Creativity*

Creativity:
Last year we ended up doing a action film, which we called addiction, this was generally about car chases, actions, drug deals gone wrong and involved part of our story about a ex-soldier called Andrew Macgregor. we used the action media form last year, while this year we decided to do something more challenging like horror. Last year generally we got the ideas from people we met outside of college, and different movies, and media we have watched over the various years as well as recently.  ideas also came about from other media sources such as this particular anime called Mirrai Nikki, where we see psychotic girl stalking a helpless boy, and this became a huge part of our plot during our A2 production, however in as we decided a action movie, therefore we had these ideas afterwards.

we worked collaboratively because we all have different interests we would get talking about each of our favourite movies or shows for example, and we put some of the main ideas from those films together. This would make up a base of our trailer. we would also brainstorm these ideas, so we actually knew what the ideas for the trailer were about, and made sure it would actually work how we wanted it to work. another one of the members in our group also made sure we had the props required to pull the trailer off, one such prop included a horse mask, we had wanted to include a mask more suitable such as a hockey mask but we had to make do with it.

we changed things by adding a lot more eeriness to our trailer, whilst last year we had to include almost drama, fighting and comical violence, therefore the differences are obvious. we also decided to add different music, throughout the background to it, also we decided to take different camera shots and angles throughout, this was so that a different effect could be added throughout in comparison to last year's film. we also decided to actually add more titles in the trailer, since in the first one we barely had any and the one we did was absolutely terrible. so we added titles our own coming soon title and the names of the actors and director.

we used adobe premier elements to make the footage quality better, we edited in clips of our footage and we included short cuts and long cuts, and we would make it relatively short. we also used adobe premier elements to change the lighting around, in our first media production the lighting changed from light to dark, this was a mistake, we made sure to rectify this in our second, as it was dark all of the time.

in terms of page layout, our choices made sure that our credits and titles would be dark so as to adhere to the media genre even more so. and appeal to the codes and conventions of the genre, so as to make it more action-packed, this would further entice the audience and want to make them see it more as it would also increase the mystery factor.