strengths and weaknesses:

a strength would be that as a group of people who did no editing between us our final editing was good as we all helped each other. a weakness of this would have been our filming could have been much better as our time management was poor therefore leading to bad lighting which didnt capture what we wanted to express.

another weakness would have been we let the filming get on top of us we could have been much more organised as individuals as well as a group this would have helped us get better filming done as well as more done.

last year i learnt a lot of technical aspects such as camera angles and the rules such as the 180 degree rule i learnt about mise-un-scene and how everything in the scene has a specific meaning.

this year i am going to apply everything i have learnt from last year into me and my groups work i am going to try and promote our artist by making everything he does have a specific meaning always linking back to his meaning and what he is about

A2 Media Production

Brief: A promotion package for the release of an album, to include music promo video, together with two of the following.

• a cover for it release as part of digipak (CD/DVD Package)
• a magazine advertisement for the digipak CD/DVD Package)

what i understand about this is that we have to make a CD and magazine cover which represents our artist. there has to be some sort of continuity between the three products which links them all together. for example some sort theme or concept.

Strengths and Weaknesses:
I think strengths, for me and probably some other members of my group is that everyone in it was very hard working and not lazy and we all got along with each other. Everyone in my group was very determined to get worked done as soon as possible as we fell far behind on blogging so we tried the best we could.

A weakness would be that we let the last of the filming get on top of us the problem the caused was that it delayed our blogging meaning that we was just wasting time when we final done and dusted the filming it was a relive as I could concentrate on my blogging.

Did your productions go to plan:
In some ways the beginning of our filming was perfect but when we filmed our phone call scene with our first actor (Leon Maddy) this didn't go to plan as it completely flopped on us so we looked for a new actor to play the role of Big J and we found Jelani Armstrong.

I think the editing worked very well, as soon as we started editing it didn’t give us any problems another thing that worked well was that our shots were very good apart from one little shot involving Luke and none of us picked up on it.

I think the only thing that didn’t work would be when we used Leon Maddy as Big J as we thought he fitted the description we were looking for but it wasn't to be so we looked around and we found the perfect person that fits the description.

What would I change if anything?
If anything I would probably change our genre to comedy as I like to be amused and I like making people laugh so I would have been happy if our group decided to do a comedy but it wasn’t going to happen due to majority vote, apart from that I enjoyed doing the filming editing and working with my group as they are very hard working easy to get along with and I could have been in a better group.

We used the camera shot well and we used the sound around us to make it look more realistic we also added a song to fit the genre of action/thriller. For example we filmed at specific times as we needed to shot our shots at night time as it got dark earlier we took advantage of this and it worked very well.

My own personal role was the cameraman shared between me and Luke as well as doing some editing which was shared out between me and Bianca so I think I was a producer/editor.

Today was the final day that we were allowed to do our clips so we had to make everything perfect as John was removing the clips from our computers so Rob could take it and mark it.

We all had a job to do Bianca's job was make sure that the clip ran smoothly with the cuts as well as the music Luke, Precious and me had to make sure that if there was anything wrong with our clips that we could try and fix it for example if Bianca thought we needed another song we would look for it and try add it in. luckily we all liked it and thought it was good and no changes should be made to it.

Rob had a final check on our work and thought it was very good and the only change we should make its cut the time on one of the clips by a few seconds so that it flowed more smoothly, we tried it and it looked nice and we decided that we liked it and we made the change, other than that nothing was wrong with it.

Today Bianca and I stayed behind after school as Rob told us it was the last week of editing and stuff so if we wanted to make changes we should do it now Luke and Precious had stuff to do me and Bianca said it was ok and we will stay behind. Bianca did the music as she found the perfect music to go with it, as well as this she did some of the text in the clip, we found it very hard to put the music on our clip, then Oscar and Jelani helped Bianca and me to put it on and make it flow with our short clip.

We really weren’t doing a lot today as most of the group were feeling a bit sluggish, we did a bit of editing but we really didn't do much more than that. We all decided that next lesson we all were going to do something even if someone couldn't be bothered this is how groups crumble.