AS & A2

Technology has taken all the creativity out of media production

I don’t agree with this statement because surely the better technology gets the more creative you can be. for example if everybody is available to CGI technology then they can create their own special effects at home with less money spent.. for example in are AS coursework we were able to have depth in some of are shots, we were able to do this because we had a up to date camera.

Media producers can learn nothing from studying the conventions of old texts, 

I don’t agree with this statement either because we learn everything we know from past convention and experiences, so I don’t really get what this guy is trying to say. For example in Inglorious Bastards he uses a lot of old quotes and conventions because his film is relating to his film.

Creativity	Research into genre/inspiration from text	Mood boards	Music	Actors	Filming	Mise en  sence	editing
AS Coursework	We had a couple of inspiration e.g. American psycho, Dexter, the Shinning. With the genre being a psycho horror theme.	I just made on with loads of inspiration for the video. for example other films with the same genre.	We only used classic music in this because we thought it captured his personality well.	Patrick Bateman, is the actor we liked but we didn’t try to copy him for are actor.		Tried to get the idea across that he thinks it more of a hobby than a crime e.g. the classical music
A2 Coursework	The only inspiration we had was elbow and that was only because we didn’t know what song to choose.		We had to agree on the music because I like a lot of different music than Dale.	When we started all we knew is that I was going to be on the keyboard and Dale was going to be the director.		Originally we wanted to do it on the stage but the pantomime had booked it for the last two weeks so we had to use the drama studio.