A2 pre production tasks feedback

A2 pre production tasks feedback

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  A2 Pre-production TasksFeedback Student Name: Charlotte Heaps Task 1 – Pre-production: Research & Planning Evidence on blog 1. Similar Products – music video analysis Taylor Swift ‘You Belong With Me’ Needs more examples using Goodwin 2. Genre Analysis (inc. genre & digipak research) Genre – Drum n Bass – needs detail Digipak - Blog Advert – Practise – Digipak - Blog Practise - Video - Blog Practise – Advert – Blog 3. Target Audience Blog – needs detail 4. Annotated lyrics Blog – which song? 5. Drafts/Ideas/Permission Blog 6. Storyboards Blog 7. Shotlist Blog - redraft 8. Layouts – floor plan Blog – needs detail 9. Locations Blog 10. Costumes Blog 11. Props Blog 12. Actors Blog – needs detail and images- Added 13. Equipment Blog – needs detail- Added 14. Production schedule Blog – needs detail - Added Teachers comments 1. Swift – some analysis using narrative theorists – Brannigan, Barthes, Propp, Todorov – with links to how narrative is used in video. No new analysis 2. Some very good detail on early influences and key artists working today. Good info on audience and clothes. Could have had more detail on early pioneers of the genre – Goldie, LTJ Bukem Grooverider…. Digipak – Some analysis with some attempt to establish how genre and audience are identified using images and font. Some detail on how image is linked to album title. Advert - Missing Practise Digipak – Good work with clear links to genre. Practise Video – Pop – some attempt to use conventions for pop – lip synch. Could have used more conventions – dance routine, costume change Practise Advert – good design with use of conventions found in genre. Good links to social media. Addition of light is confusing. 3. Good use of avatars to show TA, with some good detail. Good detail on how clothes are part of this genre. Could have used examples of other interests they may have – TV, cinema, games, and literature. 4. Initial ideas taken from lyrics plus lyrics annotated. Is this for the old song? 5. Initial ideas and song choices discussed. Permission requested using Twitter and permission given. Good breakdown of what happens in each part of song with timings included. Images in Location show some practise shots from video. 6. Good detail with key technical info included. 7. Lots of great detail on camera shot and movement plus location and action. But it is difficult to decipher – redraft. Not done. 8. Plan included but could have used a key so we know what is camera and what the surrounding area is. Plus some indication of where we are would be good. More detail still needed. 9. Good detail on where, how and why you have chosen specific locations. 10. Detail added with links to genre and narrative. Could have better info – what brands? How do they link to genre? 11. Some detail added on props – good info on importance of time and how clocks are to be used. 12. Some detail on chosen actors (not characters), and why they would be appropriate. Needs more info other than we are friends and it’s easier to communicate. Images needed. Added. 13. Equipment needed included but could have more detail. Why use a steadycam and not just handheld? What good qualities have the camera? Better detail now added.
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  14. Good detailon shooting schedule but not the whole production. Please add all aspects of production. Post-Prod and re-shoot detail added. Artists and song titles need capital letters! Check your spelling before you upload. Read your work so it makes sense. Mark out of 20: 13 Teacher name: MDR Date: Dec 2014 Student action plan for improvement Final mark out of 20: 15 Date: Mar 2015