Assignment briefQualification Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production

Unit number and titleUnit 1: Pre Production Techniques for the Creative Media IndustriesUnit 17: Audio Production Processes and Techniques (partial)Unit 24: Writing for Television and Video (partial)

Start date 31/01/2012

Deadline 16/03/2012

Assessor name Iain Goodyear

Assignment title IG2 - Short Film Pre-Production

The purpose of this assignment is to:

Enhance your organisational skills by planning the production of your short film.

Demonstrate the importance of sound in film production, looking specifically at how room acoustics can change the nature of a recording.

Develop your ability to edit sound bytes using a variety of effects manipulation techniques.

Scenario

Your team has secured funding and received the go-ahead for your short film, based on the theme Going on a Journey, which will be entered for the Exposures Film Festival.

All media productions need planning. This process is referred to as pre-production. Pre-production is essential when realising your product and helps media producers to visualise and develop initial ideas. Pre-production is much more than simply writing a script and storyboarding and requires both a methodical and creative approach to planning tasks. Communication is essential when planning a production and you will need to ensure that your production team meets regularly to provide updates on pre-production tasks that are completed and outstanding. As part of your pre-production evidence, you must keep a record of meetings that take place and any decisions made and agreed on by your production team.

In the production teams you were placed in for your last assignment, you have already produced individual proposals, treatments and draft scripts. As a production team you have also decided on which proposal and script draft you will further develop and plan. Further development of your chosen script will be decided through regular production team meetings.

For this assignment you must research and assign production roles and produce pre-production documentation. You will be required to develop your chosen script, producing several draft scripts and a final draft. Your group must also produce detailed storyboards and production planning documentation in preparation for the production phase of your short film.

An aspect of film production that is often over looked is sound recording. In preparation for the production phase of your short film you will explore through demonstration and practical activity the nature of sound acoustics and how this can affect the quality of your sound recording.

Good luck!

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Tasks Grading Criteria Mapping

Task 1Produce a report & a budget that outlines the requirements for a specific media production with supporting research & staff and equipment costs:

What job roles will need staffing (director, camera person, sound recording, etc)?

Equipment needed and daily costs (researched with links and equipment hire company quotes)

Produce a budget expenditure spread sheet in Excel that outlines a budget of £4000 and what this will be spent on.

*Your budget and any company quotes & links must be evidenced on your IG2 blog

UNIT 1 P1/M1/D1

Task 2

Produce content specific pre-production planning for your short film.This should include a broad selection of the following:

Draft and final scripts

Storyboards

Location reconnaissance reports

Production schedules

Production call sheets

Risk assessments

Evidence of regular production team meetings (these can be uploaded onto your IG2 blog in either a word-processed or audio format

*Your pre-production & planning evidence must be uploaded your IG2 blog

UNIT 1 P2/M2/D2UNIT 1 P3/M3/D3UNIT 24 P2/M2/D2UNIT 24 P5/M5/D5

Task 3Record a provided line of dialogue in 3 or more different acoustic environments. Produce a comprehensive comparative analysis of how the acoustics of the environment have changed the nature of the sound recording. Your analysis should contain terminology relevant to sound acoustics.

*Evidence must be presented on your IG2 blog as embedded sound clips annotated with word-processed analysis.

UNIT 17 P1/M1/D1

Task 4(i) For each recording produced for Task 3, produce two further effects-processed

versions and describe what processes of sound manipulation you have used. This should be evidenced through annotated print screens.

(ii) Edit ALL recordings (original plus effects-processed versions) into a sequenced

UNIT 17 P2/M2/D2

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piece of audio that clearly demonstrates your awareness and application of editing techniques.

*All sound recordings and annotated print screens must be evidenced/embedded on your IG2 blog

Sources of information

This brief has been verified as being fit for purpose

Assessor Iain Goodyear

Signature Date 03/01/2012

Internal verifier Harry Arnold

Signature Date 18/01/12

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Unit 1 Pre-Production Techniques for the Creative Media Industries (Level 3)P1: outline requirements and sources of requirements for a specific media production [IE]

M1: explain in some detailand competently presentrequirements and sources of requirements for a specific media production

D1: comprehensively explain and present to a quality that reflects near-professional standards fully detailed requirements and sources of requirements for a specific media production

P2: generate outline preproduction documentation for a specific media production with some assistance

M2: generate competent, carefully presented and detailed pre-production documentation for a specific media production with onlyoccasional assistance

D2: generate thorough and comprehensively detailed pre production documentation for a specific media production, workingindependently to professional expectations

P3: apply pre-productionplanning to a specific mediaproduction working with some assistance. [TW, SM]

M3: apply pre-production planning to a specific media production competently with only occasional assistance.

D3: apply pre-production planning to a specific media production to a quality that reflects near-professional standards, working independently to professional expectations.

Unit 17 Audio Production Processes and Techniques (Level 3)P1: describe characteristicsof different acoustic environments in relation to recording sound with some appropriate use of subjectterminology [IE]

M1: explain characteristics of different acoustic environments in relation to recording sound withreference to detailed illustrative examples and with generally correct use of subject terminology

D1: comprehensively explain characteristics of different acoustic environments in relation to recording sound, with elucidated examplesand consistently using subjectterminology correctly

P2: describe conventions in audio production and post-production with some appropriate use of subjectterminology [SM]

M2: explain conventions in audio production and postproductionwith reference to detailed illustrative examples and with generally correctuse of subject terminology

D2: comprehensively explainconventions in audio production and postproduction with elucidatedexamples and consistently using subject terminology correctly

P3: produce recorded soundfrom a variety of sources with some assistance [CT]

M3: produce recorded sound from a variety of sources to a good technical standard with only occasional assistance

D3: produce recorded sound from a variety of sources to near-professional standards working independently toprofessional expectations

P4: produce mixed and editedsound tracks working within appropriate conventions and with some assistance. [CT]

M4: produce mixed and editedsound tracks to a good technical standard, showing some imagination and with only occasional assistance.

D4: produce mixed and editedsound tracks to near professionalstandards, showing creativity and flairand working independently to professional expectations.

Unit 24 Writing for Television and Video (Level 3)P1: describe the writer’s rolein the commissioningprocess using some subjectterminology appropriately [IE]

M1: explain the writer’s role in the commissioning process with reference to detailed illustrative examples and with generally correct use of subject terminology

D1: comprehensively explainthe writer’s role in thecommissioning process withelucidated examples andconsistently using subjectterminology correctly

P2: collect and prepare suitable background materials for a scriptwriting project with some assistance [CT]

M2: collect and prepare goodbackground material fora scriptwriting projectcompetently and with onlyoccasional assistance

D2: collect and prepare excellent background material for a scriptwriting project to near-professional standards working independently to professional expectations

P3: produce script proposalsfor specific purposesworking within appropriateconventions and with someassistance [CT]

M3: produce script proposals for specific purposes showing some imagination and with only occasional assistance

D3: produce script proposals for specific purposes showing creativity and flair and working independently to professional expectations

P4: pitch a prepared proposal M4: pitch a prepared proposal effectively

D4: pitch a prepared proposal to a near-professional standard

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P5: produce a script for a specific purpose working within appropriate conventions and with some assistance. [CT,SM]

M5: produce a script for a specific purpose competently showing some imagination and with only occasional assistance

D5: produce a script for a specific purpose to near-professional standards and working independently to professional expectations

:PLTS: This summary references where applicable, in the square brackets, the elements of the personal,learning and thinking skills applicable in the pass criteria. It identifies opportunities for learners to demonstrateeffective application of the referenced elements of the skills.

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