Preparation and Ideas for the Evaluation

With my video essentially complete, I must turn my attention to the evaluation. The 4 Evaluation questions I must answer are as follows:

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

2 - How effective is the combination of your main product with ancilllary texts?

3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

For question 1, I am thinking of presenting my answer in the form of a Director's Commentary. This way, I can link my answer to actual clips from my video, and also discuss different themes and ideas that allows my product to develop, use and challenge forms and conventions. Alternatively, I could present these ideas on Padlet, which I used for this question last year, and found worked well to analyse each individual aspect of my video in depth.

For question 2, I am thinking of presenting my answer in the form of a Slideshow Presentation or Powerpoint. This question has a limited discussion and I can utilise the image aspect of Powerpoints to annotate and discuss the key areas of my ancillary products that make them effective. Alternatively, I could create a Director's Commentary, as this would demonstrate this skill and make use of the limited material I could perhaps discuss. Either of these would aid illustrating the synergy between my products.

For question 3, I am thinking of presenting my answer in the form of a blog post analysis where I can reference my earlier findings in my audience research, my focus group analysis and bring it all together in my evaluation as to how it informed the final cut. To vary it from a formal essay I could alternatively portray this information in a powerpoint, depending on whether I use this method over a director's commentary in question 2.

For question 4, I am thinking of presenting my answer in the form of a Prezi presentation, where I can create a "mind-map" effect to include each aspect or planning, filming, editing and evaluation and the progression I have made since AS.

NB - Posts currently being finalised/worked on before Evaluation questions will be published are:
- Final Cut of Music Video
- Shot List Vs. Reality (to include original storyboards from before any changes happened)
- Locations of Shooting (with Photos from the shoots, maps, and analysis)
- How the Focus Group Responses affected the Final Cut (to include Focus Group Questionnaires)
- Filming/Editing Methods and Equipment* (to inform Question 4 of the Evaluation) (*may discard as it is very similar to Question 4)
- Use of Intertextuality
These posts will not take long to finalise and will inform the evaluation questions strongly.