Progression from AS to A2:

I think this year has challenged me and Manny more the last year, reasons for this include that this year we had to make a trailer rather than a opening sequence and a trailer is not a continuous story and therefore more locations,shots,and footage was needed, which was actually quite difficult. But we planned our locations from the start so that was OK and even though the grave yard that we initially planned to be one our main settings wasn't available to shoot in we opted to film our footage in 3 or 4 different locations which is different from last year as we only used one or two locations. Also this year we have to produce print products which means we had to divide our time more between the two as essentially we are doing two projects, whereas last year we only had the opening sequence to concentrate on so that made it tougher. Also from last year we learnt that a lot of things can go wrong during editing and shooting processes so we tried to be more careful with our time this year.

I used more technology than was used last year we used a new program called sound booth to correct sound, which was an issue because we shot some of our footage outdoors and therefore some of the sound came out unclear and we had to change that. I also used photoshop and fireworks which i had very little if any experience of those programs and i basically edited the poster and magazine through the method of trial and error and now know editing techniques such as the feathering tool which i used for the blurriness and mist on the poster. On the magazine i learnt how to layer things correctly so that everything was in the right order as at first things like fonts kept changing colour when i put them onto the canvas, but soon found out this was due to them being under another layer and that i needed to bring it to the front by putting that layer at the top of the menu on the right hand side of the screen.

Overall this year was much more work heavy and more planning had to be done so that we could fit everything in to the time frame that we had and admittedly it was much more of a struggle towards the end, this is because there is more to think about when making a trailer and you have to compare it to others more than you would a opening sequence i think because you have to have the horror themes running through it as well as having a clear narrative and a clear structure as well as linking in the print products with the trailer. I think this year because we were doing a horror genre piece we had to concentrate more on the mise en scene than last year as this is essentially what makes the genre obvious and attracts the audiences attention so quite a lot of thought was put into that.