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Research and planning
The document discusses the importance of research and planning for media productions. It provides guidance on different types of research, including primary research conducted by the student and secondary research using existing sources. The document also addresses organizing research materials through blogging, planning productions with storyboards and schedules, and how research and planning can inform and impact the practical production work. Students are prompted to reflect on how their research and planning skills have developed over time from AS to A2 levels and how those skills contributed to their media production outcomes.
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- 1. BQ: How hasresearch and planning influenced your productions?
- 2. Consider: How muchdid research inform the development of your own ideas? What types of research were most significant in developing your own ideas? What difficulties did you encounter in your research? How did you plan your production work and what types of planning were most effective? What issues did you experience in moving from the planning to the production phase? How useful was your planning in the production phase? What aspects should you have planned and prepared more thoroughly?
- 3. Why is ResearchandPlanning Important? Research Planning
- 4. Primary – Primaryresearch is material uniquely gathered/generated by you/your group: •textual analysisof similar genres through internet/TV/magazines/student exemplars •audience feedback (staff andpeers) •Questionnaires •vox pops, •opinion polls Secondary research - Secondary research is where you’ve read and used existing writing: •Books •Websites •Newspapers •Blogs •Articles •Theories e.g. Goodwin, PostModernisn •Classnotes •Viewing music videos, websites, digipack,adverts. 1. Types of Research
- 5. •2. Advantages andDisadvantages of sources The focus is on SKILL – progression and changes in methods from AS to A2. You need to think about what you learned about the advantages/disadvantages of: •Expense/Cost – how much did the research cost? Books? Magazines? •Accessibility – Was the research easy to find? •Time – Was it time consuming? •Reliability – was the research measured to be consistent – did you find a trustworthy source, was it another student’s work? •Accuracy – were the facts and figures correct? Did your audience feedback results provide a fair sample of overall opinions? •Bias – textual analysis can be bias as it is subjective – did you complete enough research to overcome this? Were any secondary sources biased? •Validity – was there a link between the particular research and final product? Was there a strong indication that this research affected the outcome of your work? •Usefulness – how relevant was this to your project (see validity). OR did any of your research methods prove to be completely useless and why?
- 6. 3. Organisation ofResearch You used your blog to organise ALL of your research. •What skills did you learn about organising and referencing materials? (Remember if your research isn’t referenced correctly then you will not get full marks – labels1) •How did your skills of organisation develop from AS and A2? E.g. If it was the first time you used blogger at AS did you find it easier to blog at A2?
- 7. Organisation of time,personnel and equipment: •Did you complete on time? Did you meet deadlines? •What are the pros and cons of organising personnel? •What have you learned about communication between personnel? •Did your knowledge of production schedules grow? •What could you have done better? •What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- 8. Working individually oras part of a group: • What did you learn about individual and team work? • What are the pros and cons? • What main things have you learned about group work at AS in terms of planning your product? •Advantages/Disadvantages of working alone for A2
- 9. 4. Organisation of PlanningMaterials How did you organise your planning materials? Did you utilise the blog more at A2 level than at AS? How did you follow your storyboards – what did you understand about changes to be made? Did all members have copies of production schedules and storyboards? Did you complete diaries and/or ‘progression so far’ posts? Why was this important in terms of planning both pieces of coursework? Have you used any of the research and planning skills in other products?
- 10. 5. Presentation ofResearch and Planning •How did you present your primary and secondary research on your blogs? We are talking about enhancing CREATIVITY and USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. •Did your presentation of audience feedback for example become more creative through your increased use of digital technology available for embedding on the blogs e.g animoto? Slideshare etc?
- 11. 6. How yourResearch and Planning has informed your practical production How did your research into genre contribute to your production work? How did your research into audience contribute to your production work? How did your research into institutions responsible for the production and regulation of the media influence your production work? What pre-production planning techniques did you employ (scripting, storyboarding, shot-listing, flat-planning etc.)? How effective was your planning – how did it help you in the production phase? What did you learn from planning your first production that helped you to improve your planning for the second? How did you use audience feedback to influence your production work while it was in progress?
- 12. A2 Coursework Lookback atyour A2blog and all of the posts you have labelled as research and planning. Lookat the CheckList (below in this post)– didyou complete all of the research and planning tasksspecified? Make a list of the primary research you carried out for your music video and ancillary tasks. Make a list of the secondary research you carried out for your music video and ancillary tasks.Youmight need to look backat your blogs to identify theorists, articles etc youread. What are the pros and consof the primaryand secondary research you have carried out?
- 13. Comparison • Compare theextent of theresearch/planning you carried out for your ASandA2 coursework. • Towhat extent have your research/planning skills improved? Explain and support your answer with evidence.
- 14. • Identify specificaspects of your productions that have been impacted by your planningand research. Productions
- 15. Past Questions • Explainhow your research and planning skill developed over time and contributed toyour media production outcomes (Jan2013) • Describe how you developed researchingand planning skill for media productions and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making ( Jan2010)
- 16. • Describe howyour research and planning skills have developed over the last twoyears and what impact this had on yourwork. Question
- 17. • • • • • • What research skillshave you developed inthe last two years (think blogs, textual analysis, audience research etc)? What methods have youused? How have they impacted yourwork? Are there examples of time when yourresearch hasnot beeneffective? What effect did research have on yourwork? Did you changeyour plans?Why? Think about: ResearchSkills
- 18. Think about: Planning Skills What made up planning? What methods didyou used? Year 12 Year 13 How have they impacted yourwork? Year 12 (good/bad) Year 13 (good/bad) Are there examplesof times when yourplanning hasbeen poor? INYEAR12????? What effect did planning have on yourwork? Year 12 (good/bad) Year13 (good/bad) How have your planning skillsdevelop? Didyou changeyour plans?Why?