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Close to having all my A2 work finished and produced i feel me personally and my work have come a long way from 2 years ago, i can feel proud of my work as i know it has improved a significant amount from last year as i have put more time and research into my A2 advanced portfolio and have got to know how to use many new software's improving my skills and techniques mostly with editing film and images.

The software i used : Google Docs, YouTube, Pages, Windows movie maker and Final cut pro.

Evaluation of research.

The key feature in producing a professional piece of media is the research that goes behind it. To create a confident and bold piece of film i needed to look into what was expected from the film industry. As my theme for my film teaser trailer is romance with a thriller twist i had to do alot of research on youtube and many articles online on different romance trailers and thriller trailers separately and looked carefully at the different conventions used in both and the music and non diogetic sounds in the background for example and use some of the ideas i had collected in my research for my own teaser trailer to make it look and feel professional to the targeted audience.

With the research behind designing my teaser poster i used the internet to first look up general teaser posters and noted down the conventions found. I then extended this research by purely only looking at thriller / dark film teaser trailers to make sure my design ideas would relate to the target audience and the darkness of my film teaser trailer itself. Much of the research I carried out started out primary and involved asking people what looks good on a teaser poster and again with the front cover, also the detail they like to find on the two products. This was then backed up with the connotations and evaluations i had noted and completed of teaser posters and film front covers in the genre i had chosen.

Similarly with the research behind my film magazine front cover i evaluated well known film front covers online and film magazines i had purchased personally to pick out the main conventions and key features used on the cover of a selection of film magazines.

Evaluation of planning.

When planning for my advanced portfolio, I had to consider the main target i was given which was to produce a film teaser trailer which would be viewed by the public in cinemas and on tv screens and then had to develop my ideas from that brief professionally including completing a teaser poster and film magazine front cover all linking to each other.

MEDIA A2 COURSEWORK

This year for my A2 media advanced portfolio project i had chosen to produce a film teaser trailer along with creating a film magazine front cover promoting the film and a teaser poster to advertise and sell the film. My level of work from my A2 project was very different to the work expected in As level work. For example for my A2 work i was expected to take the skills i had learned from As and to expand from them using new software's, editing skills, new technologies and to show more professionalism finishing up my work.