Candidates will be required to produce three pieces of linked work. These will comprise:
• a pre-production reflecting research and demonstrating planning techniques – You will create a new six part television series, which you will then script ten minutes of an episode.
• a production which has developed out of the pre-production – You will create a DVD cover for your television series and a promotional poster to advertise the programmes launch
• a report of 1200 - 1600 words – You will discuss the research you did for you pre-production and how it improved the quality of your script. Then you will analyse the DVD cover and poster using media terminology
Pre-production
check list - Script (20 marks)
1. Ideas
2. Type up
brief
3. Questionnaire
4. Completed
Q/A
5. Graphs
6. Report
on Q/A findings
7. Type up
first draft of script
8. Two
examples of TV scripts (save the web address)
9. Report
on the generic conventions of scripts
10. Report on two TV drama
programmes
11. Second draft of script
(10 pages)
12. Focus group Q/A.
13. Report on f/g findings
14. Third draft
15. Internet research
16. Report
17. 4th draft
18. Acted out
19. 5th draft
Production
Checklist – DVD cover (40 marks)
Genre research
Genre research
Analyse
three DVD covers and make notes on:
•
Genre
•
Semiotics
•
Mise en Scene
•
Representations
You
should have about a page of analysis per DVD
Design
Ideas
8
thumbnail sketches
Best
4 ideas annotated
Best
2 drawn out in detail
Focus
group test
No
report, just note what they say and implement into design ideas.
Picture
production
All
photos taken for production, (DVD and poster) and edited using online editors
or GIMP
Final
Production
Completed
DVD
Production
Checklist – T.V poster (40 marks)
Genre
research
Analyse
three T.V posters and make notes on:
•
Genre
•
Semiotics
•
Mise en Scene
•
Representations
You
should about a page of analysis per poster.
Design
Ideas
8
thumbnail sketches
Best
4 ideas annotated
Best
2 drawn out in detail
Focus
group test
No
report, just note what they say and implement
into design ideas.
Picture
production
All
photos taken for production, (DVD and poster) and edited using online editors
or GIMP
Final
Production
Completed
poster
Evaluation
– 1,600 words (40 marks)
First
800 words are on the construction of the script.
What
research you did and how it impacted on the final draft of your script. Discuss
the most significant research in depth.
Second
800 words you analyse your DVD cover and poster, remembering to incorporate
reference to other comparable media texts. You must use media terminology in
your analysis.
