1. Project Brief
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The FMP is the culmination of your course and demonstrates all of the creativity, skill, concept and understanding you have gained over the past year. You are expected to produce a body of coherent, sophisticated research that culminates in ideally a media product or a collection of work that shows off your technical ability, talent, vision and knowledge. You will need to evidence the development of your work by including relevant research & reflective diary, a development of ideas, and a selection of sophisticated outcomes.
These should be accompanied by thorough and on-going critical and contextual reviews and evaluation. You need to pick an area of media for your project. Areas would include Film & TV, Audio, Video games and more. It might be useful to consider theme, eg memory or health.
Suggested themes could come from the following areas: advertising, culture, messages, music, sports, games, politics, lifestyle, etc
Make sure you are working in a media area you enjoy, have been good at and one that will help you achieve your goals for the future.
You must achieve a balance of your ambition, time constraints and resources to make sure you can achieve your project. Do not make it too big OR too small!
Your submission must include evidence of the below, under these Wix/blog headings:
Proposal
Research
Production
Problem Solving & Reflection
Presentation
Evaluation
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The Authentication document needs to be done before you embark on any work and placed on your FMP homepage. It is you declaring that all the work is your own. If you take any work that is someone else's DO NOT present it on your blog without referencing it. ALL text needs to be either your own writing or use quote marks to show you're quoting someone else's words. eg Susan Hitchens says 'representation in media is fascinating' (see Reference 1).
PROPOSAL
1. Influences / Inspiration
Look at a range of media producers/artists/designers working today who influence your work. State why. You should also consider the historical and cultural aspects that influence both their work and your own. You should research and list an extensive range of contemporary media influences that inspire your work such as cinema, theatre, radio, music, literature, newspapers, books, websites etc. and state why.
2. Ideas / Concepts
You should list a range of possible ideas. You should thoroughly research from the beginning of the project to a final outcome and describe the appropriate materials and media to be used. Evaluate ideas (see mark scheme), what’s on your shortlist? Why?
​3.Target Audience
You should research primary & secondary data to understand target audience. Aim for a specific demographic and understand why you are aiming it at a particular audience. You can include surveys, focus groups etc
4. Action Research (practical tests)
Do some action research. This is basically practical experiments into technologies, software, kit and techniques you want to test and develop. Learn, practice and develop these documenting the success and failure of these as you develop your idea(s). This might be useful as a proof of concept - proving what you say you want to do will work. Or as a testing for yourself - do you really want to do this? Try it out.
5. Primary / Secondary data & theory
List a range of events/films/websites/YouTube clips you have visited, or intend visiting, as part of your FMP. These must include primary & secondary sources of research (articles, theorists, events, libraries, photography, magazines, internet etc.). How will you address, eg representation issues?
6. Project workflow
Each project has a different workflow. Films might be
Ideas>feedback>character profiles>final idea>storyline>script>storyboard>shot-list>props>costume>casting>read-through>rehearsal>set design>filming>re-shoot>rough edit>re-shoot>final edit>grading
What’s your workflow?
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​7. Final plan
You will need to pitch the idea. What’s the narrative? Character list? Genre? Audience? Be clear as to what you want to make. Use critical/contextual perspectives, eg an element of narrative or representational theory. Bring in context, eg how your work fits/answers/extends/develops/contrasts with existing work.
8. Role
What is your role? Give details. Will it rely on others? If so, how? Who have you looked at that does it already?
9. Group
Who do you want to work with. What issues do you foresee? How will you work together What is their role, and how does it fit into your project?
PPT Overview
Presenting your proposal to the teacher who is checking this part of your project. This is an overview of the above, a visual back-up and overview of what you will do. It should contain some/most of the below:
moodboard, skills plan, audience, practical tests review, overall project Gantt chart, plan, role, objectives, story (if applicable)
You will need to talk through your project ideas. Visuals back up what you say, don't add lots of writing and then just read it out... present your ideas by talking through them.
If you decide to use a PowerPoint ensure there’s no more than one line of text per slide – we don’t want to hear you read your proposal, but talk through why you decided to do what you want to do, and
key areas you will need to research. Find a project that enthuses
you and your enthusiasm will come across. Don’t spend more than a lesson preparing your presentation.
You will need a bibliography and to use Harvard referencing.
Pass - Use critical and contextual perspectives to initiate a creative media production project proposal. Use analysis and evaluation to clarify and develop ideas for a creative media production project proposal.
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Merit - Use critical and contextual perspectives to initiate a creative media production project proposal to a high standard. Use analysis and evaluation to clarify and develop ideas for a creative media production project proposal to a high standard.
Distinction - Use critical and contextual perspectives to initiate a creative media production project proposal to a very high standard. Use analysis and evaluation to clarify and develop ideas for a creative media production project proposal to a very high standard.