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POST 39 – Minor Task: Photo Selecting & Editing for Magazine Article
Because in the previous post I talked and walked you through the process of Making Of, for the photoshoot…
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POST 38 – Minor Task: Making of Photoshoot Images for Magazine Article
With the Major Task now fully finished, I know that we still have work to do, and that our…
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POST 37 – Major Task: Final Cut & Reflection
After carrying out the Feedback post, it is finally time for what you all have been waiting for, and…
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POST 36 – Major Task: Feedback Session
For the feedback session, since we have now figured out all of the editing elements and features, we now…
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POST 35 – Major Task: Editing & Special Effects
Finally, now that I have made all of the posts with the small micro elements that took part in…
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POST 33 – Major Task: Fonts & Texts
After carrying out the Sound part of choosing the fonts, next, one of the final processes or so of…
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POST 34 – Major Task: Sound
For the sound part of the documentary, as one of our main focuses, trying to get the sound to…
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POST 32 – Major Task: Raw Montage
For this post, because at this point me and my team have already returned back home, after spending the…
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POST 31 – Major Task: Making Of
Here is the first post for the category Coursework Development! With this post, I aim to walk you through…
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POST 30 – Test Shots
Officially, this is the last post of this category from this blog, and I am ending this on a…
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POST 29 – Risk Assessment
As the last step that we can take before we head off onto our weekend trip, the second-to-last post…
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POST 28 – Shot List & Calendar
Because we are making a documentary, and especially because we are going away, and travelling to film it, we…
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Post 27 – Budget
One of the last few posts has come, before the filming process, and that is the Budgeting post. As…
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Post 26 – Fonts
Having the photoshoot planning in mind, knowing a little bit about what we want to capture while at the…
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Post 25 – Photoshoot Planning / Magazine Article
Because I previously wrote the post on the planning for the Minor Task, of the social media page, the…
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POST 24 – Social Media Planning
Since I talked a lot about the planning elements for the Major Task and the documentary we have to…
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Post 23 – Equipment
Because the date has been set, for the 30th January 2026 to the 1st February 2026 that we will…
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POST 22 – Characters/Interviewees
For characters, because we are making a documentary, we don’t really have characters that are actors and have roles…
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POST 21 – Location Recee
Because we completed the storyboard and we managed to visualize what our documentary was going to look like, now…
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POST 20 – Storyboard
For this post, me, Emilia and Matei wanted to next visualize our major task as well, for the documentary.…
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POST 19 – Narrative & Branding – Minor Task
Because up until this point, me Matei and Emilia have managed to look into a lot of the research…
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POST 18 – Script – Major Task
After we carries out the Plot and Storyline post, I think it is just obvious that we carry on…
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POST 17 – Plot & Story
As I have finished with the part of Researching, and have just finished the Audience’s Profile post, I feel…
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POST 16 – Target Audience Profile
Now that I have created the form for our Target Audience Profile, and have the results, in this post,…
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POST 15 – Target Audience Questionnaire
Now that I have done my research upon the topic of Institutions, and various Documentaries for my Major Task,…
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POST 14 – Analysis of Conventions, Style and Techniques research – Minor Task
This time, I will recreate the last post that I created, with the same exercise, but now applying it…
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POST 13 – Analysis of Conventions, Style and Techniques research – Major Task
This post is dedicated to an exercise that I have also, in a way, done last year, and that…
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POST 12 – Research into Institutions for Minor Tasks
Because I have done this exercise on my Major Task of a documentary film extract, I will evaluate the…
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POST 11 – Research into Institutions for Major Task
As I have talked about in my previous posts, before I start carrying out an analysis on target audience…
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POST 10 – Genre & Moodboard Minor Task
This is the second post dedicated to moodboards and collages of images that will help me reach a vision…
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POST 9 – Genre & Moodboard Major Task
Previously, by looking into the Conventions of the Major Task, a documentary in our case, I managed to gain…
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POST 8 – Research & Conventions of Minor Task (Social Media Page & Magazine Article)
As I have created a blog post that explores the Conventions that I have researched about our Major Task…
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POST 7 – Research & Conventions of Major Task (Documentary)
For this blog post, as I have ended the Preliminary Work section, I want to get right into the…
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POST 6 – Final Preliminary Poster
In this post, I want to mainly showcase the final outcome of the supporting smaller task of the Poster…
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POST 5 – Making of Preliminary Poster
After posting the two posts focused upon the Documentary and main part of our preliminary project, I now wish…
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POST 4 – Final Preliminary Documentary
This is the post I decided to make for the final evaluation, reflection and showcase of the Preliminary Documentary…
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POST 3 – Making of Preliminary Documentary
In this post I will be evaluating the journey and the story of how me and Matei ended up…
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POST 2 – Research and Plan Preliminary Project
To now begin the practical work of my blog, I intend to carry out a Preliminary Project exercise for…
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POST 1 – Previous Works of Mine
Hello! My name is Catrinel-Andreea Precup, and as the first post of my A2, A Level, Media Studies blog,…
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POST 34 – Integration of Technologies
How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project? Finally… My last Post… In…
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POST 33 – Skills Development
How did your production skills develop throughout this project? The third aspect I have to follow through for my…
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POST 32 – Audiences, Engagement and Distribution
How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? For…
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POST 31 – Conventions and Representations
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? With the…
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POST 31 – Helping Others
Actually, I know I have previously said that the POST 29 – FINAL CUT & Reflection Post (the previous…
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POST 29 – FINAL CUT & Reflection
And now, for the final post on this part of the blog, and the end to our film opening…
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POST 28 – Feedback Session
Now that we have our film opening ready and all put together, the next step in finalizing this process,…
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POST 27 – Editing
Finally, now that we have all of the elements we need in order to put together our film opening,…
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POST 26 – Sound
The second and last research step of the pre-editing process, is now to select and add the extra sounds…
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POST 25 – Fonts, Credits and Logo
In continuation, now that we have already moved past the point at which we have a clear and stable…
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POST 24 – Raw Montage
Because of the fact that by now, me and Matei have finished the end of the filming and shooting…
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POST 23 – Making of Day 2
Now it’s time for the second, and last day of filming for our film opening! I created this post…
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POST 22 – Making of Day 1
Now, to start off the process of filming, on the 1st February (2025), we had our first day of…
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POST 21 – Test Shots
As the last official post for this section of my blog, and to finally end the endless planning towards…
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POST 20 – Risk Assessment
As the second to last post on this section of Research and Planning on this blog, and the last…
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Post 19 – Shot List, Call Sheet & Calendar
Now as a more technical aspect of the planning of the days we want to shoot on, we decided…
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POST 18 – Budget for the Film Opening
After the process of choosing our props and equipment, we thought it would be best to decide on exact…
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POST 17 – Props and Equipment
As we get closer to the production process of our first ever film opening, me and Matei start gathering…
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POST 16 – Characters
Now, to choose the crew, meaning the actors which are to play the roles needed in our film, we…
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POST 15 – Location Recce
Now that it’s time to get to actual, factual planning for the film opening, me and Matei decided it…
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Post 14 – Storyboard and Animatics
After carrying out the technical part with the writing of the script, we thought it was best to get…
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POST 13 – The Script
Since we decided on a Plot and Summary already, now the next step in our planning and research project,…
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POST 12 – Plot & Story Summary
Our next step, now making decisions as a team, is to brainstorm ideas about what we want our final…
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POST 11 – Target Audience Profile/Analysis
After distributing my questionnaire to friends and family, over different media platforms, I waited a week for as many…
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POST 10 – Target Audience Questionnaire
Now, to start my planning project for my final Film Opening, I started off by conducting a Google Form,…
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POST 9 – 9 Frame Film Analysis
To follow up my research on Film Conventions and the creation of my Moodboard, I wanted to put my…
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POST 8 – Film Genre and Moodboard
After looking into film conventions, and the different types of film openings, I had the idea to produce some…
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POST 7 – Film Opening Conventions
To begin my Research and Planning category, of this blog, in this blog pos, I mainly wanted to research…
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POST 6 – Making Of & Final Preliminary Project
As my last post towards this category, I wanted to write about my process into making the final preliminary…
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POST 5 – Mise en Scene Exercise
For this exercise, I took on the task of experimenting with different Mise en Scene elements, through a photoshoot.…
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POST 4 – Research and Plan Preliminary Project
As of my 4th blog post, I decided, together with my project partner Matei, to split this process, into…
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POST 3 – Photography Post
For this third post, the exercise I partook in, was a photography exercise, in which I firstly started by…
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POST 2 – Moodboard
For my second post, I wanted to play around the idea of a visual mood board – I did…
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POST 1 – My style & Previous Works
Hello everyone! Since this is the first ever post on this blog, I decided I would like to write…
