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.
