Organisation of Planning Materials

Organisation of Planning Materials

My planning materials mainly consisted of our storyboard, which had been constructed to allow us to be aware of what shots needed doing, when and how to manage our time effectively. I could use the storyboard to number the shots so I could see every shot I had to complete in a certain location ensuring that I used time efficiently. My organisation however, went further than just the practical side of the coursework. I also developed a to do list for the work that had to be completed on the blog, to ensure that I did not miss vital pieces of work.

At AS level I hadn’t used Blogger before and therefore it was a new feature which I did not utilise to the full. For example at AS I wasn’t fully aware of how to add extras alongside the Blog to provide further information about what genre of music I was doing etc. At A2 however, I provided a poll to give a popular vote on which song should be used for the music videos and I feel that I used labels more efficiently and constructively. 

Throughout the construction of my AS coursework I followed my plans loosely in that I used them more as a guideline. Instead I used real features I had researched from real music magazines to add features to my own work. I did this because my mock designs were my original ideas but at the time of their construction my research might have not been in depth enough to ensure I knew what features I should place on it. At A2, our plans on the storyboard were followed far more closely as they had been constructed far more carefully. We followed them closely as they made production far easier than if we had started filming without a true idea of what to do. if changes had to be made they were placed alongside that area of the storyboard so that when we came to it in the shot list, we knew what changes had to be made and how we should do it.

At A2 both me and my partner had a copy of the storyboard. This allowed us to prepare separately for whatever filming we had scheduled but also it meant that we always had a spare copy in case one of us misplaced our work.

At A2 I posted about how progress was going on filming. This was useful when we came to film our second draft as it allowed us to see what shots had caused us particular difficulty. We also blogged about what the weather had been on certain shots and therefore when we came to filming the second draft we could see which ones we might have struggled with weather wise and thus could take the time to film these again.

My research and planning skills were again used in the production of my magazine advert and digipak. I could refer back to the blog and my posts on mise en scene to ensure that I had all the elements correct before taking the photographs which would be used on the designs.