Mariya Sabir AS Media Studies

Q: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?  Preliminary Task Preparation: We created a storyboard and a script as pat of our plan for the preliminary task, this helped us picture the way we wanted the scenes to look like and gave us guidance on what to do for each scene. We followed our storyboard consistently and found it to be very helpful and saved a lot of time when filming. We also made a shot list and a treatment to note down the ideas that we had and help structures it all. Editing: When it came to editing our preliminary task, everything didn't go to as planned as we didn't really consider much of the editing we needed to do because of the shots we used. It was the first time we both had used the editing software so it took some time for us to get used to as we were still learning how to use Adobe Premiere Pro. Filming: We had spent some days staying after school to get so...

Q: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? The Internet I used the internet throughout for our prelim task and main task mainly for research and when finding background music for our main task. Using the BFI Statistical Yearbook site, I gathered statistical information such as facts and figures to help gather research in relation to our choice of genre and our target audience. I also used Wikipedia to research existing horror/thriller films to get an understanding of what type of conventions a popular horror film has and their elements as well as looking at different distribution companies.  Camera We used the CANON 500D to film our film opening. The camera was quite lightweight meaning it was easy to hold for long periods of time as our shots were hand-held. I learnt how to handle the camera, which settings were the correct ones to choose and other important elements. This helped throughout the process because a...

Q: How did you attract/address your audience? Below shows some feedback we had received from my focus group. We needed to know what people from the age bracket we had selected to be the target audience, liked and dislike about our film opening. We asked them a few questions to gather some realistic feedback.