media exam question

How has your research and planning skills progressed and allowed you to make more creative decisions?

My research and planning skills have progressed since As media when i was set the task to create an introduction sequence for a film genre of my choice, i then researched into all of the different media examples and genres and this helped me form the film that i had made at the end. In A2 media studies i was set the task to create a music video of my choice and to make it appeal to an audience, then i had to make a digipak and a poster to go with the music video. When i was researching and planning for my music video and digipak my overall researching and planning had improved and i also became more creative by using more forms of media, ways of presenting my research and planning and different sources.

In As level i had used web 2.0 and the internet (David Gauntlett 2004) such as YouTube, blogger, scribd, slideshare, tube chop, Google and sound cloud. I used YouTube in my research and planning because it allowed me to upload, download, comment, feedback and review YouTube clips including my own and it also allowed me to get an accurate representation of the genre gathering information on the conventions, codes, signs and signifiers (Barthes 62) used. I then used blogger as it is a good example of web 2.0 as it allowed me to change the appearance and layout of the blog and also allowed me to receive comments and feedback on all of the research and planning that i had made (David Gauntlett 2004) (telling me how to improve on some elements) and also to receive an accurate representation of the genre. I also have used scribd as this allowed me to upload all of the word documents that i have made on the internet and by doing this i have managed to get feedback on all of the planning and research that has been made on the document.

In A2 i have also used web 2.0 and the internet for my planning and research and i have been using YouTube, tube chop, scribd, slide share, animoto, prezi, blogger, yowindow, Google, iTunes, texting, face book, twitter and an animatic. These have been used to aid me in researching and planning for my media production. This is where UGC (Andrew Keenan 2008) can be applied as he believes that there are sites promoting amateur media where it should only be for the professionals, and all of the media texts have to grip the audiences attention for it to be good (Michael Goldhaber 1997) and this applied to all of the research and planning that i have made for my As and A2 media products. In