Unit 25: Research for product development

IPSO- Independent press standard organisation  ASA- Advertising standard authority OFCOM- Office of Communication BBFC- British board of film classification.  Codes of practice

Validity- Relevance to our project/brief Reliability- Trust? Bias? One sided? Accuracy- Is it true? Multiple sources, Cross referencing  BUDGETTING: https://www.gassproductions.co.uk/blog/how-to-budget-a-tv-show/ http://productionguildaccounting.com/development-and-pre-production/budgeting-and-scheduling/ https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/the-essential-guide-for-crafting-film-budgets-with-free-film-budget-template/

Stock libraries have content in them so we can gather information from them. Stock media libraries specifically.  PA (Press association): Reuters: Getty:

BARB 1. The most popular TV programme for the W/C 28th September-4th October: Great British bake off BBC1: BBC news a 6 BBC2: Michael Palin, Travels of lifetime  ITV: Coronation street RAJAR: 1. Most listened to Commercial station: BBC Radio 1 PAMCo 1. Most read newspaper: The Sun IMDb 1. Who stares in Thor and who directed Ragnorole: Chris Hemsworth starred with Tom Hiddleston and Taika Waititi directed it.

Secondary research is research that someone else has done for example a textbook, informative web page, diaries, biography, newspapers, government data banks, Media research organisations (BARB, PAMCo and RAJAR), transcripts, documentaries.  This is a story board for the TV show vikings. This is secondary information because someone has illustrated the pictures for someone to digitally recreate them. The advantage of this is that you can clearly see the sequence of scenes therefore it is easier to recreate. However, a disadvantage is you cannot see the scene run as you have still images.  https://www.behance.net/gallery/8487693/Vikings-TV-series-storyboards This is a textbook that gives information about TV show production written by Lucy Brown and Lyndsay Duthie. This is a secondary research method as authors wrote the textbook for consumers. An advantage this is that it I easily accessible. A disadvantage is that the information might be old and it may not be up to date with...

Primary research is getting/gathering first hand information and data. This means you do it yourself. To gather qualitative primary information I could interview Rob speranza as he is an expert in the industry. I could also run a questionnaire in the street to people. I could do a VoIP call with someone from a company who specialises in that subject.

Another magazine show similar to top gear is inside sport presented by Gabby Logan. It often has a lot of famous footballers on there and other special guests.  You can learn to make a magazine show via a text book e.g. Cambridge technicals Digital media level 3, as it contains important of key information for making a high quality tv show. The advantage of this is that the information is always at your access and is written by people who decide the course, and a disadvantage is that many people will use the same source so you will have competition. Also they will eventually become out of date. You can also go to certain websites that will provide information and tips of making a magazine show. A advantage of this a lot of tips and a disadvantage is that it can be time consuming Ask someone who is knowledgable about a magazine show to find out information and advice for making a good product for example Rob Speranza. The advantage of this is that it is advice from someone with expe...

Research assistant: Research assistants work alongside and support primary researchers who are in charge of researching projects.  Scriptwriter: A scriptwriters job is to create characters and an entertaining script that intrigues the audience. Many work for production companies and others write their own scripts and sell them on. Commissioning editor: A commissioning editors role is to offer an idea to publishing housing which book to publish. They are basically the perspective of the buyer. Storyboard assistant: A storyboard assistants job is to check that the original artist hasn’t made any mistakes to the storyboard and they also can add their own elements if they believe it will improve the product. Director: A director is responsible for making big decisions and is in charge of the project as a whole. He decides who the actors are and the rest of the staff.  Producers: A producer will have a lot of control over the production of a product such as the chosen script and ed...