The document provides tips for doing high-quality production work. It emphasizes thorough research, planning, collecting evidence of your process, getting feedback, preparing equipment and logistics, and reflecting on your work. It also lists categories and rules for a video production competition, including time limits for submissions and a screening for finalists.

1. Doing Brilliant
Production Work

2. www.petesmediablog.blogspot.com
@petesmediablog

3. how do you get really high marks and
make your work look this good?

4. 9 key words
• research
• planning
• evidence
• ideas
• feedback
• logistics
• equipment
• production
• reflection

5. 1. research
• really look at real
examples
• keep evidence of all your
research
• research every angle
• conventions, audiences,
institutions
• KEEP RESEARCHING

6. 2. planning
• plan for all eventualities-
what could possibly go
wrong?
• record all your planning-
visuals
• show the process of
your ‘journey’

7. 3. evidence
• storyboards, animatics,
recce photos
• flatplans, all your original
images
• screengrabs of your
manipulation of material-
digital editing,
photoshop, etc

8. 4. ideas
• keep ideas simple
• have a workable concept
with realistic plans
• try the ‘25 word pitch’
or the ‘lift pitch’

9. 5. get feedback
• at all stages from peers,
teachers and others
• keep records of the
feedback
• take notice of it and
respond to it

10. 6. logistics
• people, places, props,
costumes
• get it done early- you
may need to do it all
again
• rehearse and prepare
• share contact details for
all involved

11. 7. equipment
• practice on it
• prepare it, get to know it
• make the most of it
• are all the parts there
before you use it?

12. 8. production
• always shoot extra for
coverage
• organise your material
before editing
• start with the big picture
• fine tune the detail later

13. 9. reflection
• ongoing as well as at the
end
• stand back from what
you have made
• get teacher advice on
the format of ‘evaluation’

14. MediaMagazine Video Production Competition 2013

15. Categories
• short film
• film or TV opening
• trailer
• TV advertising
• documentary
• animation
• music video
• gothic horror (BFI Education award)

16. the rules
• Video- 30 seconds to 4 minutes (QT or
wmv)
• send on disk with entry form (via MM
website)
• individual or group
• closing date 25th March
• finalists screening at NFT in July

17. 2012 winners