Evaluation Notes and planning

Evaluation planning:

Question 1:
In what ways does your media productions use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• Determine and understand conventions of horror films

Usually Caucasian actors and protagonist or “damsel in distress” is a helpless female. She usually survives. Usually isolated in a large space and very darkly lit with tinge of green or blue to express more isolation.

• Identify what sub-genre our media pieces will be

J-horror and looking back at older films that are popular within the J-horror sub-genre and identifying trends within them.

• Research that sub-genre’s conventions for all 3 forms of media.

The popular use of the yurei, which is a young girl with dark hair. The innocence linked with the yurei and the typical distorted body and face.

• Find out whether our pieces go against any conventions are explain how and why and also identify the typical conventions of the horror genre and say whether we have gone against those or have decided to use them.

 Dark tints of green, dark, yurei but with modern features and more modern characteristics

 Question 2:
How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

• Explain use of different pictures for different products
• Explain how they worked together and all linked in particular places.

Question 3: 
What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

• Show collected feedback using survey monkey and face to face feedback, street marketing.
• Record feedback from Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, forums, whatever else.
• Asked a variety of people not family or close friends because they'll say anything not to hurt feelings, so bias judgements can't be passed.

Question 4:

Research:

• Internet usage: Youtube, Twitter, Facebook. Various media netowrking sites used to distribute our surveys and to research what the audiences are interested in.
• Google for examplar posters, teasers and magazines.
• Excel for extra graphs and pie charts to add up research
• Survey monkey was used to gather information and feeback.

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