Progress Report - Radio Production and Camera Stills

The production of my group’s radio piece took place today, and although I had previous experience with the equipment, producing the advertisement was still a tough challenge. The skepticism I had built up of how it would turn out, due to the lack of planning, mainly to focus on the other products within the advanced portfolio, meant that more time was needed to make all the sounds and effects the group wanted to match perfectly. However, the atmosphere within the recording studio was calm, which led to clarity within our decision making on issues like choice of music and sound effects.

Photographic stills were also taken to reitterate the work-like atmosphere, as well as providing evidence of the physical work I have contributed to the advanced portfolio. Each member of the group contributed a fair amount to this production, by following the roles we assigned ourselves at the beginning of this project.
One issue that needs to be mentioned is that fact that our own production of music was created to fill in for the lack of copyrighted music we weren’t allowed to use, following the brief OCR has given us for the advanced portfolio. However, I believe this aided our radio advertisement, as it led to increased diversity, by creating our own piece.





My group has also decided that we are going to include other scenes within our film trailer as well as excluding those we believe do not aid the enigma and narrative. I think that this will create a more natural sense of fear than first cretaed when watching through the rough edit of the initial trailer.
The two photos above are photographic stills of the filming process which took most of the day, in an attempt to completely follow the codes and conventions. The first is where we have been refering back the storyboard, an important part of communication between each of the members within our group. The second image is of me, operating the camera.