Monday 12 March 2012

Year 12 - What you need to do for your planning

Be able to plan and research a factual programme for television:

  • Write about the genre of your idea:
    • Genres: news; documentary, eg docudrama, docusoap, infotainment, ‘reality’ TV, educational, wildlife, special interest, makeover; magazine; discussion; review; chat show
  • Develop ideas: 
    • programme concept; target audience; development techniques, eg creation of narrative, scenario, synopsis, research process, interview questions
  • Research: 
    • primary sources, eg contacts, interviews; 
    • secondary sources, eg broadcasts, reviews, internet, archives; checking information
  • Legal and ethical considerations: 
    • filming in public; clearances and permissions; privacy; libel and defamation; requirements of the Broadcasting Act 1994; BBC producers’ guidelines; Ofcom
  • Planning: 
    • production organisation; roles and responsibilities; schedules; interview and contacts; appointments; location recces; budget (planned, evolving); risk assessments; documentation
  • Proposal: 
    • subject idea; format; genre; style; audience; intended aim; budget
You should have separate blogs for each of the areas above. You have already created the proposal/pitch (it may need to be finished), I need to be able to see it on your blogs.

Year 12 Homework - March 12

Assignment 1 – Issues in Factual Programming

You must produce a media production textbook chapter on the issues facing producers of factual programming and the impact this has on their work:
You must:
  • research the issues facing the producers of factual programming
    • accuracy; 
    • balance; 
    • impartiality; 
    • objectivity; 
    • subjectivity; 
    • opinion; 
    • bias; 
    • representation; 
    • access;
    • privacy; 
    • contract with viewer
  • select particular examples found within their research and investigate these further
  • produce a textbook chapter on the issues facing producers of factual programming and the impact these have on their work.
By 19th March, you must have done the first part - researching the issues.You will then be asked to do the other sections for other home works.