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10/10/10-10/11/10

I decided what task I would want to complete at first I wanted to do a music video however I felt that I would not have suitable characters, props, a strong narrative structure, genre, therefore I felt that doing a trailer along with a magazine cover and a poster would be my area of strength as I have previously for my As production work produced a poster and magazine. After having an experience previously it helped me to consider the most important element of genre and following specific generic conventions to make it a success.

10/11/10- 12/12/10

I began researching on the type of genre I want my package to consist of, as I thought that genre is the most important element in the production of a trailer, poster and magazine cover. Therefore when looking at specific examples relating to my poster and magazine I decided to upload them onto my blog on the research post. I also created some mock-up of my magazine cover and a poster and uploaded it onto my blog this helped me to keep on track with my vision of what I want on my packages.

13/12/10-24/12/10

I decided to create the magazine cover and the poster by following my mock-up. After spending up to 6Hrs a day on the development and creation of a magazine cover and poster by using the latest Adobe Photoshop CS3 to create these, making them more professional looking which creates humour and making it look visually like a comedy genre poster and magazine cover. I wanted to try and get my ancillary tasks completed before Christmas.

28/12/10 – 12/01/11

I began planning for my trailer. I began thinking of a narrative for the audience to follow easily; I created a story board, shot lists, scripts and title cuts. After doing all this I scanned in all my work so far and analysed it all including my research of my magazines, posters, mock-up’s, and experimentation of my images. I had to order special lights from Argos who ordered them especially from their main warehouse.

13/01/11-15/01/11

I looked at other comedy trailers including:

· Pink Panther

· The Dilemma

· Mr Beans Holiday

I could not really find many slap-stick genres consequently I decided to just analyse these trailers.

17/01/11-20/01/11

After updating the whole of my blog I decided it was time to film my trailer. Subsequently I decided to begin filming. I had to arrange locations, cameras, props, characters, my own time had to be managed well and lighting. I had to film

· Churches

· Green scenery

· Restaurants

· Pubs

· Train stations

· Chapels

· Hotel home

· Hotel Garden

The arrangements for this took a very long time as everything had to come together in time of doing the filming. The character who goes to work too had to give up for that day, cameras were required by other students too, strong lighting was required which were ordered from Argos from their main warehouse which took a couple of weeks. I had to buy specific clothing for the character to make it suitable for the trailer.

20/01/11-24/01/11

I had used a specialist HD Camera to film my clips along with a tripod to balance my camera clips. I had to carry all my equipment everywhere to capture these spectacular views for my trailer. I had done all of my filming in four days over the weekends too, there were a limited number of cameras this was a limitation to me as the filming had to be done quickly.

25/01/11- 11/03/11

The film was all uploaded on the computer called Final Cut Pro 8 Express, in special software, there was also special software I used to develop and edit titles in between the trailer clips called Live Type. I merged all the clips together using tools such as video transitions specifically cross dissolves, and fades. I used editing tools to edit each clip which had to be rendered each time which took a very long time to do. I used to spend up to 5Hrs a day to edit my trailer into a professional looking trailer to meet my audience’s expectations by sticking to my genre and making good use of following the generic conventions of a slap-stick comedy. I changed the duration of clips, speed levels, tempos, and pitches of text displayed on the screen (title cuts), music and the visual text itself. I had to make sure that my package as a whole all connected together and it all followed the genre through the following of the generic conventions.