AS Over View

Below is the video for my AS final production, the creation of my opening sequence was able to expand my media knowledge as well as improve my over all skills.

From this production I was able to learn how to effectively execute the three areas of media production which include planning, filming and editing. I feel my group and I made good use of the time that we had to plan and accounted for everything that needed to be done by our set deadline. Because we were well planned this allowed us to get to filming our opening in good time as we were ahead of schedule, however we had to postpone our filming date before hand which ended up dragging out our overall production process. From AS I have learnt that having a good a detailed plan makes the rest of production run much smoother and is able to save time for the other areas of production. 

From the previous course I was able to learn a lot about film language including symbolism, camera shots, angles and movement. This was beneficial to my production as I was able to apply it when filming, I feel that my product as a whole was good as it included a variety of camera shots and angles however I feel it could have had more movement. If I was to re film my opening sequence I would aim to have more control over the what is seen in the shot, there are some shots that to me come across messy and not organised. I don't think it harms my product to badly but I now see several ways in which it could have be avoided. Now moving on to my A2 course when it comes to filming I will make efforts to make sure that everything seen in the shot is there because I have chosen for it to be. Another area I would improve is try to make the production as whole seem more natural, a lot of the shots were very obvious and I think that is the main factor that makes a student piece come across less professional. The challenges of filming were ones that were often out of our control for example the weather, however due to our good organisation were able to plan around this effectively. 

This production was able to teach me the fundamentalist of the editing process and I was able to learn that it is important to leave adequate time for editing. Editing allowed my piece to come together and in the end I was pleased with the overall out come. In the future I would put more time into the color treatment as this is able to determined the tone of the sequence. 

Now approaching my A2 I will apply everything learned from AS in order to make my future production as strong as possible 

Having this post will be a good reference for how I have improved when reaching the end of my new course. Next I will decide of which brief I feel will be most suitable and appropriate for my self.