Explain how
your research and planning skills developed over time and how these decisions
contributed to your media productions outcomes. Refer to a range of examples in
your answer.
Over my two years as a Media student i planned and created 2 media projects. In my first year me and my group worked together to make a brief film opening for a chosen genre, which for us it was a documentary called 'Locked up'. In my 2nd year we planned and created a music video for our genre of Indie. Our song choice was 'Falling for you' by Indie band: The 1975. Research and planning was a key element in creating an effective project and there was a clear difference between this in my AS and A2 production.
In terms of research into genre, my AS project was very basic and no real use of broad range of sources. The research into my genre of a documentary involved watching a number of youtube documentaries such as 'Madeline Mccann The true story' and the Elizabeth Smart documentary. This gave us a brief idea in how to present the film opening and what components were specific to this genre. No real research was done into the titles of a documentary but one thing we did pick up on was use of eye witness accounts which we looked to bring into our production to help portray our genre to the audience. Recreations of real events were also used in much of our research so this gave us further ideas on how to make the documentary obvious to the audience.
My skills into researching genre developed when looking at my music video project. The research was in much more depth and really got us to understand our genre of Indie very well which made it much easier when creating the video. Instead of just watching youtube video's that replicated our genre me and my group really got an insight into the image of Indie bands and how they conduct themselves in live performances, this was very effective as it showed us how they perform together and gave us a better idea of the personalities of each band member. This helped us gain knowledge into what outfits and locations we could look to use. Image ideas were gained by looking at similar bands websites such as Alt-J and 'The Artic Monkeys". Me and my group went much more in depth to portray our genre that we even looked at specific camera shots and specific themes used within our genre to make the audience believe it was a real Indie video. Themes we found were dark and conceptual. We then researched a number of dark and conceptual ideas to see how we could implement these into our video.
In the planning stage of my AS production no real depth was put into our locations, outfits or camera shots. We made a brief story board in a short amount of time and effectively made up many of the shots and locations as we went along. We completed risk assessments for the locations we would be using but we only used one location outside of school showing a lack of ambition and effort.
The planning stage of my A2 project was a much longer process and required a lot more effort and time. When planning our locations, instead of just listing them and filming like in our AS production we visited these locations a number of times to see if they would be appropriate for our video which made our project much more accurate and efficient. We showed much more ambition in the A2 project by using a broad range of locations as we really wanted to portray to the audience that we was an Indie band.
The group used a Survey monkey to ask questions such as "what themes should be present in an Indie music video" to allow us to gather data and plan how we would incorporate certain themes into our video. This showed much more attention to our audience than in AS.
In terms of research into genre, my AS project was very basic and no real use of broad range of sources. The research into my genre of a documentary involved watching a number of youtube documentaries such as 'Madeline Mccann The true story' and the Elizabeth Smart documentary. This gave us a brief idea in how to present the film opening and what components were specific to this genre. No real research was done into the titles of a documentary but one thing we did pick up on was use of eye witness accounts which we looked to bring into our production to help portray our genre to the audience. Recreations of real events were also used in much of our research so this gave us further ideas on how to make the documentary obvious to the audience.
My skills into researching genre developed when looking at my music video project. The research was in much more depth and really got us to understand our genre of Indie very well which made it much easier when creating the video. Instead of just watching youtube video's that replicated our genre me and my group really got an insight into the image of Indie bands and how they conduct themselves in live performances, this was very effective as it showed us how they perform together and gave us a better idea of the personalities of each band member. This helped us gain knowledge into what outfits and locations we could look to use. Image ideas were gained by looking at similar bands websites such as Alt-J and 'The Artic Monkeys". Me and my group went much more in depth to portray our genre that we even looked at specific camera shots and specific themes used within our genre to make the audience believe it was a real Indie video. Themes we found were dark and conceptual. We then researched a number of dark and conceptual ideas to see how we could implement these into our video.
In the planning stage of my AS production no real depth was put into our locations, outfits or camera shots. We made a brief story board in a short amount of time and effectively made up many of the shots and locations as we went along. We completed risk assessments for the locations we would be using but we only used one location outside of school showing a lack of ambition and effort.
The planning stage of my A2 project was a much longer process and required a lot more effort and time. When planning our locations, instead of just listing them and filming like in our AS production we visited these locations a number of times to see if they would be appropriate for our video which made our project much more accurate and efficient. We showed much more ambition in the A2 project by using a broad range of locations as we really wanted to portray to the audience that we was an Indie band.
The group used a Survey monkey to ask questions such as "what themes should be present in an Indie music video" to allow us to gather data and plan how we would incorporate certain themes into our video. This showed much more attention to our audience than in AS.
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