Homework Research Task

Monday.com can automatically set up graphs, tables and timelines that help you manage production schedules for free. It provides you with the ability to set up plans in a quick and easy manner and share it to people without much work needed. This can give you more time to focus on the actual tasks and less on setting everything up and distributing the plans and making sure everyone has them. 

Trello.com allows you to create workspaces where you can invite people to the space and directly talk to them about managing production and schedules. This is useful as you can easily talk to people involved in production and share ideas. This also means that everyone involved can see what is being discussed and any questions/setbacks can be discussed during the planning on production schedules and not after. 

They both make it easier to create, store and share plans on different tasks. The usefulness of creating production schedules online is that anyone can access it from anywhere as long as they have a device and there doesn't need to be face-to-face discussions that take time to plan. Limitations of the project management tools are that you are limited to what is available in the software. It also being online can mean it's harder to access, as physical copies and plans can be handed out to everyone, whilst online copies mean that you have to set up an account and have knowledge of how to navigate and use the websites, which is something potentially older generations working on a project may struggle with. 

Production Schedule

Constraints/issues media companies consider when scheduling a media production:

-Availability of talent 

-Budget

-Time

-Organisation

-Equipment

-Location

-Weather/climate 

Production Scheduling:

-Timescales

-Deadlines

-Tasks

-Activities

-Resources

-Milestones

-Contingencies

Production schedule for poster advert-Timescales

-Timescales: 2 weeks

-Deadlines: due to print on 28th October

-Tasks: Drawing plans, meeting with client, planning locations, hiring models

-Activities: photographing, editing, distribution, printing

-Resources: camera, computer, printer, photoshop, pencil, paper

-Milestones: getting the photos taken, editing the images,

-Contingencies: 

Site Maps an Visualisation Diagram

 

Sitemaps/Site Structure Diagram: A visual representation of the planned layout of a website or an app in terms of pages and navigation. It shows how the audience gets around the page and how its operated by the end-user. The coder/programmer would be the person who would make the site map, the graphic designer would also input information of the layout. 

Visualisation Diagram: a sketch that represents the layout a print/published product and the arrangement of the element. 

In an exam you will be asked to draw at least 2 preproduction documents. Marks will be awarded for:

1) Content (1 mark). Does your drawing look like the product you have been asked to draw.

2) Fitness for purpose (3 marks) is about the features drawn being relevant for the brief/scenario.

3) Use of annotations to justify your decisions (2 marks max). Making detailed notes to explain:  house style, appeal to target audience, the brief. What does 'House Style' include (Unit 3)?, why is it is so important (Unit 20)?

LO5: Be able to evaluate research data used by media institutions.

LO4: Understand the target audiences of media products

 Demographics

A- age

E- ethnicity 

G- gender

C S- class status

H- hobbies

I- interests

L- life style

BBC Radio 1: BBC Radio 1's age range is younger (15-29) as it more predominantly features popular music and younger diverse presenters. It targets a large variety of people and has a more mainstream audiences, it appeals to all ages and genders. 

BBC Radio 4: Their target audience is within an older age range (56 average age) as the schedule features more content that older people would be interested in/don't hear about otherwise. Such as news, weather forecasts and peoples stories. 

BBC 3: BBC 3 is aimed at younger (aged 16-34) covering all genres animation, comedy and current affairs.

BBC 2: mixed genre channel appealing to a broad adult audience with programs of depth and substance.

LO1: Understand the ownership models of media institution (Unit 1)

Time Constraints 

The production of a media product often has a deadline connected to it. Failure to meet this can lead to project failure and financial loss. Therefore, it is important to plan and find resources within your timescale. 

Resources: Filming locations (TV Show), sound studios (Radio), computer time available (Animation and web), actors available (TV show, Film & Computer Games). 

1) Identify: Establish or recognize who or what something is

2) Explain: Give reason/evidence to justify an idea to someone

3) Evaluate: Judge the value/worth of something. Is it good or bad? What works and what doesn't?

Legal and Ethical issues:

Legal: Based on written law

Ethical: What is right and wrong. 

LEGAL Issues

- Freedom of Information Act 2000

- Intellectual Property Rights

- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

- Data protection act 

ETHICAL Issues:

 When planning a media product, ethical issues must be considered so it doesn't cause offence or disturb those who use it links closely to regulation and professional standers.

-Privacy Rights (Using ID to gain information)

-Levels of violence.

-Representation of groups.

ETHICAL Issues: consequences

- Legal action against the organisation 

- Product being banned from sale

- Reputation of the organisation 

- Loss of business 

Why does the media industry in the UK need to be regulated?

-Code of practice: How you should behave in a professional setting

-Protect 'public interest'. 

Regulatory bodies:

1. ASA: Advertising Standards Authority.

2. BBFC: British board of film classification.

3. PEGI: Pan European Game Infromation.

4. OFCOM: Regulates TV.

5. PRS: Performing Right Society For Music.

6. IPSO: Independent press Standards Organisation.

7. W3C:  World Wide Web Consortium.

A 1992 episode of 'Ghostwatch' where hosts went on "live ghost hunts" was said to have left viewers traumatised after witnessing what they believed was one of the hosts getting genuinely killed by a ghost. This received 30,000 complaints. As a result, it was banned from broadcast for a decade.

LO2: Understand how media products are advertised and distributed

 Types of brief

The exam requires you to understand the following types of brief in media:

-Contractual: A production company enters a legally binding contract with a client to produce the product.

-Negotiated: When two or more media companies work on the same project. It allows any issues between them to be discussed about the brief or anything thatchy would like to clear up with the client. Through the negotiations the brief can be changed in order to suit every party taking part in the production. 

-Informal: This is often verbal only, it is where the client and the media agency they have employed discuss the requirements for the product they will be making and ultimately agree upon the project. it is often not recorded. 

-Tender: This is where a client will advertise their brief and a media production company will bring together a proposal that they will pitch to the client. there could be multiple pitches to the client from many different companies so the client will get the chance to choose the proposal that they think best suits their brief and offer a job to the production company. Decisions can be madden ideas, timescale or even cost.

-Formal: This is where the production company is given a brief by the client which outlines the product which they want to be made. This type of brief gives enough information to be able to to produce the product, any issues or information that the media company would like to go over can be discussed during the negotiations with the client. 

" your friends band 'pacific gorilla' have asked you to make a music video for them, it should contain some performance and narrative and be only for their song 'You only text me when you're lonely' "

1) This brief is an informal brief as it is being asked by a friend and it isn't recorded. There is no legal binding.

2) Two advantages of this brief is that nothing needs to be written down and no time is wasted as there is already strong contact and trust between the client and media agency. Allows the media company to have a lot of creative freedom.

Disadvantages of this are the media company isn't required to bring exactly what the client wants and can act lazy toward the project. It isn't recorded so there can be a level of mis-communication between what the client wants and what the media company thinks they want. There is also too little detail to work from. There is no budget.