Talk about the methods that you used to conducts the research and planning such as questionnaires and researching into existing films to use as examples for your own work. Highlight the research of conventions and emphasise how this is an important part of the media and why it has an impact. Talk about the importance of planning and how it helps with the production stage of the media text.
Think about all of the technologies that you used in order to conduct the research and planning. Think also about the pros and cons of using these technologies and how using something else may have limited you or furthered the experience.
Think about questions such as:
- What advantages do blogs have over 'paper planning?' - How did this help the research and planning stage?
- Advantages and Disadvantages to everything you used.
- Pros and cons of feedback as a means of research.
- Qualitative or quantitative information more useful? Why would this help research and planning?
- Storyboards and shot lists. How did this further the planning stage of my media production in my advanced portfolio.
Make sure to talk about how these skills regarding research and planning have developed over time from the foundation portfolio, all the way through to the advanced portfolio.
Include:
Audience research, BBFC, textual analysis of other texts, focus groups and questionnaires, genre research, storyboarding, scripting, props lists, locations, test shots, filming schedule, actors.
Highlighted specifically how you researched and planned everything and how that helped with the construction process.
What primary and secondary research was conducted?
For the advanced portfolio, highlight how the effective planning of your trailer shoot meant that you got all the shots that you wanted, even though you shot out of chronological sequence, ensuring everyone was in the right place at the right time. (Shot lists).
Questions to Answer:
Include:
Audience research, BBFC, textual analysis of other texts, focus groups and questionnaires, genre research, storyboarding, scripting, props lists, locations, test shots, filming schedule, actors.
Highlighted specifically how you researched and planned everything and how that helped with the construction process.
What primary and secondary research was conducted?
For the advanced portfolio, highlight how the effective planning of your trailer shoot meant that you got all the shots that you wanted, even though you shot out of chronological sequence, ensuring everyone was in the right place at the right time. (Shot lists).
Questions to Answer:
- How did your research into genre contribute to the production work?
- How did your research into audience contribute to your production work?
- How did your research into institutions responsible for the production and regulation of the media influence your production work?
- What pre-production planning techniques did you employ (scripting, storyboarding, shot-listing, flat-planning etc)?
- How effective was your planning - how did it help you in the production phase?
- What did you learn from planning your first production that hoped you to improve your planning for the second?
- How did you use audience feedback to influence your production work while it was in progress?
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