AS Coursework Reflection

Creativity:

-Where did ideas come from?

Me and my group took a long time to come up with an idea that we were all knew we would be satified with when it came to completing our film; the only thing we all agreed on at first was that we wanted the genre to be horror. Before we began to plan and create our movie we all had ideas which we knew we could alter to make everyones ideas count.

-How did you work collaboratively to share ideas?

To share our ideas we got together and wrote each indivisual idea down then combined them to get our final piece - 'The Woods'. Once deciding the plot of the film, we then decided all the other details from the font of the title font to the length of each shot. We then created a shot list to write all these notes down and to get a better idea on how each shot would look which we knew would make filming process a lot quicker easier.

-How did you change things?
No one in our group changed any of our original ideas, we just combined them to make something we would all be happy with. If I had to say we changed something, I would say the only thing we changed was the timing of the whole production as we went over two minutes.

-How did you use tools like Adobe Premier Elements etc to achieve something imaginative?
To create our two minutes to the best of our abilities we used tools such as Adobe Premier Elements and other softwares to add transitions, our titles, sounds and effects to mainly make our piece fit together nicely and to show that our genre of film we decided to do was horror. For example, the ambient sounds and lighting was used to build tension and an atmosphere for those watching. We also used other different softwares to create our title and font which also showed our creativity and understanding on what a horror movie would be expected to be like.

-What stylistic techniques were used to appeal to the audience?
As our target audience was mainly young males, aged from around 15-25, we decided to make the main character a girl from the same age group as they would be attracted to her. Something we also did to make our film appeal to a much broader audience would be the settings as we used mundane realism to make the audience feel as though they can relate much more to what they are watching no matter what genre or age they are. By making sure our opening two minutes was shot in a working/middle class home means watching it would make it more intense and would leave a longer lasting effect event when the movie is over and the audience goes back home.

-What was the intended outcome of the production?

Our intended outcome would be to create an opening two minutes that would show our knowledge on what makes a movie appealing to certain audience of people, in our case it would be a making a horror movie appealing to mainly young males. We also wanted to show that we understand the different camera shots, the difference between diegetic and non diegetic sound etc. 

-How were these outcomes achieved in terms of page layout and camera shot choices?
These outcomes were achieved as we managed to make each shot relevant to the sequence, making the two minutes run smoother. The way we presented our ideas on our blog pages showed we were organised as well as enthusiastic about creating our film, an example of this are our story boards because we made sure they were exactly as we wanted each shot to look like once filmed and ready to edit.