BTEC Level 3 Media Unit 8 final preparation

1. BIG PICTURE
The Task - Preparation
KEYWORDS
The Treatment
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This is a holistic unit and the different LOs are
covered together in all of the activities.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Storyboard - Justification
Take your seat. Bag under your desk.
Have your equipment and planner out.
Topic – Unit 8 – Responding to a Commission
• You have ten hours of supervised preparation time to research, draft,
generate ideas and plan and prepare – this is the last 2½ hours

2. TELL ME
STUFF!
TAKE ME
THROUGH
IT…
LET ME
HAVE A
GO…
DO I GET
IT?
1 2 3 4 5 6
SETTING THE
SCENE
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO LAST
TIME
PASSING ON
KNOWLEDGE
GUIDED PRACTICE
& MODELLING
INDEPENDENT
PRACTICE –
APPLYING THE
SKILLS TO NEW
SITUATIONS
ASSESSMENT &
FEEDBACK
PULL IT TOGETHER
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO NEXT
TIME

3. The Treatment - Storyboard
• You need to make a 15
frame storyboard for a
section of your short film
• It's not impossible that it
could be the whole film
but it absolutely doesn't
need to be
• It should be a section that
gives a clear idea of what
your film is like
• Your idea needs to be clear from your storyboard -
it's not an art task but your design needs to make
it clear what we would see in each shot
• You can achieve this with simple sketches and
labels
• Don’t use stick people – they don't fill the frame
in any realistic way. Bubble people are fine
• It's a technical document as well as a creative
document

4. The Treatment – Storyboard Annotation
• You need to annotate every
frame of your storyboard in the
right way
• The model answers we have
seen from the exam board all
comment on problems in
annotation as a reason for not
awarding more marks
• Everything is releavnt every
time, even if the comment on it
is 'none' or 'continues...'
• Shot number (1,2,3...)
• Shot duration (in seconds)
• Camera shot and movement (CU pan left and zoom out to
MS)
• Diagetic and Non-Diagetic sound
• Shot content – very very briefly, what is going on. A
sentence. A short one.
• Editing – A note between every frame on the edit style. It
will just be 'cut' almost all of the time but if it needs to be
different you need to explain how and then, later, justify
why
• Notes on anything particularly important you haven't
covered elsewhere in the notes– key aspects of
iconography, movement within the shot, specifics about
important uses of colour or shadow...

5. The Treatment - Justification
 Your justification needs to focus on...
 How your ideas bring to life your plans in
the proposal
 How your ideas deliver what the client
said that wanted in the brief
 How your ideas deliver what the target
audiences you have identified will want
 How you are making interesting and
creative uses of cinematic techniques in
order to do these things
 How your plans can be achieved on
budget and on time
• You need to justify the key
decisions you have made
in every frame
• You need to be focused on the
important things – if your Activity 3
- Proposal says the main cinematic
techniques you are focusing on
are cinematography and mise en
scene then you need to focus on
these in your justification

6. The Task
1. The Rationale
2. The Pitch
3. The Proposal
4. The Treatment
• 10 hours general preparation – 4 sessions of 2½ hours each. This is session 4.
• 2 hours writing up final notes
• 6 hours writing final assessment, with use of final notes

7. BIG PICTURE MY LEARNING
How did this
lesson fit into
your other
lessons?
What is my top
take- away from
the lesson?
Have you contributed to the lesson? Will you be able to improve
next lesson? Do you know what you need to go away and do?
o Are you keeping
up? Everything we've done is
on the blog – lesson by lesson.
o Keep looking back through the
blog, especially at the
examples of note taking. You
are preparing your longer notes
on the real brief
o Look back at your work from
Unit 10 LA B. A lot of what you
have to do in Activity 3 and 4 in
Unit 8 is very very similar to
that work.