Welcome!

Hi there, Welcome to my A2 Media Blog. Also Thank you if you have joined me from my previous blog made for my AS Study.

Since then i have learned a variety of skills required to produce a completed short film. Pre-Production and Production skills such as Treatment and Script Writing, creating Storyboards, how to effectively use Make-up and Costume, techniques to using the Digital Cameras, for example; Tracking, Panning and Field of View, and lastly the importance of Lighting within the film.
Turning to Post-Production i discovered a wealth of knowledge, having never used a mac before. After one year i can now successfully use several pieces of software used in the Editing stages of a films production to put together the finished product.

Now to bring you into the A2 Study. This year we will be producing a 5 minute short. These shorts can be any genre but it is preferred that we try and keep to the Thriller Genre. If not we may choose to produce a short that instead of being purely thriller, it is something a little lighter on the mind. Something we like to call Quirky. Quirky implies that instead of having a defined genre it is instead a simple storyline with a twist at the end which is not expected by the audience.
For example in the animated feature length film Hoodwinked it is discovered at the end that instead of being one of the major characters committing the crimes it was instead a character who had worked his way into each of the other's confessions. Being the least likely to commit the crime the audience would dismiss the character as a simple filler to keep the storyline flowing but by the end the audience are realising their mistakes and piecing together the events that unfolded.

My specific goal this year is to focus more on the Pre-Production aspects of the Short's production. This is because of the roadblocks i came across last year when it came to the actual Filming of the feature. Blocks such as alterations to scripts, locations and lighting decisions.

The first task at hand is to research exactly what a Short is and the conventions associated with them.