LO3: Task 4 - Evidence of carrying out a specific production role for a chosen media production

Roles and Responsibilities

When creating our film trailer for unit 46 in the style of WARP films, my main role was Editing in post-production. This meant that it was my job to piece together the footage and add special effects and visual effects. As this was a group project we all helped with everything which was useful when editing as we always came up with new ideas that created a high quality film trailer. Another reponsibilty I had when editing was to have a clear understanding of horror trailers so when it came to editing our own I knew which conventions to follow so that the trailer kept within the Genre. My smaller reposiblities were paper work such as Edit Logs

Contribution to media product
Below is evidence of my role within the pre-production and post production for Unit 46. The paper work below is planning for filming during production and editing during pre-production. I also did paper worl during Post-Production, this was to put all the footage together and write about them so when i came to editing I was able to look on the sheet and find which clips are the best to use during the scene im editing. To improve my editing skills I watched tutorials on YouTube of how to edit footage correctly and add special effects.

Story boards are really useful when it comes to editing as well as filming as it gave me a rough idea of how we want the film trailer to go. Storyboards also help to keep within the storyline without putting unimportant clips in.

My additional tasks were to film some scenes during production but since I was one of the actors I couldn't help film all the scenes. I also took it upon myself to research production logos and then I began to play around with making logos for our own film production name usings Photoshop and Illustrator, my final logo was later used in the trailer.

To make sure the film trailer was following the conventions of a horror film trailer i constantly researched different trailers and pastiched it into our own trailer. Watching horror trailers wasnt the only research I did I was watched full horror films to get a feel for the mise en scene of what we need to show in our film trailer. These are conventions such as lighting as this played a big part in the film trailer as I thought that going from natural clear lighting to dark lighting would be a good idea to show how the film goes from normaility to sinsister.

 Another thing I did to make an extensive contribution to the team was find the perfect location to shoot the main parts of the trailer, this was a unoccupied run down house that had be left a while.

LO2: TASK 3 - Understanding skills needed to fulfil the role of an Editor

Written communication:

The Editor is part of post-production. This is because the footage from production needs to be done before anything in this role can begin. For this role you are expected to have complete knowledge of the technology and software used to edit. As you need to always be following and combining the ideas and changes during the post production process you will need to be able to have good communication skills to work alongside of the directors and other editors and to be able to follow paper work such as Storyboards. I have already had experience within this Job role during my Unit 46 project which was to produce an Audio Visual Promo. For this Unit I created a film trailer in a group with two other people, we all shared the roles to get an understanding of each one, however we all had a main role and mine was the Lead Editor. This meant that I was to editing the main footage of the trailer but also keep within the conventions of a horror trailer.

Verbal communication:       

As a lead Editor it is essential that you are able to communicate while working alongside the directors and other creative members of the Team, this is to be able to keep organised by the directors always being in check with what people are doing within their job roles. Again I had experience with this while working on my Unit 46 Film Trailer because when working with two other people after I finished editing some of the trailer the other members of the team gave me feedback which allowed me to improve the trailer. This means to work within this job role you had to have patience and good attention to detail.

Practical production:

As a Lead editor I didn’t have much input with the production of our Film trailer and neither would an Editor under normal circumstances on bigger film productions. However as the team was so small for Unit 46 I helped with other Job roles during production in order to get a better understanding, this were job roles such as Camera Operator, directors assistance and lighting. This was good to give me a better understanding of how we wanted the trailer to be when it came to editing the footage in Post-Production.

Creativity:

When working in the Lead Editing role it is essential that you can produce something creatively which means having knowledge and understanding on the best camera angles and shots to use. Being creative in this role is all about being imaginative which means when you have been given a basic idea of the effects to use in certain scenes it is your job to bring them special effects to life as much as you can. 

 
Gaps:

Even though I have had experience within the lead editing role I don’t think I would be able to go into this role professionally just yet as there are a lot more skills I need to learn and improve on before I can go into that kind of role. The skills I need to improve on are skills such as listening, this skill is vital to have when in the role as it comes under the skill of being able to communicate, this skill is important when it comes to getting new instructions from the director or any other people from the team.  Another Skill I need to work on is my organisation skill because sometimes when working on the trailer I found that the footage wasn’t always in the right folder making my job to edit much harder than it needed to be. I have been given the opportunity to improve this skills while working on my Unit 41, this unit is a short film for this it is a similar process to unit 46, however this time I am going to be working on my skills, which will also be a massive benefit for the unit.

  Action Plan:

This is my action plan for what I want to do in the future  and hopefully achieve these in the time ive set for myself. This chart show the different things i will be doin in the next year that give me a clear view on the spare time I have where I can volenteer to get more experiecne to help me learn new skills and improve the one I have now.