What are the 1a conventions?

Digital Technology

What is it?
• digital technology refers to hardware, software and online technology, so the cameras, the computers, the packages you used and the programs online that you have worked with. It is worth considering how all this inter-links.


Post-Production

What is it?
• It would actually fall under digital technology as well, so if that comes up it would probably represent an expansion of points you'd make in one section of digital technology.
• It is really about everything you do after constructing the raw materials for your production; so once you have taken photos and written text, how do you manipulate it all in photoshop or desktop publishing for a print product or once you have shot your video, what do you do to it in editing.

Research and Planning

What is it?
• research refers to looking at real media and audiences to inform your thinking about a media production and also how you record all that research
• Planning refers to all the creative and logistical thinking and all the organisation that goes on in putting the production together so that everything works and again gives you the chance to write about how you kept records of it.

Use of Real Media Conventions

What is it?
• Use of real media conventions involves consideration of other texts that you looked at and how skillfully you were able to weave their conventions into your work or ways in which you might have challenged them.

Creativity
What is it?
• Creativity is the hardest one in many ways because it involves thinking about what the creative process might mean.
• Wikipedia describes it as "a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight."
• For your projects it might involve considering where ideas came from, how you worked collaboratively to share ideas, how you changed things or even how you used tools like the programs to achieve something imaginative.

But that’s my evaluation?!
• Most of these are the areas that you covered in the evaluation task.
• This time, you are putting together ideas from evaluations and standing a bit further back to look across your production work and reflecting on how you developed across the course.
• Feel free to acknowledge weaknesses and to reflect upon how you learned from them and how you overcame problems.
• It is not a place to be defensive about your work but to really reflect on it!