Risk Assessment

School corridor - Make sure the area is clear and safe and that we film while other students are in lesson and the corridor is empty.

School classroom - Make sure that the areas are clear and everthing is out of the way of the filming.

Front of school - If it is wet when filming, make sure that we are careful while running and make sure the road is clear when filming.

Draft of Layout

Print Based Media Sample Fonts and Colours

Outline of audio visual media

Characters:-

Nerd - glasses, tie up, girl, carry books

Sporty - boy, hoodie, trackies

Popular Girl - pretty, tie down, dating popular boy

Popular Boy - hansome, buttons up done, dating popular girl

Teacher - friendly, helpful

Setting:- School to make it relatable 

Music:- upbeat to show light hearted

Plot:- Our opening, go through each of the characters and zoom in then pause on them doing their stereotypical things for example, the geek reading, the sporty boy playing football, the popular girl blows a kiss to the popular boy, as they are all going to the classroom, then sit down and that it pans to the teacher and the opening finishes. 

Shot list of audio visual media

1. edited screen: title of show

2. long/mid shot: nerd walking into school, hugging her folders, alone 'pause' then nerds name comes up

3. pans to a long shot tracking: sporty boy kicking his football along the corridor 'pause' then sporty boys name comes up

4. leads to mid/close up: popular girl blowing a kiss 'pause' then popular girls name comes up

5. cuts to mid shot: popular boy catches the kiss 'pause' then popular boys name comes up and meets up with sporty boy to walk into the classroom

6. wide shot: of all the 4 walking into the classroom

7. tracks them in for them all the sit down

8. pans around to the teacher next to the white board 'pause' teachers name appears

9. editing in the title of the show and a still picture of all the characters

10. fades out

Production Plan

January - filming
 - Front of school
 - Folder, Pen, Ruck Sack. (nerd)
 - Tie, trousers, shirt, blazer, clumpy shoes.
 - Video camera


 - Corridor 
 - Football (sporty)
 - sporting attire 
 - Video camera


 - Corridor
 - mobile phone, iPod (popular boy and girl)
 - tie low, rebellious school uniform
 - video camera


 - Corridor, classroom.
 - folder, pen, ruck sack, football, phone, iPod
 - popular boy and girl costume, sporty boy costume, nerdy girl costume
 - video camera


 - classroom
 - whiteboard, pen, stationary
 - teacher clothing (teacher)
 - video camera


 - classroom
 - each character's equipment
 - each character's costume
 - video camera

Focus Group

For my focus group I used a group of children aged between 11 and 15, as from my questionnaire I learnt that these are the age group of children that watch childrens television drama.I showed them the opening sequences that I have analysed and asked them what they thought of them.


Drake and Josh

• 100% thought that the opening sequence could be shorter
• 85% thought that characters were introduced well
• 40% said that the colour was very good and representational
• 60% likes that the logo was shown at the start of the opening sequence

The Suite Life of Zac and Cody

• 100% liked the editing on the open sequence
• 95% liked the theme tune and the lyrics that go with it as they thought that the lyrics were very fitting for the programme and the backing track was upbeat and fun
• 75% thought it was good that the cast included boys and girls
• 100% said they liked that each character was introduced individually  

Pair Of Kings

• 60% thought that the editing of this opening seuquence was too fast paced
• 100% liked that the logo of the programme was clearly shown at the end of the clip
• Only 35% liked the chequered effect of the special effects behind the actors names as they appeared on the screen
• 80% thought it was good that a few of the main characters were introduced in the opening

I then explained my ideas for my opening sequence and they gave me feedback on what they liked and disliked. Here is what i found:

• They all liked the idea of introducing each character as an indivdual, in sepearte scenes
• They don't think it should be too long
• They liked the idea of having a fun, upbeat theme tune
• They said my first ideas were good

Questionnaire responses

From my questionnaire and the responses i received, i found that the majority of people that watch children's television programmes:  

• are both girls and boys, equally.
• are around the ages of 11 to 15 years old.
• either every week or every day 
• are interested in the characters in the shows

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