Sunday 2 September 2012

Time line plan and how to Genereate Ideas!!

We covered quite a lot yesterday.

First we talked about the thing that was going to make our blog for our A2 year.we talked about the things we need to cover in research(10 marks),planning(10 marks),construction(60 marks) and evaluation(20 marks) of our A2 media project.All of us went separately at the analysis of our inspirational blog and we made pointer,notes etc.In the end our sir made these four headings on our board and had us all write down what we had learned and analyzed.With the gist of all 10  girls analysis we now have a complete list of the things we need to focus on in our blogs like for example

Research:
genre,films,pictures and video clips,camera angles,introduction to media,project:topic, questionnaire analyses and result, possible song choice(music video), text analysis of album cover, researching the target audience, animatics, codes and conventions, title research, statistical feedback of target audience(YouTube), research on location and clothing.

Planning:
storyboard, synopsis, location picture, Mise-en-scene:props, costume, lighting and colors, casting/actors ,inspirations, technology and software required, shot division, shooting schedule, recee sheet and budget.

Construction:
 photo-shoot, rough cut, editing, final product, feedback and analysis of rough cut, script, animatic plus sound effects makes an animation, magazine review construction, film poster construction and feedback to both.

Evaluation:
 target audience,questions.


Then we talked about our timeline. We planned our timeline keeping in mind events and holidays etc.It wasn't easy but I think we got there in the end, now we just need to stay on it and complete our task on the given time period.
The decided timeline is as follows:

Research: 1st September-30th September

Planning: 1st October-30th October

Construction: (Part1)1st November-30th November

                      (Part2) 10th January-15th November
Evaluation: 16th February-27th February



Then we talked about the Media Aspects of our A2 which was short of brief but what was more important were the key concept of being a media literate and the things we needed to focus on while doing are media project.The term is MIGRAIN and each letter stands for a word,meaning:
M edia language   :the media terms
I deology               :the idea or thought that is to be presented through media
G enre                   :the theme,genre,sub-genre etc
R epresentation     :what issues,or object or subject is our media project representing(its conventions)
A udience              :who are our target audience and is our media able to relate and link to them
I nstitution             :which institutions we are using to support our media project and publisise it
N arrative              :text,written material of our media project like reviews,newspaper etc

 We talked about the things we need to focus on when we our deciding on our idea,its theme and genre.like for example

1)who would be or media audience,how will they identify with our media project,how will it be constructed keeping the target audience in mind,how will they be addressed,reached and how will the audience find it,choose it,consume it and respond to it.

2)media technologies that would be used,channels of media.

3)media agencies:the sponsors,agencies supporting you financially or location wise etc

4)media language include the narrative that comes on to film poster,reviews,newspapers,code and conventions etc

5)media categories including video,print,journalism,outdoor,radio,web,digital_basically categorization of genre
6)media representation of stereotype of events,characters,class representation,location,clothing specific idea etc. 

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