A2 Evaluation Question Ideas

When I have completed my Main Task along with my ancillary texts, I will then be going on to answer the 4 Evaluation which you can see below ;

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

These need to answered in depth in order to communicate how much I've thought about the pre-production, production and post-production of my music video, DVD cover and website. They also need to be answered in different creative ways.

For the 1st question I thought I would do a directors commentary as this would enable me to highlight specific forms and conventions developed, challenge or used within my video. However I think I need to extend upon this to show why and from where I found conventions. I could do this by adding clips of existing real media productions to further illustrate my points. I found a really good example of a student who has done a similar thing to what I would do-https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YXkQZkaNFmM - the effective use of the ribbon to illustrate his thought process was a really interesting idea I think I could develop.

In the 2nd question it's important to show synergy between my three products. I think the most effective way to do this would be audience feedback with surveys and videos uploaded onto powerpoint or Prezi in order to show my thoughts and also my target audience's responses on the effectiveness. I found an example where they have used PowToon, a website I think would be interesting and effective to use.

I think the use of the cartoons is fun to watch and effective in illustrating their points, however I would like to add more audience feedback and analysis. 

The 3rd question I would like to do film the audiences reactions to my music video, similar to many YouTube series such as the channel TheFineBros -https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFineBros- as I think this would be showing first hand audience research that I could perhaps do a vlog that has me reacting to their feedback, directly answering the question. 

The 4th question I think could be effectively answered by an interactive mindmap show my development through three stages of production and the technologies used. Maybe an interview situation could be effective as well as it would enable me to go into detail about the technologies I used.