Introduction

Our next unit is Advanced Production. We have been given a choice of three briefs:

1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

• A website homepage for the band
• A cover for its release as part of a digipaak (CD/DVD package)
• A magazine advertisement

2. A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with two of the following three options;

• A website homepage for the film
• A film magazine front cover, featuring the film
• A poster for the film

3. A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:

• A poster for the film
• A film magazine review page featuring the film

I'm working in a group of three; with Adam Dignam and Dominic Wilkinson. We've taken the decision of doing a film trailer. We have a couple of ideas, with either the choice of doing a trailer for a comedy or an action film. We're more likely going to go for comedy, because action films have quite a lot of budget, for things like pyrotechnics, fake weapons, lighting and so on.

The two ancillary products I am going to do are a poster and a website homepage for the film. To do the research for this, I am going to look up images of posters using websites such as IMP Awards. I order to create a film poster I will use Adobe Fireworks because it has a lot of advanced tools on there, such as the magic wand, as well as the usual basic tools, such as the paintbrush to help modify pictures. When I create a website homepage, I will use Microsoft Expression Web 3 because it is really popular and is fairly easy to use.

Our intended date for creation of our main product is unknown, but Miss Furness insists that it has to be done during the summer holidays. We are possibly going to create our main product mid-summer. I'm also probably going to create my ancillary products after the summer, when we've filmed the finished product.

Of course, I am going to write up my evaluation at the end of this module - it is unknown when that'll be, however. Much like the evaluation for my music magazine work, I would first write up the evaluation on Word and then type it up again here on Blogger. It's better to write it up again because if you paste the text in on Blogger and preview it, the font for the post would be different compared to other posts.