Commissioning Process

Commissioning

Script Writer

This would be the person that would edit the script and would provide a very critical view of the current version. They would have access to the script writer and the producers during this part as well.They will pick apart the script explaining errors and why it is crucial to have parts in some places and not in others. During this part they will strengthen the script as they will correct what they think is wrong and add new parts in needed. They will need to explain in detail why they have changed what they have though.

Producer

The producer is very important in the industry, as they will control every aspect of a films production. they will assign directs, script readers, writers, have in site with the cast and the crew. In a way without a producer there wouldn't be a movie.

Director

Directors work with the producer 24/7 during this they will give feedback about everything that is going on. They also work closely with the scriptwriters with this they will work the hardest they can to come up with a original piece to then get out there for people to see. The director must be clear with their vision to get it absolutely correct. And to help the cast an crew to also understand what they see. 

Shooting scripts are when the writer has finished the script and is ready for the production to start. the scenes and numbers will be added and the pages will be assigned. within the production process if any of the script must be changed you will need to follow a strict guideline and log everything.

Page lock-down is where you lock a page down which is the process in which any changes or new ideas come into place the script will be coded specifically. this helps the writer if the project is to be filmed effectively. 

Commissioning bodies

These exist in a range of different forms from a large corporation to small production ones. In the normal way to sell  a production to a company the writer will need to encounter different types of novels, short stories or factual events. But companies like the BBC will have the BBC Writers room where you can enter your work and this is a way of getting your work commissioned.

Corporations

Film corporations release well constructed films using the box office to generate their income of the movie. They couldn't afford to release a poorly made film as it would drop there income.

Independent

When pitching a idea to a independent company it would be more beneficial if the writer was a unknown writer as it would be cheaper to work with as they wouldn't have to pay a high amount to get the production done.  

The director would find it easy to produce there work as they would have even more power over the production, but to get into the position to produce your own movie would be tough as it would be expensive.

Organisations

These have been put into place to help writers develop scripts and there skills. They will also help get the script seen but people with the power to produce it. So organisations like the BBC or script factory.

Competitions

These are run to find talented people within the script business and to get new and exciting talent. and you are able to find these competitions on the internet if you just look it up. As said before the BBC are very good for this.

Working as a writer

Agent representation 

This is someone that will represent some one of a professional manner. Such as performers,musicians,athletes and writers. They will take an agreed amount of cut from the work that they gain their client.  

Optioning payment

This means that a company or a person want to turn your story into a product or they want to stop others from doing so. So they they pay the writer a certain amount of money to hold there story for them for a certain amount of time. with the intention to use the story for future production.

Professional presentation

As a writer you must be professional when presenting your work. If the writer handed them a paragraph the company reading it wouldn't even bother looking at it unless it was in the correct format. 

Time management 

When the writer is writing a script, it can be time consuming and very stressful at times, but no matter what the case the writer must meet their deadline otherwise the production would be put in pause and all of the future planning would fall apart. The worst case scenario the writer will be taken off of the writing and someone else will be hired to complete it.

Copyright

This is a law that give the owner of a piece of work the right to say how they want their work to be used and who they want using it. This also makes it if you release the work people can’t copy it in anyway as you have made sure it’s your own. This can be from anything that you have created like a book, piece of music, a video, images and a lot more.

This means that you cannot take/use the work if it is copyrighted without the owner’s permission. You are able to contact the owner so see if they would allow you to use it and it could cost you or even they will let you use it for free.

Bias

This is where an individual would treat a group of people differently to another. So they would consider others more than others in a way that would be unfair.

Censorship

This is where speech is suppressed when it may be needed to be. Like swearing when it is not allowed or when what you are talking about may seem harmful or inconvenient. This is what is determined by the government or a private institution.

Censorships are in place to censor the work for the set target audiences like if it is set for a children they wouldn’t want any hate speech or swearing in what the children are watching. This way the content is suitable for all ages involved.

In some countries the censorship is different for example in New Zealand when the actor Julian Dennison introduced the movie Deadpool 2 as soon as the movie started he had to leave as he was underage even though he was in the movie and was there for most of what happened they still have to follow the guild lines.

Watersheds

This is where TV and radio is protecting young children from harmful material is one of Ofcom’s most important duties. The broadcasting code sets rules for televisions and radio shows and the broadcasters must follow this rule at all times otherwise they might not be shown. The watershed means that what is broadcasting is unsuitable for children.

Libel

This a false statement that is published and damages a person reputation.

Plagiarism

This is where you take someone else’s work and take it as your own and is a massive infringement of copyright, as you are trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own. This could also include if the work is very similar to someone else’s work. As there are programmes that scan the entire internet for the same piece of work. As it could mark similar work as well.

Feral - Script

Single Camera Pre-production

Minutes
Props & Costume
Risk Assessment
Talent Releases
Shot List
StoryBoards
Location Release/Recces

Research Dossier (From Lottie Lanham)

Research Dossier- 

http://ukfilmfestival.com/10-minute-screenplay-competition.html

Feature Script Competition from the UK Film Festival

UK Film Festival holds annual competitions which allows young people to enter with the chance of winning the UK Film Festival Winner's Laurels. Not only this but the script you write will also be sent to different production companies which could potentially become a reality. 

Even runners up will get subscription to a website called InkTip which links producers and writers together to make productions. 

The fee is up to £35 to enter into the competitions. 

"The Rules and Guidelines are:

The script should be in English.

The script should be around 5 to 10 pages long in the recommended industry format.

The winner is obliged to agree to grant first option choice for production to the UK Film Festival.

Should there be a need to alter any small aspect of the script when it goes into production the winner should be willing to work with the script editor and/or director to develop the idea. If this should occur the rights to the script still remain with the writer."

Source - http://ukfilmfestival.com/10-minute-screenplay-competition.html

Another example of a competition that runs is BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Competition. 

This is when aspiring writers are able to enter and showcase work which could be seen by professionals. The competition runs once a year with four different segments which include film, television drama, children's media and comedy scripts. 

The competition is blind judged by a range of people in the industry so they are unbiased with reviews. 

If you become one of the finalists you will be able to work with BAFTA award winning actors and directors alongside having access to events and workshops which BAFTA provide for a year. From this it will give you a large amount of exposure into the industry working with different companies. 

Below is the full terms and conditions from the BAFTA website.

Commissioning body

One of the main UK based commissioning bodies that will accept unsolicited scripts are BBC Writer's Drama Room.
This is a scheme set up by the BBC to encourage writers to get scripts made.
Last year they had over 3800 scripts sent in which was then narrowed down to under 20 writers who then get taught development and training skills. They have windows of around one month long where people can enter the work which comes under certain categories.

How to submit? -
To submit to the writers room you will need to be signed up to the E-Submissions

All the terms and conditions can be found online and part of it is also below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/send-a-script/esubmission-faqs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/send-a-script/terms-and-conditions




2. Background Material

Link to the screenplay layout post -
https://lottiesmediabtecblog.blogspot.com/2018/11/screenplay-layout-conventions.html


3. Research
books, news, real life, ideas in your head (or dreams) are all different ways that you can find inspiration for creating new screenplays.

Books -
The Hunger Games was originally written by Suzanne Collins. From an early age her father was part of the American Air Force fighting in Vietnam so had always heard stories about the battlefield in depth. When he was home he would also go hunting too so knew lots about wilderness survival.
It was one day that she was sat watching TV and witnessed stories on the news about the Iraq War. This is when the idea for a new book came to her head and was also heavily influenced by Greek Mythology. This combination is what then became The Hunger Games.

Source - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9161107/The-Hunger-Games-Who-is-author-Suzanne-Collins.html

Real life events -
One of the biggest films released last year on the 26th December was the Greatest Showman.
This film is based on the real life P.T. Barnum who is played by Hugh Jackman.
Barnum ran one of the first travelling circuses after his museum burnt down in 1868. In 1871 the circus traveled around the world with weird and wonderful acts. he was married to his wife for 44 years however, due to strong working commitments would often leave the children and wife for months at a time.
Considering the film was realeased in December it was still taking £1 million in the cinemas every week until March 2018.

Sources - https://people.com/movies/the-true-story-behind-hugh-jackmans-the-greatest-showman/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/05/15/box-office-hit-greatest-showman-heading-broadway/

3. Research - 

3 primary sources to gather script information - 

- Online Surveys, these ask questions relating to the topic to collect data and responses. It's also a free way of collecting data which only requires you to come up with questions especially if it is online as most companies will then sort the data for you. This applies to websites like Survey Monkey.

- Focus groups are also a way for small groups to come together to talk about the topics and conflicts of other peoples ideas and thoughts. This is a way to get more detailed responses as you can ask further questions.

- Observations are another way of gaining information as you can show snippets of films or script to small audiences and see how they react to certain things.

When creating my screenplay I intend to do primary research into the police force and try and interview someone who has worked on cases previously who could give me insights on how to make my cases more accurate.

Another thing I will do is create a survey to learn more about what audiences want to watch this show and who may not have any interest. This means I can almost tailor the show to what the audience wants meaning they would have more interest. From the responses to the survey I may then create a more specific focus group to find out more detail which could help with character development.

Secondary Sources - 

- Looking online to find information in regards to films that may have similar themes or characters as well as seeing what topics are popular and keep audiences interested.

- Books are also a cheap way of finding resources as you could go to somewhere like a library or access archives to gain information.

- Journals or the news is a way to gain secondary sources from someone who has already done the research before you have.


For my secondary research I have watched more films and TV shows relating to murder mysteries to gain more knowledge on shots that work well and more about the settings they use and what they look like.
Relating to this I also turned to Netflix documentaries which are stories told from people that have gone through a traumatic experience to gain insight on how the character can develop. Two documentaries which helped me the most were the Ted Bundy Tapes and also Abducted in plain sight. Both have interviews with the people who were directly involved in the incidents. It also showed other members of the family and what they felt at the time. I used these to have a more accurate script. As I have never been in a horrific situation like this I wanted to know how the person being abducted felt and reacted.

4. Preparing Material

Primary Research -
This is research that you conduct yourself.

Advantages -
- More effective as it is completed by yourself
- More based on what you actually need information wise

Disadvantages -
-Takes longer to complete as you have to do it all
- Could be expensive

Secondary research -
Research which has already been undertaken by someone else.

Advantages -
- Is quicker to find and cheaper too as it has already been done
- Can be more extensive as others may have had more of a budget and time to gain information

Disadvantages -
 - You can never tell if it's real
- Won't necessarily relate to what your project is about


Personally I found the most useful information has been reading books which has bought all concepts of my ideas to life. It helped me to write my treatment and learn how certain characters develop when they find certain things out like new evidence.
Also TV shows like Killing Eve has helped me to vision more of what I want in terms of having strong female roles.

For my research I have looked at screenplay layouts to know how to write my own and know what all the jargon means such as log line, parenthetical, continuous and slug line. I have also looked at other scripts which have been commissioned and made into popular TV shows like Sherlock. Reading crime novels has also been a good way to research how the writer conveys emotion and action as when people read my script I want them to be able to see in there head what is happening. 
All of my research is on my blog under the screenplay label.


Prop and costume -

Research Dossier

Working to a brief

Project brief

A brief is something that the client will gibe you. It will tell you what you need to do. The client will tell you in detail what is a must what doesn’t matter but you can and how long that they would like the video. They will also tell you locations of where they want the project to be filmed. Its not just for a client in business ways either you can also be given one for competitions.

Tender

This brief is where the client will put out a brief and then companies will approach them with a pitch. This mean the client will get a bunch of views of how others are willing to do the project. Allowing then to pick one that suits their needs. But if you have spent time pitching it and don’t get picked unfortunately you have wasted your time but if you get picked you will now get a bunch more experience.

Formal

This is where you would have to follow a set of rules and complete a lot of legal paperwork to comply with the company’s regulations. Often given a contract made by the company that you would have to sign saying that you understand all the rules that they have set you. This will lead to a strict brief meaning you will have fewer creative opportunities over all.

Informal

These are very different to a formal brief as it means you can work more closely to the client to create the best outcome together. With theses types of brief there is a chance you already know the person so the chance of you already knowing the person so they deadline may not be as strict meaning the atmosphere is more relaxed.

Co-Operative

This means several people have been call upon to make the product that the client has required for you to do. For this communication is the way to go. You would need to communicate more on when you are filming and what you are filming to the others, so they are able to know what they can do to help it cant just be you doing all of the work as that is not what you have signed on to do.

Negotiated

Both of the people involved in this the client and the employee come together and negotiate one what the final idea should be and therefore it means that when creating the product, you are able to take more ideas to making it as you have spoke about what you both think is the best thing for it. With this it also leave a lot more space for creative ideas as you can always go back to the client as tell them why what you want to do will fit with the idea, then they can argue against it or even suggest an improvement to what you have done.

Negotiating

When we did the project for MESH, we had a sit down with Julie from the group and we spoke about our ideas and she put forward some of her, but we were open to do what we really wanted and negotiated that we thought some stuff was needed but other stuff wasn’t.

But this isn’t the only way you can negotiate when it comes down to the media industry as if a project comes to the actor and asks them to portray a character they have but they have only done that cos of the background like there race or religion that actor can negotiate themselves into a better role or get a really good pay from it.

Opportunities

Most people will respond to a brief in the hope they will get the opportunity to get work and to gain experience. Then from here they will be able to add to their portfolio which will then allow them to expand there work load in the future.

This project for me gave me the chance to learn what working for an actual client was like and needing them to like it. Not just the fact it was for me an my personal grade. I understood that the camera quality would need to be the best possible so we took as many shots as we needed for the project. We had to set up the cameras for the shot in a professional way for the interviews that I was apart of, this was to make sure that we had the best shots possible. We didn't really do more than one thing at a time as there was enough of us in the group to do everything we needed at once. I bough camera placement to the group, like where it should be or so on.

Mesh Research

Research.

GYBC

Great Yarmouth borough council are the local council that are responsible for Great Yarmouth and the surrounding area. They are responsible for pretty much everything in the surrounding area like the public safety to tourism.

They are in control of three neighborhood offices to help people. This includes Comeunity on Kings Street, MESH in Gorleston and the Make It Happen site which is at the Kings Centre. Each group helps and connects with the residents of the local area.

MESH

MESH is there for the Gorleston residents and their aim is to help the residents learn skills, so they don’t have to rely on the council services. They run a bunch of groups and help cover every day situations. They give advice in sectors like housing, money management and more.

Cutting hedge

Cutting hedge is a project that was set up with the help of MESH and was funded by the peoples help trust. There were incidents with residents where their gardens were over grown, and they couldn’t sort it out themselves due to disabilities and they were facing possible evictions. The project took people and took them theses important skills and then sent them off to help these people who couldn’t cut their own garden.

ENSFC

Our college got involved via Jane Palmer who is our community adviser. Julie from MESH got in touch in regards to a video that they needed to help promote there project which could then be shown at events to help get funding.

Mesh Evaluation

The task we were given was to create a promotional video for MESH and their project cutting hedge, this meant we had to constantly communicate with the company to make sure we were meeting their needs. We spoke to Julie, who was the first to approach us about it. She asked us for help creating it and said that we could have full creative control over the project.

Storyboard / strip brought in by Julie Woods to outline project

My personal role was to help interview two people who were involved within the project. I had to interview Emma who was a councilor and Justin who worked directly with Great Yarmouth Borough council. Then to edit the interview afterwards in premier pro.

Emma Interview Still

Justin Interview Still

I really enjoyed getting to go out and work for another company off site of college as it helped us understand more of what it is like to work for a company that will show of the work for the entirety of there business. It also helped push us out of our comfort zone as we had to arrange times with people we didn’t know and ask stuff about a project we barely knew about.

The most challenging bit of it was the time limit as we were given about 2 weeks to complete filming and editing and the pre-production. So, we had to plan our time very carefully and split up the parts and give them to certain people. So, like a group did the risk assessment and another did reeces an so on.

I think I were to do this again I would like to have more time to do stuff. So not a 2 week notice of it needing to be done. But would also use more than one camera to get different angles as it would have saved time to do it this way. Also, would have liked to get more knowledge of what I was doing and where I was doing it, so the pre-production would have been a lot easier to do, like the risk assessments.

I would like to say this tasked made me understand why deadlines are important and that I am going to try to stick to them as it would save me a lot of time in the long run. It has also help me understand the importance of group work more as if I were to do this task on my own, I doubt I would of gotten it done.

Overall I think this task has helped me with the knowledge of why deadline are helpful an important and that it was a great experience with working with an outside company. I am happy that I took part in this.

Company / Organisation logos

Single Camera Techniques

Understanding Codes, Conventions and Current Practice in Corporate and Promotional Programming.

Understanding Codes, Conventions and Current Practice in Corporate and Promotional Programming.

Define libel and copyright and apply in a corporate / promotional video context?

Libel

This a false statement that is published and damages a person reputation.

Copyright

This is a law that give the owner of a piece of work the right to say how they want their work to be used and who they want using it. This also makes it if you release the work people can’t copy it in anyway as you have made sure it’s your own. This can be from anything that you have created like a book, piece of music, a video, images and a lot more.

This means that you cannot take/use the work if it is copyrighted without the owner’s permission. You can contact the owner so see if they would allow you to use it and it could cost you or even they will let you use it for free.

In Corporate / promotional video you will need to make sure that that you don’t fabricate lies about someone it could ruin their career. So, if someone said that one person was racist and if a reliable news source reports on it, it would be destructive for that person. Also, if you have any copyrighted images or just general media in general the business would be at risk of being sued and getting a bad reputation.  

The Equality Act 2010 is the act they made so you must consider all the options no matter their race, religion, disability and discrimination. This is saying no matter what the person is like if they have the skills and qualifications needed they must be hired an if you were to get fired because of one of these reasons you are able to take legal actions.

This happened with Miriam O’Reilly she had been fired from country file for being to old, and she ended up winning the case against the BBC and ended up gaining like £2,500.

This is to make sure

what law relates to obscenity and why can it be problematic/ variable in media?

Ofcom is the body that regulates TV and Film and ensures the content is appropriate for the viewers at the time. Like you wouldn’t want a child watching a show that includes a lot of sexual content. Therefore, the water shed exists it makes it so stuff that is not suitable for children is after a certain time which is 9pm.

Ethical Issues:

We must consider representation as media students as we don’t want to portray certain religions or races as a certain role. Like if we were to take someone an we were doing a piece about terrorism and we made the people who were Muslim do the terrorism bit, that would be wrong to make them that straight away. We would have to consider all the possibility’s and what kind of terrorism we are wanting and how else it could be portrayed. Also, with the places that you film in you have to make sure that they are portrayed in in a way that doesn’t make them look bad.

If the audience where to see that oh this race or religion were to be portrayed as a terrorist or a criminal in general. There is a chance that people will then start to see them how they are portrayed within the media. And how we are currently people are more likely to believe it.

Equipment needed:

Camera, Lights, Tripod, microphone are what is mainly needed for the production as you will need to film light up a shot and record audio if needed when filming as when you get a final product you will have an interview maybe, but you will definitely have footage of what they do. So, you’ll need the basics for filming really. But you can go all out an get steady cams go pros, and so on.

Depending on what the audience is for your business you would distribute the video in different ways or example if you were showing off your corporate video to people that were young adults you would most likely show it off on the internet, like YouTube. But if it was for a more mature audience you would probably show it off on a mainstream programme. This is all because it reaches the audience the video is for.

In a lot of videos, you would see a bunch of like smooth slider shots, free hand videos or even some still rule of third shots when interviewing people. In the video itself I would expect to see the stuff that the business is doing or have already done. Also, would expect to see some interviews say why they do it or how it even started.

Pre-production is key when making a promotional video you would probably start with a story board so you would get an idea of what to do. Then would move on to a shot list risk assessment, reeces and location releases. And etc.

All of the pre-production should be complete as you need it to confirm when you are filming an what you are filming. It doesn’t just help you it helps everyone know when they are filming or who they are even fliming.

The Purpose of Music Videos

Styles, Conventions & Techniques

Lucky Dip PreProduction

Finished Video

Bad Blood - PreProduction

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane was directed by Orson Welles and it was released on 24th January 1942.

Group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud". The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world.

—Zack H.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/plotsummary


Cinematography - 

low angles, moving furniture, an sets that used to make things look smaller.

Mise-en-scene -
They used lighting in the floor a lot, fake ceilings with lights in, used the same props over an over again.

Character movement -
When they moved it made you focus on them.

Sound -

Proposal

Advert Stuff

The Crazies (Eisner, 2010)

The Crazies

Give Two examples of events that cause later events in the film, but which occur before the film 'starts'.

Judy and David were expecting a child after a long time of trying as Russell says something with on the line "its about time" and because of Judy expecting she had a fever which made the army believe that she was infected.

They found a plane that had crashed in the drinking water that they believed is the reason that people were going crazy. Therefore they were trying to shut down the water system and because the guy would not let them close it and then it making more people crazy.

List two events from the 92-minutes film that happen in a different time and space to the one we are shown.

We know that Russell tried to drive away to escape the area before he became crazy or had gotten kill himself. We know this because he had told David and Judy that his car had been spiked and had been taken back to the high school.

At the end of movie Judy find a bunch of transport cages that had a bunch of bodies that had been burnt to a crisp after being shot. We find out that they are are the people that were deemed safe and not infected we are able to tell this because of the green wrist band.

Screenplay practice

Mesh paper work

Research Dossier

Research Dossier

Secondary research:

This is where you collect information from other sources that are not your own like from books or online sites like Wikipedia. For the course I have gathered a bunch of secondary research.

3MW:

The research that I did for this was all done of Wikipedia and it was just about the rap/hip-hop genre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping

TV Advert:

For this I had to research the history of the advert and the people that would use it.

                 

Depict:

For this we went onto the the depict website and studied the videos that were already on there for help.

https://www.depict.org/

Primary Research:

This is where you go out and get the research yourself. If this would be questionnaires or interviews you got this information yourself so it is classed as primary.

3MW:

For This we sent out a questionnaire to people.



















TV Advert:

For this I asked people what they thought of the product and with there responses could then improve on the product itself.

Depict:

For this we would of researched the areas that we could of used and different types of names that we could of used for the video.

Pre Production

The Nature and Purposes of Research

The Nature and Purposes of Research 

Primary Research: 

This is research where you gather your own information of the topic that you are researching. This can be by doing surveys or questionnaires that people can answer this way you are gathering information that hasn't been collected before.  

"Primary research (field research) involves gathering new data that has not been collected before." http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/business/marketing/marketresearchrev3.shtml 

The way I would have done this for my documentary is we had interviews with people to find out what they thought of our chosen topic. 

Secondary Research: 

This is information that you would have gathered for a source like a website like Wikipedia for information that you haven't gathered by yourself so have looked online for help. As you have got it online this is data that exists already. 

"Secondary research (desk research) involves gathering existing data that has already been produced."http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/business/marketing/marketresearchrev3.shtml 

The way I did this for my documentary is we looked online on sites like Wikipedia for information about rap/hip-hop and where it originated. 

Comparison: 

In my opinion Primary research is better than secondary as it is more recent than the secondary information as you gathered it yourself. Also, you can trust it more as it you have gathered it and know it hasn't been tampered with by people online. 

Quantitative Research: 

This is a structured way of collecting and analyzing data that you have obtained. Its conclusive in its purpose as it attempts to quantify the problem. 

"It is conclusive in its purpose as it tries to quantify the problem and understand how prevalent it is by looking for projectable results to a larger population." 

https://www.sisinternational.com/what-is-quantitative-research/ 

This would have been when we send out a questionnaire for people to fill out, so we could then see how many people knew what and what they didn’t. 

Qualitative Research: 

This is what you would use to reveal a target audiences range of behavior and the perceptions that drive with reference to specific topics or issues. This is also information that you get in more detail and a lot more of.  

"qualitative research lifts the lid on what people think and, more crucially, why they think it. It’s a personal form of market research that enables you to learn the motivations and feelings of your prospects" https://www.bl.uk/business-and-ip-centre/articles/what-is-qualitative-research  

This would have been for the Tv advert when we asked people for detail of what they thought of the advert. 

Comparison: 

The difference between Qualitative and Quantitative Research is one is more statistical and the other is more detailed. So, you can analyze one easier as you are able to put it in to a table, but the other one stores more information.  

Data Gathering Agencies: 

BARB is a site that collects data for when people watch TV and what they watch this shows you for a daily basis or monthly. This is available for everyone to look at and it is also free to do so. Also, sites like IMDB do this as they store information that people have said about movies and what the rating is for the movie. 

UK data service collect data for a few things they do it for Unemployment, Crime or ill health rates for the country. This helps estimate all the stuff, so we could know how many people won't have a job or will be ill throughout the year. 

Audience and Market Research: 

This is where you would evaluate the amount of people that are watching, using or listening to a certain product this way you can tell if he product is being used enough and if you were to make a new one if it would be worth it as people might not use it. Also helps with looking for a good channel to post a advert on.

"research into the make-up and habits of the audience of a particular television or radio program or network"

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/audience-research 

For the audience research that I did for the documentary we sent out a questionnaire for people to fill out that were around the age that we thought listened to the artist we did it on. This way we would know what people wanted out of what we were doing what their knowledge on the subject we were doing. 

We found out what we thought we already knew but it helps to back it up that most of the people we asked knew what the hip-hop rap genre was but there were a few that thought that it wasn't a genre. 

Production Research: 
This is where you would research that would help you find out what the characteristics of the product would be. Like what to name it, who would use it and when it would be used.
"Component of market research whereby the characteristic of a good or service, that will satisfy a recognized need or want, are identified."

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/product-research.html

In the Depict task we did we had to investigate how much the project would of cost us and what we wanted and what the project would have been called. So, for this we wanted a mask in the video so went with a fish mask that cost ups £15 and we investigated different things related to a fish and we went with the fear of fish which is Ichthyophobia and this fit the project as it was of a murderous fish.