This document outlines an action plan spanning weeks 14 through 24. It details the research and filming activities to be carried out to create a music video. Over the 10 week period, the plan involves researching music industry topics and theories, creating storyboards and risk assessments, filming narrative sections with actors, and editing the raw footage along with adding effects. The goals are to film all scenes and narratives by week 22, then focus on high quality editing and including two textual analyses by week 24 to complete the project.

1. Action Plan
Week 14 – Week 24

2. Aims for week 14
 Carry out research into Tim O’Sullivan
 Conduct research into the connotations of the song
name
 Carry out research into Richard Dyer’s star theory

3. Aims for week 15
 Conduct research into Claude Levi Strauss and
Vladimir Propp
 Create and devise our own theory for music videos

4. Aims for week 16
 Conduct additional research into Michael Shore
and Sven E Carlsson
 Carry out research into web 2.0 and what role its
played in the democratisation of the music industry
 Carry out an evaluation of our creative skills by
presenting a piece of work in a platform we have
not used before

5. Aims for week 17
 Create our own recording studio logo
 Create a plan of the shots for filming the actor who
will be miming
 Carry out weather analysis for the chosen filming
date
 Carry out a risk assessment

6. Aims for week 18
 Film all the sections where the actor, pretending to
be the artist will be miming
 Plan all the details for filming the ‘Old man’
narrative
 Conduct a risk assessment for this narrative.

7. Aims for week 19
 On holiday

8. Aims for week 20
 Film all the sections in the ‘old man’ narrative
 Plan all the final details for filming the ‘Boy on the
bike’ narrative
 Conduct a risk assessment for this narrative
 Carry out a weather analysis for the chosen filming
date

9. Aims for week 21
 Film all the sections in the ‘Boy on the bike’
narrative
 Plan all the final details for filming the narrative of
the ‘dancer auditioning and the cross dresser’
 Conduct a risk assessment for both narratives

10. Aims for week 22
 Film all the sections in the narrative of the ‘dancer
auditioning and the cross dresser’
 Begin editing our footage to a high standard
 Create an edit decision list that outlines what clips
we have used and the various effects we have
used, and the reasons why

11. Aims for week 23
 Continue editing our footage to a high standard
 Create and complete two textual analysis’s for
ancillary task one

12. Aims for week 24
 Create and complete another textual analysis for
ancillary task one
 Create a small questionnaire which relates to the
product and gather data
 Analyse and evaluate the results from the
questionnaire