Unit 25: Research for product development

Top gear is a magazine show all about cars and vehicles. They put these cars through certain tests and challenges to see which car will come out on top. They also review cars and give valuable information to the audience about the components of the vehicles.  Originally, top gear on the BBC was hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond but the BBC refused to renew Clarkson’s contract so now it is hosted my Paddy McGuinness, Freddy Flintoff and Chris Harris. For this I am going to be talking about the show when hosted by the original 3.  There has been 27 seasons and 399 episodes of top gear with Jeremy Clarkson as host and each episode has was 1 hour long. The production company for the show is BBC studios and it was shown by the BBC. The genre of the show is automotive entertainment but also has elements of other genres in there like comedy and education. For the majority of the seasons, top gear was based in a studio where the audience surrounded the host whic...

 Life in between: .

Gathering information to plan and develop the production of ‘life in between’: The target audience for this product is 12-17 years old meaning it will need to intrigue younger people. This will be achieved by using a colourful house style as it will catch the audiences eye. Also appropriate language will need to be used as young adults will be reading this so it needs to be clear to read. This will be published in stores as we need to make a magazine containing information about health and well being and reviews of games and films. The budget will be spent on computers and software so the magazine is easily editable and also we will need to spend on the required staff to make the best possible product. This may include a content lead, communications business partner, magazine editor, artwork production officer,  freelance cameraman, features reporter, sub editor, administration officer and internal communications executive. Money will also be spent on the correct equipment e.g. cam...

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 Rationale: Exam (half and a-level) 120 guided learning hours, half 3rd a-level  Production brief- intern Researcher  I can take 2 pages of A4 into the exam which are notes of the research based on the brief given. Findings of research can go on the notes which will be used to answer the exam question