Evaluation questions for Foundation Portfolio (G321)

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms
and conventions of real media products? (literally compare your
production to the existing marketplace).
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? (think
about if your production reinforces or challenges cultural stereotypes relating
to the genre. Think also about representations of gender, age, class and
status, ability and disability, ethnicity, regional identity and sexuality only if
relevant).
3. What kind of media institution (publisher) might distribute your media
product and why? (be careful here if your magazine clearly is targeting a
niche demographic dont claim that Bauer may publish it. Be realistic).
4. Who would be the audience for your media product? (link this with your
previous work).
5. How did you attract/address your audience? (stand back from your
production and deconstruct it as an existing media artefact. Just like you
annotated existing music magazines, do the same for your own work here
focusing on why it would attract an audience. Discuss here about images you
used, either cropped or un-cropped and images you chose to discard, use of
colour, use of language, etc.).
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product? (this is an important section and requires you to
evaluate the wide range of technologies that you used (including Blogger).
Think about the advantages and disadvantages of the software that you used
e.g. Photoshop v InDesign, Prezi v PowerPoint, and if you did experience
problems importantly, detail how you overcame them).
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt
in the progression from it to the full product? (as stated earlier, evidence
of progression is really important in this project explain how your skills
improved from the preliminary task to the main task, how you are now much
more competent with software applications, how you feel your main task has a
more sophisticated finish and also how it has helped you understand more
about the links between layout and design, genre, representation and
audience).