AS my first post on my A2 blog, I am going to go over how I feel the overall progression of AS media has benfitted me and prepared me for A2 media studies. Below, is my final AS production which was an opening sequence for the fictional film, 'Hollow Earth'.
Overall, I feel that this productions outcome was as good as I hoped it to be before I started. There were ups and downs however along the way. The three main stages of the construction of this piece were pre-production, production and post production. I shall cover what went well and what we had to do to improve on some of the drawbacks throughout the construction.
Pre Production
Pre Production was by far the most straight forward processes in the whole production, compared to the other two stages. This step focused on all the planning aspects of the production such as storyboarding, scripting and organising actors, the setting and so on. Me and my group dealt with this fairly efficently as we did not slack with our job roles. For example, I was in charge of storyboarding and organising the costume and setting. I did this quickly but took time thinking about what would be suitable. The storyboarding proved slightly more challenging as this was the first step of bringing the actual production to life. The only real problem we have was disagreement on the intial idea for the production. Two of us, including me, wanted to make a thriller whilst one of us wanted an action opening sequence. We decided though that a thriller would be best. Overall, the pre production stage was a success although the majority of plans made were not actually used, as we changed our minds throughout production and post production.
Production
In this stage, we actually went out and filmed all the shots needed for the piece. These shots were already decided in the pre-production stage so it sounded like it wasn't going to be too difficult. However, this was definetly not the case. There were positives, like the majority of the times we actually went out on location,k we were productive and got what we wanted to do done, on the most part. However there were a few problems we encountered. One of these problems was that we were sometimes unequipped thus making it impossible to get anything done. For example, on one occassion the camera ran out of batteries as soon as we started filming and we didn't have any way of charging it or a replacement battery. By far, the biggest problem was lack of continuity. When on location, we though that each shot was continuous so did not worry about it. However when we were editing it became apparant that there was a lack of continuity. We then had to go out and re-film the shots. Overall this was a tricky stage but we managed to pull it off.
Post Production
Although probably the most stressful, this was the stage I enjoyed the most. Post production mainly consisted of the editing process but it did also involve finding a suitable soundtrack and so on. Editing was something that I had little experience in, so I felt most confident here. The main challenge here was timing. It took three times as long as I first thought it would to edit, and there were some problems such as corrupt files and lack of continuity along the way. The soundtrack we used was good as it fit the whole mood of the opening sequence and was editied to be at a range of volumes, to make it seem more profesional. Overall, the post production stage was probably the most challenging stage however I enjoyed it a lot as I feel it gave the piece life.
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