Continuation of Pre-Production. Research.

You will carry out tasks based around correct formatting of storyboards and planning

Key Terms: Target Audience. Design. Storyboard. Annotation.




You are now in a position to return to production.

(b) Production 
Candidates must complete the production under informal supervision. Teachers may provide support for research, planning and evaluation through group and class approaches. Both candidates and teachers must authenticate work on the appropriate form to accompany controlled assessment. 

For research, individual candidates must provide at least two and no more than four types of evidence of appropriate research. This may take the form of the exploration of comparable examples but may also include some survey work into audiences/users if wished. The evidence may be presented as annotated comparable products, tables, charts and/or digital presentations. 

Examples include:
Annotated texts
Surveys / Questionnaires presented as a bar chart or pie chart
Focus groups
Industry research


For planning, candidates must show evidence of at least two and no more than four planning stages. 

Examples include:
Scripts
Storyboards
Characters profiles for your own production
Mood boards
Designs for sets / costumes
Storyboards

For evaluation, candidates must produce their own evaluation of 300-500 words or equivalent, depending on the presentational form selected, which explains how their production: 

• met its aims and purpose 
• used appropriate generic conventions 
• used representations 
• used narrative (where appropriate) 
• addressed the chosen or preferred audience(s) and/or user(s) 
• revealed media organisational issues. 

Task 1: Look through the research and planning that you have already undertaken and complete the handout which is shown below.

Storyboards

Boards for animation or films need to be done on the sheets provided like the one below.

These can not be started until your script is complete and signed off.

The following information needs to be evident:

Visuals: a rough drawing of what the shot will look like. Indicate where applicable: Characters eyelines, facial expression, poses (body language), horizon lines of background.

Camera instructions: Shots, angles, movement (zoom in, track out, pan, tilt), transitions.

Audio: Dialogue, sound effects, music.

Comments: Any additional notes for the production.

Task 2: If your script is complete then you should begin to storyboard your production. 
Otherwise continue to work quickly and quietly on your scripts and character design.