Research and Planning

Describe and Evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work:

How I have improved after producing my Thriller?

By producing my Thriller " The Black Rose" in AS I have learned several skills that will help me in my A2 project of making a music video. Adobe Photoshop was a graphics editing program which allowed me to manipulate the key image of The Black Rose into a mock webpage for the movie. This program will also be useful this year for my music video. 

I have also improved in my skills with editing movies. Using programs such as iMovie and Adobe Premier Pro CS4, the quality of our production can be greatly increased. 

Having done the Thriller my actual filming technique has become more advanced with the numerous camera angles that I have learnt to include. However, both a thriller and a music video would require different angle shots in order to compliment the subject matter of each one.

How were you creative?

For my AS Thriller opening, my group was most creative in the subject matter of the movie having spent much time on producing a good story board. However, I believe there was more potential to improve the creativity in the characters props. The outfit of the leading character Natalie was very average and we could have built on her profile of a mentally ill woman with her clothing. For the Black Rose several different camera angles were incorporated in order to maximise the effect we were trying to create for the Thriller opening.