1A) Research and Planning Info + Practise

Research:

• Primary Research that we did ourself, LOOK AT BLOGS Audience ( Yr 13 Q3, Yr 12 Q4) Distribution, Institution 
• Secondary research, real media products themselfs, Genre, Semitotics, Theory, Conventions, ancilalry texts over both years, website, digipak, magazine article, posters
• Skills research - Youtube tutorials, trail and errors how has skils improved due to research over the 2 years.

Planning:

• Storyboards
• Location reece
• Shooting Schedules
• Props
• Costumes

1a) Explain how your research and planning skills developed over time and how these decisions contributed to your media productions outcomes. Refer to a range of examples in your answer.

In year 12 we produced a film opening, the EZ life. In year 13 we created a cross promotional campaign for a new artist, our artist was C.DOT. This included a music video, a website and a digipak. Over the last two years I have developed my research and planning skills, at which I feel have overall increased the level of both my media productions from year 12 to year 13.
For my Primary research, in year 12 I created some survey’s using the website surveymonkey for audience feedback on my film opening the EZ life. It was very easy to use as it gave a step by step guide at how to create a survey. It also correlated data in a certain way which was helpful at the time, in graph formats, however it did not really express my skill as it was all done for me. However in year 13 I found that it did not present data in the way that I liked, therefore I used anthor online survey for primary research for receiving feedback on Quicktime survey, this method allowed me to present data at which I would like it this could be on a pie chart, scatter chart or bar graph, I decided on various graphs which the data suited better. The survey website also allowed me to make the survey more appealing to the audience as I could upload various images which made the survey relevant towards what we wanted to find out.
Secondary research, was something which I felt my skills were already at quite a high level. At the beginning of year 12, we had to research a variety of media texts and describe and explain the genre of different films. At the start I found it difficult to find the right websites, and whether or not I could filter certain information in order to get the right specific information I wanted. For our prelim task we were given a family drama task at which we did not know about the genre family drama. This was something at which I did not do in year 12 I did not filter the information, I would pick the first thing which appeared on a search engine, this ended up being a comedy film rather than a family drama, therefore our prelim task we found difficult as we did not give ourselves enough time to research in detail. However in year 13, I found it a lot easier to filter information through the use of websites and that I would find the specific research which I wanted that would help improve my music video, such as the Justin Bieber effect, at we researched a wide variety of hip hop songs to get a wide range of views of different videos. By doing this it enabled us to get a better understanding of the genre itself, and to see whether we could implement some of our ideas into our music video or whether it did not fit, the billboard was an example of this. By researching Kanye west’s song flashing lights, this showed us that we can have a variety of concepts in our music video.