Commemtries

1.From studying Film Media Studies at Barnsley College it has opened my eyes to all the amazing possibilities of having a career in the film industry.

I am applying for your  Media(Film) Production (W600) course as, I really want a career within the film industry and I believe that your course is the best one to give me this opportunity.Your course will teach me new skills and how to develop skills I already have.

2. Preliminary Exercise AS Media Studies. Role: While making this video I not only acted but, I also helped in the editing and filming process.

This was the first piece of work that I did during my time studying and learning about the media industry.This exercise was performed so that we as a group would work as a team and develop and learn skills like, the 180 degree line and match on actions. From this clip you can see how I have improved from being able to only perform simple but yet necessary skills like a match on action to the graphic match and elliptical editing. There are some issues with this footage as some of the clips had to be flipped as we had filmed them over the wrong shoulders. This mistake helped me learn how to create over the shoulder shots correctly and how to edit the footage together so that the mistakes are not noticeable.

3.Delusion AS Media Studies. Role: I contributed to the making of this by helping plan the production of the film (research) the filming, editing and also acting.  

The planning of Delusion was a very vigorous process as, we all had different ideas but, the main aim was to make it appeal to the audience.The brief was to make the first 2-3 minutes of a film. We decided to make a psychological thriller as it was not only a challenge to inform the audience about the storyline of the film but also, to create a piece of footage full of emotion and our passion for the subject. I think that the strengths of Delusion are the variety of shots used for example, the graphic match used at the very beginning, the elliptical editing and the audio.

There are a few areas of the short film that could be improved. For example, there could be more dialogue to improve the audience knowledge of what is happening throughout the film.

The technology used when filming Delusion was very important to get right. We decided to use the Sony HD1000 as some members of the group had used it previously.we thought that we should film in HD as it would improve the quality of the footage and make it look more professional.

4.Journey A2 Media Studies. Role: I worked on the camera as well as helping to create the contents of the journey.

We did this journey exercise so that we could practise skills for elliptical editing, as we decided to use this technique in our A2 film. Our journey is only a 30 second clip and only took one day to film and edit together.

5.The Forgotten Truth,(film, radio trailer and poster)

Role: my role in the making of all these products was filming, editing and helping with the planning of both the radio trailer and poster.

At the beginning of the year we were given a brief to create a short 5 minute film of any genre. As a group we sat down and put some ideas together to create the storyline which now lies on our film. The Forgotten Truth was recorded on a Sony HD1000 camera and was edited on the program final cut express. We found it difficult at times to get everyone together so that we were able to film and even harder to make all our shots flow, especially the scenes where Damian ( the protagonist) is searching for his girlfriend Lily. We found this hard to put together as, it had to be broken apart and placed into other scenes to make the audience believe that it is flickering from reality to memories of the past.

The radio trailer was very simple to create. We took the audio from the forgotten truth and copied it into a new project. We then cut it apart and kept the most interesting parts of the audio and put them together.By adding a simple voiceover we were able to create a short 30 second radio trailer that complements our film well.

The poster for the forgotten truth was made by another member of my group as she had experience with using photoshop. I did make my own poster for the film but, we as a group decided to go with her poster as it looked more professional and suited the film.