LO3 Production Schedules

LO3 Production Schedules 



A production schedule is used to organise time efficiently whilst creating a project, it can also be used to list and plan activities.

Features of a production schedule 

• Time Frame
• Tasks
• Contingency 
• Milestone 
• Equipment list

The managing director would make the productions schedule as they would be in charge of organising the project and it would fit in with their job roles 

Effective features 

1. Visually effective 
2. Clear and fast to read 
3. The whole production team understand and use it 
4. It gives rough guidelines of how long the task should take this indicates the detail that should be produced 
5. Cost effective
6. Factors in contingencies this ensures the schedule stays on track
7. Adaptability 
8. Team roles identified 

Ineffective Features 

1. Time frames and milestones need to be realistic and adaptable so not to delay launch date 
2. Tasks need to be clear and informative
3. If no backup is saved it can be easily lost 
4. The schedule has to be shared around and accessed otherwise its ineffective e.g having it on a accessible data base such as OneDrive.
5. Doesn't consider legal & ethical issues.

NEEDS TO INCLUDE OTHER DOCUMENTS SUCH AS VISUALISATION DIAGRAMS 

Client requires and Audiences

Games-ed mock feedback

What grade did you get? 

D-   or   24/32
M=22
D=25 
D*=28
I lost overall marks on the SWOT analysis by only getting 14/20 losing a large portion of marks.

Give two reasons why this links to your overall grade
Overall I am happy with my grading on questions however on questions such as 'Explain two ways that the age of the target audience could affect the design and game play of the game'  this question being worth 6 marks I only gained 4, the lost two marks would've secured the distinction mark. Another question that I felt I let myself down over is the SWOT analysis this question is worth 20 marks however I only received 14 marks the 6 marks I lost were crucial to securing the D and even gaining a D* which was 4 marks away.

What stage of production would a SWOT analysis be conducted? and why.
The SWOT analysis would be conducted in the pre production stage so the negative and positive aspects can be avoided and aided with further planning stages.

STRENGTHS 

• Games ED specialise in creative games meaning skills and experience 
• Gap in the market for educational games (mention competitors)

WEAKNESS

• Gameplay and design being simple enough for the audience, make suggestions, E.G showing locations they recognise such as the park or school.

OPPUTUNITIES

• Branch out and evolve into a multiplayer game or website, this could leave to new markets and a bigger mass audience e.g making it available for schools to download.

THREATS

• Timescales, you need to think about the coding, designing, pre-production and realistic time scales.
• Only appeal to young audiences, niche audience and not the game of choice for the children as they would prefer to play games such as Fortnite.
• Only available on touch enable devices 
• Audience feedback delays, if the focus group docent like your product you have to start over making the product this making the deadline longer and unpredictable.

INCLUDE WHY ITS A S W O T, produce suggestions.

Key exam terms for unit 2

EXAM TERMS 

Identify - (Pass question) - Key word/sentence question (1)

Explain - (Merit question) - using the word "because" small paragraph, still have to identify/state something however also explaining it, must be relevant to the brief  (3+)

Evaluate - (Distinction question) - have to identify/state something, have to explain and have to say the strengths or weakness' of the scenario (8+) 


Structure 

• Introductions

Two sentences to explain the question and show you understand what its asking 

• Link to the brief

Answers must directly link to the brief, need max answers and suggestions as possible 

• Benefits vs limitations 

Discuss the main strengths and improvements you have been asked to discuss, answers must link to the brief.

• Conclusion 

'Therefore I think ... is an effective pre production tool'

LO1 - Ethical Issues

Ethical Issues

Issues that revolve around people and the morals involved, making sure the media product is accessible to an audience regardless of their age, ethnicity, gender, beliefs, disabilities, sexuality,

It surrounds not being discriminatory and doesn't cause offense or disturb those who use it.

e.g. of an ethical issue

• not being selected for a job due to maternity/pregnancy
• sexist comments in the workplace
• using offensive materials/disturbing content. e.g images,words
• ensuring access to all, having multiple languages, changeable font size

POTENTIONAL EXAM QUESTION : identify and explain a potentional ethical issue based on the brief  (3)

What 3 ASOS ethical issues have they addressed 

1. A variety of ethnicity/races - expanding the mass audience 
2. A variety of body images - important to the brand due to a bigger profit/mass audience if a larger variety of women are buying their clothes
3. A variety of styles and promoting individuality 

HOWEVER 

The woman on the left is very striking however she's standing out due to her differing facial expressions to the rest of the models and the animals print that she is wearing could be connoted as racist 

SCENARIO 

An educational video game aimed at 8-12 year olds about healthy eating.

ethical issues that we need to address 

1. different race characters - characters featured in the game are of different ethnicities  
2. different nations cuisines shown in the game - when food is shown not only European meals are shown
3. a variety of disability characters in the game - characters featured in the game are of different disabilities 
4. different body imaged characters featured in the game are of different body images 
5. simplistic language so the children could understand how to play the game,
6. making sure the use of images aren't too explicit 

Ethically why was this image banned? (ASA regulatory board)

Some have argued that the young actress who is holding a phallic symbol (the flower) between her legs is being subjected as a sex icon, the model who is 15 years old is underage for sex is almost advertising the perfume to young audiences to lose their virginities

 

If you do not adhere to ethical issues your product can be;

• Banned
• Impacting reputation
• Loss of revenue 
• Lawsuits

Regulatory Bodies

Regulatory Bodies

OFCOM 

TV & Radio

- Receive complaints from viewers about inappropriate TV e.g Love island gained 4,000 + complaints throughout the series.

BBFC 

Film

- The BFFC grant age ratings to films

IPSO 

Press and newspapers

- Make sure that journalists aren't writing libel and are in line with the Editors Code, They take complaints about magazine info.

W3C

Web use 

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ASA

Advertising 

PRS

Music

Legal Issues research task LO1

Digital photographic product -Legal Issues research task LO1 

Tv Production
Making A Murderer

The documentary found on the popular streaming website Netflix was a sensation when released in 2015, The documentary follows a convicted man named Simon Avery on his path to try and prove his innocence that was taken from him for 18 years, The laws that would need to be considered whilst making and distributing a documentary like this would be the Freedom of Information acts 2000, This act would be relevant due to the government of the state of Wisconsin would be forced to release all court documents,evdience and information requested by the documentary team due to the acts regulations, This also forces the documentary to use all factual information and even thought the documentary can be biased they can't over exaggerate and have to document the information as factual as possible.
Due to this documentary being very controversial the legal act which would also have to be considered would be Slander, This legal act would be very relevant due to the controversial nature therefore the narrator could appear to harm the reputation of the Manitowoc County police department due to the documentary being bias on the side of Steven Avery. In preproduction the producers would have to check the script in depth to make sure no statements or phrases could be seen as defamatory.
Due to the television programme being shown on the popular streaming service Netflix it isn't regulated by one of the 7 regulators because of its streaming quality, The TV show did have age ratings though and Netflix do have similar codes of practice to OFCOM, this is to ensure that the contents of the programme are suitable to the suggested viewer however streaming services are harder to regulate due to there being no watershed or viewers lying about their age when asked if they are over 16.
The legal issues that could be applied to this TV programme could be the accessibility to different audiences, on Netflix you can easily change the language and add subtitles in many popular languages this feature ensures that many more people now have accessibility to this product increasing the profit made.

Social Media Campaign
Cadbury's Marvellous Creations Bar
 The cadburys social media campaign to reveal their new chocolate bar happened in 2013, The bar was revealed in an online post however as you can see the adverts house style is the cadburys iconic purple, The colour purple,Cadbury's logo and font used would have to be under the Copyrights,Designs and Patents Act 1988, This being due to if another chocolate company started producing chocolate linking it to the same shade of purple wouldn't be able to take legal action.
This advert would be regulated by ASA, this advertising regulator check adverts on all platforms however the advert I have chosen is made to target a mass audience meaning that it wouldn't contain any inappropriate images or text which would involve ASA.
The ethical issues relevant to this advert would be ensuring that in any other Cadbury's adverts the characters that are seen are of different races, ages, disabilities and sexualities to ensure a mass target audience but also to avoid their reputation form being tainted in the publics eye.

Digital Animation 
Mulan

The animated film 'Mulan' which was brought out in 1988 by Disney and brought in 304.3 million US dollars, The legal acts that would be needed for an animation film would be Copyrights,Designs and Patents Act 1988, the major conglomerate brand Disney needs to ensure the copyright on their films and their music created to claim all profits for the product they made, due to the film being such an iconic film the copyright ensures that no other companies can gain off selling products with any off the content created by Disney on to the huge audiences that love the Disney film.
The film Mulan would be regulated by BBFC, even though the film is created in America therefore MPAA would review the film originally when distributed in the UK however BBFC would be in charge of giving age ratings appropriate for UK citizens to use, In this case due to it being an animation aimed at a child audience the age rating is U for universal in both locations.
For the Disney's production of Mulan, ethical issues that need to be considered would be no offensive or disturbing content especially if targeted towards young children, the film can't contain any swearing,sexual content or show the effects or use of alcohol and drugs.

Radio Production

Classic FM

The Radio production called Classic FM is aimed at an older audience 40+ due to the niche classical music they play they contrast the major radio productions such as Capital or Hallam however all stations have in common are the competitors they run where they ask audience members to ring in and usually answer questions, In doing so they are involving the Data Protection Act, This act is used to protect personal data this including phone numbers that are gained by the radio production when an audience member rings in, to protect this number from fraud attempts the radio production  encrypts the information when received  this allowing the data to be kept safe from hacks and leaks.
This radio station is regulated by OFCOM, simiar to Making a Murderer the regulator would give the radio station codes of practice to ensure all content created is suitable for listeners.
The radio production must follow ethical procedures such as including presenters of all races and sexualities, to expand the mass audience having people of different accents and opinions for example not just having a caucasians speaking presenter on repeatedly.

Graphic Novel

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns 

The famous franchise Batman was originally created in graphic novels before the films and Tv series were created, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a graphic novel that was released in 1986 by Frank Miller, The comic books creators and publishers would be concerned with the legal act, The Intellectual Property Rights, The creators would want this comic to be Ip'd to ensure that they could trade mark the name and characters in the novel as in 30 years the Batman franchise would be around 4 billion US dollars, The company would have to give rightful compensation and stop creating Batman material if someone else copyrighted the name and idea of Batman before they did, this outlining how important the act is.
Due to the media product novel genre not having a regulatory body to ensure the appropriateness of the magazine another regulator that would be seen related to the magazine is BBFC as later on in the development of the character and franchise films were created which lead to a mix of age ratings.
The ethical procedures of the graphic magazine could be not to include any graphic or discriminatory content, this would include having a reoccurring evil antagonist of a certain culture, this could be seen as racist if one ethnicity was constantly used in a negative light and the antagonist is seen in cultural dress especially.


Photographic Product 

Eric Ryan Anderson
For Eric Ryan Andersons photography portfolio he may need to consider the legal act of Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act of 1988, Due to Eric creating content he would want to get his images copyrighted as if not they may be spread online however no profit would go to Eric for creating these images as he wouldn't be able to take legal action if someone else claimed them as their own, On top of copyright Eric may also need to consider the Data Protection Act as if he is a photojournalist and hasn't asked his models for their permission for him to take his photo he could be taken to court for sharing images of people without their consent.

For the photographers portfolio the appropriate regulator would be W3C, due to the portfolio being distributed online it would be the W3C's duty to ensure that it was appropriate for viewers who may find the content e.g making sure their wasn't any images of sexual nature.
For ethical procedures the photographer must ensure that none of their models can be seen in a sexual nature if they are underage children this is very important due to the sexualising of children would be very morally wrong and this could taint his reputation and even mean a court case if serious enough.