The document discusses the importance of research and planning for tasks. It asks questions about how students conducted research and planning for their film projects, whether their approaches changed over time, and how much of their research and planning was incorporated into their final products. Students are encouraged to reflect on how to plan more effectively for future tasks.

1. Research & Planning

2. Starter Activity Describe how to make the best death by chocolate: Group A: Get to use the Macs to help research and plan their answer, pens and paper Group B: Get nothing. No pens, no paper NOTHING!

3. Initial Questions Why are you encouraged to do research & planning? What sorts of things might have gone wrong without research and planning? Where is the evidence of your research & planning for your film tasks?

4. Research & Planning What is the difference between Research and Planning?

5. Research In what ways did you need/were you encouraged to research your tasks? Did you change the approach to research in the second year? Was using blogger as a method of recording and storing your research useful? Why?

6. Planning What did you need to plan? How did your planning change over the course of AS and A2? Was using blogger as a method of recording and storing your research useful? Why?

7. Research & Planning How much of your research & planning ‘survived’ in the final products? Were the changes forced upon you or improved? Did this change from year to year? How can you plan more effectively in the future?