AS Coursework Reflection

•          Digital Technology

We used a variety of media technologies in the various stages of my AS coursework. The first media technology we used was in our research stage were we relied of Youtube  to look at the different types of film trailers of the various genres to compare the different conventional styles present in the opening 3 minute. When we has decided on our genre, in my case horror, we used sited like IMDb and Wikipedia to research directors and horror films in general and to find out what production company is mostly affiliated with the horror genre.

When moving on to the second stage of our AS course work, planning, we moved away from technology and had drew our story bored to allow as more freedom and we were able of get our idea down quickly, when we were happy with the story line and the shot used we turned our story bored in to an animatic. We created the animatic by taking a picture of our hand drawn story bored and loading them on to Adobe Premiere Elements and added annotations

Reaching the construction stages of the course work required the use of a digital camcorder to record the footage; we then used Adobe Premiere Elements to edit the footage together and also add the opening titles and music when relevant. We also created an opening 20 second sequence of edited red, black and negative pictures to set the mood stereotypical of a horror genre opening 3 minutes. The change in the pictures was created by Adobe Photoshop giving us a lot more freedom to manipulate the various pictured to suit our needs. 

In the last stage of our AS course work, evaluation, we used youtube to present the final cut of our opening 3 minutes. By using Youtube a wildly used media presentation format it made it easier for everyone to access our coursework as it would be in a format everyone was happy using. When we were doing our final tasks to complete our course work which involved presenting our opening 3 minutes to the class and also giving a short presentation of how we found all stages of our course work we used Microsoft PowerPoint to aid in this.

Throughout all stages my work was documented in Blogger.

•          Creativity
when we were planning our coursework we looked at alot of horror films and with this genera it was important to find something original as no one would find something they have already watched scary or a copy of one and so to ensure we came up with something new we mixed together sub genres and to find something that was as close to new and original was we could of hoped for.

•          Research and planning
I feel that looking back i could of analysed more opening 2 mins to fully see the options available for us but i think we combined our main product with our ancillary texts quite well and tried to document every aspect of the creation of our opening 2 mins  

•          Post-production
from the audience feed back i have learned that music plays a bigger part in the over all atmosphere of the footage than i originality thought, whereas know from my audience feed back i can clearly see that the music and footage are on the same level of importance and i will try allot more to find the perfect fit for my trailer 

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