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The Media Industry

Factors Influencing Product Design

Pre-production Planning

Distribution Considerations

Scripts

Storyboards

Visualization Diagrams

Legal Issues

Mind maps and Spider Diagrams

Research

Media Codes

Client Requirements and Audience

Purpose, Style, Content and Layout

Cameras and Lighting

Sectors and Products of the Media Industry

Job Roles in the Media Industry

Images Files

Topics 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7

Topics 1 and 2

Topics 13

Topics 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12

Conventions of genre

Formal/informal language

Color

Animator

Content creator

Script writer

Web designer

Websites, social media platforms/apps

Digital games

Digital imaging and graphics

Comics and graphic novels, eBooks

Special Effects

Video, Audio, Music, Animation, Multimedia

AR/VR

A script writer creates a screenplay using either a word
processor or specialist screenwriting software

A copy writer creates copy (text) that engages,
entertains, informs or educates the reader

A web designer is responsible for the look and feel
of a web site

Positioning of elements

Style of audio representation

Style of audio representation

Tone of language

Symbolic

Written

Technical

To quickly generate and outline ideas

To develop and show links between different thoughts, aspects and processes of a project

Central nodes, sub-nodes, texts, key points, ideas, activities etc

This is a rough drawing or sketch of what the final product is intended to look like.

To show how a finished item might look.

To show how a finished item might look.

Typically used in

Blu-ray or DVD cover

Game scene, menus or cover

Poster for a film, TV show or event

Comic book layout and front cover

Web site or multimedia presentation

Magazine front cover

Mobile app design

can be for

Films

Radio show

TV show

Adverts (video or sound)

Animation.

A storyboard is used to illustrate a sequence of moving images

Content

Images i.e. for the content of each scene

Locations

Camera shot types and angles

Camera movement

Shot length and timings

Lighting

Sound

timescale

Style

client ethos

genre

Cost