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A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary

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September 2013 (Detailed Monthly Summary)

This month I have been briefed on what my advanced portfolio was to create. I had the choice of choosing between 4 different types of products, music video, documentary, short film or a newspaper. I decided that I would focus on creating a music video for my advanced portfolio. I then joined together with Jack Wright who I work closely with to create a successful and professional final product. We were then briefed on what we needed to include in our portfolio’s, this included creating ancillary products as well as the final product (music video), audience feedback, and product research which would help us to create our final video. After we had discussed what needed to be included in our advanced portfolio’s we then set up or blogs on www.blogger.com and adapted the layout so our portfolio’s would be displayed the way we wanted. We then started our ancillary 1 research and construction (digipak/album)

The plans for next month as well as the closely following weeks are to start researching our ancillary 2 product (magazine poster) and then look at the construction of it also. Also finish off any extra improvements needed on the ancillary 1 digipak.

October 2013 (Detailed Monthly Summary)

This month we started our ancillary 2 (poster) researches. We did this by finding images in magazines and on the internet to then research the different conventions they held. The second week of this month we then focused on creating our ancillary 2 product by using the knowledge we had gained the previous week. The following week we focused on finish both the research and construction of the product off, this allowed us enough time to finish both research and construction to a hopefully high standard.

Because both ancillary 1 and ancillary 2 research are finished I now am focusing on starting the main piece/product research and planning.

November 2013 (Detailed Monthly Summary)

This month has been extremely busy. I first focused on music video analysis’, this allowed me to gain knowledge on what music video’s include today. I focused on micro elements of them such as mis en scene, cinemography, editing and the sound effects which are sometimes used. This month I have also started the planning of my main product, this included both me and jack creating a storyboard and script for us to construct our video off of. We also went into

For the next weeks I am off college but I hope to continue planning the video and making the idea we have as solid as I can possibly can. After I return back to college I hope to next month focus on the actual construction of our final product and get the majority of recorded on camera.

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deep though about what characters to include and decided on a narrative which would just include on one main character. This has helped us out a lot as we now have a solid idea of how we want our music video to sculpt out like. We also created a mind ideas generation map as well as a written summary of ideas. Again this gave us a much better idea of how we wanted our final piece to finish out like.

December 2013 (Detailed Monthly Summary)

I have only had a week in college so I continued planning how we are going to construct the video.

Same as month above.

Mon W/B 07/01/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

This has been the first week back after the Christmas holidays. This week has been quite exciting and productive as this was the first week of recording the scenes we had planned in our storyboards. We have recorded some of the scenes at my own house as well as out and about on roads as jack drives, these scenes once edited will hopefully look flowing and professional as well as matching the narrative we are aiming for. I have also imported the clips recorded on the camera into an area on my computer for later use.

My plans for next week are continue recording as well as editing some of the clips together on Adobe Premiere Pro.


This week we have continued to record some of the scenes. Because Jack was away unavailable this week I recorded some of the scenes on my own which did not need him in the shot. I again imported these onto my computer at college in categorized files.

Next week I will hopefully start to edit some of the clips I have recorded. This will help me gather an understanding on what we have left to film.


This week I started to edit some of the clips together on Adobe Premiere Pro. I have created about 1 minute of the music video so far to quite a good level, this has gave me the confidence to carry on with the construction of our main product.

I plan to get some more recording done and edit further.


This week we went out one night and filmed in Manchester city centre as well as recording in locations in the day. This was a large chunk of the clips/scenes that we needed for the music video which gave us a large amount of footage to work with in the editing suite.

Next week we need to focus on the editing of the music video.

Mon W/B 04/02/13 This week we have really focus on the editing and construction in We need to focus on recording the rest of the clips and

A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary (Detailed Weekly Summary)

premiere pro. We have got a lot of the music video finished and believe that it is to a very good standard, there are some clips/scenes missing still.

then get every piece of footage edited or close to being edited.


This week have put every piece of footage into premiere pro and edited so the narrative makes sense. We have changed the colours of clips, added fast forward effects, size of clips. A whole arrange of different effects have been added as well as focusing on the way the clips have been edited together to match the beat of the music.

Next week I will finally have finished the music video/final product and will be exporting it out of the software and onto YouTube which can then be shared to gain audience feedback and improvements that can be made


This week I have put added final touches to the music video. For example making sure the scenes match the beat of the song, as well as changing the colours of the scenes to display the narrative more clearly. I have also started adding the final touches on my ancillary 1 digipak as I wanted to edit it a small bit.

Next week plan is to do the same with my ancillary 2 product as well as finally exporting my video (final product) onto YouTube.


I have finally exported my video onto YouTube and now it is available for the public to watch. I have also added some changes to my ancillary 2 product which will hopefully improve it even more. I also started my audience feedback by sending my video to a group of people on facebook.

I plan to start the evaluation questions surrounding my final product.


I have gained audience feedback this week and have made a few minor adjustments on my final video because some people found a few improvements that could be made. I have also created an audience feedback evaluation video which I recorded people’s views after they had watched the video.

Next week I plan to carry on with my evaluation questions.


This week I have finished two other evaluation questions and presented them in both a presentation and prezi format. This leaves me to just finish one more question out of my evaluation and then I will have finished my advanced portfolio.

I plan to finish my last evaluation question and then check if I have put everything on my blog for my advanced portfolio.


This week I have finally finished my evaluation questions. I presented this via a presentation and sound cloud format. I made a few changes to some names I had titled some work under on my blog.


CONLUSION Throughout the months I have been working on my advanced portfolio I have found it extremely challenging and time consuming but now I have finished it I am extremely happy with the level of work I have produced and feel I have accomplished the task I set out to accomplish.

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