Project log

September 2012

In this month, I was firstly introduced to the A2 media project. I have realised that in the future time being I had to produce a short film alongside with its film poster and a review page. I began my research by first receiving an understanding of how to structure a short film before its schedules. For example I have watched several short films on YouTube and from previous A2 students. I was then paired up with Karis and began to practise of producing short treatments that were given to us as practise for example the lion and the slave, we had to understand the plot of the story and know how to develop big twists that may occur. After understanding definitions, watching several clips and preparing for the pre-production me and karis then continued of thinking of a sew story idea for a film.

October 2012

In this month, me and my partner karis decided that we wanted to produce a short film that were related to school massacre. Therefore me and karis have managed to produce almost 4 treatments because many of them were considered to be too confusing and too well-known in which many people will recognise the big twist so therefore karis managed to come up with a treatment that were chosen called the perfect prefect. However by managing to create a treatment we then realise we had to perform online research as well as interviewing about teenagers, school massacre and also drinking. After managing this particular research we then continued to our pre-production of our film. Our first was to produce a story board in which it had to be planned in a step by step process first to reduce any complexity. Afterwards we then managed to produce the actual story board, asking permission for the location, hiring actors and getting the props. We have managed to prepare the preproduction .Therefore the shooting schedule for the short film Tuesday 16^th of October and Wednesday 17^th of October. I was very worried about the weather condition which may of affected the shooting schedule that was set in the AstroTurf however it was a success that we have managed to shoot our film. In this month, we then had to edit by using Adobe premiere Cs5 and upload it onto to YouTube. After completing the short film it was compulsory for us to develop a film poster as well as a film review magazine. Therefore we had to research several independent film posters as well as their film review pages to receive an understanding of how to apply a similar typography.

November 2012

In this month, we then continued of producing a lot of drafts of my film poster and managed to develop a final draft. Afterwards I then continued of producing my film review magazine. The ancillary task was done on Photoshop CS4 ,this took a long time to develop because of my experience however I have managed to become familiarise with the programme and completed the ancillary task.

December 2012

In this month, it was vital for me to receive feedback from audiences to review my final product as well as my ancillary task. After accomplishing that method then prepared for finalising the project with 4 evaluations. These evaluations referred to the research, planning and production that I have accomplished for this project. Therefore I have managed to complete the evaluations and fully decorated my blog in a professional and creative format. Overall I was very pleased with this project in which I have managed to produce a fabulous short film as well as producing a creative film poster and a believable review page of my film. Since my partner karis decided the treatment of or film I believe it was a great idea. This is because nowadays many teenagers are behaving irresponsible and very negative in today’s society so therefore by presenting them a situation that can happen with the type of activities they perform can at least change them for the better. As I am a Muslim I believe that drinking  is totally forbidden and is the reason why teenagers are being negative in today’s society, so therefore by presenting a video that indicates a situation that will happen while drinking will at least provide an understanding to reduce a drinking and too think before they perform an activity that will lead to a serious scenario case.Iam very proud that iam a Muslim in which iv manage to present my research of how drinking can cause problems as well as presenting a scenario case which could happen to all teenagers when they become addicted to drinking and most importantly I’m very satisfied of how I have managed to create a fantastic end result of my media project.