Research Plan

To effectively research, a plan must be in place to structure my work. Over the next few months I hope to meet these targets, or accomplish the aims here. As well as complete various parts of the main product and ancillary texts.

October 09

-Research conventions of TV documentary, or even Documentary Films

-Storyboard scenes, discuss scenes and content with interviewees/crew

-Research target audience of musical documentaries or documentaries in general

November 09

-Research conventions of radio promotions, possibly listen to some radio adverts

-Begin filming of documentary, should get this done in a week or two, depending on times available for actors/crew etc.

-Research conventions of magazines, specifically magazines which are music-orientated, possible candidate 'Radio Times'.

-Research target audience for radio promotions and music-orientated magazines.

December 09

-Begin recording of radio promotion if possible, I may include an audio extract from the main product (undecided at this time)

-If filming is not complete in Nov, finish filming, begin editing and complete editing

-Continue producing radio promotion

-Begin magazine production

-Perhaps show some footage to a small focus group to generate feedback, edit accordingly

January 10

-Finalise main product, radio promotion, magazine page (if possible) early in the month

-Modify based on focus group (if not done already)

-Write evaluation, form new plan for next month.

Hopefully if I can stick to this plan, I should be able to produce all the different pieces by January, leaving me able to wrap up with an evaluation. Its a long way off at the moment, but as they say, time flies when you're having fun.