Unit:38 Factual Programme Making Date Set: Wk3 Deadline Wk 6
Tasks:
In order to successfully complete this assignment, you must undertake the following tasks:
1 Individually produce a pre-production file on a local news story which of relevance to Crawley or the surrounding area. Pre-production documentation must include
the following:
- a treatment,
- interview contact sheets,
- interview questions,
- a two week production schedule,
- a risk assessment.
- Unit grade criteria 38.2
2. Individually produce a production folder which must include the following: 1 page of research
notes (to be based on fully referenced primary and secondary sources), logging sheets of
filming, call sheets for each day of filming, clearance forms, and a written script.
Unit grade criteria 38.2; 38.3
3 Acting individually, as director or cameraperson, produce suitable footage for a local television news report. This must include the following material:
- one filmed interview (minimum requirement);
- three filmed vox pops (minimum requirement);
- one filmed piece to camera (minimum requirement);
- 4 minutes of filmed cutaway material (minimum requirement).
4 Individually produce, script and edit a 3-4 minute local television news report about Crawley or the surrounding areas to meet a specified deadline.
Unit grade criteria 38.3
5 Individually deliver a 3 minute power-point presentation on the strengths and weaknesses of the production entitled: How I constructed my television news package.
Unit grade criteria 38.4
Additional Information: Please read carefully. Conditions for unsupervised film production.
1 Please note that filming cannot take place without a risk assessment for the
production being completed and approved.
2 All filming must take place between the hours of 9.00am and 5.00pm and
day/times/locations of all filming should be clearly identified on production
schedules.
3 No filming can be carried out in a moving vehicle.
4 No film of dangerous weapons, or replicas weapons, can be shot or included by the production team as part of the report, except in the form of ‘borrowed’ stock footage.
5 Students must be accompanied at all times by at least one other member of their
production team when researching, interviewing and filming offsite.
6. All offsite activities must be fully logged (i.e. give full details of any contacts name/organsation/address/tel no.; location details; date/time and approximate length of time of all off-site activities) in individual students production schedules and with the Media Learning Support Officer, prior to the commencement of the activity.
7. Copies of production schedules are to be left with the Media Learning Officer.
8. Copies of each days completed call sheet must be left with the Media Learning Support Officer prior to the loan of filming equipment
9. Students cannot engage in any criminal activity whilst making this report.
10. All students who are 19 and under must have completed and returned to the Course leader, the Central Sussex Offsite Activities form.
11. Students must work with at least one other person as part of their production team on this assignment and specify their production team in their treatment. Additions to the production crew must be added to call sheet for the days when they are involved in filming.
PLEASE NOTE
It is advisable to work in production teams of not less than three (reporter, cameraperson and a pa) and not more than four.
Students may include up to 30 seconds worth of found material (i.e. stock news footage) in their news report. This source of this material must be clearly identified.
Each student must individually complete all the tasks to successfully complete the assignment.
It is the responsibility of the individual student to ensure they have obtained all the film material required for task 3 and that the filming fulfils the conventions required for factual programme making.
Each student must submit one tape containing the footage required for task 3.
Where they are not directly filming the material themselves, student reporters should work closely with their cameraperson and be prepared to direct them, where necessary, in order to obtain the type of shots they require for their story and to also ensure the appropriate quality of the footage.
Student will be assessed individually on the coherence and clarity of their report.
Tutor observation sheets:
Tutors observations during workshops, pre-production, production, post-production and post-evaluation stages may be included as part of the evidence for tasks 1, 2 , 3, 4. 5
Evidence:
You will be graded on this assignment on the basis of the following evidence
Task 1 Pre production file containing all the elements outlined in task 1
Task 2 Production file containing all the elements outlined in task 2
Task 3 Individual students dv tape containing all the elements outlined in task 3
Task 4 Completed 3-4minute local television news package; tutor observation sheets
for production and post-production
Task 5 Copy of power point presentation; tutor observation sheet.
Unit 38 – Factual Programme Production Techniques
Assignment grade criteria
Pass Comments
2. You undertook research for a factual programme. Your research would have benefited from being more thorough.
3. You planned and produced a factual programme, but with some assistance. You needed to work more independently to score higher.
4. You identified strengths and weaknesses of production in terms of realisation of brief and with reference to feedback, but this lacked the evaluation needed to score Merit or Distinction.
Merit Comments
2. You undertook competent research for a factual programme.
3. You planned competently and produced with some imagination and to a high technical standard a factual programme with limited assistance.
4. You discussed in detail strengths and weaknesses of production with detailed discussion of realisation of brief and feedback.
Distinction Comments
2. You undertook thorough research for a factual programme.
3. You planned thoroughly and produced with creativity and to a near-professional technical standard a factual programme with minimal assistance.
4. You critically evaluated strengths and weaknesses of production with fully justified analysis of realisation of brief and feedback.
