Thursday 4 March 2010

Essay Plans

How was your understanding of real media conventions developed over the last 2 years?

Þ I Introduction: Explanation of what we have done over the last 2 years, more detail on thriller and music video projects.

o What are conventions and how do you find them? Give examples.

Þ TTalk about 1st project, introduction into media studies. Give examples of videos watch, blogs looked at.

o Youtube

o IMDB

o Reviews

Þ TTalk about music video project how you have improved from last project. Talk about skills used and conventions found.

o How does it make a difference knowing conventions?

Þ TTalk about TV Drama and how the conventions are different for each type.

o Examples? Doctor Who…

o Micro and Macro elements.

o Analysis.

Þ Conclusion.

o How important are conventions?

o How have they helped?

What decisions have you made during post-production stages and how have these affected your work?

Introduction.

o What counts as post-production? What do you need to do to get to final products? How important are the stages?

à Talk about the use of Blogger. How important is it to keep record of plans and why? Give examples of things you recorded and why?

o Location pictures for music video.

o You tube clips for examples.

à We used the cameras to take test footage and pictures to get to grip with how to edit and film on a smaller scale before the actual things.

o We could look at different locations and test their compatibility.

à Storyboards helped us plan out how the videos would look and weather it works out or you need to change things.

à Youtube, Blogs etc. Talk about other things you used for post-productions.

à Conclusion.

o How helpful was using blogger etc? How did it affect your final mark?

What are the pro’s and con’s of the various research and planning strategies you used?

Introduction.

o Talk about what research and planning you did.

¨ Takes a lot of time to make the blogs and insert all the relevant information.

¨ Storyboards are tedious and time consuming you also need to be a good drawer so they make sense.

¨ Our genre was quite original (folk/pop) which meant that like youtube are good because they have lots of videos and examples hard to find elsewhere.

¨ Conclusion.

o Conclusion on best research and planning strategies.

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