Toby Jackson is proposing a documentary project about promoting tourism in Yorkshire. He will research, plan, film and edit a documentary focusing on the rural and countryside areas of Yorkshire to highlight undiscovered places for tourism. Toby has experience creating various media projects in college and will apply the research, planning, production and evaluation skills he has developed. He will conduct research on documentaries, tourism in Yorkshire and audience needs. Toby will create a script, storyboard and filming plan for production. During production, he will film footage, record a voiceover and edit the documentary. Toby will maintain a production diary and conduct evaluations to improve his work. Upon completion, he will produce an overall evaluation of the project.

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Centre Name and Number:
York College 48357
Student Name and Unique Learner Number:
Toby Jackson 7014237860
Project proposal title and date:
Yorkshire Tourism Documentary. 4th March 2022
Main area of activity:
I will mostly work in the film sector, doing a documentary that I will research, plan, film and edit.
Rationale:
Throughout the last 2 years at college, I have made a music video, animated game, magazine,
with a trailer and tv advert, a fanzine, and a short magazine. I have also planned, researched, and
evaluated for all of these, which means I have lots of experience working with different software's
including Photoshop and PremierePro for my work. I will use all my skills for this video project
because I did it for my FMP last year. I can put the skills and knowledge of researching and
planning to help create the idea of my project for pre-production, I can put my knowledge of
cameras, software's towards the production of this project, and use my skills of evaluating to
create an ongoing diary for this project and an overall evaluation summary in post-production. A
documentary is the best format for this because it is non-fiction, which means it will be informative
with a purpose to promote tourism.
Project Concept:
My project concept is an expository documentary about Yorkshire, for the purpose of promoting
tourism and advertising all the areas for people to enjoy. I will cover the countryside and rural
areas due to them being more undiscovered for tourism unlike places like York or other busy
areas, this is like a USP for my documentary. I will aim to add more personality to this project by
basing it off my voice over and include how I feel about it, to make the audience more interested. I
will conduct a lot of research for this project including contextual research, about different
influences and my strengths and limitations at the beginning of the product, then move onto
research, this will include looking at existing products including documentaries, videos, and also
places in the area I can film and what I can include and how I want my product to be, and also
include audience research and production/ topic research, and then plan my work, including a
script, storyboard, camera shot plan, etc, and also do an experiment too so I can get used to my
work, as I haven’t done a video project in a while.
How will the project be evaluated and reviewed:
This project will be evaluated regularly by feedback and improving my work, especially after I finish
each section. Throughout the project, I will do an ongoing evaluation called a production diary,
after each week, I will write about what I have done, why I did it, what I changed, what I will do next
and include images. When I get into production, I will evaluate my work every day, and do a
weekly video evaluation where I will go over what I have done by recording my screen and making
a voice over and uploading it onto my production diary. After my production is finished, I will make
an overall summary evaluation and write about everything I have done and sum up the entire
project. This means it will help me progress my work and help me realise what I need to do to
improve, what I missed and plan out what I need to do next week. I will also use peer feedback
from tutors to see what I need to do to get a better grade, we hand in our work on Microsoft Teams
assignments to receive additional feedback. I will also get audience and participant feedback from
surveys on my audience research, and anybody I am filming with or around.

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Week Tasks to be
Completed:
Week
Commencing:
Specific Tasks
1 Pre-Production
(Contextual
Research)
7th Feb Start my FMP by doing my contextual research, this
includes my influences, strengths, and limitations,
how I could improve, initial thoughts.
2 Pre-Production
Contextual
Research and
Proposal)
14th Feb Continue with my contextual research and finish it off.
I will do this proposal document which includes the
initial details of this project and the title and my name
and student number.
3 Pre-Production
(Research)
28th Feb This week I will hand in my contextual research and
proposal in the assignments section in Microsoft
Teams for feedback and start my research
PowerPoint, this will include my audience research;
which is the surveys, interviews, age statistics etc,
the market research; which is the existing products.
4 Pre-Production
(Research)
7th March This week I will continue with my research, the
production/ topic research which includes another
survey, camera angle research, documentary
research, etc. Also, this includes my bibliography so I
will make sure it is done. I will finish off any other
research if I need to.
5 Pre-Production
(Problem
Survey)
14th March I will do my problem solving this week, this includes
contingency plans for technical, logistical, and people
problems, then explain each practical/ technical
problems in further detail, including equipment,
storage, software, etc. Then I will do the same for the
theoretical/ creative problems which include filming

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outside, crew members, weather issues, time
management etc. After this I will plan my experiments
and what I will do, then start on them and reflect what
went well and how it has helped me.
6 Pre-Production
(Experiments
and Planning)
21st March This is an important week because there is a lot of
work to get done, I will start on my experiments if I
have my camera, if not I will start my planning which
includes the pre-production assessment, so the
locations, equipment, etc.
7 Pre-Production
(Planning)
28th March This week I will get my experiments done, and
continue with my planning, and do more creative
planning include, storyboard, script, music, etc. Then
do my organisational planning, which is the
production schedule, budget, etc.
8 Finishing Pre-
Production
(Planning and
Feedback)
Start
Production
4th April This is the last week before Easter Holidays, so I will
complete all my feedback and pre-production to put
on my website and be fully ready for production. I will
make a start on production this week if I am done,
which includes getting footage and start editing. I also
have Easter Holidays to get footage or finish anything
off if needed.
9 Production
(Filming and
Editing)
25th April After Easter Holidays I will completely start
production this week, I will be filming outside of
college hours in various locations, so in college I will
be uploading my work to my OneDrive and putting it
all onto my Premiere Pro to edit my documentary.
10 Production
(Filming and
Editing)
2nd May I will continue with my editing and uploading all my
work, by this week I should have all my filming done
and all my clips on my Premiere Pro, so this week I
will be recording my voice over and putting it with my
audio soundtrack.
11 Production 9th May I will finish off my production this week, including all
clips, effects, audio, text and then export my work.
12 Evaluation 16th May This week is for my evaluation, after doing a weekly
production diary, I will continue this as well as
working on this evaluation, answering all the
questions for my work.
13 Evaluation 23rd May I will continue my evaluation, finish it off, and make
sure I hand it in
14 Fixing
Problems
6th June This is my last week of my FMP; I will hand all my
work in and fix any problem if needed. Also, I will
make sure my work is made to the best of my ability.