Unit 25 research for product development

 Validity - how relevant something is to the topic Reliability- how reliable a product/business is. Trust? Bias? Accuracy- how close data is to the facts. Is it true? Use multiple sources. Budgeting -  http://productionguildaccounting.com/development-and-pre-production/budgeting-top-tips/ Ep (entertainment partners) Media regulators IPSO-independent press standards organisation ( ASA-advertising standard authority OFCOM- office of communication BBFC- British board of film classification 

 Stock library - where you can get information from. PA (Press Association) - find out information for all types of media and will sell it to other media production companies like newspaper companies.  Reuters - Hold high value information and headlines which can be written or video information and will hold the headlines on their website or sell directly to the press. Getty - they sell images and videos to the press so they can be used in newspapers etc.  BBC Motion Gallery - they are in partnership with getty images. 

 Methods of secondary research: - newspaper articles Advantages: up to date  - biography Advantages: Accessible, professionally written - transcripts Advantages: we don’t have to do the interviews - tv and radio Advantages: accessible and free to access - textbooks Advantages: accessible, written professionally  - media research organisation  Advantages: freely available on the internet, trustworthy, reliable - information on general or specialist webpages  Advantages: access information we cannot find from other people Documentary on how to create a tv program - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLOqLOihzc  an appropriate source related to my client brief: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a39179/five-real-life-horror-stories/. BARB- Most popular tv program for W/C 28th September-4th October:  Michael Palin: travels of a lifetime Most popular programme on BBC1 - BBC news at six Most popular program on ITV - Coronation Street  PA ...

 Primary research:  Getting/ gathering first hand information and data.  (You doing the research yourself)