Thursday, 6 September 2012

G325 Section A 1a)

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We will post the various answers to these questions on the relevant page. 

Today we plan individually an answer to this question. In the exam, the focus could be on one of these:
  • creativity 
  • research and planning
  • post production or 
  • using conventions from real media texts.

Describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Production in relation to creativity

Start with the preliminary exercise. Describe what you learned to do.
FINISH FOR PREP & POST ON ITS OWN PAGE
Move to the Foundation Production. State clearly what the brief was ( a thriller opening or a new music magazine) and what creative processes you used you used THROUGHOUT the whole process and later move on to your music video, digipack and advert, when it's completed.

Example:
My prelim was a limited, prescribed task involving an establishing shot, two-person shot and shot / reverse shots: some room for creativity in that I learned to shoot, capture and edit in iMovie. 

The real creativity came with the thriller opening brief: my challenge was to devise a narrative in  a Guy Ritchie style, involving gangland punishment and revenge. The mise-en-scene (an urban estate), character casting (four masked thugs), props (weapons like hammers and crowbars) and vehicle (VW car) all required creative planning; creativity is nothing without organization and I learned the value of detailed storyboards, recce shots, call sheets, equipment lists and cast meetings. These were all part of my creative process because they turn visualization into reality. I suppose that I learned a lot about strategic planning at AS and made mistakes which didn't happen at A2: research, planning, management of equipment, timing, feedback are all creative steps that are nailed down in blogs, emails, good record keeping with sufficient time for practice.

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