Magazine :

Looking at the magazine cover I have created it is evident how I struggled to use Photoshop to create the magazine. My main issue was what colour font to use, If I used white it would blend with the back ground, yet if I used black it would blend with our protagonist hair. So this was a struggle, I was unable to take any more pictures due to running out of time.

Our Magazine does meet the conventions of a film magazine by having the barcode, price and date included. Having a close up of the antagonist is also common, our differs because she is not seen in the trailer.

 We have chosen to include the age rating on our magazine and also relate the inside stories and other articles to the actors in our film.
 When reflecting on what we've done I would have spent more time on these tasks and prepare better for them meaning a better result.
 I know Eva and I both feel the same on this subject. We both feel we spent all our time on our trailer which paid off, but both our poster and magazine suffered because of this.

Develpoment :

 Throughout this production I feel I have progressed majorly. Since AS I feel that not only have I learnt new skills and increased my ability to use a variety of different programmes but also my creativity, I managed to brain storm a variety of different ideas, narratives, location etc. and I did my research to support my ideas, unlike last year when Eva and I decided to go with our first idea. I struggled to use the apple macs and certain programmes this year but have come far compared to AS with a lot of help and support from Eva who continued to help me when I struggled but I feel this is evident in our film in comparison to last year. I feel that this years project has been hugely successful compared to last year and I feel that this is due to our organisation and commitment to the course. Eva and I both worked extremely hard on our trailer this year and I believe this is evident on our final product and our dedication has paid off. I feel extremely pleased with what Eva and I managed to accomplish this year and felt that all our preparation, organisation and determination paid off.
 I personally struggle to use advance technology and have experimented with different editing skills on iMovie such as; transitions, effects, text, layering footage and synchronicity between our audio and visual clips. Not only did this positively impact on our products, but I had enjoyed increasing my knowledge with these features but I would of been unable to do so without Evas help. We both played to our weakness and our strengths, for example Eva was better at editing but I was stronger when using garage band. Despite this Eva and I both spend an equal amount of time around the computer and we only did what we both agreed on.
 Now having finished the course I can not only see how far we have come as a not only individuals but also as a team we have both learnt to listen to each other and have both come very far with our organisation skills, but these can still be improved as due to our organisation not be perfect our post and Magazine cover suffered because of this. Eva and I have both learnt what is worth spending a large amount of time on and what is not, an issue at AS was we would create something it would be good and yet we'd still focus on making it better instead of focusing on things that needed a large amount of improvement.
 We both was careful when choose actors as we wanted people who was reliable, we know that choosing our friends car to film could possibly be a risk encase we was ever to need him and him be unavailable, but we was lucky in having picked friends who we also committed to the role they had been asked to play.
We have ensured that all of the work that we applied was to our best standard and hadn’t at any time went off task or was distracted, this was a huge improvement for both of us as during A2 we were often distracted
 I feel that Eva and I have both matured majorly within this last year, meaning this has majorly improved all areas of our work, especially when compared to last years final product. We have ensured all of the work submitted we have tried to complete to the best of our ability. We feel that by not allowing our selves to be distracted by others and making use of the time we have in and out of class has benefited us and our final piece majorly.

Technology used :

I've used a large amount of technology during my A2 year, especially compared to last year. I feel this has helped me to develop my skills majorly.
 This year I have used my initiative when I have struggled with technology I have been expected to used, instead of giving up of moaning about not knowing what to do I have played around with different programmes to work them out my self or I have asked others around me or even used the internet, I have used Google on several occasions and also resulted to watching tutorials on Youtube on a few occasions.
 This year I have made use of a variety of different programmes on the apple macs such as Photoshop, iMovie, Garage band, etc. I have also used cameras to not only films footage for our trailer but also record focus groups we have carried out.
 I have made questionnaires and recorded our results in a variety charts made on excel, and obviously the internet for things such as blogging which I remember from AS I also feel I've advanced my skills on basic websites such as this. I've made use of checking out other media blogs, YouTube channels to not only look at tutorials but to also carry out a large amount of research, I've also spent a considerable amount of time reading other thriller trailer comments let by others on the internet to see what their feedback, and see how this could possibly benefit Eva and I when creating our own trailer.

More filming :

 Eva and I have now got to the point in editing when we feel we will benefit from more filming as all the footage we have collected so far is extremely repetitive and basic, we feel we needed to gather more camera angels and a shot a larger variety of shots. So we chose to take the camera and go to river side with both our actors; Britney and Dylan.
 I did some further research and wrote out a list of shots commonly used in thriller trailers. I then referred back to this list when filming, so our own trailer included a large variety. I tried to get a bird eye view shot by standing on a high fence when Dylan was running around the corner, Which I feel was effective, and also different from any of the other shots we have so far used. We also included establishing shots for our trailer opening, close up, extreme close up.
 I feel that from filming this extra footage has benefited us majorly, we have taken into account all the different cameras angles and shots we can use that will create more suspense and we can use to create different effects and also help us to gain more marks.

Task :

This is a table from term 4, showing what we have left to do. I'm finding these tables very helpful as they leave me knowing where I am and what tasks I have left to complete.

To do :

 After spending some time talking to both Mrs Harris and Miss Mayo Eva and I have both processed where we are at, and what we now need to do to get to where we want to be.
 We both know we are behind when creating our Poster and Magazine, both have been started but as yet not completed, this is something we both need to get on top of and to be completed during our own time as we now using all lesson time to edit and create our sound track.
 We have created charted showing what we have completed and what we need to complete, similar to a checklist. Which are shown here:

Check List for December 2013:

Check List for January 2014:

Pathetic fallacy :

 A technical term used for when the weather is used to represent a mood or a situation, and the weather is used to emphasises this. For example, a love story wouldn't leave the happy feeling when you watch a couple finally get together after waiting the whole film for this to happen if they had their big kiss in the thunder and lightening, usually the weather will be sunny and happy to reflect the character feelings and emotions. 
Another example of this would be a horror movie; a horror movie wouldn't have the same effect and create the same tension if it was filmed on a Sunday, where the location is light and bright, and you can see the whole location.
 An it is for this reason that we have chosen to film when it is dark and dull with poor weather, we have done this in attempt to create the an atmosphere and suspense and to create the 'unknown' as it is dark and our actors surroundings are therefore not visible, and we feel this created the suspense we wanted.  

More to be done :

 Now Eva and I are at the point where we are editing our filming and adding various clips together, we have realised that we made need to record some more filming to add into our film trailer, with a variaty of more camera angles and shots to show our abililty and knowledge of media termonology. 
 Due to Eva and I's shots being short in duration we are stuggeling to come up with idea's to fill out the length of an average thriller trailer of 1.45 minutes with out giving away the full story line, we want to create suspense and leave our audience egar to watch all the whole film. 
 We have decided to use our free period to film further with the best resources we are able to get, and we are hoping to film Dylan more when we are able to get him when he has free time to film further. 
 Eva and I are currently trying to come up with more creative ideas, that are not so conventional and sterotypical to fit our genre.