A2 Media: Suggested ways to present each question of your a2 coursework evaluation
1. Suggested ways to present each question of your
A2 coursework evaluation
Q1: How did you USE, DEVELOP or CHALLENGE codes and
conventions of real media products?
- Compare your soap/music video to real examples within your
sub/hybrid genre.
- To frame your answer and show the examiner what you have
been studying, show first of all the basic codes and conventions
of the genre and your sub-genre.
- Show a screenshot from a real soap alongside your version,
with colour coded annotations for similarities (using),
differences (development) and subversions (challenge)
- Do this several times for your trailer to show the depth of your
research and understanding of the genre
- Do the same for your poster and front cover
The best ways to present this question are either in a PowerPoint, or
a short film with a script where you talk the examiner through all
your points and give evidence.
Example short film from last year (A Grade)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WweS4m708-
s&feature=player_embedded
2. Q2: How effective is the COMBINATION of your main and ancillary
texts?
- How convincing are the links between all three of your
products? Same characters and representations, storylines,
character names, soap name and channel needs to be
consistent
- Front cover needs to do all this AND match the sub- genre of TV
magazine you are making e.g. needs to closely follow the
conventions of TV and Satellite Week
- Poster needs to do all this AND match the conventions of your
channel and institution
Best way to present this is using Prezi.
If you don’t want to use Prezi, you could make a mind map in
Publisher using JPEGS, screenshots and numbered bullet points to
show the examiner your thought processes and the consistencies
between all three pieces
3. Q3: What have you LEARNED from audience feedback?
- Feedback from drafts and how you acted on it to make more
professional products
- Copy and paste feedback so it is all in the same post and
demonstrate how you used it and what you learned
- OR print screen and insert feedback into a blog post as JPEGs so
the examiner can see the actual feedback, THEN show what
you have learned.
- OR as a series of interviews in iMovie: show original footage,
have an audience member read feedback off cue card, the
show amended footage with notes saying what you learned.
- PowerPoint for ancillaries could work but isn’t very creative
Best way to present this is in the blog as a post or series of posts, or
in iMovie as a number of short interviews.
4. Q4: How did you use TECHNOLOGIES in the research and planning,
construction and evaluation stages?
- Best way to present this is, first of all LIST the technologies you
have used and which part of the coursework you used them
for.
• Garageband
• Keynote
• Photoshop
• iMovie
• Publisher
• Blogger
• PowerPoint
• YouTube/Vimeo
• Stills cameras
• HD cameras
• DSLR cameras for photography and filming
• Green screen
• Slideshare
• Twitter
For software and technologies you used in the Mac Suite, do a series
of short screen recordings.
For all other software and technologies, print screens and
PowerPoints that show your processes will work, like you did for
your AS magazine.
