research and planning section 1a

Describe how you developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making.

-       Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.

Paragraph 1: Should be an introduction which explains which projects you did. It can be quite short.
Paragraph 2: Should pick up the skill area and perhaps suggest something about your starting point with it- what skills did you have already and how were these illustrated. Use a detailed example.
Paragraph 3: Should talk through your use of that skill in early projects and what you learned and developed through these. Again there should be detailed examples to support all that you say.
Paragraph 4: Should go on to demonstrate how the skill developed in later projects, again backed by detailed examples, and reflecting back on how this represents a move forward for you from your earlier position.
Paragraph 5: Short conclusion

Over the two year media course we had to produce both a foundation portfolio of a school magazine and music magazine as well as an advance portfolio of a horror teaser trailer, film magazine – developing foundation skills further and a poster to advertise our trailer.

In the first year of AS coursework we researched existing music magazines and analysed each cover so that we could gain knowledge of particular layouts, fonts and key elements. We also compared each one to see which ones worked well and which ones didn’t. We noticed the ‘Mastheads’ and Photography first. We learnt that these were the most important and kept note of this for our own coursework. After analysing the covers of real media texts we then did the same for the contents page and double page spread. I analysed mostly mainstream mass magazines. For example, NME, Q, (more that I will find out)