The Plan for Year 2

The Plan for Year 2

1). Proposed Specialist Practice for Year 2

For my FMP this year, I plan to create a short film based around a storyline. The genres that I plan to incorporate into the storyline of my short film are romance, comedy and drama. To prepare for writing the script for the film, I have watched lectures on YouTube from screenwriters who have written films and TV shows that blend together all these genres, in order to help give me an idea of how to structure my script. Secondly, I have researched into typical features of the romcom genre by looking at how different films and TV shows have kept audiences interested by showing how these couples overcome issues within their relationship. Thirdly, I have researched the target audience for the genres of my film to ensure that I include elements of what this particular audience likes to see such as happiness. 

2). Skills Development

In order to create my short film, I will need to develop my skills in using the camera for example, I will need to learn how to use sound on the camera efficiently and how to use the camera to film shots of a good quality. Secondly, I will need to learn how to operate the sound efficiently on the camera. Finally, I would like to develop my skills on Premiere Pro in order to create a more interesting edit with effects, transitions etc.

3). Strengths and Weaknesses in understanding and using media theory

Theories that I used in my work from last year included Audience theory. I applied this theory to my work by researching what the audience from each genre of film would expect to see in that genre, for example, if it was a comedy, the audience would expect the film to make them laugh. Secondly, I researched what the target audience for each genre was so for example, I researched what age group would watch my film or what gender would watch my film. 

4). Progression

After I finish this course, I think that I would like to continue my studies of media as part of a university course and from university, I hope that I would be able to progress further in the direction of becoming a director, producer, writer at the BBC.