Some ideas for improving your Evaluations

Having read several of your evaluations, there are a few things you might want to do to improve them

1) MAKE YOUR PREZI'S MORE VISUAL .... too many are very text heavy
i.e if you are commenting on target audience add a picture of who your TA is
(refer back to work you did in the R&P phase of the project)

If you are suggesting a publishing company, use their logo

If you are trying to show how similar or different your product is to existing products include picture of the FC's DPS, and contents pages of these other publications and compare your product with there product

2) CAPITALISE YOUR I's...... too many of you are making grammatical errors, re-read what you have written and make sure the basics are right!! capitalisation, spellings, sentence structure....... it does not make a good impression on the examiner if your work is littered with grammatical errors (the same goes for your blog entries)

3) EMBED YOUR LINKS......... I and nor does an examiner have the patience to copy and paste links to your work, all we want to do is click on a link and see your work!

4) USE MEDIA TERMINOLOGY....... have you used enough? when you comment on what you have done are you using the right language to describe the feature of your magazines? mastheads, straps, puffs,DPS etc

5)DISTRIBUTION........ when you are commenting on which companies publish your products, really think about WHY they would want to do this!! What does your product offer a publishing house that THERE EXISTING PORTFOLIO DOESN'T COVER!! Why would a publishing house who already own a magazine targeted at young women and pop, publish another magazine of the same genre? THINK ABOUT THE ECONOMICS OF HOW MAGS MAKE MONEY!!

Evaluation Deadlines

Firstly a BIG THANK-YOU to all the student's who have already posted their evaluations.

The rest of you, you have till Friday 29th April, if the eval is not on the blog it will be counted as a fail........YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !

where's your commentary?

Ok my lovelies

Having got a tad bored of posting the same comment for the fifth time......... I decided to post a comment for all of you!!

SO LISTEN UP!!!

IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO POST YOUR FINISHED/DRAFTS OF YOUR PRODUCT ON YOUR BLOG

YOU MUST ADD COMMENTARY TO EXPLIAN WHAT YOU'VE DONE...........
If you haven't DONE THIS YET go back and EDIT YOUR POSTS WITH COMMENTARY!

SIMPLES.................

PHASE 3 EVALUATION QUESTIONS

In the evaluation the following questions MUST be answered:
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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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Who would be the audience for your media product?
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How did you attract/address your audience?
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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

THIS TASK IS WORTH THE SAME AMOUNT OF MARKS AS THE RESEARCH AND PLANNING PHASE

DEADLINES: DO OR DIE.................

MEDIA DEADLINES

Monday 7th Feb
• Contents page school magazine

Monday 28th Feb
• ALL ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY completed

Monday 7th Mar
• Front cover completed

Monday 14th March
• Contents page Music Mag completed

Monday 28th March
• DPS completed

Phase: 2 Construction

Phase 2: Construction Phase

Please complete the following tasks:

Task 1
• Produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page of the school magazine you have already made

Task 2

• Produce the front page,
• The contents page
• A double page spread of a new music magazine Rules
• ALL IMAGES and TEXT used must be ORIGINAL,


. You will need to include a MINIMUM OF 6 original images

• YOU MUST include a MINIMUM of 3 DRAFTS of each of the pages INCLUDING ANNOTATIONS of all the revisions and changes you have made

• YOU MUST include A CONTACT SHEET of all original images you have taken including ANNOTATIONS and OBSERVATIONS about the ones you eventually choose for your magazine

You must show you have understanding of the IMPORTANCE of:

Mise-en-scene
• Framing
• Costuming
• Props
• And shot choice of the images you use

YOU MUST be aware of MODE OF ADDRESS and ensure the text shows that you understand how to write articles for your target audience

YOU WILL demonstrate this by CHOOSING TOPICS that are APPROPRIATE for your audience and WRITING IN A STYLE that reflects the manner in which a music magazine communicates with its audience

YOU WILL demonstrate in your FC DPS and CONTENT PAGE that you understand ALLITERATION/ PUNS/ CAPTIONS/STRAPLINES and ALL FEATURES OF LANGUAGE that are found in MUSIC MAGAZINES