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Assignment 3: 3MW
BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) Production)

Know> Comprehend> Apply> Analyse>

Synthesise> Evaluate

Learning outcomes

Unit 3: Research Techniques for the Creative

Media Industries
On completion of this unit a learner should:
1. Understand the nature and purposes of research in
the creative media industries
2. Be able to apply a range of research methods and
techniques
3. Be able to present results of research.

Unit 24: Factual Programme Production

Techniques for
Television
On completion of this unit a learner should:
1. Understand issues relating to factual programming
for television
2. Understand codes and conventions of factual
programming for television
3. Be able to plan and research a factual programme
for television
4. Be able to produce a factual programme for
television
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Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
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Assignment 3: 3MW
BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) Production)

Please note all resources, except those where copyright law would restrict publication in the public
domain, are available on
the teaching blog: btecmediaen1.blogspot.co.uk or in the shared folder in Staff Shared (S: drive).

Learning outcomes, grading How learning will

Week Activities & Resources Homework
criteria and lesson content be assessed
Launch 3MW assignment (U3 & Assignment 3 assignment brief >Learner to Reading:
U27) raise any The Non-
Go through assignment sheet Documentaries handbook concerns fiction Film:
What is a documentary over structure or 05 Types of
>The Non-fiction Film: 05 Types of
What successes and pitfalls content
Documentary reading pack
have been experienced in
previous units Documentary
1 U 27 LO1 & LO2: Introduction to
Feb factual programmes (emergence
20 and history)
LO2: Documentary formats If classes are
Documentaries handbook
according to Bill Nicolls & missed,
watching exemplar The Non-fiction Film: 05 Types of Documentary students to
documentaries reading pack hire texts
from AV
U27 LO2: Watching exemplar DVDs / documentary texts
library
documentaries
(arrange for
>Texts involve a number of
transfer to
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Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
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BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in Assignment 3: 3MW
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Production)

culturally diverse topics, inc. gun Clickview)

control, the holocaust, neo-Nazism
and cultural ideology, paedophilia,
corruption in law enforcement,
class system and social status,
attitudes to gender, globalisation
Louis and the Nazis
Powaqqaatsi
High School
We are the Lambeth Boys
The Thin Blue Line
2 U27 LO2: Documentary mini-task Documentaries handbook >U27 LO2
Feb check understanding of PART 1
27 academic reading Peer and self-assessment sheet
documentary mini-
go through report structure
>The Non-fiction Film: 05 Types of task illustrated
and clarify areas of confusion /
Documentary reading pack report on blog
uncertainty, if necessary
entitled FACTUAL
students to assess peers work
PROGRMAMMING
after several lessons to provide
FORMS AND
feedback and experience
CONVENTIONS.
marking
PART 1:
students to watch existing 3MW
DOCUMENTARY
submissions and assess according
(first part of U27
to grading criteria
GC2 second part
is forms and
conventions of TV
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Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
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Assignment 3: 3MW
BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) Production)

news, which will be

added to blog post
later)

2 U27 LO1: Realism and Reality Lecture notes on realism as a mode of COMPLETE DOC
Feb distinctions between factual and representation which suppresses its own MINI TASK AS
27 fictional programming construction ABOVE
Secon Pierre Chowles news story - narrativisation
d
teach
er
U3 LO1: Research Techniques Notes from blog primary, secondary, U3 LO1 Nature and Conceptualise
3 qualitative, quantitative etc purposes of an idea for a
Mar 6 Internet examples of agencies and practices research blog post 3MW
individual research of examples documentary

U27 LO3 and U3 LO2: >Screen and discuss previous 3MW to become U3 LO2 AND U27
Exploring 3MWs class familiar with GC LO3 Research
screenings Research Dossier guidance on blog Dossier to be
Deciding on ideas for own presented on blog
docs
Research dossier for own
docs (individual or paired
groups self selected)

4 Mar U27 LO3 Pre production planning Pre Production Paperwork (copies on blog and in
13 for own documentary folder on Student Shared)
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Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
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Assignment 3: 3MW
BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) Production)

As above ensure all pre-

5
production work is complete by
Mar Cameras etc
end of week
20
Begin shooting as soon as ready
5 U27 LO4 Shooting docs Cameras etc
Mar
20
6 U27 LO4 Editing Docs Macs, Adobe Premiere Pro
Mar
27
Teach
er 1
6 U27 LO1 and U27 LO2 second Window on the World guidance on blog >LO2 is the Report to be
Mar part: Is the news a window on the news a completed
27 world? http://mediaknowall.com/gcse/news/ window on over the
Teach What makes the news? Watch news.php?pageID=values the world? Easter break
er 2 Anglia Tonights Making the Exploration of news
http://faculty.washington.edu/jalbano/
News text conventions to form
bias.html
Charlie Brookers Newswipe part 2 of earlier
clip blog post: FACTUAL
discuss Galtung and Ruges PROGRMAMMING
News Values FORMS AND
discuss impartiality and bias in CONVENTIONS.
the news PART 2: NEWS
Analyse a news story as a class Then PART 3
for the above ISSUES discussion
around news
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Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
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Assignment 3: 3MW
BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) Production)

(accuracy; balance;
impartiality; objectivity;
subjectivity; opinion;
bias; representation;
access; privacy; contract
with viewer) for U27
LO1
EASTER HOLIDAY
MEDIA INDUSTRY UNIT
DELIVERED AFTER EASTER HOLIDAY
U8 LO1: Ownership and Funding Blog post on the assignment GC1 a report on
1 http://btecmediaen1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/owne
post ownership and
Apr
Introduction to new unit plus rship-and-funding-blog-post.html funding in film
18
ownership and funding task
U8 LO4: Technology prezi Understanding technologies in film resource on GC4 a video or Career
blog. prezi
Guide students to blog post detailing the
Job role booklet (print and digital versions) handbook
listing technologies technoloies
Talk through technologies that over half
2 in film
relate to student experience InDesign Tutorial term and
Apr (all on blog) study leave
U8 LO2: Job role brochure / GC5 a hard copy
24
booklet cv with acompying
Introduce InDesign booklet
Go through creative, technical and
managerial job roles
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Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
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Assignment 3: 3MW
BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) Production)

3
May 2
4
May 8
5
May
15
6
May
22
HALF TERM
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Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
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BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in Year 1 Assignment 3: 3MW
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
SO & JTr A&B
Production)

Know> Comprehend> Apply> Analyse> Synthesise>

Evaluate

Unit 8: Understanding the Television and Film Industries

Learning outcomes

On completion of this unit a learner should:

1. Know about ownership and funding in the television and
film industries
2. Know about job roles in the television and film industries
3. Understand contractual, legal and ethical obligations in
the television and film industries
4. Understand developing technologies in the television
and film industries
5. Be able to prepare personal career development
material.

Wee Learning outcomes, grading criteria and How learning will be

Activities & Resources Homework
k lesson content assessed
 Timetable
Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
blocks
Assignment 3: 3MW
BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) Production)

1 STUDY LEAVE
W/C (No formal teaching this week. Teachers available for additional support)
6.06.1
6
2 Delivery of content for contractual, legal and
W/C
ethical task
13.06.
16
U8 LO: contractual letter Blog with assignment sheet GC3 a response to the
3 Complete letter reponse job adver you
W/C Completing all industry tasks Legal and Ethical Powerpoint have been
20.06.
Making changes to documentary unit presented
16 Teacher feedback
and TV advert unit
(email/markbook)
Completing changes to documentary unit and Blog with assignment sheet Deadline for
4
W/C TV advert unit industry unit is
27.06. Teacher feedback Friday (24th) @
16 (email/markbook) midnight
Preparation for Corporate video unit (start in Prepare a pitch
September) for a video you
5
W/C would like to
4.07.1 work on
6

6 LAST DAY OF TERM TUESDAY 12TH JULY

W/C (Lessons for this subject end on Monday which will be a screening of all the years work)
11.07.
16
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Course Year Module or Unit Teachers
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Assignment 3: 3MW
BTEC National Subsidiary Diploma in (U3: Research Techniques & U27: Factual Programme
Year 1 SO & JTr A&B
Creative Media Production (Film & TV) Production)

Key

Assessment
Differentiation E&D
Self
Stretch and
Literacy and Peer
challenge
numeracy
Teacher
Independent / flipped Use of Learning
learning Support Assistants