Research and Planning Revision

1. Detail how your understanding of the importance of good research and planning skills developed throughout the pre-production of your AS and A2 coursework.

At the opening of the AS course I quickly realised that research would be a key part of all coursework that would be done over the A level course. At the start research was made for the music magazine in the style of simply looking for the cover of other magazines such as "Vibe" and "NME" from the music industry and taking the details of them into consideration for when it came to creating my own magazine. The cover and contents would have been taken from certain magazines then the inspiration for a double page spread would have come from a studied student magazine that was shown to me at the opening of the pre-lim at AS level. Not really until it came towards the end of AS and there was time to look back at what had been done by myself for the coursework and look at others and then it had to be realised that maybe enough was done for research but more in depth analysis would be needed for future coursework such as for A2 and beyond. Even so far with A2 I have realised that much more in depth research for the band, directors, producers and videos is needed to really give the in depth element to the research and help me to bump up my marks for the final thing.

2. How did your knowledge of digital technology and your research and planning skills develop throughout the pre-production of your AS and A2 coursework.

My knowledge of digital technology actually increased fairly quickly because I had to quickly get to grips with the new Apple Macs and then other software was given more detail such as Powerpoint which I already had experience with but learnt further controls such as lasso, magic wand etc. New uses for some of the buttons on the programme was also learnt. Also direction was given by the teacher with programmes and hardware to use for the coursework and this assisted with simply furthering my knowledge and being a great help with my development. From the current research and planning made in my pre-production for A2 I realise that I have had my eyes open to the view that my work from least year wasn't really as good quality as originally thought. With my magazine front cover my ideas were fairly mimicking of magazines such as the "Vibe" which my title style and central image is focused on "Vibe". Lots could be done to improve my research and the planning for my Music Video and improve the overall quality from my entire coursework project this year and work to achieve a better grade overall.