Planning

To prepare for my Advanced Production Portfolio, our media studies group decided to choose the genre of horror and create two short film clips around school.

I was absent on the day of filming. However, I had already been able to familiarise myself with the technical equipment because in small groups we had practised with them on the tripods and experimented with zooming, different angles and movements of the camera etc and my group did a 'Big Brother' style short clip.

- The main part of my familiarising myself with equipment and software involved editing the clips that had been taken while I was absent.
- I helped with trimming the clips in imovie, putting the clips in order and adding effects to some of the clips to add extra emphasis to the horror genre of the short film
- At the end of the clip, credits were added to make the film look more professional and we chose a font and background which fitted in with the horror genre.

I found iMovie simple to use and after watching the tutorial given, it was easy to follow the instructions and cropping and editing clips did not come as a difficulty.