Deciding on a brief

For my coursework, I have decided to work with the same people as last year, Jamie and Kayleigh. This is because we all work well with each other as we listen to each other and compromise when it comes to ideas. As well as this, we are all creative, we all have filming and editing skills and we all live near each other so organising filming sessions will be practical.

After my group and I were given the briefs, we carried out a SWOT (strengthens, weaknesses, opportunities threats) analysis of the ones that sounded the most interesting to help us decide which one would be best to do based on the facilities and knowledge we have.

These were briefs:

This is the children's TV drama brief- we considered this one as we have the perfect location (a school) to film at, we learnt a lot about TV dramas in Year 12 media and my group and I all have younger brothers and sisters that could potentially star in the TV drama. However, our threats were not being able to make the TV drama look realistic as it may be difficult trying to get the young children to act as professional as possible.

This is the TV trailer for a soap opera- We decided not to do this one purely because non of us watch or take an interest in TV soaps so therefore we have little knowledge about them. 

This is the music video brief- we thought that this brief would be good to do as we have friends that can sing and play the guitar so we could have used this to our advantage. However, each member of our group has a different music interests and we would have struggled deciding on a song therefore decided not to do this brief.

This is the film trailer brief- we have decided to go with this brief as we thought we could take advantage of the weather and the dark nights as we want to film a horror trailer and we already know that low key lighting is a key convention of horror. Also, it is Halloween soon so depending on which type of horror genre we decide on, we could potentially do some filming on Halloween to make the trailer as realistic as possible. However, a threat we think we could face is that the shots may not be clear enough when it comes to editing as we may be filming in low key lighting. 

Ancillary tasks

As a group we are producing a horror trailer together but the 2 ancillary tasks individually so therefore I have decided on the film magazine front cover and a poster.  I have chosen these as I am very creative and I have a basic idea of what features and conventions I need to include to design an effective one. However, I will research further into both the ancillary tasks and horror genre to ensure I design them to link in with my film trailer and genre.