AS MEDIA STUDIES REFLECTION: RESEARCH AND PLANNING

find your fave examples of research - pick best blog posts and explore them give examples of research into 

the form (same) of a film opening
the conventions of a thriller 
audience

Thplanning : pick best pets and explore them , include examples of how the blog as a shared resource helped planning. e.g. storyboard, animatic, shot list, location, moodboard how did they help

In order for our thriller opening to be successful we had to carry out a lot of research.  We placed our research on our group blog.

Our group blog:

Our group blog allowed us all to post individual research, in the same place, our blog was a place for us to store all of our information, making it easy to come back to and reference. The blog worked well, once organised. Ciara took on the role of being our blog administrator, making sure everything was posted in the correct order. Our blog was clear, so when we needed to find something, it was was easy to find. The blog was also very helpful as it allowed us to combine all our individual work and bring it into our group.

Research:

This allowed us to study; transitions, credits, music, timing and more. We found this particularly helpful when it came to inserting our title in our thriller opening. It also allowed us to take note of how genre is presented in the opening. 

Individual Thriller Plot Research:

For my individual research, I looked into films such as "Gone Girl" (Fincher, 2014) and "Black Swand"(Aronofsky, 2010). I found the these were thrillers that interested me personally and so researched them further to really try to find and discover what it was about them that intrigued me. 

Planning 

As part of our planning process, individually we all created plots and presented them to one another. We did this to group different ideas together and decide on which one we liked the most to choose. Once we decided on which/whose idea to use we were then able to put all of this into action.

Once we had this decided we created a storyboard of our idea. This was so we had an idea/plan of what we were going to do. To develop this further we created an animatic version, which included our production logo. 

We also made sure we got audience feedback on our storyboard before we planned/filmed.