Research and Planning

OK, now your preliminary task is completed, you need to turn your attention to your actual coursework task.

Before you start filming, you need to research your film genre and target audience, then plan your shoot. Remember, according the the mark scheme, excellent research and planning involves:

• Excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience
• Excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props
• Excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding
• Excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning
• Excellent time management

To achieve this...

AS A GROUP:

• decide what genre of film you are going to make
• define your target audience using appropriate media theory and terminology

INDIVIDUALLY:

• watch the opening of a film in this genre and make detailed notes on the genre conventions contained within it (ie, use of camera angles, diegetic and non-diegetic sound, lighting, camera cuts/transitions)
• come up with an idea for a film within your chosen genre and storyboard the opening credits and opening scene of that film. THIS IS TO LAST NO MORE THAN TWO MINUTES

AS A GROUP:

• select which storyboard idea you are going to turn into your production piece