13E: Linked production research and planning

With your Critical Investigations ongoing, we now need to turn our attention back to the Linked Production. Your job over half-term is to complete the research and planning for your production. This includes the following:

1) Research: notes on at least THREE similar texts to the one you are creating. What are the key conventions? What can you learn/borrow from the examples you have looked at?

2) Project schedule: when will you film and edit this production?

3) Script - see the BBC Writers' Room for advice/script formatting. If you're making a music video, you'll want to write a treatment instead. This is an example treatment that I provided for GCSE Media students studying this topic.

4) Storyboard - sheets available in Media or you can use this AQA storyboard sheet.

5) Shot list - use Microsoft Word or a template like this to help you.

6) Mise-en-scene: casting details, location scouting with photographs, props, costume and make-up, lighting.

Note: for print productions, you will need to write all text required in Microsoft Word, plan mise-en-scene for all photoshoots and produce detailed sketches of all the pages you plan to produce.

All of the above needs to be posted to your MEST4 coursework blog.

Deadline: Friday 27 February