Initial review of Evalution Task

The evaluation task requires our group to address four questions on the production and finished product of our main and ancillary tasks. In order for us to create a compelling, reflective and subjective evaluation, we knew that it had to be rich in content based on audience feedback collected from a variety of angles, as well as including our own views on how succesfull our finished project has been. Moreover we wanted to use a range of mediums to create a finished evaluation that would allow us to fully learn from any mistakes, while also remembering any specific techniques that worked to help with any future media productions we may embark on.
The questions were as follows:

Q1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q2 How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

Q3 What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Q4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?



To begin to evaluate, we first had to collect audience feedback from a number of different perspectives to see whether our production would be appreciated by a variety of audiences. Our first and primary feedback was from our classmates and teacher, this would run under the category of an active audience because they would be critically viewing our film and ancillary texts on the basis of not only their knowledge of the subject, but also drawing upon their own experience of media production. Secondly we showed other students at school that don't study media to see if our production would appeal to a younger audience, similarly we also showed other teachers at school to see if they had any criticisms or praises to make These would both fall under the category of a passive audience, but this is also important feedback because ultimately this would be the majority of viewers if our film were to screened like any other media product.
While we want to be creative in the mediums in which we convey our evaluation, we felt that its important to gather together all of our feedback and own views before hastily going into the construction of the 'evaluation film'. So we have set appointments for our group to meet up to discuss the content that we wish to include.
We have decided to use a podcast, interview style film, and a 'prezi' presentation that will be filmed as we preform it in class. By using these mediums we believe that we are more likely to use the points of evaluation in any other media productions because it will be more accessible and memorable in the future, as apposed to a mere written piece. Furthermore we feel we need the use of images and possibly video clips to put our points across more clearly to the audience.

Stephen