5 (a) - (e)

(A)
In the fondation Portfolio task, I orginised my time by creating a story board and film plan. This enabled me to be orginsed, to know when I have to film and what I can film. The equipment I used for this task was the schools, I used the video camera and tripod, because the rest of the media students were using them, I booked the cameras out 3-4 times when they was one available and managed to film my portfolio quite quickly.This planning was very effective, being orginised and knowing what your doing really speeds things up and keeps you  on track at all times.
The only problems we had was lighting and limited locations! We used almost like a cellar in school, because it was below the ground, we did not have much light! But we overcame this by editing the video footage on the apple macs to make it lighter.
In the Advanced Portfolio , I was alot more prompt in orginising and getting together a film plan so me and my partner could both film on the days we knew we could, and created a story board. We ended up creating a three as we changed our ideas quite a few times throughout!
I feel this shows prgression, because our ideas changed alot, we still bothered to go to stage one and plan our way through our filming in order to be well orginised and making sure our video was all filmed by the deadline and not rushed last minuete.

(B) In the Foundation Portfolio we had to make particular choice in orginising our actors, props and location. In order for them to be successful, I had a look at the conventions of thriller films, to make sure I hit the appearance of the film spot on! We used my partner in some hand held footage, and my boyfriend Laurence as the 'villian'. This was conveniant for me as we were all willing to be orginised with the filming and get it done quickly as possiable to give us more time editing the footage! We filmed in the woods which wasnt far from school and a fiffteen minuete drive from my house. The only props we needed was a metal pole and the camera plus tripod.
Our aspect of planning was really successful ! The only problems we faced was the footage being grainey, we overcame this by again, editing.
In the Advanced Portfolio task, we decided seeing as our Foundation Portfolio was successful, was to use my partner again, and people very close to us that were free to be filmed at an time possible. The setting was easy, seeing asour niche was lights we had such a wide variety, when i went to New York whatever i could see that i knew would look good i took a photo, so sometimes it was more spontaneous, the main footage was done in Alanahs house as we could control the lighting.
The progression is shown from the quality of the film.


(C) The storyboaring of my Foundation Task was done by photographs and drawings, having a mixture was alot more easier, as drawing all the scenes would have taken years, so even acting some of it out like a practice and taking photos put us on the right track.
We had three different drafts, simply because our ideas kept changing all the time.
The planning was very effective, but whilst filming we went off track from our storyboards, but i felt we made the right changes.

The storyboards for our Advanced Portfolio was alot more usefull and effective. Because of the use of so many still images, we used the images as our storyboard and annotated them. We did not encounter any problems, just we felt we had so many stil images in our storyboard, yet we had no other choice! I think this shows alot of progression as we had a storyboard that fitted exacly to our film, we did not have to make 3 drafts, or change anthing to it.

(D) We researched our target audience in the Foundation Portfolio task, by doing a questionaire to our audience after the watched our film, but this was to make sure we had made the right decision. We didnt know weather to have it 15 or 18, this being quite a big difference we were quite worried. We thought that the film we were inspired by (seven) was a an 18, yet that film would show alot more gore ect, but seeing as that is a horror film and ours is a thriller film, we thought that if the opening was ever made into a film, it wouldnt be too gorey as it has to have the conventions of a thriller, so our overall choice was a 15.
The reasearch from our audience was really successful because they were our target audince and agreeed with out thoughts.
Finding our target audience for the Advanced Portfolio was done b disgusssing it with the actual artist ourselves meaning we couldnt go wrong. We also listened to music of the same genre and looked at their target audience, we then overall sent out a questionaire to see if people agreed, this worked really well.
Prgression is shown by having more ways of discovering the target audience.

(E)By researching existing media products in the Fondation Portfolio, such as Thriller films, CD covers, websites, adverts and Goodwins theory, this really helped in hitting the conventions of my overall products. Progression was shown simply from researcihing more exciting media products than in my thriller research.