AS Coursework Reflection | Research & Planning

• What real media and audiences did you look at?

Various films of various genres, but special attention paid to action thrillers such as "Skyfall" and "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" and their respective audiences.

• How did they inform your thinking about your media production?

Very much so.

• How did you record all that research?

Through blog posts that analysed the conventions of these films as well as in depth analysis of their openings.

• What primary research was undertaken?

On site location scouting...

• What secondary research was undertaken?

Looking into film classification, movie studios...

• How did it inform the production?

• What is the effectiveness of these kinds of research?

• What quantitative and qualitative analysis methods were employed?

• How did the results form these inform the production?

• What is the effectiveness of these kinds of research?

• How effectively were storyboards/shot lists/script followed?

The shots we had envisioned in the early conceptual stages were accurately recreated on location for the final shots. Some of the dialogue was changed in order to make it flow and work better in the context of the scene.