Evaluation Questions

Now that we are coming to an end of our main production, the attention is turning to working on our evaluation. Our evaluation will be done by answering seven different questions about our production piece. We have to use a variety of methods to present our questions. The questions which need to be awnsered are:

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

With this question, I am being asked to show my understanding of the different sorts of techniques and conventions that are presented within film and whether or not what I have used lives up to the standard of those used in the professional environment. As well as this, I will also need to show how I presented this in my production. To do this, I can go look back at my research and see how that affected the final piece. After thought I think that the best way I could present this is through a directors commentary. This would consist of recording a voice-over on top of the finished main piece and in this voice-over I can talk about the certain conventions and media techniques that I used within my piece.

Here is an example of a directors commentary from the film American Psycho:

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

To answer this question, we need to show how our media piece represented a particular social group using the character within the film. To do this, I will set up a mock interview with the cast member (me) and then have the interviewer ask questions which all together with answer the main question.

For an example of this, I have found an interview with Martin Freeman for 'The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug.' What I have in mind is similar to this but will be more relevant to the question:

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

For this question, I need to talk about distribution within the media industry and the types of institutions there are. As well as this I need to decide on what media institution would be best to distribute my production as some institutions are known for distributing certain genres, such as ITV1 focus on the general public while ITV2 is more focused on the young. To answer this question, I will be using a voice-over which will then have supporting visuals on screen.


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

This question is simply asking what sort of audience my production was intended for, such as a specific social or society group. To answer this question I will use two methods. The first method I will use is vlogging so that I can talk about the audience and why the media product was aimed at them, and then secondly I will go on to use a vox populi method where I ask the intended audience to watch the piece and then give their overall opinion of it.

I want to something similar to this for my vox pops:

5.How did you attract/address your audience?

For this question, I need to explain how professional companies manage to attract and address their audiences and I also need to show how I am going to do the same. The best way to do this is by making a poster using Photoshop and then explain how this would be effective.  

Here are a few famous examples of film posters:


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

In this question, I am being asked how much about media technologies I have learnt throughout the pre-production, production and post production. The best way to answer this question would be through a presentation. I will be using PowerPoint as my presentation software. In this presentation I will show all the hardware and software I used throughout the process and talk about the pros and cons of each thing.

7.Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full production? 

For this question, I have to decide on how I have progressed in media from when we filmed the preliminary task, all the way through the main production and up to now. This will include mentioning everything I feel I have learnt since the preliminary task and how this has benefited me. To answer this question, I am going to get back together with the group I worked with in the main production and have a discussion about this, in the form of a podcast.