Transition Into the Final Project of A Level

 After our first few projects, most recently practicing film distribution by creating a distribution package for a pre-written story, it is time to transition to the final project. Similar to the one from last year, I will be documenting and blogging the events of my Portfolio Project. The upcoming blog posts will focus on what style I decide for my project.

As of right now, I am still undecided. I think that the two options that resonate with me most are the Film Promotion and Documentary. There are many things that come into play when deciding between these two options. 

For a Film Promotion project, I have just done one and I know strategies that could benefit me and make the process easier. The main issue that is presented with doing Film Promotion is that I would have to come up with my own individual concept. Unlike the practice where I was given the plot, characters, genre, and many things necessary to create a distribution plan and trailers, I would have to think of all these aspects myself and come up with my own vision and idea.

I have already done a documentary too, but coming up with a concept for another one would prove to be difficult. Another difficulty is the constraints of the project. The time needing to be around five minutes makes it difficult to create something that is only a section of something else. Normally, you would want a shorter amount of time to create more room to tease the rest of the documentary. It also must be episodic so I would need to come up with an overarching theme for an episodic series. On the other hand, there is some kind of freedom with being able to choose the concept and what section of the episode the five minute segment is from.