Evaluation Part 1 Deadline 25/03/08

Section One: (1000 words)

Each item listed should be covered using your analytical and evaluative skills. You should not only provide details using technical terms and media terminology, you must reflect on your decisions and the impact they had on your progress and final product.

1. Research - how did you carry out your research into comparable media products (trailers) and what were your findings on the conventions? Which particular trailers did you analyse and what did you find about how they communicated to the target audience? How were these films marketed at the time and who was responsible for the promotion?
2. Ideas – How did you come up with the ideas for your own trailer? (How did you research and other influences inspire you?)
3. Target audience research – who is your target audience (use terminology and categories)? How did you prove their potential interest in your web site?
4. Planning – Discuss the pre-production process (Meetings, drafting, scheduling, permission letters, booking forms, organising cast etc). Discuss key dates (what you did when and why). Make reference to all the planning you have in your folder.
5. Construction/Technical points – Discuss the stages of constructing the trailer (filming, transfer to iMovie, logging, paper edit, edit, sound, music etc). Evaluate key decisions and revisions and how they changed the trailer.