Week 1:

This is the first week of being introduced to the A2 OCR media course. We
were directed to the OCR brief page in
order to choose what brief and what
coursework we would like to select for
A2. Compared to the AS course there is
a much wider choice of media we could
select, for example video games and
music videos. Selecting the brief was an
overwhelming process as it determines
a large amount of our A level grade.
Originally I selected the film trailer
brief, I began to analyse trailers such as
the Godzilla trailer and the Son of
Rambo trailer. After analysing these
trailers I made a U-turn and decided
against the trailer, this felt like a big
decision to make as I was off and
running on the research. However I believe making a successful trailer proved
very difficult without telling a story and giving to much away which would have
greatly affected my production marks therefore I turned against it and opted
for the short film process.

That night I began watching different short films in order to see what makes a
good one and what makes bad one. The ones I found most moving was Love
field by Mathieu Ratthe and Elefante by Pablo Larcuen so I began to analyse
them