New York

During our AS media studies course we were lucky enough to go on a trip to the Big Apple. On this trip we didn't just shop and sight see, we also had a 4 hour film masterclass with the New York Film Academy. On this course we learned about acting, editing and filming.

Editing... was a recap and extra what we had learned back in England, they taught us how to cut from one shot to the other smoothly. This helped us alot because it meant that we could make our match-on-action shots alot better. They also taught us how to add captions etc. which we used in our preliminary and added to it alot. This was very helpful to us.

Filming... was very helpful as it showed us the basics of making films, that we have to have close ups, long shots and tracking shots to make successful short film. There equipment was alot better than ours but the basics of film making are the same whether its low or high budget, this is what they taught us, so all the techniques we got taught can be used in our opening sequence.

Acting... just got us used to acting in front of the camera. It made us very aware that mistakes can make a whole sequence look tacky and cheap, we needed to cut this out because in our preliminary I laughed and this makes our piece look bad. Only 2 of our group are acting in the opening sequence so me and Alex listened very carefully. We will take into account and remember everything we learned in the acting part.

A bonus for OUCH Productions was that all of our group were lucky enough to go on the trip and so everything we learned we don't have to repeat to another member back at school. Also everyone remembered different things so as a group we had everything covered. Everything we did in New York was very helpful even just walking round and seeing all the adverts for T.V and Movie adverts. I would love to go to New York again and learn more about Film Making.