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.

Cover work

I will be off for the next 2 weeks, so here's what you should be getting on with:

• Firstly make sure your music video is finished to the very best standard. 
• Make sure it looks like a professional music video following the codes and conventions of others that you have researched.
• Make sure all research and planning is complete
• Do more research and planning
• Start evaluation:

1. How well did you work in a group? Give specific examples.
2. What difficulties did you overcome in the production of the video and how did you overcome them?
3. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
4. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
5.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Please make sure that someone goes to reception to get a paper register and returns it to reception 

If you finish all that, you need to make sure that objectives 1 and 2 from this blog are complete!

I will be checking your blogs throughout the day, so make sure you do some work. If you need to speak to me tweet me anytime.