Evaluation: Question 2

Here are some other pieces to run along with the PowerPoint.
http://tcasmedia.podbean.com/mf/web/vnntch/Sequence01.avi

Evaluation: Question 1

What are the conventions of our Genre?

• We have used the Murder Mystery genre.
• There are not many conventions.
• They can be found in the Prezi I have made in previous posts; Click here to view the post on Murder Mystery research.

• Murder mystery conventions:
  A murder takes place.
  The plot involves the investigation of the murder.
  They focus mainly on the character investigating.
  The investigation has twists in the plot.

Did your research help?

• To find out the conventions of the genre, we had to do some research into similar films first.
• We used the murder mysteries 'Se7en', 'Sleuth' and 'Bullitt'. 
• Doing textual analysis's on similar films helped to compile a list of conventions (Textual Analysis of 'Se7en', Textual Analysis of 'Sleuth', Textual Analysis of 'Bullitt').
• We applied this list when creating the first storyboards.



So did our work conform or the challenge the conventions of the murder mystery genre?

• CONFORM.
• The to get a good grade, we needed to ensure it was clear what the genre of our piece was.
• Conforming to the conventions helped to do ensure this.
• Our opening titles kept to the conventions by the following:

Hints at the plot containing an investigation of a murder.

Used a woman as the victim (links the dominant ideology in Britain; women are vulnerable).

Hints at a twist in the investigation.

• However, we do challenge the conventions of the genre in one respect;

We hint at the murder being a women, where as traditionally the murderer would be male.

• However, we generally CONFORM to the conventions of the murder mystery genre.

Research for Evalution Question 1

Question - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and convensions of real media products?




Here is a prezi presentation that I had created when researching the convensions of the Murder Mystery Genre.

I can now use this to help answer question 1.

Evaluation Preperation

In this lesson, we spent the time preparing ourselves to begin writing the evaluation posts. We had been supplied with a 'Prezi Presentation' supplying the basic information on how the evaluation should be written;

AS Media Coursework Evaluation on Prezi

Use the arrows to navigate around the presentation.

During this presentation, we took our own notes autonomously, which had greater depth and will aid in writing good quality evaluations; here are my notes;

From these notes, I have decided that some of my evaluations will need research in types of media distribution, so in between evaluation post, there will be some posts containing further research and planning.

Main Task Final

Here is our final Main Task, Opening Title Sequence:



In the next few posts there will be the evaluation.

Feedback Photo

Here are two photos that were taken whilst we were receiving feedback for our Main Task:

Main Task Update 6

All that our group needed to tweak was the aspect ratio when uploading. This was quickly and easily fixed, and so we feel we have now completed the Main Task stage of the Coursework. In the next couple of posts, we will be beginning the evaluation process.