The last two (ish) weeks have been quite eventful in terms of the progress I have made with my planning and changing and developing my idea, I wrote about changing my idea in my last reflection blog, and so will not go into to much detail of this in this blog but rather the process I have made since changing my idea and how this has impacted my research. In my last blog I mentioned that my ideas were kind of all over the place and because of this I was finding it hard to explain all my ideas and research in a coherent order, because of this I decided that I wanted to backdate some of my blogs so that it is in an order that is clearer for me when using it to influence my planning. Since my last reflection I have done more work and more blogs on showing my skills and understanding of the genre and my target audience, it was not necessarily that I didn’t know this information, it was more that I had forgotten to show and prove my understanding of this chosen genre. As of right now I feel I have the best understanding of the genre and its conventions to effectively create a short film within the Horror genre.

More research work I have been doing over these past two weeks was to help me elaborate on my new idea, for example I did some research on a few short horror films as so to get an idea of how other people had created a short film within this genre and how they have conveyed a story as well as the codes and conventions of horror within such a short time scale. I also decided I wanted to look at the idea of nightmares to create a nightmare like sequence within my short film, to research for this I wrote a blog looking at mine and others experience of night terrors and nightmares etc. My research has also involved some research into my locations, there is still some more research to be done on this but I have made a start and have an idea of where I need to go from here as well as how to go about looking into and getting a location for my short film.

The last thing I want to reflect on in this blog is my first really feedback from my mentor, Andrew, this is am extremely important part of my reflection as I can get an idea of where my work, in terms of grading, as of right now. This will hopefully give me an idea of where to go from now and how I can work upon and improve my work to be able to achieve the grade I want to. The research I received from Andrew was quite positive in many ways, I am on the right track in terms of what I am researching I just need to go into more detail on some of my subjects and explain my ideas a little more to help make sense of why I have made the choices in terms of the story that I have.