Evaluation Question One Plan:

Evaluation Question 1

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

What is the question asking?

This question requires you to demonstrate how your research and planning has influenced your work. You'll need to review your research and planning posts and identify which elements from the music videos and artists you've researched have been incorporated into your final pieces.

You need to be honest, does your product 'work'?

When responding DON'T:

• write an essay
• simply list points
• produce a PowerPoint
• waffle!
• claim to have been 'original' (you haven't been, it's not possible!)
• ONLY discuss your video

  

When responding DO:

• Write about all THREE products
• Be creative (how can you respond in an entertaining yet informative way?)
• Use technology (e.g. photoshop, tubechop, prezi, scribd, iMovie, soundcloud, flickr etc)
• Be analytical (pick out specific examples and remember your A2 theorists as well as ones from AS. Barthes, Todorov, Mulvey, Gilmore, Goodwin, Stewart etc)
• Explain every decisions (discuss the choices you made)
• Use the correct vocabulary (longshot, verisimilitude, diegetic ect)

To help plan this part of our evaluation we have been looking at other students work to help give us inspiration for ways to make our response creative yet informative. Here are some examples of other students work and some of my thoughts about them:

  

This example of question 1 of the evalutation is by Jack Fox. I really like this example as it is visually pleasing as well as being very informative and using lots of different examples. Jack links his bands music video to the conventions used in many other videos from artists from a similar genre. Jack makes reference to bands such as Florence and the Machine, Mumford and Sons, The Smiths and Bombay Bicycle Club. The only thing about this question which I would change is the way in which Jack has used Prezi. Although Prezi is a good alternative to the more common programs such as Powerpoint and Word it has become quite common and I belive using a more creative program would have improved the visual aspect of the evaluation.

Here is another example of question 1:
'Evaluation Question 1

This Evaluation has been constructed to simulate a debate over blogs between an avid reviewer and a production team. The context is that the 'new' band Acoustic Plenty boasted wild claims about their debut album, a reviewer called Jonathon Greensby from Q magazine writes about his fury of their claims and demands the production group for the video prove against Acoustic Plenty's claims. The production group's response has been constructed to answer the Evaluation Question.

The reviewer's blog post on Acoustic Plenty's claims:
http://theangryreview.blogspot.com/

The production team resposible for creating Acoustic Plenty's video 'Temporary Press' and their blog reply:
http://temporarypressblog.blogspot.com/

This example is by Tim Andrews. Although the content of this question is of very high quality I am not convinced by the way Tim has decided to present his ideas. The post looks small and plain on his blog and makes the post look uninteresting. The links are much more interesting and use lots of clips and text together, and the idea of using two different perspectives is very effective, my only issue is with the presentation.