A2 media Creativity presentation

1. Through my A level coursework I have become more creative, producing media
products using my own ideas

2. Brainstorming/mind map
 In As media I made a brainstorm of music genres and then the conventions of my
chosen genre which was hip-hop/pop.
 In A2 I created a brainstorm of film genres and the tropes of them.
 This enabled me to understand what types of features that I should include in my
own film depending on whether I wanted to follow these techniques or not.

3. Blogger
 Blogger has helped me to be more creative because I could design my own layout adding my
own background image and changing the fonts, colours and styles of it to make it my own.
 Blogger enabled me to upload work from a various number of websites from images to text
to presentations and videos so my work can be displayed in creative ways.
 Blogger also allows me to view others work in order to see how they have been creative
which may inspire me.

4.  Prezi is a website which allows me to creatively display my work and I used this in both AS and
A2 because it is a unique way to display my work.
 There are a range of designs which I can edit uploading my own images and inserting videos in
order to make it my own.
 I can be creative in the layout, fonts and colours to represent whatever I want for example in
AS I created a diagram explaining the typical conventions of a music magazine and how they
attract the audience
Prezi

5. Mood Board
 Mood boards helped me to express my creativity by collecting images and fonts of a
particular style to show the conventions of it.
 I made a mood board in AS for the genre of hip-hop to establish he conventions so I can
choose which ones I want to follow and which ones I want to challenge.
 Due to the fact that in A2 we were making a moving image project it was harder to make a
mood board but I did make a collage of different film posters related to the film genre I
wanted to follow.

6. Pixlr
 Pixlr is a free website that allows individuals to be creatively edit their images by
adding effects, overlays, text, other images and also enables people to create
collages.
 In AS when I created my music magazine and also in A2 when I made my short film
poster and magazine article I used this website to edit my photos.

7. Picture/Written storyboard
 At the start of A2 as a practice task I created a picture storyboard for my one minute
short film and then before I filmed my short film I made a written script of the types of
camera shots that I wanted to use for different scenes.
 By creating these I was able to plan out what techniques I wanted to use so that it
made it easier when I actually came to film meaning that I knew what I wanted which
would save time.