The document provides learning aims and deadlines for a media studies class. It outlines that students should have completed and organized folders, be able to discuss elements of a successful sitcom, and some should demonstrate an episode outline for a new sitcom series. It also lists assignment deadlines for various units covering print and video production, and expectations for folder organization. Resources for folder work and developing plans for a new sitcom concept are provided.
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Media studies 11 march
1. Media Studies - Monday 11th March
Learning aims
All to have completed & up to date folders
All to be able to discuss the main facets of a successful sitcom
Most to be able to outline their characters for the new sitcom
Some to be able to demonstrate an episode and character
outline for series one of their sitcom
Starter – write a fifty-word biography of one of the sitcom
regulars below describing their main characteristics
2. Deadline – your folders must be up to
date by the end of this week – 15 March
• Unit 7
• Assignment 1 – print production technologies
• Assignment 2a - Printed product mind map, Powerpoint pitch and draft
leaflet
• Assignment 2b - Completed printed product leaflet
• Assignment 2c – Questionnaire & evaluation report
• Unit 5
• Assignment 1 - Storyboard, shooting script, permission letters,
equipment lists
• Assignment 2 - Production diary from your role’s point of view
• Assignment 3 - Shooting log (with edits required) & completed video
• Assignment 4 - Report evaluating your video
• I also expect your folder to be neat, tidy; All scrappy work to be
re-written; Everything on A4 size paper or folded down to A4;
Units to have title pages at the front.
3. Logistics & extension
• Resources for folder completion time:
– Monday & Thursday in Room 10
– Tuesday and Friday in CR1
• When you complete this, for the rest of the week work on your
plan for the new sitcom. Please produce:
– A completed advert (started outdoors last week) showing the
title/logo and graphics used to advertise the show
– A character fact file – you should aim for a small number of
regular characters and a slightly larger number of others –
what are their characteristics?
– A pitch ready to give to TV executives with plot outlines for
the pilot show and all six episodes of the first series – what
main things happen? Where? What results?