Evaluation Question 3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

In this question you need to:

1. Explain what type of media institution would distribute your media product to an audience

2. Explain why they would be a suitable institution, give details of their background, their circulation figures (abc.org.uk)

3. Explain what other opportunities they would offer you.  Online content, e-zines, flipboard content, radio broadcasting, TV advertising, phone apps etc.

4. Provide examples of other successful products that they distribute to similar/ related audiences.

Select the right distributor for your genre of magazine.  Do they already sell a product like yours?  Do they have a gap in the market?

Use magforum.co.uk for research into different institutions.

http://www.wikihow.com/Add-a-PowerPoint-to-Blogger

Create your answer for this question in Powerpoint and then we will embed it into your blog using Scribd.  The link above explains how you can do this.

Thinglink…..

Thinglink is a great tool for your evaluations.  It allows you to make your products interactive by adding hotspots.  These hotspots will allow you to upload text or link audio and video content.  To begin you must first create an account for Thinglink at www.thinglink.com.  To attach audio you will need to do this via soundcloud by creating an account on www.soundcloud.com and recording an clip.  You can add video through youtube.  You should already have created an account on youtube, once you upload files these can be linked to hotspots on Thinglink.

You will be using Thinglink for your answer to question four on the evaluation.

Evaluation Question 2. How does your media product represent social groups?

What are social groups?

Groups within society.  How do we categorise these groups?

We can use a range of variables.

Age
Gender
Race
Ethnicity
Religion
Culture
Able bodied/ disabled
Sexuality
Interests
Beliefs

Do they fit other categories or stereotypes?

Are they goths, emos, rockers, indie, ravers etc.

How are they represented?  Consider camera, use of language, words and text, costumes, facial expressions, locations, lighting, body language plus anything else that is in the mise-en-scene.  

How have you constructed these representations? What about the use of denotation and connotation?

Are they positive or negative portrayals? 

Provide illustrative examples from your text, use photos, screenshots etc. make it as visual as possible.

Do this question in PREZI and embed to your blog.  This needs to be completed by Wednesday 26th March.

Evaluation Question 1.

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

Use padlet to answer this question and link it to your blog with a title and question as above.

http://padlet.com/wall/ynsi22pmk1

Evaluation

For the next 3 weeks in our Media lessons but also for homework - you will be focusing on your Evaluations: This is worth 20% of the marks - the same as your research and planning.  It is very important that you do a good job, it can be the difference between grades.

It is important that your answers to the 7 evaluation questions are not just essays that are presented digitally. It is vital that you use these web 2.0 tools to help you and any others that you find that would be suitable to communicate your response.  These will all need to uploaded or linked to your blogs and clearly labelled with each question.

1. Slideshare - For publishing powerpoints that you can upload to your Blogs

2. YouTube - For publishing videos that you can upload to your Blogs

3. Voki - For creating audio files that are "spoken" by an animated cartoon character

4. Prezi - For interactive presentations that can have videos embedded within them

5. Padlet - A "post it note" style wall of ideas and comments

6. Screencast-O-Matic - Record what you are doing on screen and then publish to YouTube ... and then put on your Blog.

The seven questions are below.  Your responses need to be detailed, thorough and make effective use of media terminology we have developed.

Deadline Date

The deadline for completion of all the work for 
1. Research & planning
2. Construction of final front cover, contents page and double page spread is 17th March.

After the 17th March we will be working on the evaluation which is worth 20 marks and consists of 7 questions.  This will be completed in class and for homework.

YOU MUST ENSURE YOU HAVE A YOU TUBE ACCOUNT SETUP BEFORE NEXT MONDAY.  IF YOU WANT IT TO BE JUST FOR YOUR MEDIA WORK THEN YOU MAY NEED TO CREATE A SEPARATE ACCOUNT TO AN EXISTING ACCOUNT. 

Double page spread examples of good work

Double Page Spreads

Step one: work out your desired layout grid and set it up using the guidelines

Step two: decide whether you want two or three columns 

Step three: begin to rough out your layout with content

This will help you to develop your ideas and to construct your product.  Remember to consider the use of a variety of page furniture and to ensure that you do not use a font size too large for the columns of text.  As a guide do not exceed size 16pt font.  If in doubt print it out and take a look, get feedback from someone else to check what they think.