Author: Mariia Skalska
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Skill Development Interviews – VIDEOS
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My team and I decided to create a series of interview videos for each member to support our creative reflection. These interviews encouraged spontaneous, honest responses and offered a more of a personal insight into our individual experiences with the AS Media Studies course. We filmed the interviews together near…
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Conventions and Representations
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Since it is a creative reflection – you won’t hear a single overcomplicated or squeezed-out sentence from me! 🙂 Enjoy! REPRESENTATION First of all — we wanted to avoid the usual horror clichés. No hypersexualised girls, no helpless princess types (sorry Vladimir Propp), no pure-evil witch in the woods.In Nemor,…
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Skill Development – Essay
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The process of creating our short film was a beautiful journey from the start to an end that significantly developed my creative and collaborative skills. From the initial stages of pre-production and crazy brainstorm to the final edits, I noticed a shift in how I started to approach things differently…
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Integration of Technology
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The only camera we used was an iPhone 15 Pro Max, and Mark was responsible for all of the filming. We occasionally used the cinematic setting in the camera app, which gave the shots a more professional look by adding extra depth to the images. For example, this was used…
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Poster design
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Every good movie needs a good poster to attract potential viewers. While our poster — designed as if for a hypothetical film festival presentation — isn’t heavily scripted in terms of layout or content, it still draws attention. The Ace of Pentacles emerges through a blurred background, while the entity’s…
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Editing Process
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The editing of the movie was primarily handled by my teammate, Carla, who used DaVinci Resolve to complete the task. My role was mostly focused on generating ideas and brainstorming the creative aspects of the project. Since this was my first experience working on a laptop, I wasn’t able to…
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Raw Footage – Sound “in the making”
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In this audio, you can hear my initial thought process as I explore the melody. Due to limited time, we started recording right away, hoping to catch a strong musical idea to build on later. While playing, I’m also watching the silent movie projected in front of me, jotting down…
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Sound Production
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I was responsible for composing the soundtrack for our film opening. I’ve been playing the piano since I was five, but only in the classical style like playing scales and reading music sheets— I played mostly Bach. This time, however, I was challenged to create my own interpretation for our…
