produced by a major Hollywood studio, if yes then why? Is it similar to existing products? Would it be a TV movie? Would it be an arthouse film? Would it be an internet only release? Why would it be released? Does it offer opportunities for franchises and/or merchandising? Link your conclusions to a discussion of the mise en scene (visual style) of your thriller.

6. Useful websites for Ques 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distributor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_finance http://cmdiplomachristina.blogspot.com/2009/11/evaluation-activity-three.html http://cmdiplomajahmal.blogspot.com/2009/11/evaluation-activity-3.html

7. 4. Who would be the audience for your media product? Consider the age and gender of your target audience.Link this to the narrative and style of your film What other films are similar to yours, who do they appeal to? http://cmdiplomayasmin.blogspot.com/2009/11/3-what-kind-of-media-institution-might.html

8. 4. Who would be the audience for your media product? Consider the age and gender of your target audience.Link this to the narrative and style of your film What other films are similar to yours, who do they appeal to? Include Maslow’s hierarchy...........

9. Maslow’s Hierarchy – how does your product make them feel?

10. 5. How did you attract/address your audience? Link this into your audience profile (I.e. what age and gender they are) Are there particular points in your film that would appeal to or particularly terrify a certain age or gender? If yes then explain them in detail. Consider the use of camerawork in this section, I.e. point of view shots. Who is the audience asked to put themselves in the position of, what are they being allowed to witness? What impact does that have? Link this back to generic conventions and the creation of suspense.

11. 5. How did you attract/address your audience? http://cmdiplomatilly.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-did-you-attractaddress-your.html http://cmdiplomasophie.blogspot.com/2009/11/5how-did-you-attractaddress-your.html http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92710 Elaborate on audience feedback you did

12. 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Don’t just say ‘because my teacher told me to’!! Explain advantages/ disadvantages of Final Cut Make sure you include after effects, vimeo, facebook etc.. And say where/ why you used them (ie: Facebook is the world’s biggest social networking tool and so could reach a wider section of our audience etc...)

13. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product? Strengths and weakness of the camera equipment. Talk about the filming process, was there problems you faced, how did you resolve these issues? Did you get to use new equipment that enhances your thriller? I.e. the dolly. Editing software - Final Cut Express. What have you learnt about editing, were there particular effects that you found useful for creating your overall mise en scene? Garageband - was it a useful programme for creating a suspenseful soundtrack? What challenges did you face during this process?

14. Quicker way to do ques 6 More marks if a film but can pass with this: http://cmdiplomatilly.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-have-you-learnt-about-technologies.html

15. 7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product? You must upload both projects from Vimeo Make sure you mention the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot Discuss the planning stage, the research into the genre, storyboarding, creating the animatic, and explain how this detailed planning helped you the produce a thriller. I.e. you knew what shots you needed to capture and what order to edit it in. This helps the process to be smoother. Has your use of specific shot types improved? I.e. match on action, point of view? Do you feel more confident with the equipment? How successful do you feel your end product is as fulfilling the task? (Look back at the main blog at the task)

16. Other good evaluation examples http://latymerfoundationtanya09.blogspot.com/ http://stephniemathurin.blogspot.com/ http://fiilmtiime.blogspot.com/

17. How to end your blog End with a closing post Put your final version of your thriller opening as the last thing on your blog (so it is the first thing the examiner will see when they login) Check all spellings and check all links work etc…