AS Media Studies EVALUATION You must answer all seven questions Your answers must be presented using a range

of digital technology in order to give you a chance of achieving the highest possible marks Question What do you need to do in order to answer this question Suggested tasks & suggested use of technology Q1. In what ways You must explain the conventions of film does your media openings product use, develop You must explain the conventions of title or challenge forms and sequences conventions of real You must show how you have either followed media products? the conventions or challenged the conventions in your own film opening Q2. How does your You must define representation (think back to media product your work on TV Drama) represent particular Define the social group(s) that you have social groups? represented in your film opening Have you represented them in a positive or a negative aspect? Try and relate this back to real media Q3. What kind of State which production and distribution media institution might companies you have used in the titles of your distribute your media own thriller product and why? Discuss whether they are a big major company or a smaller independent company Explain why they would be best suited to distributing your film Q4. Who would be the Describe the wider audience for your film audience for your genre in general media product? Describe audience more specific to your sub genre Describe the specific audience for you own film based on its USP Q5. How did you attract/address your Think about what aspects of your opening appeal to the target audience: Mise en scene?

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Actors? Storyline? Genre? Location? Action? Sound/score? Film name? Production Company? Consider the roll of the rough cut feedback did it help you to improve your film in order to better appeal to the intended audience? Explain how you have reached your audience so far: Cinema screening? Facebook? Youtube/vimeo? DVD?

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Show which technologies you have used Explain how you have used the technologies in combination with each other to construct your film opening give 2 or 3 specific examples Draw some conclusions about the usefulness and creativity of technologies *important question* Look back at the skills you had when you made the preliminary film; think in terms of pre production, production and post production, so start with planning & storyboarding, then move on to camera skills, mise en scene, lighting, finally discussing editing (especially match cutting and 180degree rule), sound, titles Compare these skills with those you displayed in your final film Try to sum up what you have learned across both productions