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UNIT 4
CONTEXUAL RESEARCH FOR CREATIVE MEDIA PRODUCTION

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Identify the contextual research you have been required to carry out for the following projects?
This might include use of images, use of typography, use of sound, existing examples of media products
and roles within the industry itself.

Horror Film Poster (if you started the course in September)

For research I looked at already existing posters to get an idea for my own work

Lost Short Film

For research I watched a demonstration of how to use prier pro

Blair Witch Trailer Project

For research I watched the fan edited trailer a lot so I could do worksheets so I
lunted everything to do when my group would make our own
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2.1

How did you use contextual knowledge in one of the following projects;
EG Colours, images and typography in the Horror Film Poster Project?
EG Sound, locations, shot types, props and editing techniques in the Lost Short Film Project?
EG Replicating (and updating) existing footage for the Blair Witch Trailer Project

For my Horror Film Poster Project, I used the colours blue and green to donate a feeling of familiarity but
also be mysterious I took my own photos although I put blurring filter on them, and I used the same
typography as the original poster.

Horror Film Poster – paste link to this project here

https://oscarpitchermedialevel2.weebly.com/horror-posters.html

Lost Short Film – paste link to this project here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyeRVnq6ZZQ

Blair Witch Trailer Project – paste link to this project here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s7W6macQTY&t=1s
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Identify examples within your own work of where your research and application of contextual
knowledge was successful?
I used my knowledge of the rule of 3rds grid to set up my horror movie poster

What do you feel you have learned from this process that you could carry forward for future projects?

I found a way to set up my poster to make it appealing to the human eye sp ,ore people woud be
interested in my project.