'AS LIVE' PRODUCTION: Report Writing

30% Production Role Critical Analysis (2000 words) - quotes 25%
It should include research into studio production and the specific professional role you have undertaken, and how that research informed your actual role and the production.

Teaches the reader about the role and uses the experience of this production as anecdotal evidence to illustrate typical tasks, issues and skills.

It is as much about informing yourself during the production about your methodology and approach as it is a piece of critical writing.

Show the reader that you can critically evaluate your work and that you understand professional approaches and context through a focus on academic referencing throughout.

Demonstrate and evidence that all decisions and critical reflections are informed by research and development by use of appropriate quotations.

e.g. Producer - could be creative side and delegating roles or about script writing

Delivered in a report style - how and why you have chosen to do something - methodology

Must contain relevant research to effectively support your work.
i.e. use relevant quotations and cite using harvard

What to include and structuring;
- draw up a general list of areas you will need to cover - try mind mapping
- tell them what you're going to say (intro), tell them (main body), tell them what you told them (conclusion)
- always write a draft
- work out a logical structure before you start to write
- allows you to explore the subject and to determine a basic logic.

Headings and subheadings:
- headings guide the reader
- Introduction - brief overview of what your report will explore
- My production role-
- Creative methodologies
- Critical reflections
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Illustrations
- Appendix

Report format:
- bullet points
- titles, headings and subheadings
- illustrations
- page numbers
- footnotes
- bibliography
- citations through harvard methods

Sources of information:
- people
- books and other publications
- IT/online
- events and places

Style of writing:
- always adopt formal writing style
- argue points as with an essay by providing relevant reliable recognised evidence
- avoid colloquialisms
- assume you are writing for an unknowing audience
- avoid unnecessary repetition or back referencing
- use linking phrases to continue and develop points in new paragraphs.

The report justifies the creative methodologies. Demonstrating professionalism. Show that you can inform decisions through research.

Show report plan - headings / sub headings / likely content / bibliography