Primary Research

Primary research is research that you have conjured up with yourself. Primary research consists of interviews, which can either be face to face, via telephone, or via email; observations, which is basically observing other people make their videos; questionnaires, which is a great for acknowledging what you’re audience want is a trailer; surveys, which is very similar to questionnaires, however surveys are distributed through emails, the internet, or even by telephone, whereas questionnaires are distributed by paper, for example paper, magazines, or newspapers; focus groups, which are groups that focus on certain sections, for example the idea generation; audience panels, which are meetings with your audience and finding out personally, what they want in a game trailer; and self-generated research, which can consist of your own videos, audio, and photographs, for example our photographs and sketches of and from Conwy Castle.

For my primary research, my team went to Conwy Castle to do some location sketches and they took some photographs of the location and Conwy Castle itself. Unfortunally I couldn't attend to the Conwy Castle, because I was on attending business meeting in Orlando Florida, at Space Kennedy Centre, where I was undertaking research of NASA equipment, for another assignment. 

Week 9, 10, and 11

During week 9, 10 and 11, I undertook more research, but on pre-production itself, and not images for my individual digital moodboard. My team members, were still working on the group work. They could do their research on pre-production themselves, because they have to do that work themselves.

My research consisted of primary and secondary research; production time; facilities and costs; personnel and costs; copyright; and Codes of Practice.

I will post my research on separate blogs.

Week 8

During week 8, I shared out the rest of the group work need to be done, for this assignment.

Idea Generation – Nathan 

Individual Digital Moodboard – All

Meeting Record Sheet – Luke

Treatment - Nathan

Production Schedules – Sean

Storyboards – Nathan 

Shot list – Luke

Risk Assessment - Sam

Diagram of Shooting Location – Sean

Legal Documentation – Sam

Copyright Evidence – Luke

Shooting Schedule – Sam

Individual Blog - All


I had already completed the Idea Generation, and the Storyboard by now, so all I had left to do was the Treatment document, which is the evalauation document of the group work (Task 2).

Week 7

During week 7, I started on the Idea Generation, which is another document of the pre-production forms. The Idea Generation consists of an idea overview and reasons for using or rejecting the idea, for each individual scene, of my storyboard.

Week 6

During week 6, I started on the pre-production forms. I started with the Storyboard. I used some shots that were show to me by Craig Downey, but most of the shots are my original ideas. It took me a five days to complete my Storyboard for my team. Overall, there are five scene in my storyboard, consisting of 34 shots.

Week 5

During week 5, I started on my digital moodboard. I imported all my images that I found on the internet into my digital moodboard, and I added music and animation to the moodboard.

Week 4

During Week 4, I was researching images of World War II warships, as shown below.

I was researching images of World War II warships, because it is relevant to my Pre-production assignment, because I have gathered copyright free images of World War II warships for my digital moodboard, which is part of my Pre-production assignment.