For my schedule I have planned what I will be doing in each of the four lessons I have per week leading up to the final deadline and also what homework I need to do outside of lessons. This way I can see what it is I need to be doing each lesson, and if I am falling behind I can recognise it straight away and put in extra hours of work outside of lessons to catch up. Organizing it this way means that I will realize straight away if I am spending too much time on a particular task and see how much time I have left and what I have left to complete in this time so I can learn to prioritise certain stages of the production that are more important. Also I will allocate certain weeks when I have coursework deadlines or exams so that I am aware that during that week I will be completing less course work for media as I will be focusing on my other photo shoots. I also will allow extra contingency time for when things go wrong and take longer to work on or photo shoots need to be redone etc. This schedule will allow me to pace myself whilst maintaining a consistent flow of work so that I don’t fall behind and there are no sudden surges of work where I have too much to do whether it’s just work for media or many pieces of work from other subjects all piling on.
I think that my schedule is realistic because I have allowed a fair amount of extra time for my other subjects and for things to go wrong or take longer than the time I predict to do them. I have thought through every stage of production and noted this in my schedule so there are no extra tasks I hadn’t thought of creeping up and delaying my production from the time I plan for it. What is also helpful however is that I completed many of the preparation for production tasks during the mock-up stage as I took it rather seriously and thought carefully through practically all aspects of my magazine planning colour schemes, fonts, layout, article styles, language, tone, imagery, cover sell lines, titles and thorough research etc. So many of the things I would normally have to do now are already done. In addition to this I don’t have any exams till the summer, after the media coursework deadline, so it allows me this time to focus on my media.
I think that the most difficult part of my schedule is when it comes to the photo shoots and the editing the photos post photo shoot. Not only is the photo shoot time limited and I have many different pictures that I need to take within this time, as well as the successfulness of the photo shoot being unpredictable and therefore the pace at which I work may be really fast or it may be really slow. Also the time I spend after having taken my photos is difficult to determine, the pictures may need a lot of work and a lot of correcting, or I may struggle to find a way to fix them, or on the other hand the pictures may be perfect first time and ready to put straight into the article. Also if they go completely wrong or I run out of time and have to rebook another shoot (this is particularly feasible with the pictures I take of dance teacher Darrien Wright in his studio because there is no particular professional lighting set up or background and this may impact the pictures) I may struggle to get another photo shoot slot when the studio, equipment, lighting assistant, models and myself are all available at the same time. I think the best way I can prepare for this is just to set up as much of my magazine as I can, allowing more time to work on my pictures if necessary, and preparing as well as I can for the photo shoots, like ordering props and costumes at an early stage, creating well thought through concepts for my pictures, and studying lighting and camera techniques as much as possible for the most effective, professional looking pictures first time.
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