1. Year 1 Creative Media Production
Pre-Production
Year 1 Creative Media Production

2. Documentation Planning: Potential ideas (mindmap/moodboard)
Initial brief (idea or objective)
Secondary research (study of genre/influences/response to existing products)
Primary research (focus group/questionnaire/survey/interviews/online communication)
Research results (a summary of what your research shows)
Preparation
Final treatment (synopsis/target audience/content)
Script
Shot list
Storyboard
Photographic storyboard (with light tests)
Location recce
Floor plan (with lighting)
Budget, equipment and resources list (including lights)
Production schedule
Staff roles
Risk assessment

3. Documentation Planning: Potential ideas (mindmap/moodboard)
Initial brief (idea or objective)
Secondary research (study of genre/influences/response to existing products)
Primary research (focus group/questionnaire/survey/interviews/online communication)
Research results (a summary of what your research shows)
Preparation
Final treatment (synopsis/target audience/content)
Script
Shot list
Storyboard
Photographic storyboard (with light tests)
Location recce
Floor plan (with lighting)
Budget, equipment and resources list (including lights)
Production schedule
Staff roles
Risk assessment

4. Research Identify a range of research methods
Define Primary, Secondary , Qualitative and Quantitative
Conduct a focus group
Discuss principles of extracting information from written texts

5. Qualitative Quantitative
Research Methods
Qualitative Quantitative
Primary Secondary

6. Focus Group
Your group are developing a new food product for a teenage market (crisps/chocolate/biscuit)
Conduct a focus group to collect the tastes and opinions of your target audience.
What do they think of the:
Packaging
Texture
Taste
Smell?
Describe your findings and explain how they have influenced your new product

7. Focus Group Be presentable Manage the event appropriately
Control disruption
Manage questions
Collect data appropriately
Collect information that is relevant

8. Extracting information from written sources
Written Assignments
Extracting information from written sources

9. Punctuation
“ ? ! . , ”

10. Semi Colon Used to link two main sentence clauses.;
Semi Colon Used to link two main sentence clauses.
Some people believe that it is vital to attend university; others feel that work experience is a more valuable route.
Most media students want to appear in front of the camera; I however, want to be working behind the scenes.

11. Comma Vs Semi Colon
A Semi Colon is more pronounced I am not happy today, as it is cold. I am not happy today; I hate the cold!

12. Spelling There Their They’re Program Programme A lot Alot Allot
Its It’s
Your You’re
Affect Effect
When you're talking about the change itself (the noun) you use "effect." For example: The photography student used a coloured lighting effect.
When you're talking about the act of changing (the verb) you use "affect." For example: That movie affected me greatly.

13. Structure
In this essay I will talk about animation and my experience at university. I attended the University of South Wales in I enrolled onto their animation course and completed the three year program, which developed my skills as an artist and a creative writer. I would strongly recommend this University to any young student looking to pursue a career in animation. I have enjoyed a happy and success career since graduating.

14. Use a Thesaurus
Shift F7

15. ‘ Vs “
'Eight million' hit by Nepal quake Eight million people were affected by the Nepal earthquake and 1.4m are in need of food aid, the UN says, as the death toll tops Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has warned the toll could reach , telling Reuters news agency the government was on a "war footing".

18. Many animators feel that the process of animation is ‘hard work’
Many animators feel that the process of animation is ‘hard work’. Tim Burton, the famous Director, has described the process of animation as being “hard work”. Many animators feel that the process is lengthy and difficult. I have often found animation to be hard work (Burton, 2001)

19. Quoting
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Mr Skinner (2014)

20. Tim Burton An example of a developer who creates animations which produce an abstract visual is Tim Burton. As not only one of the most famous film directors in the film industry, but also one of the best animation producers in the world, Burton created his first big animation when he was 24 years old entitled ‘Vincent’. Despite only being 6 minutes long and never being released in cinemas, this film would be something which would inspire all of Burton’s future projects. Vincent, whose aspiration it was to become Vincent Price, showed abstract characteristics and features such as his exaggerated pointy chin which connotes his evil personality. These exaggerations were later portrayed throughout his more famous creations such as ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ and ‘Corpse Bride’ such as making Sally’s eyes bigger and Jack really tall and skinny. Burton’s gothic and dark style is also one which is shown throughout both his animations and live action films. Since producing ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’, these visual appearances given to his characters has become his signature style and one which is recognisable throughout his creations. “Burton delights in the exaggerated manipulation of the body.” Ronald S. Magliozzi, Jenny He (2009 )
Support your written work with researched quotes, rather than copying into the text. This helps to avoid plagiarism. Quotes help assessors to distinguish between your own original work and the supportive research.

21. Referencing Author’s surname and initial Year published (in brackets)
Book title (underlined)
Where published
Publisher
Skinner.L (2014) How to Teach Stop-Motion Animation, Birmingham, Skin Book Ltd
Referencing confirms that your work is based on researched sources.
Assessors can study and check your research sources.
Assessors can check that your content is accurate.
Assessors can check whether you have used sources to support your own, original written work, or simply copy and pasted the text. Or copied, pasted and reworded, which is plagiarism.

22. Website Referencing Author’s surname and initial
Year published (in brackets)
Article title (underlined)
Magazine or website title (Italics)
URL
Date accessed (in brackets)
Skinner.L (2014) How to Teach Stop-Motion Animation, Lee’s Blog, Available at: (Accessed 16th October 2014)

23. Plagiarism Do not copy and paste text into your assignment
Do not copy, paste and reword text
Do not copy from other student’s blogs

24. Essay Structure Contents Introduction Titles, subtitles and paragraphs
Conclusion
Headers
Page numbers
Quotes and referencing
Font
Images
Review and proof read
Good use of terminology