Research and pre-production (before filming)
I believe that my skills in pre-production have improved a lot in AS because we had to do so much planning for our film opening which we wouldn't have had to do a GCSE. We had to do a lot of surveys and questionnaires to find out what kind of films our target audience wanted to see and what they would expect to happen in the first two minutes of a romantic film. Our time period wast the 1960s so we had to do a lot of research to see what the fashion was like at that time and what people had their hair like and where people went such as parks and mainly outside locations. We also had to research the romantic genre to see what kind of characters were represented in the film and what shot types were displayed in the first two minutes so that we could see what we would have to include in our film. We also looked at two minute openings from other genres to see what the difference was so that we knew what not to include in our film. For our research we also looked at what institutions could be involved in the making of our film by researching other romantic films and what institutions produced and distributed their films. We also did a lot of other research to see what kind of characters would be in our film so my skills in research have become better and it has made me prepare for A2 because i know the amount of research i have to do to make a successful project.
Production (filming)
My skills in filming improved a lot in AS because i knew the types of shots i had to include in my film compared to other romantic films. Also i made a music video in GCSE and my filming skills from that compared to my film opening in AS are a lot better and smoother and i have a better variety of shots because i had more experience with the camera. My filming skills also improved because we were in a lot of different locations making it more difficult to get the camera positions right whereas in GCSE we were only in school so in AS we had more of a challenge. Our film was a scrap book full of pictures of a couple and an old woman's hand turning the pages looking back over their time together, to highlight the memories we had to zoom into each picture and bring it to life, this improved filming skills because we had to take a still shot of the sequence before we filmed it then film the two characters doing the sequence then take a still shot of the end to make the clip/memory stop before the next page was turned. This was challenging because we had to get the photo and the start of the clip in the exact same place.
Post Production (editing)
My editing skills have improved a lot in AS because our film idea was quite complicated as we had to zoom into individual still images and make them come to life. This was a challenge because we had to try a lot of different ways of doing it before we got it right, this improved my editing skills because i had to do so many different things on the editing machine which taught me where everything was on the program and the amount of effects you can put on footage. I also improved my skills because each individual photo on the book was a different brightness to the clips we filmed which meant hat we had to change the contrast and brightness of the book and photos when we came to edit the footage and make sure it looked the same colors as the clip so that it looked more realistic.
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