Evaluations for A2 Trailer, Poster and Magazine Projects

The final 20 marks for the project are crucial in determining your grade. These marks will depend upon how well you address the four evaluation TASKS. Here is our guide for what to do and some links to examples to help you

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film trailers)

In Art of the title sequence they use 9 frames from film openings in order to represent the film. Well now it's your turn to do the same with nine of your frames from the TRAILER.

You should go through the final version of the project and select nine distinct frames which you screengrab and drop into  photoshop in the same style as the website. You will be using these to write about how typical or not of TRAILERS your particular video is, so choose them carefully.

Once you have the nine frames neatly in Photoshop, screengrab the whole thing and post to your blog, then write an analysis of how you have used such conventions.

The aspects we would like you to consider across your nine frames are:

The title of the film
Setting/location
Costumes and props
Camerawork and editing
Title font and style
Story and how the trailer sets it up
Genre and how the trailer suggests it
How characters are introduced

AND ONE OTHER OF YOUR CHOICE

Here is a student example from last year (for a film opening) so you can see how it might  turn out:

http://cmdiplomachristina.blogspot.com/2009/11/evaluation-activity-one.html

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

For this, we want you to take your finished video and grab some stills from it and put them on a document alongside grabs from your poster and magazine cover and to annotate the document to show how they all go together. 

Here is an example from the A2 music video task from last year, which might be a useful model

http://musicvideocm3emma.blogspot.com/2010/03/task-2how-effective-is-combination-of.html

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

For this task, we want you to consider class and teacher feedback on your work in progress and your finished products; feedback from anyone else. You can do this feedback as a podcast audio interview or as a video interview or using stills. It must not be solely written, though it can include writing.

If you do audio, upload it to www.soundcloud.com (you will need to set up an account, takes five minutes) and then embed it on your blog.

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

In pairs, take a picture of each other holding the kit you have used. This might just be the camera and tripod, and your computer but there may be other things you want in the shot.

Drop the image onto your blog and annotate it, adding all the programs and other technology you have used as screengrabs and what you learnt about it/from using it. Your written text need only be minimal. You could include reference to all the online and computer programs you have used such as youtube, blogger, the edit program ,photoshop, music programs etc, etc.

Here is an example http://musicvideocm3emma.blogspot.com/2010/03/task-4.html

WHEN YOU FINISH THE EVALUATION, YOU NEED TO RE-ORGANISE THE TOP OF YOUR BLOG AS FOLLOWS:

Top post: your finished video (embed from Vimeo- we will upload it there over Easter and let you know on this blog when all video work is there), your final poster and your final magazine cover.

Next four posts: evaluation tasks 1-4 all titled with the task question

after that: your research and planning- backwards to the start of the project (at the very bottom)