AS Coursework evaluation questions and suggestions: Horror specific

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

Your horror film: what research did you do? What did you find out and what did you use in your own film? Were there any things / ideas that you thought were useful or were there any aspects you definitely did not want to copy? WHY? NB the key words here are USE [ie copy], DEVELOP [ie go beyond] CHALLENGE [ie subvert, change or twist away from expectations]

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

Your horror film: what social group/s have you got in your film? [e.g young people? Young girls? Adults?] How did you dress them? How did you have them behave? Speak? What props did you give them? What locations did you put them in? Key words are HOW and WHY?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Your horror film: which film making company might make this and who would distribute it? Look at existing distribution companies and see who makes your kind of film. Choose a company and justify your choice – e.g is it existing products? Audience? Geography? Intended audience? Cost? Reach of dist. co.? Advertising? Expertise? History? WHAT?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Your horror film: Who precisely is your target audience? Draw up a profile of their gender, age, interests and hobbies, education, social background, looks, income etc and state how and why you have targeted them. [e.g. have a photo of a typical viewer and write a para or so about them...] This one is WHO?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Your horror film: What precise methods have you used? Image? Representation? Language? Subjects addressed in your film?  Posters? Advertising e.g. viral? This one is HOW?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Your horror film: So this is all the technical stuff! Cameras? Editing techniques? Photographic techniques? Sound?  Drawbacks, difficulties and advantages – what are you most proud of? Key word here is TECHNOLOGIES!


7. Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Your horror film: questions to ask yourselves: did you integrate the preliminary task into the main? Why / why not? How did your skills improve between the one and the other? Same technologies as previous question. Key word here is PROGRESSION!

Your main coursework task

As you know, your blog research which you have been working on up till now is worth 20 marks, the film itself is worth 60 and the final evaluation is worth 20 marks.


To complete your blog work you need to add these posts to your blogs:

1. The story board
2. The script
3. The shooting schedule [this should include: date, actors, place to be, time, props and equipment to bring with them.]
4. Behind the scenes: footage, stills, diary ... this is your opportunity to comment on how things are going and went and can be fun!
5. Editing: this is not a blow by blow account but a few highlights of getting to grips with the process, creative differences in your team, decisions made and why, particular editing tools or functions which you used to enhance your project e.g filters, colour saturation, slow motion etc
6. Finally [I don't expect this to be done till mid January at least] upload your film and write a short evaluation of it. Ideally do this after we have had a screening and you have got feedback.

1-4 above should really be mostly complete by the end of term and certainly by the beginning of January. We will have 2 weeks of lesson time to complete the editing and to have the screening and feedback. After that we expect ALL of this to be finished by 31st January.


The evaluation questions you have longer to complete but will have to be done entirely in your own time. 28th February for these.