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.