Introduction to Evaluations 2014
Foundation Portfolio in Media
What is the evaluation?
• 7 set questions which much be tackled
individually
• Presented digitally in your blog
• Makes creative use of ICT and digital
technologies
Marking Criteria
LEVEL 4 16-20 marks
•Excellent skill in the use of appropriate digital
technology or ICT in the evaluation.
•Excellent understanding of issues around
audience, institution, technology, representation,
forms and conventions in relation to production.
•Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and
outcomes.
•Excellent understanding of their development
from preliminary to full task.
•Excellent ability to communicate
Examiner Advice
• The seven questions must be explicitly used to
structure the evaluation and this element should be
seen as an opportunity for some creative critical
reflection.
• The specification states clearly that it should not be
seen as an essay and that responses should make
creative use of the media in which they are produced.
• The best work demonstrates a broad capability for
employing different digital media in the presentation
of their evaluations, with specific detail and references
presented in varied and lively ways
How can you be
creative?
The 7 questions
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your
media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the
process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel
you have learnt in the progression from it to the full
product?
Audience Feedback
As part of your evaluation you need to obtain
audience feedback on your finished product and
integrate this into the appropriate questions.

Intro to foundation portfolio evaluation 2014

  • 1.
    Introduction to Evaluations2014 Foundation Portfolio in Media
  • 2.
    What is theevaluation? • 7 set questions which much be tackled individually • Presented digitally in your blog • Makes creative use of ICT and digital technologies
  • 3.
    Marking Criteria LEVEL 416-20 marks •Excellent skill in the use of appropriate digital technology or ICT in the evaluation. •Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production. •Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes. •Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task. •Excellent ability to communicate
  • 4.
    Examiner Advice • Theseven questions must be explicitly used to structure the evaluation and this element should be seen as an opportunity for some creative critical reflection. • The specification states clearly that it should not be seen as an essay and that responses should make creative use of the media in which they are produced. • The best work demonstrates a broad capability for employing different digital media in the presentation of their evaluations, with specific detail and references presented in varied and lively ways
  • 5.
    How can yoube creative?
  • 6.
    The 7 questions 1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 4. Who would be the audience for your media product? 5. How did you attract/address your audience? 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
  • 7.
    Audience Feedback As partof your evaluation you need to obtain audience feedback on your finished product and integrate this into the appropriate questions.