Planning and Research

Here are a couple of links to student examples for Research and Planning Essay.  Please remember that this essay might be split and that you are asked to only talk about Research or Planning - not necessarily both.

Level 4 essay and Level 3 Essay

In this essay you will be required to evaluate as part of the specified write up the outcomes of the research and planning process.

E.g. (T) The planning of my storyboard on post it notes and then creating an animatic enabled me to think about the order and transition of my shots.

(Ex) For example there was a sequence in my film trailer which required parrallel cutting between my protagonist and antagonist and back again.

(EAA) The sequence appeared in my final product, although with some SPFX enhancement at post production, I clearly felt the benefit of storyboarding with post its more so than at AS where I had drawn on a static storyboard sheet which made it difficult to move scenes around skills did indeed improve in this area across the two years.