Evaluation Question 1

EVALUATION 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 etc)

Here is an example of something you could emulate, Shynola produced Coldplay's Strawberry Swing video and were promptly sued by another artist for 'copying' their video. Shynola very kindly wrote a letter explaining why they hadn't.

Originality Explained - Shynola Press Release

You could write a letter letter like Shynola, produce a 'making of video', write an 'review' of the video in a magazine, record a radio interview with your artist.