Research and Planning Question 7. Answer

How your Research 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 planing 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 production feedback to influence your production work while it was in progress?
• My research into my genre contributed a great deal to my overall production work as a lot of the mise en scene, although a more niche and period take on rock music, relied alot upon research into the genre and traditional imagery with the style of music over both years.
• My research into audience contributed top my production work greatly as it helped me to vision my work from an audiences perspective and imagine how they would view the overall media piece. By doing this, I could then change things I needed to for example, mise en scene or camera angles that didn't work and adjust them to suit from an audiences perspective.
• My research into institutions helped me to organise my production in a more professional way and affected the amount of work and depth of detail I researched into my work areas in order to bring my work up to professional standards.
• For my AS year, I used flat-planning for my pre-production technique in order to have an initial rough idea of what my magazine layouts would look like. In my A2 year, I used the rest of the techniques including scripting, storyboarding my video and shot-listing in order to prepare me for production.
• From planning my first production, I could then improve the things that needed to be improved for my second to have a better overall finished media text. In my A2 year especially, this planning influenced my organisational skills to help me keep to my filming schedule.
• I used production feedback to influence my work whilst it was in progress to make sure that what I was producing was right for my audience as well as right for my genre and visually appealing. I felt that by doing that, My marks could be improved overall.