Exam Prep Q1a

EXAM PREP

Question 1a is entirely concerned about skills development FROM AS TO A2, but the area that comes up will be quite specific:

* Creativity
* Research and Planning
* Digital Technology
* Post-production
* Using Conventions from Real Media Texts

See below for ideas about what you could discuss in an essay on Research and Planning...

* What primary and secondary research did you undertake?
(how did you research into similar products; determining your potential target audience)
* BE SPECIFIC which music videos did you watch and what did you learn in watching them?
* Questionnaires: open&closed questions: what was your quantitative and qualitative analysis of your results and how did this inform your planning?
* How did you organise actors, locations, costumes or props?
* Did you make a shooting schedule? (YES!!)
* Time management skills: how did you organise meetings? Did someone chair at each one while others took notes? (YES!!)
* Did you make a meeting log? (YES!!)
* Did you have a prop list? (YES!!)
* How effectively were storyboards and time management decisions followed?
* Communication skills; with team members, actors, outside agencies...

CLASS DISCUSSION IDEAS
- Storyboarding – and using it on location  more detailed
- What ‘went wrong’ / have you improved on since AS? Filming, better storyboarding
- Trips – AS CLC to learn imovie, to RichMix w Peter Fraser: on history of music vids, met music video director
- Mini music video 15 mins, edited and uploaded to youtube
- Lip synching practice
- Organised clips – deleted unwanted shots, clearly name them, ordered them
- Storyboarding Kesha’s video – as practice
- Edited a montage of behind the scenes
- Evaluated editing mid-production and made changes accordingly
- Costume and makeup planning, more thought went into mise-en-scene
- Visited locations, took photographs, storyboarded in more detail