digital media project week 8: Report draft

Assessment 1 

plan 

1)A written project proposal (1,500 words)

2)A comprehensive plan for a digital media asset (1000 words)

•Including contents page, 

introduction,

literature review, 

research question, 

research aim and objectives, 

research design, outputs, 

production methods, 

project plan 

and reference page

•Plus appendices

Digital media asset:

•Includes pre-production documentation pertinent to your chosen media format, as well as a fully realised 

test (for example, an edited test clip or images from a test shoot). 

•Used to test methods of production and digital media workflows.

•Your pre-production content and tests will be embedded on your website as a part of your project 

reflection in Semester 2.

I need to include:

-Moodboard

-Storyboard

-Script 

-Risk assessments 

-Edited content from a test shoot 

Written proposal format:

-Numbered section headings (e.g: 5a 5b 5c)

-Leave margins 

-use double line spacing 

-Use formal language 

____________________________________________________________________________________

Title page, including:

•Name

•Student ID number

•Module Title

•Assessment Title (‘Plan’)

•Project Title

•Date of submission

•Supervisor name

•Word count

•Link to digital media asset test

 __________________________________________________________________________________

Contents page - a list of the main sections with their page numbers (site sources)

Introduction - defining key terms, setting the context/providing a rationale. (Site Sources)

Literature review - synthesis of key findings from appropriate sources. Also discuss your theoretical framework here. Finish with your gap statement. (Do alot of fuckin research Reece) (Site sources)

Research question - underpinning the research and creative work – the clear, precise question that your project intends to address. (How does Spotifys algoritms effect the music tatse of University students aged 18-24)

Research aims and objectives - 1 research aim / 4 research objectives (Examning the effects of Spotifys algorithms on users music reccomendations)

Research design - Auto ethnograpghy:💚

-In the community that I am interested in 

-Hve dialogue with people other that myself (Interviews)

-Writing uses data from a persons own life experience 

-For my research/ participant observation (Only use spotifys curated playlists for a month and see how it changes your music taste) (This could link to your video essay and work really well)

-Emotive/ Emphasis on creative and emotive storytelling 

-Critical/ Focus on challenging power dynamics and political potential 

-Analytical/ cohesion with more traditional qualitive research methods 

-Collect notes 

  -Journalling, field notes, use existing data, documents 

-Italicised personal narratives in my writing and follow that up with more traditional acedmic writing (say why)

-first person pronoun 

-own experiences as data 

Outputs – a clear statement of the intended outputs of your project (video or photography and why?)

Production Methods – a summary of how the digital assets will be produced, including pre-production research

Project plan – a summary for the remaining work to be carried out in Semester 2

Reference list – including all sources cited in the plan, following Cite Them Right Harvard.

Appendix:

•Ethics and data protection checklist 

•Pre-production materials which are consistent with industry standards, e.g. risk assessment document, mood boards, 

storyboards and consent forms

•Fully realised digital media asset test (for example an edited test clip or images from a test shoot)

•Skills audit and personal development plan 

•Timetable – a Gantt chart or similar with proposed self-imposed deadlines for the remaining work summarised in the project 

plan (to be carried out in S2).