This document provides a checklist for a media production project, outlining areas to address at different stages: 1) Research, planning, and pre-production including researching similar products, target audiences, actors, locations, costumes, props, and time management. 2) Construction of the main project showing understanding of conventions, variety, accurate language, appropriate technology integration, and a variety of material. 3) Evaluation questions addressing the product's forms and conventions, representation of social groups, potential institutions of distribution, target audience, methods of attracting audience, learned technologies, and lessons from preliminary work.

1. G324 Checklist All Greyed out boxes are not to be completed (depending on brief choice)
Research Breakdown Music Magazine Completed On blog?
A range of magazines of the
Music Magazine same genre and others that
Research into similar products and could influence your work
target audience who/ why/ examples of their
Target Audience responses and expectations
(genre and conventions)
Planning
Examples of who and why
Actors
they've been chosen
Choices behind locations -
Organisation of actors, locations, Locations
possibly include photos
costumes and props
Costumes Mood Board or test shots
Choices behind and how you
Props
will acquire them
Layouts How do you plan to do this-
Working on layouts and drafting what has influenced your
Drafting
choices made?
Time management (how will you spend For R&P/ Construction Schedule of construction (what/
time) and Evaluation where and who is required?)
What could go wrong and how
Risk assessment
would you avoid this?
Additional areas to include What is your house style Front page, Contents Page,
- across your products? Double Page Spread
Production information Magazine Name

2. G324 Checklist All Greyed out boxes are not to be completed (depending on brief choice)
Construction - Main task
Producing material appropriate for the
target audience and task;
Showing understanding of conventions of
layout and page design; Worth 60 marks -
Evidence on blog how you
Showing awareness of the need for altogether so every
complete these, have you taken
variety in fonts and text size; element is as important as
on feedback or gone back to
Accurately using language and register; each other. How do you
R&P to make sure you have
Using ICT appropriately for the task set; plan to evidence that you
met conventions you have
Appropriately integrating illustration and have done learnt or shown
researched or planned for?
text; all these skills? - see next
What changes have you made
Shooting a variety of material appropriate two columns for some
and why?
to the task set; examples
Manipulating photographs as appropriate
to the context for presentation, including
cropping and resizing
Evaluation (20 marks) 7 questions
Think about your R&P,
can you compare your
product to those you
researched? What forms
In what ways does your media product and conventions have you
use, develop or challenge forms and met or challenged and
conventions of real media products? why?
How have you considered
target audience? How can
you prove your magazine
How does your media product meets that social groups
represent particular social groups? stereotypes? Use one piece of software for
What institutions have each question to make sure you
distributed the magazines are showing your digital and ICT
What kind of media institution might you reseached? Would skills. Also make sure you
distribute your media product and they distribute yours? include a script or annotations if
why? Why? some of your software choices
mean that not all what you have
Who is your target said is understood at all times
audience? How does your (e.g. voice manipulated pieces
Who would be the audience for your magazine meet that target of software)
media product? audience?
Give examples of forms
and conventions you have
How did you attract/address your used to attract/address
audience? audience?
What have you learnt about Hardware and Software
technologies from the process of plus use of online
constructing this product? prgrammes
Looking back at your preliminary task,
what do you feel you have learnt in the Look at R&P, Construction
progression from it to the full product? and Evaluation