Describe  how you developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.

Planning and Researching where a key factor that I followed. I planned my story board and script before I created and filmed my teaser trailer. Throughout my teaser trailer I followed the story board and I handed out a printed script to the actors, so they knew exactly what they were doing. In doing so I found it much easier and it was well planned seeing as I am working on my own.  

Before I recorded my teaser trailer, I planned which camera I will be using and I planned how it will be structure in doing so I did I schedule and a shot list telling me exactly where the shots will be. And in my schedule I followed it and handed it out to all cast members I did this to be well planned and organised.

Furthermore I was influenced by the film called ‘Paranormal Activity’, I thought this teaser trailer was really well edited and it did not give away the whole story.  I chose specific edits which I envisioned would look great on my teaser trailer for example, the night-vision scene, I added it to my teaser trailer; I did this to get more colour and more suspense to my trailer.

I developed my idea in several ways such as, I made a to do list and I followed it.  i also researched the what I will do in my poster, I looked at paranormal activity and I liked hot the poster was a well photographed screenshot of the movie, I then did the same, I re-took a photograph that was seen in the trailer, I thought it would catch the viewer’s attention, I also wanted it to look real; so the audience can relate to the idea. I then researched more movie posters and I really thought the poster ‘Rec’ was great so then I added a few references that ‘Rec’ has and applied it to mine. I thought this was a creative decision because it made my poster and the main product connected.

Overall I thought researching and planning for my teaser trailer are vital because it helped me make creative decisions to make my teaser trailer look professional.  And overtime my main product and ancillaries developed. As the time went by I kept adding notes to my domain website (weebly).