YOUR EVALUATION. SEVEN QUESTIONS. SEVEN OPPORTUNITIES TO SHOW OFF.
Your seven evaluation questions can win you 20 marks overall. These are important.
Your homework: do first two questions. We’ll do the rest when you get back.
Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Question 2: How does your product represent particular social groups?
Over these two questions you need to show:
- Excellent digital technology skills (SEXY BLOG, DIFFERENT MEDIA ON BLOG, USE OF VIDEO/IMAGES/POWERPOINT/SOUND FILES/VLOGS/PODCASTS ETC)
(DON'T JUST WRITE YOUR ANSWERS!)
- Excellent understanding of representation, forms and conventions (Section A stuff)
- Excellent communication (being able to write well; clear and concise; media-smart terminology; no waffling; honest self-reflection)
HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
This is where your research into similar film openings comes in. What made you decide to use that sound? That shot? That camera angle? The mis-en-scene? What do film openings do? What do story openings do? How does your opening conform to, or challenge, the genre? Where are you borrowing from? Where are you being brave? What is your editing style?
Sometimes you’ll be following the basic rules: match on action, shot reverse shot, etc – and it’s ok to mention that, especially if it’s not that clear in your work! But those probably aren’t the shots that are the most interesting. Which shots really show that you’ve understood or challenged your genre?
Question 2: How does your product represent particular social groups?
Time and time again with Mr D, you’ve analysed the issues of representation in TV programs like Friday Night Lights, Diary of a Call Girl, The Wire and others. Race. Age. Location. Class.
Now it’s time to analyse YOUR opening in those terms. How are different social groups represented through camera, mis en scene, sound and editing?
It is vital that you:
1) Engage with these questions very thoughtfully and honestly
2) Find different ways of posting your response: powerpoint, vlog, podcast, and the occasional normal entry.
Here are a few exemplar blogs: (TO HELP YOU, NOT TO COPY)
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