Skills Development

Research

A main skill we have developed is our use of internet research. Using sites like Google has enabled us to gain information on things like conventions of horror teaser trailers, researching the length of horror teaser trailers, finding out what should and shouldn't be included in a horror teaser trailer and so on. Other ways we have shown development through our research is by using social networking sites and mobile phones like: Facebook, Twitter, MSN and Blackberry to conduct our audience research. By conducting our audience research through different platforms, this is will allow us to compare and highlight any advantage and disadvantages between them. This willl also give us the chance to compare which platform received the most feedback from our target audience. Another skill developed through our research is by gaining more information about Regulations. We learnt that Regulation is when there are rules/restrictions placed on organisations or industries, and how they have an effect on case studies.

Planning

As a group we decided that it's very important to be organised, seeing as how we all have no intention in letting ourselves down. This is in contrast to last year where we were all doing individual work mostly at our own pace. Some of the steps that included our planning were: creating the storyboard, shooting scripts and the treatment for our teaser trailer. We made sure who was in charge of what so that we could finsih our work much quicker. For example it was my responsiblity to create the storyboard, it was Akin's job to create the treatment and it was Dominic's job to create the shooting scripts. This shows that we are able to plan effectively through images and writing. We made sure deadlines were met in order to make sure everything was up to date. This was through our independent and self directed study. 

Production

One very important skill we have developed over the past year is our use of the Cannon 5d, which we have been praticising with. We have praticed filming from different shots and angles, but whlist we were doing this we also experienced some difficulties with using this camera. A very common example of this is trying to keep the camera in focus when both the camera and subject are moving. Through praticising a lot with the camera we were able to overcome this problem. Whilst filiming our pratice teaser trailer we learnt that it's always benefical to film more than you need. This is because when it comes to the editing stage we'll have a variety of clips to choose from. We also learnt it's very important to lead in with 3,2,1 ACTION! and to lead out with 3,2,1.     

Post-production 

We will be using Final Cut Pro to create our horror teaser trailer in order to make it look as professional as possible. We already have some knowledge of using Final Cut Pro when we editied our pratice teaser trailer. This will be an advantage when it comes to editing our horror teaser trailer. Using Final Cut Pro can be very complex, so we'll be making sure that we either stay behind or watch numerous videos on youtube on how we can improve our knowledge of Final Cut Pro