AS Media Studies

Production Unit
Research and Planning
 Film Promotion - All groups
• Poster, website and/or DVD analysis
• Must be completed using audio visual
techniques
• Must use relevant terminology and engage with
Institutions, Audience, Genre and
Representations. This means that it must
examine the visual and text elements with these
Key Concepts as focus.

• Design your own poster/DVD cover/website for

your film
 Animatic – All groups
• Create an animatic using your storyboard.
• This means setting up and taking still images
from your storyboard
• Uploading them to the iMacs
• Importing them to iMovie and cutting them into a
sequence which tells the story of the movie
• Add dialogue, titles, sound, music appropriate.
• Share to YouTube and upload to blogs in your
group.
 Preliminary task
• Using the Demented Picture site as a
template create a file which shows the
thinking processes and planning required.
• You will need to have the script,
storyboard, plans.
• Create a commentary in which you explain
your understanding of the 180 degree rule,
cross-cutting and continuity editing as
evidenced by your Prelim Task
 From Script to Schedule - all
groups
• To create a film schedule for your film you must first
break the script down into a scene by scene.
• Use a cards or post-its for each scene:
• Write on them: the scene number, location, time of day,
cast, props and costumes.
• Think about how many separate shots it will take to film
the scene and how long each shot might take to do well.

• NB. Remember that you will need to set the camera and
lighting, design the set and place the props, rehearse the
actors, rehearse camera and actors together and then
shoot. A good rule of thumb is 4 shots an hour.
 Scehdule
• Once your have broken everything down into
separate scenes and shots it is time to plan
which order you will do them.
• As a general rule you want to shoot similar set
ups in the same location at the same time, even
if they are from different points in the story.
• However, for actor continuity you also want to
shoot complete scenes.
• Your planning needs to take account of
Script