Research:
Looking back at my AS Media project in terms of research, I feel that I gathered a large amount and focused on all the areas that I could in great deapth. Our Opening Sequence was a psychological thriller and there are many films in this genre that have openings which gave us good insight on how to make it clear of the genre in the first two minutes, they also gave us inspiration and ideas on what we could do for ours. We watched many opening sequences on YouTube and I also watched movies that I had on DVD and this also improved our research.
I think that although I did a lot of research on YouTube looking at openings for movies in the same genre and watching the openings of movies on DVD, I think that it would have widened my knowledge and improved my research if I had watched more opening sequences from other AS projects on YouTube and gathered ideas from there, this is something that I am going to concentrate on in my A2 project. I will ensure that both myself and my group have a wide understanding of how other A2 projects have achieved good marks and how we can improve on our success from our AS project.
Planning:
In planning I feel that we did as much as we could for our genre. We watched many clips on YouTube and planned our sequence as well as we could, although it was slightly rushed. At the beginning we had an idea of doing a psychological thriller and we had done a test run in the house that we planned to do the opening in. The test run went well and we had then began to develop our idea. After a while of thinking on how to improve it, we came up with a whole new idea and although we had to start again from scratch, the planning we had done for our previous idea gave us a better understanding on how to start the planning for our second idea and this helped us to get it done faster and properly.
Editing:
The editing for our opening sequence took an extremely long time due to the fact that we used a lot of angles with the camera and many different effects on the Macs. We made sure that when we shot the opening sequence we didn't have only one angle for each shot and that we would not have any movement missed by the camera. We managed to get all our filming done in one day and this was useful because we didn't have to come back and try to make things look identical to the way it did before. We edited the lighting and contrast in every shot, making sure it matched our genres conventions. I feel that the editing we used had a good impact on our final mark becuase we spent many hours watching the clip and changing things so that there was nothing to take away any marks.
The music we used also matched the typical genre convenions of a psychological thriller because it was quite spooky and put the audience on edge, and because we had no speaking this added to the suspense and makes the audience want to watch more.
Final Product:
I think that overall our final product emphasised the skills each member of our group had and seeing as this was our first proper project, we did extremely well. We researched and planned as much as we could and used all of our knowledge and put it into our final task. I think the one thing that we could have done to improve would be if we had researched a little more on other AS media projects and used their work to our advantage. In our A2 project we will use all of our knowledge that we gathered from our AS project and this will be used to enure that we acheieve a better mark than we did in AS.
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