HELLO... A LOOK BACK

This is my AS Media Studies blog, in which me and my classmate Sam worked to make a film opening. This blog follows our journey from early preliminary exercises in basic filming techniques (e.g. continuity editing), extensive research on general film opening conventions, to coming up with our own film idea, followed by genre research. A somewhat weekly podcast, and blog posts follow this journey in close detail, wit shoot plans, reshoots, cancelled shoots, editing updates etc.

Our Film idea

We came up with a few initial ideas, before eventually pitching the succesful idea The Journey to our teacher. Our film opening is an indie social realist production, taking heavy influence from Paddy Considine's Journeyman.  It follows a young tennis professional, and as he prepares for an upcoming competition, and his partner is leaving him, he becomes the victim of a car crash, and as a result suffers severe brain damage, and will have to completely rebuild himself and his life.

As we created sample scenes, re-filming all of them at least once, our technical skills developed, and we had done more research on the genre, leading to a better understanding the conventions.

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highlights

some of the best parts of this blog are the genre conventions, particularly the analysis of My Beautiful Laundrette and Withnail and I openings; the final cut of The Journey, and the creative uses of technology sections of the evaluation questions.
The FCPX TechTips web series which I created also shows the development from simple FCPX tools, to more advances and complicated ones which we used, in the form of a walkthrough guide

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