Action Plan : (ongoing)

Date .	Tasks	Completed
Week 11/6/18	Introduction to NEA brief Read through booklet to familiarise myself with the tasks. Set up blog, and post introduction. Start researching ITV and Channel 5. Begin rough action plan.	Completed
W 18/6/18	Research into the target audiences of the shows. Decide on either factual or fictional product. Watch 3 shows and make a textual analysis on each. Research into institutions of Channel 5 and ITV. Produce a document explaining my initial ideas.	Completed
W 25/6/18 (progress reviews)	Research into the 18-35 mainstream millennial. Apply Theory to my current research and studies. Collect some articles to post on my blog. Read some magazines to become aware of the style and layout of lifestyle magazines.	Completed
W 2/7/18 (hills fest + conferences)	Investigate the institutions of both Channel 5 and ITV. Produce some research to show my brainstorm for my ideas. Watch some documentaries on Homelessness in UK, to gain a better understanding of the topic. Plan a pitch for my audio visual. Create a structured plan document for my audio visual. Begin my aims and intentions (rough draft)	Completed
W 9/6/18	Write a treatment sheet for my magazine and audio visual. Visit and take photos for my recce locations; upload images to the blog. Conduct more research into homelessness; obtain statistics and find graphs showing the increase of homelessness in the UK.	Completed
W 16/7/18	Create a shooting schedule. Create a shooting script and interview plan. Create a storyboard, and rough plan for the audio visual.	Completed
W 23/7/18	Complete a risk assessment. Plan and organise my cast and crew. Get in contact with Jimmy’s Homeless Shelter, to gain filming permission. Obtain a consent form for the individuals.	Completed
W 30/7/18	Create a basic editing and storyline document. Obtain more specific research into homelessness, focusing on statistics in Cambridge. Perform some primary research by talking briefly to people in Cambridge who are on the streets.	Completed
W6/8/18	Amend the treatment sheets, by making them more detailed. Edit aims and intentions, by updating content. Go back to some documents on my blog, and integrate more media theorists.	Completed
W 13/8/18	Watch some more Channel 5 shows, to familiarise myself with the layout and style. Conduct some more secondary research into homelessness, using DCLG.	Completed
W 20/8/18	Create a layout design for both the front cover, and double page spread. (refer to GQ). Create a document with my initial and overall intentions when filming, to provide me with a structure.	Completed
W 27/8/18	Take images of my model (Rob Young) for my front cover. Evaluate and comment on the images. Upload them in a document, and edit the chosen image. Refine my textual analysis of lifestyles magazines.	Completed
W 3/9/18	Re-visit my pitch plan, and structured plan. Amend and update my action plan. In terms of my editing plan, make it more detailed and more structured to ensure I get sufficient material for my show.	Completed
W 10/9/18	Create magazine document, and begin a rough draft of the double page spread. Carry out further research into homelessness, and consider predictions of homelessness in the future.	Completed
W 17/9/18	Familiarise myself with the camera I will film on. Finalise shooting schedule, and run over risk assessment again.	Completed
W 24/9/18	Film in Jimmy’s Night Shelter, over a 2 day period. Reflect on the visit and upload a visiting document, evaluating how useful the visit was in terms of mu audio visual. Research into a suitable soundtrack for my audio visual. Refine action plan.	Completed
W 1/10/18	Upload each interview onto my laptop, and edit and cut down all the footage. Send each interview in, to gain feedback. Select the significant parts of the footage to be placed in the iMovie document. Film the recce locations of Cambridge, and obtain establishing and long-shots of Cambridge for the opening. Take photos in Cambridge of the recce locations; to be placed in the magazine.	Completed
W 8/10/18	Select the two main stories I want in my double page spread, and finalise the content for my spread. Create document with this in. Upload the title and content onto Blurb, and refer to layout and design plan.	Completed
W 15/10/18	Edit my audio visual further, and get feedback on it. Edit my front page, and finalise it; while referring to the design and layout document. Produce a rough cut of my audio visual, (main sequence).	Completed
W 29/10/18	Amend and update my aims and intentions. Finalise my treatment sheets. Edit my double page spread further, and add in social media links.	Completed
W 5/11/18	Add in opening section to the audio visual, and add soundtrack on top of footage. Add in quotation from Scott, and place the statistics from my research over the opening section.	Completed
W 12/11/18	Refine my editing plan document. Cut out some of the questions in my audio visual to fulfil the time restrictions. Create draft for double page spread, and get feedback on it. Fix some audio problems in the audio visual; and edit the transitions between each clip.	Completed
W 19/11/18	Refine front cover, and finish the planning document for it. Refine double page spread document, by uploading all the drafts. Upload the final draft of the audio visual to YouTube. Add borders, and adjust the images on the double page spread.	Completed
W 26/11/18	Add a closing document, in terms of evaluation and concluding. Cut down the audio visual to fit the brief of 3minutes. Update action plan. Fill in forms for the consent of my participants, and other forms. Finalise the work on my blog, by checking through each document.	Completed