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Evaluation Questions

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

 How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

 What have you learned from your audience feedback?

 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation

So in order to do this you need to film some audience feedback before the hols, so you need to have your product finished before the hols, so, it needs to be finished, by the end of next week.

You also need to start thinking about the mock exam which will be along these lines:

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production
Candidates answer two compulsory questions. The first requires them to describe and evaluate their skills development over the course of their production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio. The second asks them to identify one production and evaluate it in relation to
one theoretical concept.
Question 1(a) requires candidates to describe and evaluate their skills development over the course of their production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.
The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development, and the question will require them to adapt this to one or
two specific production practices. The list of practices to which questions will relate is as follows:
 Digital Technology
 Creativity
 Research and planning
 Post-production
 Using conventions from real media texts
In the examination, questions will be posed using one or two of these categories.

Question 1(b) requires candidates to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. The list of concepts to which questions will relate is as follows:

 Genre
 Narrative
 Representation
 Audience
 Media language
In the examination, questions will be set using one of these concepts only.
In some circumstances, candidates will be expected to select the production that appears to relate most effectively to the specific concept that arises in the exam question. However, the requirement
for candidates to evaluate one of their productions in relation to a concept does not assume that the concept will necessarily always fit easily and in an orthodox way. Thus in some cases candidates will be describing their productions in terms of them not relating straightforwardly to the concept. For example, a candidate producing three websites over their two portfolios might describe ways in which websites cannot be understood easily through applying conventional
narrative theory. Whether the candidate applies the concept to the product or uses the production to challenge the concept, it is essential that candidates are sufficiently knowledgeable about the concept for either approach. Candidates may choose to write about work undertaken at AS or A2, main task or preliminary/ancillary.

As the question for 1(b) is different in focus for each
assessment session, and draws from a list of possible concepts, candidates should either prepare to answer on more than one of their productions (so they can choose the production in response to
the specific demands of the question) or prepare an evaluation of one production which covers all
of the possible concepts.