Getting Started

Your individual blog should be a comprehensive and creative demonstration of your research and planning skills. You can separate this in different blog posts in any way you choose, however I would make sure I have included all the posts in the checklist at the back of your book and on the blog .

For each post I would make sure to add  multimedia technologies (eg embedded clips, pictures, links, Prezzi, Scribd, Wordle etc)

I would also make sure I used Social Media e.g Facebook, Instagram, Vine. Like all social media sites, the more active you are the better – subscribe to other people’s channels, add friends and comment on other videos. RECORD ALL FEEDBACK ON YOUR BLOG.

You will be marked on:

·         Your research into videos

·         Your organisational skills (locations, actors, costumes etc)

·         Your shot lists, scripts and storyboards

      Your communication skills

Your blog posts should discuss some of the following in every post!

·         Genre,

·         Narrative

·         Representation

·         Audience

·         Mise en scene

Remember you are looking to evidence your understanding of the codes and conventions of the production you have chosen.

Your first post should be an introduction, stating who you are and why you have set up the blog.

For your second post explain what brief you have chosen

Then move onto the intro to research and planning for the brief you have chosen – Most of the audience research, planning, production and evaluations are the same for both topics!