Preparation for the Evaluation

G324 is marked and internally standardised by the centre and marks are submitted to OCR by a specified date, a sample is then selected for external moderation. The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks: 20 marks for the planning and research and its presentation; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation.
In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

DigiPak

This is the final edited work for the digipak. Charlie has uploaded the final copy and we all had a go at editing, luckily we had an experienced member of the group who was able to assist us and use her expertise to make the best effects possible.
Digipak Complete Layout
Digipak Front Cover
Digipak Back Cover
Digipak Inside Flap
Digipak Inside Cover (2 Panels)
Digipak Inside Cover (Behind CD)

A Magazine Advert

Our second subsidiary task was to create a magazine advert. Rachel has uploaded a few examples for inspiration.

Digipak layout designs

Here are the 3 designs, as a group we have come up with:

Design 1

This desgin in simple yet effective. Our original intentions was to only use a 4 sided digipak but we came up with many more ideas so will most likely not use this one.

Design 2

This is the layout we are going to use as we all felt it was the most practical and best suited to fit its purpose.

Design 3

It was a close call between this design and the one above, but we thought overall the above was more practical and was the most logical layout to use.

Photoshop Practise

For our subsidiary tasks, photoshop is a very vital part. Because I haven't used it at all I attempted it for the first time, just playing around with different effects, I learnt how to use different layers and cutting out out different shapes.

We have decided to use Adobe Photoshop to edit and produce both our didgipak and magazine advertisement. our school offers this software and also one of our group members Charlie has it on her laptop meaning we can work on this at any time with a skilled member. Photoshop allows us to have a wide range of effects and tools to choose from which will benefit us into making the most effective and creative subsidiary tasks possible. By using the effects we can try to create final products which attract our target audience and keep the same exciting themes throughout.

Band Picture Slideshow

Aswell as taking location shots, Alex also took photos of the band which she has put into a slideshow. This will help with the subsidiary tasks and to keep the continuity.

Our finished music video