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Research techniques for Creative media industries

1. Primary and Secondary are the two main types of research. Primary research is collecting new information through controlled experiments/studies e.g. Interviews, Questionnaires and Surveys that you can go out and do yourself. This is good because you can be certain that all the info you correct is from a good source and you have more control over where you get your information from. An example of Primary Research from SCN Network (which was my New show) is for the Afghan story, me and Chris went to London to ask people questions about their opinion on what they thought about the solders in Afghan.

Secondary research is collecting the primary research that somebody else has already researched and then posted the information onto the web or maybe on in a book, report, journals, newspapers, documentaries. This really helped me to gather a lot of information for SCN Network (My New Show).

We now live in the 21st Century where everything is on the internet, which made finding my secondary research really easy to find the information I needed for my SCN Network (My News Show). Web searching is easy to find people in the actual news industry primary research to use as your secondary research. 
Reading the work of an expert in whichever field you are researching is a fantastic source. A downside to secondary research however is that whoever wrote the original source might not have addressed a specific topic you wanted to find out about. 

In my news show I used secondary research to find out about the Michael Schumacher story. I watched the News, read the newspaper on the train and also looked on the web about Michael Schumacher skiing accident.

2. The purpose of research is so the facts and news stories are correct.

 If a viewer is watching the TV news it is generally accepted that what he is watching  is factually correct and accurate. This trust has take many years to build up and the more well establish the TV station / News broadcaster the stronger that belief is. This is because the viewer knows that the news provider has a team of researchers and journalists wanting to tell the truth. Most news based programs have teams of researcher to makes sure all is correct. Things are checked and some time checked again to make sure the facts and figures are the correct ones.  This research can take a long time as it some times involves shifting though many historical documents to make sure its right. When we made out news TV program / show I had to do the research about Michael Schumacher which was interesting but took some time. Which was annoying as this story was not even used in the final show.





Beat Sheet

THE 15 BEATS

Project Title: "The Main Men"
Genre: Comedy
Date: 12/2/14

Opening Image (1) : (Black Screen) Sound of an alarm clock. Fades to neon glowing clock face with 8:00am flashing. you can Tom groaning and then a hand knocks the alarm clock off the bed side table. It's not a good day for tom.

 Theme Stated (5) : Toms Drinking a coffee trying to wake himself up. the phone rings and before he can think about answering it the answer phone kicks in, it's Frankie "Whats up mate, Rise and shine before Joanne makes an honest man of you, me and the boys will be over to pick you up for the wildest thew days you'll ever have at 11:00am"  

 Set-Up (1-10) : 5 days till the wedding Frankie's organised a surprise stag weekend. The last thing in the world Tom wanted.

 Catalyst (12) : The guys find themselves in a posh hotel in the centre of Amsterdam over looking the Heineken brewery. 

 Debate (12-25) : Frankie opens a large bottle of toffee vodka and pours a large glass full for all the boys "Drink up lads, because to night will be one hell of a night" He then picks up a bin from the hotel then says "all phones and cameras in here please, no evidence" the boys reluctantly drop there phones into the bin 1 by 1. Frankie cheers and pours everyone a drink. 

 Break into Two (25): It's 7:30pm and everybody gathers in the hotel bar ready for the night to begin. 

 B Story (30) : The guys are in a night club getting hammered and all chatting to some pretty girls at the night club.

Fun and Games (30-55) : Frankie and Shane gets up and walks to the toilets, just as they're about to enter the toilets 4 large men in dark coats grab them and drag them outside to a near by ally. They put a bag over Shane's head and chuck him into the boot of their car. They push Frankie against the wall and say "Where is it!?" Frankie Says "I don't know what you're talking about" they reply saying "The password" Frankie doesn't say anything and after more demands for it he's punched and badly beaten. The leader of these men tells Frankie he has until dawn to bring it to them or they will kill Shane . Frankie staggers back to the night club gathers his friends and explains that he's in trouble and that they have tom fiancée. He tells them he has a special encryption password to unlock a bit-coin algorithm on his phone. 

Midpoint (55) : They leave the night club and head back to the hotel. On arrival at the hotel they discover that the bins have been emptied by housekeeping and all their phones are gone. Now they have to find out what has happened to the rubbish collected by housekeeping and where it is. They're to late as the rubbish has been collected by a waste truck and is seen slowly driving away from the hotel as the guys exit the back of the hotel.  

Bad Guys Close In (55-75) : The bad guys have followed them to the hotel not believing that they would hand over the encryption key. Charles who's background has involved fast cars runs to a parked car and highjacks the car to chase the waste truck. The bad see them drive away and so chase them in the belief that they're trying to escape. A fast and furious chase scene now takes place across Amsterdam causing chaos in the cities narrow streets. resulting with the bad guys spinning out of control into one of the cities canals. 

All Is Lost (75) : They arrive at the city dump to see the waste truck they were chasing sitting empty next to a very large mountain of city rubbish. 

Dark Night of the Soul (75-85) : They look up at the mountain of rubbish and all dive in to try and find the phones.

 Break into Three Finale (85) : As they look through the rubbish they hear Frankie's ring-tone and they all charge towards it. 

 Finale (85-110) :

Final Image (110) :

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