ND Media Production Y1

Semester 1 2016-2017
U1: Pre-Production Techniques for the Creative Media Industries

Assignment Details

Contents

Title: Pre-production Techniques for the Creative Media

Industries
Assessors: Faustina Starrett & Tracy Cullan
School: Media, Multimedia & Performing Arts
Programme
Assignment number: 1
level: 3
Issue date:
Interim hand-in (if applicable):
16.09.2016
21.10.2016

This is your first assignment brief

for this Unit. It covers the first 2
Outcomes, in both of which you
must achieve a Pass. The brief
outlines what you must do to
achieve a Pass, Merit, or
Distinction. Read the Scenario and
Tasks and follow them closely
using the notes and guidelines
covered in class and resources
provided.
You may submit your Pre-production
formative assessment Biographical
sketch for additional evidence of
achievement of this unit.

Feedback:

Due: 16.12.2016

IV:
Jim Doherty

IV date:
Inter-Semester Week 27.01.2017

Please note this brief IS LINKED TO

UNIT 31:Social Action & Community
Media Production & Unit 3 Research
Techniques for the Creative Media
Industries and a corresponding Brief is
attached
Outcomes:
1 Understand requirements for a specific media production
2 Be able to prepare pre-production documentation for a specific media production
3 Be able to apply pre-production planning for a specific media production.
Overview
Indicative Content

1 Understand requirements for a specific media production

Type of production: e.g. film, television, video, print,
Finance: sources of finance; requirements, e.g. equipment, transport, talent, crew,
materials, clearances
Time: e.g. deadlines, availability of equipment, availability of personnel, timescales for
clearances
Personnel: size of team; roles; skills and experience; resourcing; availability; costs;
team or crew CVs
Facilities: e.g. production equipment, post-production equipment, , availability;costs
Materials: type, e.g. original materials, archive and library materials, photo-library
materials, sound library
materials, internet, audio, script, animatics, graphics, interviews, recorded music;
sources; costs; clearances
Contributors: type, e.g. specialists, experts, talent, public; contributor biographies
Locations: identification; recces; limitations and risks, e.g. distance, access, cost,
weather

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Codes of practice and regulation: clearances, e.g. Mechanical Copyright Protection
Society-Performing
Rights Society Alliance (MCPS-PRS), model releases, location permissions; legal, e.g.
copyright, health and Commission ,Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), , British Board
of Film Classification (BBFC);
2 Be able to prepare pre-production documentation for a specific media
production
Procedures identify personnel needed; personnel available; identify
resources needed; resources available; prepare budget; contract personnel; book
resources;
prepare schedules; identify health and safety implications; identify legal implications;
identify risks to project
Documentation: production documentation, e.g. scripts, storyboards,
contact lists, location recces; production schedules; budget; clearances. location plans,
studio
plans; health and safety assessments; risk assessments; contingency plans
3 Be able to apply pre-production planning for a specific media production
Elements of production: logistics; finance; creative processes
Project management: personnel management; resource management; time
management; monitoring
progress; risk management; crisis management; maintaining documentation
safety,. public liability, insurance
Scenario

This unit is integrated with your Unit 31 Social Action Community Media Production. You
must address all the related Pre-Production learning outcomes and assessment criteria.
Pre-production, which mainly involves research and planning, is a vital ingredient of any
successful media product. Successful location recording of video material depends on crew
members and talent being in the right place at the right time. Good pre-production is vitally
important where expenses are being incurred for people and materials and where
Budgets and deadlines are to be met. Pre-production is generally undertaken by producers and
their teams. All of them have a vital part to play in the production of a media product. Their work
will include drawing up outline budgets and funding strategies, finding factual information,
Additional material and contributors, using archives, researching locations, undertaking risk
assessments, and organising and coordinating logistics.
Through following this project brief learners will develop an awareness that any media production
operates within limitations regarding time, facilities, personnel and budget. They will learn how to
identify the requirements of a media production, and how to plan for the provision of those
requirements. They will also learn that successful pre-production involves ensuring that all the
various elements for production are in the right place at the right time.
Additionally, the unit will enable learners to conduct production risk assessments and develop an

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awareness of the rights and responsibilities of producers and other media professionals.

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U1: Pre-Production Techniques for the Creative Media Industries
PART 1
Provide Background Report explaining the purpose
and Impact of social action and Community media
production. Work with reference to
Detailed illustrative examples
( PowerPoint individual casework)
Evidence is an individual report (1,000w.)
Whos It For? Pitch
Individual or group presentations which describe the
purpose and impact of social action and community
media Production for the Project assigned
Group Presentation(3-5mins)
PART 2 Any Ideas?
Client Briefing
Ideas generation and research
Mind-mapping around exploration of themes,
researching issues and needs
Ethical considerations, development of final ideas into
proposal & treatment
Present final proposals to potential client group.
Evidence of meeting(video/minutes/record)
PART 3 Get It Made
Learners will complete planning and pre-production
work for programme idea developed in Part 2 and
Apply pre-production techniques, considering:
Budget
Time
Personnel
Facilities
Locations
Clearances
Copyright (intellectual property)
Health and safety
Codes of practice and regulation.
Apply production techniques to create the product:
Gathering content and recording material
Editing, manipulating or arranging content
Post-production finishing touches.
Feedback:
Present interim production work to client group gain
formative feedback
Respond to feedback make adjustments.

To achieve each outcome a

learner must demonstrate the
ability to:

P1 outline requirements and

sources of requirements for a
specific media production

P2 generate outline preproduction

documentation
for a specific media
production with some
assistance

P3 apply pre-production
planning to a specific media
production working with
Some assistance.

Please note your records will

cover all Phases of PreProduction; Production & PostProduction.

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Merit Criteria

Distinction Criteria

Merit: - Pass criteria plus following

Distinction: - Merit criteria plus following

M1 explain in some detail

and competently present
requirements and sources of
requirements for a specific
media production
M2 generate competent,
carefully presented and
detailed pre-production
documentation for a specific
media production with only
occasional assistance
M3 apply pre-production
planning to a specific media
production competently with
Only occasional assistance.

D1 comprehensively explain
and present to a quality that
reflects near-professional
standards fully detailed
requirements and sources of
requirements for a specific
media production
D2 generate thorough
and comprehensively
detailed pre-production
documentation for a specific
media production, working
independently to professional
expectations
D3 apply pre-production
planning to a specific media
production to a quality that
reflects near-professional
standards, working
independently to professional
Expectations.

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Programme of suggested Segments to achieve by agreed deadlines

(Evidence Requirements for each part of the Project)
The table below shows a programme of suggested assignments that cover the pass,
merit and distinction
Criteria in the assessment and grading grid. This is for guidance only.
Criteria covered Assignment title Scenario Assessment method
P1, M1, D1 Assignment 1
Whos It For?
Preparatory to their own production, learners will investigate the purpose and impact of
social action and
Community media production.
P1PowerPoint slides, Speakers notes and handouts.
Recording of presentation.
Tutor observation notes.
M1,D1 Short Report (1,000w)

P2, M2, D2 Assignment 2

Any Ideas?
Learners work with a community group to produce a radio or television programme on a
community issue, or a community website. All ideas notes, sketches and drafts.
Research plan.
Research results.
Proposal. Pitch
Tutor observation notes.

P3, M3, D3 Assignment 3

Get It Made
As above. Project portfolio with preproduction Documentation.
Completed product.
Production log.
Tutor observation notes.

P4, M4, D4 Assignment 4 Did It Work?

Review
As above. Learner report.
Tutor observation notes.

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Final Hand-in No extensions.
THREE PRE-PRODUCTION OPPORTUNITIES
1. Biographical SKETCH
2. FICTIONAL FILM
3. SOCIALACTION PROJECT

Useful Sources - (General from specification)

Www.skillset.org/careers/.
Further general information on work-related learning can be found at the following websites:
Www.aimhighersw.ac.uk/wbl.htm work-based learning guidance
Www.businesslink.gov.uk local, regional business links
Www.nebpn.org National Education and Business Partnership Network
Www.vocationallearning.org.uk Learning and Skills Network
Www.warwick.ac.uk/wie/cei Centre for Education and Industry, University of Warwick work
Experience and workplace learning frameworks.

Primary Sources - (from original sources for project based work)

Emails from client; crew; contacts list; journalism mentors where relevant; telephone logs; diary
records; minutes; photo files; cutaway footage/screen grabs; scripts; production logs; production
templates; appraisal & peer review records. Source websites. Quantitative & Qualitative Research
findings where possible.

Secondary Sources
Textbooks
Baylis P, Freedman A, Procter N et al BTEC Level 3 National Creative Media Production, Student
Book
(Pearson, 2010) ISBN 978-1846906725
Baylis P, Freedman A, Procter N et al BTEC Level 3 National Creative Media Production,
Teaching Resource
Pack (Pearson, 2010) ISBN 978-1846907371
Baylis P, Holmes P, Starkey G BTEC National in Media Production (Heinemann Educational,
2007)
ISBN 978-0435499198
Abercrombie N, Long Hurst B The Penguin Dictionary of Media Studies (Penguin, 2007)
ISBN 978-0141014272
Branson G, Stafford R The Media Students Book (Rutledge, 2006), ISBN 978-0415371438
Briggs A, Cobley P The Media: An Introduction (Longman, 2002) ISBN 978-0582423466
Clark V, Jones P, Malyszko B, Wharton D Complete A-Z Media and Film Studies Handbook
(Hodder Arnold,
2007) ISBN 978-0340872659

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Gillespie M, Toynbee J Analyzing Media Texts Issues in Cultural/Media Studies (Open University
Press, 2006)
ISBN 978-0335218868
McDonald K Film and Television Textual Analysis (Auteur, 2005) ISBN 978-1903663547
OSullivan T Dutton B, Rayner P Studying the Media: An Introduction (Hodder Arnold, 2003)