Individual Evidence of Production: Word Processed Production Diary
- 1. A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK(Including Possible Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated) September 2012 (Detailed Monthly Summary) Starter activities and decide on genre that we will be focusing on for our project. I aim to start my research for ancillary 1 which is looking at other digi packs to take aspects from them as inspiration for my own work. October 2012 (Detailed Monthly Summary) I completed the research which gave me an insight into what elements attracts audiences of my genre to a media piece and complete ancillary 1. Research and start ancillary 2. November 2012 (Detailed Monthly Summary) Started and completed the research for ancillary 2 which included analysing magazine poster adverts for albums. Complete all of the ancillary research and begin some audience theory work. December 2012 (Detailed Monthly Summary) Checked all ancillary work was completed to a satisfactory standard and complete audience theory work which included an essay on how my work conforms to audience theorists Chandler Neal and Lacey’s repertoire of elements. Start to research music videos for final piece. Mon W/B 07/01/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) Researched 3 videos which I like aspects of which I will take and incorporate into my own work when producing the main piece. Start audience research which includes a questionnaire and analysis of questionnaire. Mon W/B 14/01/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) Design and distribute questionnaires for my preliminary target audience research. Took longer than I thought to make and distribute questionnaire therefore this week will collate the information. Mon W/B 21/01/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) After retrieving my questionnaires I analysed themlooking at what my target audience preferred and as a group we started a general ideas generation for the main piece. Will finish the ideas generation and chose the final idea for our main product the music video. Mon W/B 28/01/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) We created 3 possible idea mind maps which included different songs and concepts for the video. We chose our final idea and completed a write up about it. As I finished all the work on time this week as a group we will start scripts and story boards. Mon W/B 04/02/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) As a group we all worked together to complete aspects of the script, story boards and editing the final song we had chosen. Finished the variety of aspects for the planning of our final product. Mon W/B 11/02/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) We began with filming outside shots near our college which we would incorporate into our video. Start filming in a different location which would be around our college.
- 2. A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary Mon W/B 18/02/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) For some variety we filmed inside for our main piece which included locations such as a small room with a white background so the focus would be on the character of the video and also in a studio environment and on a stage to emphasise the production of the song through our music video and the development of the artist. All filming completed so start to upload footage and edit. Mon W/B 25/02/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) We began to organise our footage first by moving it from our camera to the computers which took longer than expected due to the quality of the footage. We then created a new project and imported the footage into Adobe Premiere. Didn’t start editing this week due to technical difficulties therefore we will start editing this week to create final product. Mon W/B 04/03/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) We then began editing our footage by adding in the song and taking clips from our shots and placing them into our final music video piece. Didn’t finish editing therefore will take the next week to finish hopefully. Mon W/B 11/03/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) We continued to edit our footage in Premier into a final product. Didn’t complete editing for another week however will have a first draft by the end of this upcoming week. Mon W/B 18/03/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) We completed our first draft of the video and exported it from the editing software and uploaded it to YouTube. From YouTube I then put it onto my blog as a First Draft Edit. Will start my evaluation over the Easter holidays. Mon W/B 01/04/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) During the Easter holidays I began the evaluation process of our coursework and completed question 4 and 1 Complete our main product and evaluation. Mon W/B 08/04/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) Completed the final edit of the music video and continued on evaluation completing question 2. Aim to finish evaluation and check over all work and check it’s on my blog. Mon W/B 15/04/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary) Uploaded the final edit of my music video to YouTube and collected audience feedback on Facebook by creating a group setting some questions for people to answer and then asking friends to comment on the wall of the group. Finally completed the evaluation with question 3 finished on audience feedback after filming the group concluding the findings from the Facebook
- 3. A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary group. PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK (Including Possible Contingency Plans)