ND Media Production Y1

Semester 1 2017-2018
U1: Pre-Production Techniques for the Creative Media Industries

Assignment Details Contents

Title: Pre-production Techniques for the Creative Media This is your first assignment brief
Industries for this Unit. It covers the first 2
Assessors: Faustina Starrett & Tracy Cullan Outcomes, in both of which you
School: Media, Multimedia & Performing Arts must achieve a Pass. The brief
Programme Assignment number: 1 outlines what you must do to
level: 3 achieve a Pass, Merit, or
Issue date: Interim hand-in (if applicable): Distinction. Read the Scenario and
08.09.2017 20.10.2017 Tasks and follow them closely
using the notes and guidelines
Feedback: Due: 17.01.2018 covered in class and resources
provided.
IV: IV date:08/09/2017 You may submit your Pre-production
Jim Doherty formative assessment Biographical sketch
for additional evidence of achievement of
this unit.

Please note this brief IS LINKED TO UNIT

31:Social Action & Community Media
Production & Unit 3 Research Techniques
for the Creative Media Industries and a
corresponding Brief is attached

Outcomes:
1 Understand requirements for a specific media production
2 Be able to prepare pre-production documentation for a specific media production
3 Be able to apply pre-production planning for a specific media production.
Overview

Indicative Content
1 Understand requirements for a specific media production
Type of production: e.g. film, television, video, print,
Finance: sources of finance; requirements, e.g. equipment, transport, talent, crew, materials,
clearances
Time: e.g. deadlines, availability of equipment, availability of personnel, timescales for clearances
Personnel: size of team; roles; skills and experience; resourcing; availability; costs; team CVs
Facilities: e.g. production equipment, post-production equipment, , availability; costs
Materials: type, e.g. original materials, archive and library materials, photo/sound library materials,
internet, audio, script, animatics, graphics, interviews, recorded music; sources; costs; clearances
Contributors: type, e.g. specialists, experts, talent, public; contributor biographies
Locations: identification; recces; limitations and risks, e.g. distance, access, cost, weather
Codes of practice and regulation: clearances, location permissions; legal, e.g. copyright, health and
Commission ,Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), , British Board of Film Classification (BBFC);
2 Be able to prepare pre-production documentation for a specific media production
Procedures identify personnel needed; personnel available; identify resources needed; prepare
budget; prepare schedules; identify health and safety implications;
Documentation: production documentation, e.g. scripts, storyboards, contact lists, location recces;
production schedules; budget; clearances’. location plans, studio
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plans; health and safety, risk assessments; contingency plans

3 Be able to apply pre-production planning for a specific media production
Elements of production: logistics; finance; creative processes
Project management: personnel management; resource management; time management;
monitoring, progress; risk management; crisis management; insurance
Scenario

This unit is integrated with your Unit 31 “Social Action Community Media Production’. You
must address all the related Pre-Production learning outcomes and assessment criteria.

Pre-production, which mainly involves research and planning, is a vital ingredient of any
successful media product. Successful location recording of video material depends on
crewmembers and talent being in the right place at the right time. Good pre-production is vitally
important where expenses are being incurred for people and materials and where
Budgets and deadlines are met. Producers and their teams generally undertake pre-production.
All of them have a vital part to play in the production of a media product. Their work will include
drawing up outline budgets and funding strategies, finding factual information,
Additional material and contributors, using archives, researching locations, undertaking risk
assessments, and organising and coordinating logistics.
Through following this project, brief learners will develop an awareness that any media production
operates within limitations regarding time, facilities, personnel and budget. They will learn how to
identify the requirements of a media production, and how to plan for the provision of those
requirements. They will also learn that successful pre-production involves ensuring that all the
various elements for production are in the right place at the right time.
Additionally, the unit will enable learners to conduct production risk assessments and develop an
awareness of the rights and responsibilities of producers and other media professionals.
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PART 1 –
Provide Background Report explaining the purpose To achieve each outcome a
and Impact of social action and Community media learner must demonstrate the
production. Work with reference to ability to:
Detailed illustrative examples
( PowerPoint individual casework)
Evidence is an individual report (1,000w.)

Who is It For? – Pitch

Individual or group presentations which describe the P1 outline requirements and
purpose and impact of social action and community sources of requirements for a
media Production for the Project assigned specific media production
Group Presentation(3-5mins)

PART 2 – Any Ideas?

Client Briefing
Ideas generation and research
Mind-mapping around exploration of themes,
researching issues and needs
Ethical considerations, development of final ideas into P2 generate outline preproduction
proposal & treatment documentation
Present final proposals to potential client group. for a specific media
Evidence of meeting(video/minutes/record) production with some
assistance
PART 3 – Get It Made
Learners will complete planning and pre-production
work for programme idea developed in Part 2 and
Apply pre-production techniques, considering:
Budget
P3 apply pre-production
Time
planning to a specific media
Personnel
production working with
Facilities Some assistance.
Locations
Clearances
Copyright (intellectual property)
Health and safety
Codes of practice and regulation.
Apply production techniques to create the product:
Gathering content and recording material
Editing, manipulating or arranging content
Post-production – finishing touches.
Please note your records will
Feedback: cover all Phases of Pre-
Present interim production work to client group – gain Production; Production & Post-
formative feedback Production.
Respond to feedback – make adjustments.
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Merit Criteria
Merit: - Pass criteria plus following
M1 explain in some detail
and competently present
requirements and sources of
requirements for a specific
media production
M2 generate competent,
carefully presented and
detailed pre-production
documentation for a specific
media production with only
occasional assistance
M3 apply pre-production
planning to a specific media
production competently with
Only occasional assistance.
Distinction Criteria
Distinction: - Merit criteria plus
following
D1 comprehensively explain
and present to a quality that
reflects near-professional
standards fully detailed
requirements and sources of
requirements for a specific
media production
D2 generate thorough
and comprehensively
detailed pre-production
documentation for a specific
media production, working
independently to professional
expectations
D3 apply pre-production
planning to a specific media
production to a quality that
reflects near-professional
standards, working
independently to professional
Expectations.
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Programme of suggested Segments to achieve by agreed deadlines

(Evidence Requirements for each part of the Project)

The table below shows a programme of suggested assignments that cover the pass,
merit and distinction
Criteria in the assessment and grading grid. This is for guidance only.
Criteria covered Assignment title Scenario Assessment method
P1, M1, D1 Assignment 1 –
Who is it for?
Preparatory to their own production, learners will investigate the purpose and impact of
social action and
Community media production.
P1PowerPoint slides, Speaker’s notes and handouts.
Recording of presentation.
Tutor observation notes.
M1, D1 Short Report (1,000w)
●
P2, M2, D2 Assignment 2
Any Ideas?
Learners work with a community group to produce a radio or television programme on a
community issue, or a community website. All ideas notes, sketches and drafts.
Research plan.
Research results.
Proposal. – Pitch
Tutor observation notes.
●●
P3, M3, D3 Assignment 3 –
Get It Made
As above. Project portfolio with preproduction Documentation.
Completed product.
Production log.
Tutor observation notes.
●●
P4, M4, and D4 Assignment 4 –Did It Work?
Review
As above. Learner report.
Tutor observation notes.

Final Hand-in – No extensions.

THREE PRE-PRODUCTION OPPORTUNITIES
1. Biographical SKETCH
2. FICTIONAL FILM
3. SOCIALACTION PROJECT
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Useful Sources - (General – from specification)

http://faustinastarrett.weebly.com/students.html
Www.skillset.org/careers/.
Primary Sources - (from original sources for project based work)
Emails from client; crew; contacts list; journalism mentors where relevant; telephone logs; diary
records; minutes; photo files; cutaway footage/screen grabs; scripts; production logs;
production templates; appraisal & peer review records. Source websites. Quantitative &
Qualitative Research findings where possible.
Secondary Sources
Textbooks
Baylis P, Freedman A, Procter N et al – BTEC Level 3 National Creative Media Production, Student
Book (Pearson, 2010) ISBN 978-1846906725
Baylis P, Freedman A, Procter N et al – BTEC Level 3 National Creative Media Production,
Teaching Resource Pack (Pearson, 2010) ISBN 978-1846907371
Abercrombie N, Long Hurst B – The Penguin Dictionary of Media Studies (Penguin, 2007)
ISBN 978-0141014272
Branson G, Stafford R – The Media Students Book (Rutledge, 2006), ISBN 978-0415371438
Briggs A, Cobley P – The Media: An Introduction (Longman, 2002) ISBN 978-0582423466
Clark V, Jones P, Malyszko B, Wharton D – Complete A-Z Media and Film Studies Handbook
(Hodder Arnold, 2007) ISBN 978-0340872659