Research and Planning- marking

Level 3 12–15 marks
• Planning and research evidence will be complete.
• There is proficient research into similar products and a potential target audience.
• There is proficient work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.
• There is proficient organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.
• Time management is good.
• There is proficient skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation.
• There are proficient communication skills.
• There is a good level of care in the presentation of the research and planning.


***Nathan I can't see some of your posts (risk assessment for example) because they are on Google drive. I'm sure you can show me but we need to make the examiner's life easy!***

Love the intro with the video at the festival! Honest and through SWOT. In your codes and conventions blog you say that the genre etc will depend on the edits you use. Shouldn't that be the other way round? I'm being pedantic- your early posts are well written and insightful. I think your history post is great but you could have explained the impact of social media on MTV. Nice Prezi on Goodwin but I hope you are going to apply those ideas during your analysis. Really great analysis of Toxic! I can't see the pictures in your history of the song mood board but I get the idea from your explanation. Is Paint it Black slower than their others? Good post on Institutions. Did you actually explain viral advertising? I like the Inspiration posts but we seem to be moving away from media studies in to Nathan Blows and music! I like the way you've documented the process and I like the posts on the band, merch etc but again we are moving away from the more theoretical media studies concepts- audience for example- in fact in your Survey Monkey post you don't really explain the results in any great depth. Your Purpose of a music video post also lacks depth. Good digipak analysis and codes posts. I would have been good to have seen some website analysis.

There are some very good posts in this research and planning but, as I stated above, after a good start you seemed to drift more towards music and the band rather than producing convincing media research! There was enough good stuff though!

Nathan 13/20