Evaluation examples for AS media

The important thing to remember throughout your evaluation is that you're wanting to do 2 main things:
1. Show that you understand key ideas about Media products, audiences, technology and industry.
2. To show off! You want to make it clear how hard you've worked on your own film and that everything you've done has been done for a reason and a purpose, linked to point 1 above.


With that in mind, ensure that you use your evaluation as a place to really show off your knowledge and skills, but also make sure that this is easily visible. By this I mean, don't bury your knowledge and skill in a huge heap of text; use a wide variety of media skills, ICT programs and apps and ways to present your ideas. Make key points easily identifiable, answers linked to questions and general points easy to spot.

Below are various links to Evaluations and Blogs, none of which I make any claims for about their quality-some are frankly poor, others really good. Have a look, read, examine and ensure that you're being influenced by the good stuff rather than the poor! Use some the techniques or websites they've used and similarly keep an eye out for things to avoid! For most you'll only be linked to an individual question from the Evaluation but in most cases you'll find links to the other questions on the right hand side of their blogs. It's also worth noting that not all of these are for the product as you've been making; the Media course allows us to choose from a range of products and we choose the Film option, so you might see Evaluations for magazines, music, photos, websites etc. These are still useful to look at in terms of the overall presentation and the range of techniques used in presentation.



http://graveneysevaluatorelliotpreece.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html

http://fredericawilliamsdaviesmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/unit-g321-evaluation.html

http://katierowland2132.blogspot.co.uk/p/g321-evaluation-questions.html

http://2015tavi3541.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/g321-evaluation-question-1.html

http://jenniebrighton.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/as-media-studies-foundation-portfolio.html

http://hacamediastudies.com/2016/01/28/year-12-media-studies-g321-evaluation/

http://tfa6105.blogspot.co.uk/

http://piersthorleyasmediag321.blogspot.co.uk/

http://tfa6064.blogspot.co.uk/

http://thrillerproject.blogspot.co.uk/

http://graveneyg321evaluation.blogspot.co.uk/

Research Task 5: Locations

Your location post should primarily be a series of photos that show the different locations that you wanted to use in your video. You may not have used this locations in the end, but should show where you thought would be suitable.

For each location there should be a photo (ideally taken by you and not just found on the internet) and an explanation of where the location is, why you want to use it, how it fits your video idea and any thoughts about how likely or not it will be to use this location.

You can present the photos how you like but you show aim to 'show off'; you could use a Web-album such as Flickr or Picassa which you can then embade on your blog. You could upload each photo directly onto blogger and type underneath each or use PowerPoint to create a SlideShow that you can embed.

To really reach those higher marks, you could use movie making software such as iMovie to create a short film about each of your locations with appropriate music and subtitles to explain each location.