Review on AS Media

There were many positives and negatives in our AS media production but it could have improved in many ways.

What went well: 

• Planning which went into the story line was done very effectively which meant we were able to explore a variety of possibilities withing the story line. By laying out a clear narrative which we spent a lot of time on perfecting we were able to make sure that the story line was very clear to the audience and no confusions occurred.
• Able to understand the process of editing and learn how to use premier pro, this came in very handy throughout the year as we were able to make quick changes which improved the production.
• The amount of planning needed in order to produce an effective horror movie as well as the conventions. We were able to establish exactly what we needed to include to allow the production to be effective.
• Variety of good shots which was relevant to the narrative and allowed the audience to see exactly what was going on. There was a good relationship between the scenes and the backgrounds used, this helped the production as it was more understandable and it was very clear what was going on.

Even better if:

• Planning the shooting, previously we did not know the exact deadline which meant we did not plan when to shot the scenes. This resulted in the filming being being done last minute as a result of this everything was rushed and we could not re-film many of the shots that needed to be improved instead we had to rely on the editing.
• Changing ideas, as a result of being in a big group everyone had different ideas on what should be in the production this resulted in us not knowing exactly what the story line was going to be. As time went on we fell behind which effecting the filming meaning everything was done last minute. As a result of us having lots of different ideas the story line kept changing and adapting to everyone's preference. But when we did agree on a story line we put a lot of effort into the story line and planning.
• The editing could have been improved as the lighting was very bright we did not know how to change the brightness and as a result of everything being done last minute we could not change it in the editing as we did not have time to find out how that could be done.
• Tripod use, as a result of us not paying extra attention the the tripod we did not realise that the tripod was unbalanced at certain scenes which meant some scene were not filmed properly.