Project Brief​
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 a media product 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 film/TV for your project. It might be useful to consider theme, eg memory or health, truth or climate change.
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Suggested themes could come from the following areas: advertising, culture, messages, music, sports, games, politics, lifestyle, etc
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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.
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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!
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Set Up Blog
Create a new site for FMP
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Create the following pages:
Initial Ideas
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Proposal
This will be what you plan to make and why
Research & Milestones
This will include a research plan with key milestones
Production
Evidence of ongoing production and pre-production - stills, screenshots of edit, rough edit etc
Production Diary/Reflection
Reflect as you proceed
Evaluation
Final evaluation
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Submit the link to Teams.
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Please note that ALL WORK needs to be viewable on your Wix site.
This means NO Word document that someone has to download and open
NO documents anywhere else but viewable on your Wix site
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The Authentication document needs to be done before you embark on any work and placed on your FMP homepage, it needs a signature (use a mouse or Wacom if needed), save as jpg or png.
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).
Ideas
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What initial ideas come to mind?
Discuss with others
Do a mind-map of as many as possible
Choose a media type (eg music video, doc etc)
Discuss with your tutor
Do pros and cons of top three ideas
In the one you like the most, do three variations - what happens if you change (for example)
The protagonist
The location
The genre
The ending/beginning
Write up whether you feel your idea improved.
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KNOW WHAT YOU WILL MAKE
This may take some time, some practicals, and some research.
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Know this before your Proposal.
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If needed... 'top slice'
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Spend one-two lessons doing a practical element of your chosen media product
Research how you might make it better, eg look at existing products or talk to others
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Reflect on your practice (add questions and answers):
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what went well
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was it as easy/hard as you thought
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what would you do differently next time
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did you enjoy making it
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did you develop skills doing it, if so which
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did you use someone else to help, if so what assistance did you need
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if you spent 6 weeks making this type of product to a much higher standard would you be proud of the result
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is this still the thing that you most want to make, if not, what else should you try?
What does the mark scheme say the key areas to get good marks are?
Of these four, which do you feel most confident in?
And least…?
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