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 1: Explanation of song choice

Your first Research task is to choose a song to create a new music video for.
This song should be one that you'll be happy to spend time with creating your different products and also one that you will be able to justify the choice of.


For your first task, you need to explain:

What song you have chosen and who the artist is.
When and how as that song released.
Why you have chosen that song.
Who you think the main audience will be for that song.
What initial ideas you have had in creating a new version of the video.

And finally, the video embedded on your blog from YouTube.