Our AS coursework required us to create a 2 minute opening to a film of a genre of our choice. After a huge amount of research into film opening conventions and watching many different genres of film, we decided to do the genre gangster, as we believed this would be interesting and attention grabbing, whilst having a unique selling point.
I have learnt a huge amount from the production of our AS media film opening, such as the importance of the large amount of research that must be done pre-production. Without this research, I feel it would not have been possible to create a gangster film opening that fitted the standard conventions and we would have lost a lot of marks. I also learnt how vital organisation and planning is for the filming process, which we learnt a few weeks before the final deadline! For various reasons, we fell way behind our brief schedule, which did not give us the same opportunity to edit and tweak our film in great detail.
Overall, I think our lack of organisation and not sticking to a planned schedule gave us a huge disadvantage and lost us many marks in the end. On a positive note, we really got to grips with how to use a camera and how to use the editing program (which we were clueless about before!!) which was extremely interesting and fun when we finally made progress in editing our film to music, and eventually finishing! I have learnt a huge amount, and will be definitely be taking our mistakes from AS and turn them into positives for our A2 coursework.
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