MEST4 Linked production: Research and planning

With your preliminary exercise completed, we now need to turn our attention to the actual Linked Production. Your initial task is to complete the research and planning for your production. Work through the following:

1) Confirm your production brief. You write this yourself but it's absolutely crucial this is clear, appropriate and achievable. You should have done this already - the original blogpost was here - but it may have changed as a result of your preliminary exercise.

2) 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?

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

4) 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.

5) Storyboard - sheets available in DF07 or you can use this AQA storyboard sheet.

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

7) 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 5 February