First blog post!

So... who on earth am I? Well, my name is Megan Hibbert (stage name Megan Olivier). I am sixteen years old and an aspiring director.

 So, you can imagine my excitement when given a brief for a two-minute feature film opening for my Media A-level coursework. It's great that an entire 50% of my grade for AS Level will come from doing what love more than anything in the world. Of course, I really want this to look professional. I have created horror movie trailers and music videos in the past (for example, my GCSE coursework) but this has to be much better. What I direct and edit needs to be at a much higher level. Every step of the way, throughout all of my careful planning and research, I will be blogging. Using pictures and videos every part of the process will be recorded. 

My initial thought when considering this brief was: horror. I just love creating films of the horror genre. Also the target audience (mainly between the typical cinema going ages of 16-24) is perfect. As I fit into this age bracket personally I find this extremely relatable making the task easier for me to address. I can also discuss my ideas with my peers knowing that they are likely to have a relatively good understanding of the genre. I plan to create a survey, perhaps film a focus group answering questions related to the genre and to watch existing horror movies.  I feel watching successful examples of professional media texts is much more beneficial to me than analysing student films in order to imitate a professional style and produce an opening as high quality as possible. I am looking forward to beginning work on this project. Wish me luck! 

 

 Oh! I should also mention that the background image for my new blog is actually an example of my photography. It was taken with one of my best actors and is titled 'Be careful what you are reaching for'.