This document provides guidance and requirements for students creating an AS blog checklist. It outlines 53 assignments to be completed over the course of the year related to researching, planning, pitching, producing and reflecting on a horror film project. Students are assessed on their planning, research, organization, time management and presentation skills. The checklist includes due dates, tasks to be completed, and technologies to be used for each assignment. It also provides evaluation questions and suggestions for additional blogging activities. At the end are sections for teacher assessment of individual student blogs.

1. AS BLOG CHECKLIST
Research and Planningmark scheme: Blog is 20 marks or 20% of your c/w mark.
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
0-7 marks 8-11 marks 12-15 marks 16-20 marks
You are marked on………
 planningandresearchevidence will be complete anddetailed;
 researchintosimilarproducts and a potential targetaudience;
 organisationof actors, locations,costumesor props;
 workon shot lists,timelines, drafting,scriptingor storyboarding;
 care inthe presentationof the researchand planning;
 Time management
Technology(differentwebsitesyoucan use on your blog)
Photopeach.com Emaze.com Makeagif.com Issuu.comFontbook.comanddafont.com Powtoon.com
Thinglink.com Animoto.com Zoho Moovly Flipagram
Abcnotes(iphoneapp) Mindmeister.com Speakerdeck Rawshorts(animationpresentation) Slidelyslideshow
Camtasia Photosnack Mural-ly Gifs
Evaluation Questions
1. In whatwaysdoesyour mediaproductuse,developorchallenge formsandconventionsof real mediaproducts?
2. How doesyourmediaproductrepresentparticularsocial groups?
3. What kindof mediainstitutionmightdistribute yourmediaproductandwhy?
4. Who wouldbe the audience foryourmediaproduct?
5. How didyouattract/addressyouraudience?
6. What have youlearntabout technologiesfromthe processof constructingthisproduct?
7. Lookingback at yourpreliminarytask,whatdoyoufeel youhave learntinthe progressionfromittothe full product?
In every blog title, you must identify the film stages with either: [RESEARCH] [PLANNING] [REFLECTION) [PITCH] [PRODUCTION]
Suggestions for other blogging activities:
Behind the scenes videos / director's commentary of the filming/editing process;
Vlogs where you discuss what happenedin that day's lesson and what you are going to do next; (logging
progress)
Reviews of a films/OTS’ that you saw in your free time;
Your own market research into what kinds of people watch horror films and why;
Photos of inspirational locations that youencounter on your journeyto college or whenyou are out andabout;
Photos of costume/props that you see when you are out shopping that you could use
Audience feedback on your planning work/videos, your reflections

2. Person1: ________________ Person2: __________________ Person3: ___________________ Person4:___________________
STAGE # TASK DUE
DATE
Technology/
website used
Compl-
ete?
(Research) 1 Assign1: Genresand Subgenres
In partners.Researchintosubgenresandconventionsof those subgenres.
Sept 13 PPT __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Research) 2 Assign2: OTS Analysis Oct 2 PPT __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Research) 3 Assign3: Iconography in the _____________ horror subgenre Oct 16 __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Research) 4 Assign4: Types of OTS Nov 14 Prezi __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Planning) 5 Assign5: Planningof Swede Nov 4 PPT __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Production) 6 Assign6: Swede Video Dec 3 FCPX __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Reflection) 7 Assign7: Evaluation of swede Dec 10 Blog post __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Research/
Reflection)
8 Assign8: Looking at otherC/W Jan 9 Blog post __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Research) 9 Assign9: Individual Research Jan 20 __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Research) 10 Assign10: OTS Research Jan 23
(Research) 11 Assign10: Whatis a target audience Jan 24 Slides
(Research) 12 Assign12: Horror filmtarget audiences Jan 25
(Research) 13 Assign13: Mass vs Niche audiences Jan 26
(Research) 14 Assign14: Mainstreamvs IndependentHorror Filmsand their Audiences Jan 27
(Research) 15 Assign15: FilmBilling Jan 28 Photo of sheet
(Research) 16 Assign16: Filmtitles/creditsanalysis Jan 30

3. (Research) 17 Assign17: Audience researchvideointerviews Feb3 FCPX __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Research) 18 Assign18: Audience researchon social media Feb4
(Planning) 19 Assign19: Exploringideas Feb6 Photo of sheet
(Reflection) 20 Assign20: Whatdid we learnfrom audience research Feb6 Blog post
(Production)* 21 Assign21: Practice openingsequence (the videoof the man in the cave)
*you need to post the video you worked on which was from old groups so you might have more than one
post.
Feb7 FCPX __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Production) 22 Assign22: Practice openingsequence reflection Feb8 Blog post
(Production) 23 Assign23: Preliminaryplanning Feb7 PPT or Prezi
(Production) 24 Assign24: Preliminaryvideo Feb10 FCPX
(Production) 25 Assign25: Preliminaryproductionphotos Feb10 Photo sharing app
(Pitch) 26 Assign26: Individual pitch Feb20 __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
(Reflection) 27 Assign27: Audience feedbackfromindividual pitch Feb21 Blog post
(Reflection) 28 Assign28: The Team Feb22
(Production) 29 Assign29: Horror scene productionphotos Feb24 Photo sharing app
(Production) 30 Assign30: Horror scene video Feb24 FCPX
(Production) 31 Assign31: BloodWorkshop Feb28
(Research) 32 Assign32: ResearchingDistributionCompanies Mar 1 Slides
(Planning) 33 Assign33: Subgenre choice and it’s conventions Mar 2 Blog post
(Production)
Individual or
SCARIEST HORROR TECHNIQUE COMPETITION Mar 3
(Planning) 34 Assign34: Job Roles Photo of sheet
(Pitch) 35 Assign35: Grouppitch Photo of sheet
(Planning) Extension:OTS Mood Board (like a collage of stuff/visualsin your OTS)
(Reflection) 36 Assign36: Grouppitch feedback Blog post
(Planning) 37 Assign37: Timelines

4. (Planning) 38 Assign38: Our Target audience PPT
(Planning) 39 Assign39: How our OTS appealsto our audience Emaze
(Research/
Planning)
40 Assign40: Musicresearch PPT
(Research/
Planning)
41 Assign41: Foleyresearch PPT
(Research/
Planning)
42 Assign42: Location researchand scouting Slides
(Planning) 43 Assign43: Location planning Prezi
(Planning) 44 Assign44: Actors planning Emaze
(Planning) 45 Assign45: RepresentationofSocial Groups Slides
(Planning) 46 Assign46: Costume and props planning PPT
(Planning) 47 Assign47: Make-upplanning PPT
(Planning) 48 Assign48: Storyboards Photos in a
presentation
(Planning) 49 Assign49: Script Word embedded
(Planning) 50 Assign50: Shotlist Word embedded
(Planning) 51 Assign51: Risk Assessment Word embedded
(Planning) 52 Assign52: Title and credits planning Prezi
(Planning) 53 Assign53: Sounddesignplanning
(Planning) Optional:Foleydesignplanning
(Production) 54 Assign54: ProductionCompany Identdevelopment
(Planning) 55 Assign55: ProductionSchedule Word embedded
Brand your blog
(Production) 56 Assign56: Draft 1 Production Photos Photo sharing app
(Production) 57 Assign57: Draft 1 Editing screenshots Make a gif
DRAFT 1 Apr 15
(Reflection) 58 Assign58: Draft 1 Audience Feedback
(Planning) 59 Assign59: Draft 2 Targets
DRAFT 2 Apr 29

5. (Reflection) 60 Assign60: Draft 2 Audience Feedback
Draft 3 material is optional
(Planning) 61 Assign61: Final Draft Targets
(Planning) 62 Assign62: Final Draft Planning Prezi
(Production) 63 Assign63: Final Draft ProductionPhotos Photo sharing app
(Production) 64 Assign64: Final Draft EditingScreenshots Make a gif
(Reflection) 65 Assign65: ClosingYourBlog Reflection Blog post __ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
Evaluation Q7 TBC
Evaluation Q6 TBC
Evaluation Q5 TBC
Evaluation Q4 TBC
Evaluation Q3 TBC
Evaluation Q2 TBC
Evaluation Q1 TBC
FINAL DRAFT
RecommendedDivisionofPlanningwork
1
LOCATIONS & ACTORS
2
COSTUME, PROPS, MAKE-UP
3
MUSIC
4
TITLE AND CREDITS
42 Locationresearchand scouting
43 Locationplanning
44 Actors planning
45 Representationof social groups
46 Costume andprops planning
47 Make-upplanning
40 Music research
41 Foleyresearch
53 Sounddesignplanning
38 OurTarget Audience
39 How our OTS appealstoour target
audience
52 Titlesandcreditsplanning
54 Productioncompanyident
development
Otherworkto complete together (youcoulddivide butrecommendedtodotogether):
37 Timelines 48 Storyboards 49 Script 50 Shotlist 51 Risk Assessment 55 ProductionSchedule

6. GENERAL WWW GENERAL EBI
Other comments:

7. TEACHER ASSESSMENT OF BLOG (Person1: ___________________________) Level 1
Incomplete/
Minimal
Level 2
Basic
Level 2
Proficient
Level 2
Excellent
Planningandresearchevidence will be ___________. (1: incomplete 2: parts incomplete 3: complete 4: complete with detail)
Researchintosimilarproducts(all researchtasks)
Researchintoaudiencesandtargetaudiences
Organisationof actors, locations,costumesorprops;
Planningwork onshotlists, timelines, drafting,scriptingorstoryboarding;
Presentationskills(incnavigation) inpresentationsandoverall blog
Time management (1:very poor 2: poor 3: good 4: excellent)
Communicationskills
Sequence of tasksonblogwithcorrect dates
Clearand correct titlesforeveryblogpost &Title page for everysingle assign(frontof powerpoint)
Overall sublevel: _____ Overall Mark: _____/20 (%: ____) Overall subgrade: ______
Targetsto improve:
TEACHER ASSESSMENT OF BLOG (Person2: ___________________________) Level 1
Incomplete/
Minimal
Level 2
Basic
Level 2
Proficient
Level 2
Excellent
Planningandresearchevidence will be ___________. (1: incomplete 2: parts incomplete 3: complete 4: complete with detail)
Researchintosimilarproducts(all researchtasks)
Researchintoaudiencesandtargetaudiences
Organisationof actors, locations,costumesorprops;
Planningwork onshotlists, timelines, drafting,scriptingorstoryboarding;
Presentationskills(incnavigation) inpresentationsandoverall blog
Time management (1:very poor 2: poor 3: good 4: excellent)
Communicationskills
Sequence of tasksonblogwithcorrect dates
Clearand correct titlesforeveryblogpost&Title page for everysingle assign(frontof powerpoint)
Overall sublevel: _____ Overall Mark: _____/20 (%: ____) Overall subgrade: ______
Targetsto improve:

8. TEACHER ASSESSMENT OF BLOG (Person3: ___________________________) Level 1
Incomplete/
Minimal
Level 2
Basic
Level 2
Proficient
Level 2
Excellent
Planningandresearchevidence will be ___________. (1: incomplete 2: parts incomplete 3: complete 4: complete with detail)
Researchintosimilarproducts(all researchtasks)
Researchintoaudiencesandtargetaudiences
Organisationof actors, locations,costumesorprops;
Planningwork onshotlists, timelines, drafting,scriptingorstoryboarding;
Presentationskills(incnavigation) inpresentationsandoverall blog
Time management (1:very poor 2: poor 3: good 4: excellent)
Communicationskills
Sequence of tasksonblogwithcorrect dates
Clearand correct titlesforeveryblogpost&Title page for everysingle assign(frontof powerpoint)
Overall sublevel: _____ Overall Mark: _____/20 (%: ____) Overall subgrade: ______
Targetsto improve:
TEACHER ASSESSMENT OF BLOG (Person4: ___________________________) Level 1
Incomplete/
Minimal
Level 2
Basic
Level 2
Proficient
Level 2
Excellent
Planningandresearchevidence will be ___________. (1: incomplete 2: parts incomplete 3: complete 4: complete with detail)
Researchintosimilarproducts(all researchtasks)
Researchintoaudiencesandtargetaudiences
Organisationof actors, locations,costumesorprops;
Planningwork onshotlists, timelines, drafting,scriptingorstoryboarding;
Presentationskills(incnavigation) inpresentationsandoverall blog
Time management (1:very poor 2: poor 3: good 4: excellent)
Communicationskills
Sequence of tasksonblogwithcorrect dates
Clearand correct titlesforeveryblogpost&Title page for everysingle assign(frontof powerpoint)
Overall sublevel: _____ Overall Mark: _____/20 (%: ____) Overall subgrade: ______
Targetsto improve: