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Proposal - Level 3 Extended Diploma Unit 12 & 13 Project Proposal pro forma

Level 3 Extended Diploma Unit 12 & 13 Project Proposal pro forma

Name	Jacob Taylor-Greenfield
Pathway
Project title
Section 1: Rationale (approx. 150 words)
Over the two years, I have learned a wide range of new techniques and disciplines across all the units of study. This course has given me the opportunity to learn how to better my abilities in making professional-level media products and it has also taught me what can make a professional-level piece of work look amateur and basic. I have learned a variety of skills that I will be able to take with me only further study and into the workplace such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Audition. Throughout the course, I developed my teamwork skills drastically. Prior to this course, I wasn't able to properly function in a team setting. This skill is going to help me further in the workplace since I would like to work on moving image pieces which would have a large team behind them, therefore this skill is integral.
Section 2: Project concept (approx. 200 words)
I am going to make a documentary that explains how people with mental health issues in the UK are struggling with exams. The documentary is going to include interviews with people suffering from a range of mental health problems. The interviews will be condensed down and only small segments will be added to the actual documentary itself, but the full interviews will also be added to my blog as a part of the project. Since most of the people being interviewed won't want their face shown on camera, I am going to be using After Effects to be making basic graphics to help the visual side of my documentary. The aim of my project is to show people how detrimental exams can be to people's mental health as not all people learn and retain information in the same way. I want to show how people's past experiences and events that you wouldn't link to school or exams are affecting the young people of today. There's a lot more pressure being put onto the shoulders of young people today than before and I want to give the people suffering a voice. I have researched the potential mental health crisis the UK is facing amongst its young people and what treatment is being given to those who are being given professional help. I would like my documentary to reach around 10-20 minutes, depending on the content and length of answers given during the interviews. My ideal target would be around 15 minutes since this isn't too long that people would begin to lose interest and it's still long enough to get across key information to the viewer. I want my documentary to be consumed primarily online via video sites such as YouTube. However, this documentary could also be used in places such as schools and colleges to teach and show people about the pressures on young people's mental health today.
Section 3: Evaluation (approx. 150 words)
I will be continually evaluating throughout this project. In order to evaluate and reflect on what I have done and what progress I will have made, I will be using a wide variety of different methods to determine what I have achieved at each stage of my project. Methods that I could use to evaluate my work could include note-taking and a weekly filmed evaluation to a camera to summerise what I completed, thought of and didn't complete during that week. Throughout this project, I will also be conducting focus groups with people included and not included in the target audience in order to get general feedback from an audience that would potentially be consuming my product. At the end of the 10 weeks given for this project, I am going to look over everything that happened throughout the project and provide overall written feedback about my work and the target audience's opinions to the final piece. This written evaluation would take into account all of the previous 10 weekly evaluations, all of the focus groups conducted and any other methods of evaluation and reflection I may have used throughout this project.

Project action plan and timetable
Week	Date week beginning	Activity/what you intend to do - including independent study	Resources/what you will need to do - including access to resources
1	02/03/20	Complete project proposal including  Evaluate the week
2	09/03/20	Contextual Research Evaluate the week
3	16/03/20	Contextual Research Being composing an email to be sent to an authoritative figure/expert on the documentary topic Focus group Production schedule, script, character profile, risk assessments Evaluate the week
4	23/03/20	Contextual Research Complete and send off (if not already done) the email Begin writing the interview questions for the documentary Evaluate the week
5	30/03/20	Film a majority of the interviews Film establishing shots and introduction shots Record voice-over and edit audio Begin creating graphics such as lower thirds and filler shots  Focus group - rough cut Evaluate the week
6	20/04/20	Film any outstanding interviews Film any reconstructions that need to be completed Evaluate the week
7	27/04/20	Focus group - mixed audience Evaluate the week
8	04/05/20	Finalise graphics, finish editing Evaluate the week
9	11/05/20	Begin final evaluation Final focus group - main screening
10	18/05/20	One week spare incase things go wrong, allowing me time if I get set back a couple of steps Finalise overall  evaluation

Proposal - Presentation (Script)

Slide 1:

• Camera work and audio editing

Slide 2:

• Why I chose to create a music video last year
• What was it about? (what did it represent?)
• What was good and what wasn't

Slide 3:

• Explain what Affari is and what they do
• Talk about my work experience last year with Affari
• What I'm going to be doing with Affari after college

Slide 4:

• Why I chose to focus my specialist study on mental health

Slide 5:

• Explain Ticehurst House and what happened there
• How does it link to my FMP and Specialist Study?

Slide 6:

• Explain what happened at Bethlem Hospital
• How does it link to my FMP and Specialist Study?

Slide 7:

• Explain the various forms of medication and treatments people with mental health problems go through

Slide 8:

• Explain what ECT is and how controversial it is

Slide 9:

• What medium am I doing my final project in
• Why I chose to work in a documentary-style film
• What it's going to take to make the documentary (film subjects, research, script, planning documentation)
• Explain that mental health is my main topic of focus

Slide 10:

• My first idea was to originally interview one person about their past experiences with mental health while tackling exams in order to expose the 'truth' around the subject.

Slide 11:

• Explain my first idea - Mental Health during exam season documentary
• How would I film this and what content would be included

Slide 12:

• A follow up of my social action project?
• Explain my second idea - Interviews with people about their mental health and their past experiences with exams
• Where does sexual harassment fall in with my documentary idea
• MERGE THE IDEAS

SWOT Analysis

Strengths:

I already have a lot of people willing to be a part of this project which moves me forward quite a few steps.

Weaknesses:

I currently do not have locations of where I am going to be filming my documentary interviews and the possible establishing shots and reconstructions. I also am not 100% confident in Adobe After Effects, so this task I have set myself to create graphics for this documentary could be something that sets me back or could make the documentary look unprofessional and unpresentable.

Another weakness that I have at the moment is that all the people that have agreed to be in the documentary are all kind of associated with in the same niche, including gender, therefore, I do still need to find some people of the other gender to be a part of my documentary since my target audience is primarily based around age (15-21), rather than gender.

Opportunities:

I haven't seen any documentaries that focus on the mental health of young people and exams recently. This means that there is a sort of market for this sort of documentary since it's not being overdone already. It is also the perfect time to make a documentary like this since it will be exam season when I being to film this project meaning that I will possibly be able to have follow-up interviews with a couple of people asking how some of their exams went. My USP is the fact that this documentary takes factors into account that you may not associate with education and exams to show how unrelated events and incidents can affect students at such a crucial time.

Threats:

The main threat I face is from my documentary subjects dropping out since they may decide at any point that they do not feel comfortable opening up to a camera about things they may not want to be known by a lot of people.