1. Understanding the Brief?!

2. Step 1 - Dates
• Pay attention to dates
• Missing internal
deadlines means
missing feedback
• Missing final deadline
means no mark!

3. Step 2 – Key words
• Highlight Key terms
on your sheet
• Look for words from
the FAIR list and
words that will help
you with your
production
• Make a wordle.net
and add it to your
blog

4. Step 3 – Mark scheme
• Look at the marking scheme,
you are aiming for levels 4 or
5 only!
• Highlight key words here;
what do they mean?
• Look at how the marks are
split; what should have more
attention paid to it?
• This is what your lecturers
and examiners use; so know
it and you wont be sad!

5. Step 4 - Checklist
• Create an ongoing checklist that
clearly breaks down each task i.e.
Primary/survey, Primary/focus
group, Storyboard, Script etc and
has deadline dates.
• You have been given a checklist
of MINIMUM items so use this to
help
• Use a calendar widget on your
blog, or try
http://iacls.cloudapp.net/person
al.aspx for an interactive list or
http://www.ehow.com/how_854
2496_create-list-within-
wordpress-blog.html for some
html coding for your blog

6. Step 5 – Diary
• Keep a diary
detailing all your
main production
decisions
• Refer to the
evaluation task for
possible headings in
your diary
• Use this to help
with the evaluation
•

7. Step 6 - Communicate
• If you don't talk to your
team mates they wont talk
to you
• Production is not done
alone
• Share ideas and lines of
enquiry freely
• Set up a line of
communication between
you all (Facebook, Twitter
etc)
• Constantly refer to the class
blog and Twitter
• Talk to your lecturers; show
them good and bad work.

8. Step 7 -Work
• This is now your
job – treat it like
one
• Work like a dog to
get the results you
deserve