Archive Y12 DCS Foundation Portfolio Blog (2010-2011): Foundation Portfolio Checklist

Description		Comp-leted	On Blog
RESEASRCH (For all, state how you are going to use this info and where you got the info from)	Audience: · How can they be grouped/categorised? · Audience effects theory (Uses and Gratifications or similar) · Consuming habits (when, how, where do people normally consume this product?)
	Institution: · Comparable products already available · Key company case study · How is the industry regulated? · Production process (how made and by whom) · Distribution process (how distributed and by whom) · How marketed and promoted
	Conventional Features: · DETAILED textual analysis of at least 3 existing products.
	Academic Theories: · 2 appropriately chosen theories outlined and your opinion/understanding of the theory outlined. · Explanation of how theory will inform planning decisions.
	Primary Research: At least one of the following… · Interview · Direct Questioning · Textual Analysis
	Secondary Research: At least two of the following… · Reference books / text books · Internet · Seminars · Novels · Magazines
PLANNING Evidence of ALL planning, no matter how rough, should be on your blog.	Who is your target audience (detailed)?
	What is your company/brand idea?
	Time and equipment
	Evidence of thought/idea process · PRINT (layout drafts, text drafts, still image plans, shoot plans, typography, mise-en-scene, setting, colour schemes, character profiles, company/brand · MOVING IMAGE (storyboard, character profiles, setting/location plan, narrative/plot, soundtrack, script, drafts for graphics etc, mise-en-scene
	Test the market – test out your ideas before completing your final production piece.
Prod-uction	Final products (original copies on disc and copies on the blog)
Evaluation	The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are: · In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? · How does your media product represent particular social groups? · What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? · Who could be the audience for your media product? · How did you attract/address your audience? · What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? · Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

ALL SHOULD BE DONE WITH DEPTH AND DETAIL AND SHOULD CLEARLY INFORM YOUR PRODUCTION.
IF YOU HAVE COPIED INFORMATION FROM SOMEWHERE, REFERENCE IT; OTHERWISE IT IS CLASSED AS PLAGARISM.
YOU SHOULD COMMENT ON THE ‘USEFULNESS’ OF ALL RESEARCH AND PLANNING
ALL SHOULD BE DOCUMENTED/EVIDENCED ON YOUR BLOG.
BLOGS SHOULD SHOW A RANGE OF TECHNOLOGIES/SOFTWARE/TECHNIQUES USED TO PRESENT RESEARCH AND FINDINGS – YOU ARE A MEDIA STUDIES STUDENT…PROVE IT!