Coursework overview

          Over the Christmas holidays I have been keeping up to date with my A3 coursework book, I have been completing my research into other films of the horror genre. I created a timeline of horror films over the last century and looked deeply into how horror movies have progressed both with theme as well as quality of the production. From some of the very earliest films like Frankenstein to some of the more modern horrors like Paranormal activity.

          I have also been concentrating on documenting all of the development work between and during making our final production in order to gather a clear understanding of what went well and not so well over the project. This has helped to increase the quality of some evaluation techniques and ideas also on how to improve our final film during our last editing session when we go back for the spring term. 

          I have also began to make notes on how our final production is going to differ from our original storyboard, which (I have discovered) will be quite drastic. This is because we made the decision during editing that all of the footage (apart from the final shot of the book) that was shot in the shed would (if included) create a very disjointed feel to the whole film opening, and over complicate the plot.

          When we get back to school we plan to fine tune all editing on the macs and complete our final product ready to show in our first lesson.