Planning ahead

Initial ideas

- Brainstorm possible ideas - for each idea make notes of the potential impact that the product would have on its target audience.

Group organisation

- Who's doing what? - Organised. Specific roles/ or working collaboratively.

- keep notes on what you did!

Changes and Developments

-Ideas will develop and change after the initial ideas have been noted.

-Show modification - indercates that we are always continuosly researching element.

Practical planning

- Storyboards

-Shooting Schedules

-Drafts

-Mock-ups

-Equipment Lists

-Location reports and description

-Print based material must be drawn up in mock-up, sample photographs drafts.

-ICT / new media product - could be in a form of a paper draft.

Starting with the basics

In Yesterdays lesson we were focusing on teaser trailers. The teaser trailer must be in the marginal space of 30-90 seconds. It must not give too much information away as it must tease the target audience and grab their interest, and then they will want to go see the production when it becomes available in the cinema.As a class we looked at the 2012 movie teaser trailer, and we evaluated the effects. The high quality of CGI makes the danger of the tsunami look non-fiction. The awkward silence of no sound suggest something bad is about to happen. The quiet yet spooky music adds a scary effect as it is in a parallel connection to the straight cut edits. The use of fade out and in edits suggests that the 2012 Tsunami can just happen in an eye blink. Narrative text engages the audience with the trailer, and helps the understanding of the audience. The text also communicates to the audience by rhetorical questions and commanding text, which tells the audience to research 2012 in google. Using many more techniques the film gained a huge public response worldwide. Causing controversy people in America, people were convinced in belief that the world was going to end, and needed to be reassured by NASA that is wasn't. Altogether though the film gained lots of attention and gained a success at the box office. Using the teaser trailer they made 2012 a public matter, subsequently gaining the attention of the target audience. From this lesson I have gained an understanding of the typical codes and conventions expected in a teaser trailer. The usage of the techniques has helped me gain inspiration into finding my own ideas to create dramatic effects.

THE A2 COURSE :)

Above is a scanned copy of my A2 handbook made by my teacher.It looks scary from the outside, and it is in the inside :DG324 - Advanced Portfolio A2 level 50% (Coursework) 100marks Candidates will produce:
A media portfolio, comprising a main and ancillary texts.
A presentation of their research, planning and evaluation in electronic format.
The media portfolio will produced through a combination of two or more of the following media:

• Video
• Print
• Web-based
• Audio
• Games and Software
  

The presentation of the research, planning and evaluation may take the form of any one, or combination of two or more, of the following:

• A blog or Website
• A podcast
• A DVD with 'extras
  

As you can see I have made a start on things. For the presentation of my research, planning and evaluation I have chosen to present my work on this blog. It's good for me as I am fully capable of blogging as I did it for my AS coursework.
The task allows us to work in groups of a maximum of 4 people. My group; Guiliano Rapoz, Ellie Gocher, Lewis Tillyer and myself are focused primarily on the 2nd task, which is to make a promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with two of the following separately:

• A website homepage for the film
• A film magazine front cover
• A poster for the film
  

The group as a whole gets on well, all of us a friends and carry individual advantages into the group. With different opinions with have combined them in a group effort to do the second task. We have an idea, which is to make a Horror themed narrative. We chose Horror because it has so many conventions that are easy to recreate. The conventions also seem unique to any other genre, and so straight away the examiner will have an instant understanding of the genre. We as a group feel comfortable doing this as we all love Horrors.

The individual tasks that are tied to the main task requires me to make either two of the three choices; a website, a film poster or a film magazine front page. I think I would be most comfortable in making the Poster and Website. The website I can make in Macromedia Dreamweaver. This software is similar to me as I designed a website at GCSE level in ICT. I also have this software available in my Personal laptop as well as school. The poster I can make easily in and out of school using programmes such as Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks, as these are great picture manipulating software's.