media a level

1. What do you feel you have learnt in
the progression from the
preliminary task to the full product?
Ryan Quinn

2. How have you made your planning and preparation for
shooting more effective than was the case with the
Preliminary task?
During the process of producing the preliminary task, my group
and I, on many occasions, created a storyboard to subsequently
create a respective basis for the overall plot of the film. This in
itself meant an array of plot variations were as a result available
to reconfigure and eventually use as a vital part of the film; these
variations included different camera angles and shots, and scene
For the preliminary task however, research for other aspects of
film planning was ultimately limited. Therefore, the film
Production itself did not comprise of a specific film genre, and
consequently, did not offer any codes and conventions.

3. How have you made your planning and preparation for
shooting more effective than was the case with the
Preliminary task?
• In sheer retrospect, the planning for the full product was
vigorous, and comprehensive. This is down to the extensive
research of iconic figures and characters that may influence
the character in our own film production. Along with this, as a
collective, my group and I decided on the genre which our
film would be revolved around; horror.
• Simultaneously; the creation of storyboards, as well as the
analysis of films in relation to the same genre, allowed our
own production to establish characters, that immerse the
expected codes and conventions that the audience
themselves can associate with.

4. How have you made your planning and preparation for
shooting more effective than was the case with the
Preliminary task?
• One similarity that can be intertwined between the opposing
productions, is that both sets of creations possess an effective
use of camerawork, that as a result enhance the overall
meaning or effects of the production.

5. How have you improved the quality of the footage shot
(using tripods, different angles, filming several different
good takes from different positions)?
• In order to deploy the aspect of camerawork in the most
preeminent fashion, I personally used already made film
products (Horror productions including the Omen, 1976),
popular within society as a forefront for how our production
would be presented. An example of this was establishing the
location (secluded, repugnant) of the primary antagonist,
before establishing the latter. This allows the audience to gain
a sense of the personality of the respective character.
• Close-up shots of the characters were used sufficiently, in
order to express the emotions of the characters involved. This
is a typical convention of the horror genre.

6. How have you improved the quality of the footage shot
(using tripods, different angles, filming several different
good takes from different positions)?
• As a result of the effective use of camera work within the final
production, intertwined with the configured character types,
our latter production is ultimately greater than the previous,
inevitably making substantial progress.

7. How have you improved the quality of the edited piece
- more use of features within iMovie, use of music?
• With the use of iMovie and the further technologically
advanced Final Cut Pro, my colleagues and I were able to
enhance the effects of our film production to a astronomical
extent. One crowning example of this is the added music,
which assisted in creating a theme for either a specific scene
within the film, or the overall film itself.
• These production applications also enabled the collective
group to decide what clips to choose more competently; clips
that e.g. lacked focus, or included unnecessary sound added
were disregarded.