Fact Sheet

Location: The Hawth (Studio)
Date Monday 23rd June 2008
Set up:
6pm
Start:
7pm
Finish:
8:30 pm
Clear up:
8:30pm – 9

Number of Awards:25

Names of award categories:

1. Best Horror Trailer (Btec First only) 1 award

2. Best Thriller A and B (Btec 1st years only) 2 awards

3. Best Factual Program (Btec 2nd years only) 1 Award

4. Best Music video (Btec 2nd years only) 1 Award

5. Best Experimental video A and B (Btec 1st years only) 2 Awards

6. Best Sound/radio piece (First, Year 1 and Year 2 Students?) 3 Awards (Tutor voted)

7. Best Post-production (Editing) (First, Year 1 and Year 2 Students) 3 awards (Tutor voted)

8. Best cinematography (First, Year 1 and Year 2 Student) 3 awards (Tutor voted)

9. Most Promising Journalist (First, Year 1 and Year 2 Students?) 3 Awards (Tutor Voted)

10. Most hard working student (First, Year 1 and Year 2 Student? 3 awards (Tutor Voted)

11. Students with outstanding contribution (3 awards) (Tutor Voted)

Monday, June 23, 2008

Final advert and awards evening evaluation

For this evaluation you will need to critically evaluate your own work towards the adverts and your management role in the awards evening. You need to reference your professional practice. You will need to express your ideas fluently using subject terminology. To help you use the following three sections.


1. Firstly you will need to discuss the how the following constraints, Legal, Regulatory/professional and financial, affected both your adverts and your role in the building up to and your role on the evening itself.

Constraints
Legal
, was there anything that you want to create for the advert or awards evening that you could not do for legal reasons. Give examples. (min 50 words)

Regulatory/professional, Was there anything that constrained your advert or work towards the awards evening that were Regulatory/professional reasons, i.e. think of the age group attending, the constraints of the venue, the college you where representing etc, (min 50 words)

Financial, was there anything that you wanted to do that you could not on financial grounds, think of the budgets that you did for the adverts and also anything that you wanted for the evening that could not happen due to lack of funds. (min 50 words)

2. The next stage is Management and time management. You will need to discuss in this section the following points.

Leadership, how well and at which points did you lead the group in achieving a finished product? Evaluate what you contributed and how it was successful/unsuccessful? (50 words)

Communications/meeting requirements. Did you hold meetings and communicate your ideas across to other group members? How well did you do this, what did you do? Give examples. (50 words)

Achieving agreed outcomes/working to timescales. What time scales were set in you adverts or roles working towards the evening? Did you meet those timescales? Give examples and discuss methods you may have used i.e. deadlines, time plans etc. (50 words)
Recommendations for future tasks. If you were to do the adverts and evening again what would you do differently next time?

3. What verbal or written feed back have you had from you adverts and the awards evening? Do you believe that your final contribution towards the adverts and awards evening would be acceptable in a professional work place? Explain why with your own examples. (Min 100 words)

The evaluation will need to be completed along with all other work for the brief by the end of your lesson on Thursday 26th June.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The video Pitch

For this task you, individually or as a small production group need to record a video presentation of how you will go about creating the adverts for the awards evening. you will need to discuss the following items.
  1. Content outline: What the advert might look like and why
  2. Discuss in some detail your target audience. Plus research into what an audience is
  3. Details of the resources you require for the project
  4. Details of the personnel required including their job descriptions. Task definitions and deadlines
  5. A Budget for the project assuming that you would have to hire all equipment and crew time.

The pitch will need to be recorded by the end of next Tuesdays' lesson, you will need to establish as evidence what items you produced in creating the final pitch. Remember you also will need to justify the areas that you have managed as part of this whole project, either the advert or the event itself.

Monday, June 2, 2008

It's time to Vote!

For the Best Btec First Horror trailer look at the entries at the following address, http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EE6443D040B47BAC, Then vote on Blackboard/Media Survey/External links