Blog Checklist

Required Content for your Blog (with relevant Labels)

Every time you post an entry or item, attach it to at least one relevant label.

                 

Label 1 - Production Diary

• Carefully record all activities during the production management process. (must be reflective!)
• Job allocations – why? who? what skills do they have?
• Email correspondence; minutes of meetings, evidence of contact through email, Facebook; twitter, etc
• Problems and proposed solutions.
• Reviewing and amending work in progress.
• Meeting submission dates/deadlines.

Label 2 - Ideas and Research

• TASK 1 - Initial Research (Evidence of your understanding of Production Management and the purpose and impact of CPP or SACM)
• TASK 2 - Idea Creation (see Blackboard)
• Further Ideas Research (This can be in words, diagrams, pictures to show your ideas development/research into your 3 ideas).
• Intended audience (Who is the project aimed at?).
• Contingency plan (This is your back-up idea that you will do if the first idea doesn’t work out).
• Written proposal (see Assignment Brief).
• Your 5 minute Pitch (Script or cue cards; PowerPoint slides; etc).
• Form and Style Development (Show and discuss your practical research for your chosen idea.  Visual research into style, techniques, codes & conventions.  What existing promo videos or social action projects have you looked at that you like and will inform your work?  What new techniques/software have you learnt?).
• Content and Audience research (Primary & secondary research to show you know who your audience are and that the content will be appropriate).
• Distribution & Exhibition (How are you going to get your finished project ‘out there’?  Where will it be exhibited?).

Label 3 - Planning and Management

·       Production documents (The usual production documentation).

• ·       An outline script (TV format)
• ·       Annotated storyboards (if relevant)
• ·       Production schedule
• ·       Costume and prop lists
• ·       Location Recces
• ·       Full risk assessments for each location
• ·       Participant release forms
• ·       Call sheets for each day’s filming
• ·       Music Cue sheets
• ·       Screenshots of rushes logs
• ·       Annotated edit timelines.

• ·       Evidence of complying with Regulatory bodies (ASA; Ofcom; Privacy Law, etc. - Appropriate to your product).

Label 4 - Feedback and Evaluation

·       Evaluated feedback from the target audience of your 1st edit and the final product (This can be through questionnaires; focus groups/interviews and comments on social network sites; comments book; etc).

·       Closing Statement (Minimum 500 words. Reflect on and evaluate the impact of your project. Evaluate technical qualities, aesthetic qualities, etc. Did it achieve your aim?).