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Unit 3: Media narratives and pre-production
Quick questions on Experimentation with media technologies and processes in VCE Media
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What are documenting findings?Show answer
Documentation should capture four things for each experiment: what you tested, why you tested it, what you found, and what you decided as a result. Keep evidence, frames, audio samples, layout drafts, screenshots, alongside short written reflections. The reflection is where marks live: it shows you understood the result and used it. A log entry that reads as a sentence of justification (this lighting test confirmed that low-key side-light constructed the threatening mood my narrative needs, so I will adopt it) is worth far more than a folder of untagged files.
What is feeding the production design?Show answer
Experimentation is not an end in itself; it exists to inform the production design plan you build in Outcome 3. Every documented finding should be traceable into a design decision. If you experimented with three opening shots and chose one, your design plan should state the chosen approach and reference the experiment that justified it. This continuity, research to experimentation to design to production, is what makes the SAT read as a coherent, iterative process rather than a series of disconnected tasks.
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