![Which projects have
you least enjoyed [&
why]?
• I least enjoyed the audio project, it wasn’t the
worst I made but it’s still one that isn’t my
favourite. The first problem was how many
restrictions it had, I had to make a horror ghost
story in a short time-limit, I wasn't able to use
my imagination to make an in-depth story. The
second problem was how difficult it was to
make audio, I didn’t have may options to make
good sound effects which just ended up
sounding amateur or I had to reuse the audio.
• The one project I least enjoyed the most was
the adventure project and this one is the one I
regard as the worst. The first problem was that
it was split into two parts and one of them was
making posters, it was hard enough to do parts
in a short time-limit but making posters that
never seemed to end and were very boring to
make just made that whole part of the course
pointless. The second problem was making the
second half, I had to make animation which
takes forever but having only four weeks to
make it made the project look incomplete and
amateurly rushed.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/ualprogressionpro-forma-230608095245-4661530e/85/UAL-Progression-Pro-Forma-pptx-16-320.jpg)
UAL Progression Pro-Forma.pptx
- 1. UAL Progression Proforma 2022-23 Ben Brown
- 2. Grades
- 3. GCSEs Manor Ce Academy Year Subject Grade Awarding Body August 12 2021 English Language 4 AQA August 12 2021 English Literature 3 AQA June 1 2021 Maths 2 Pearson Edexcel June 1 2021 Combined Science 5-5 Pearson Edexcel August 12 2021 Religious Studies 5 AQA August 12 2021 History 6 AQA August 12 2021 Drama 5 AQA August 12 2021 Geography 4 AQA
- 4. Courses
- 5. University Course Course Title Film Production and Professional Practice UCAS Code F3P6 Link Film Production and Professional Practice at York College University Centre - UCAS Location York College Entry Requirements/ Qualification GCSE Grades UAL Grade Pass UCAS points 72 General Comments/ Course Content I think this course would be the best choice because if I join I do a lot more filming than writing and it’s still 3 days a week. Rating/Suitability (0-10> 10 Being Most Suitable) 8
- 6. University Course Course Title Film and Television Production UCAS Code W600 Link https://digital.ucas.com/coursedisplay/courses/c175a57d-9901- 8b37-bcc5-37af072400ea?academicYearId=2023 Location University of York Entry Requirements/ Qualification GCSE Grades UAL Grade Distinction UCAS points General Comments/ Course Content Even though it has more written work than York College it would teach me a lot about filming if I joined and half of the time will be spent filming. Rating/Suitability (0-10> 10 Being Most Suitable) 5
- 7. University Course Course Title Film and Television Production UCAS Code P3Q4 Link https://digital.ucas.com/coursedisplay/courses/f146ceeb-55c6- fb6f-dd28-75794021e1aa?academicYearId=2023 Location York St John University Entry Requirements/ Qualification GCSE Grades 3 GCSEs at grade C/4 (or equivalent) including English Language. UAL Grade Merit UCAS points 104 General Comments/ Course Content While this course does spend a bit of time on writing and you have to use social media, if I were to join it does do a lot of practical works and teaches you how equipment works though. Rating/Suitability (0-10> 10 Being Most Suitable) 6
- 9. Academic History • When I was in secondary school, my English teacher let me make a film of my choice with the other students. Through this year of college I learned how to; use a proper filming camera, have a steady shot with a tripod, use photoshop, edit on premier, make proper audio and foley design. Both facilities taught me the proper experience on how to film to prepare me for university.
- 10. Current Study • I made many projects in this year and they all taught me important skills which will prepare me for university, they are; the music video, the audio ghost story, the adventure posters and adventure videogame. The music video was the first film I made in college and it’s been my second best project, it taught me how to film with a camera and make steady shots with a tripod, the audio ghost story taught me how to make different sound effects and do the technique of foley, but both taught me how to use adobe premiere which made my work looked polished and professional. The adventure posters and videogame were part of the adventure project but they both taught me individual things, the posters taught me about designing projects and how to use photoshop, the videogame taught me how to animate and use photoshop to do said animating. All three projects (four if you include the adventure projects separately) all taught me how equipment and editing formats worked, knowing these motor skills will prepare me for doing work in university. • The FMP is my best project, it had a lot of planning and preparation put into it but then I had to remake everything when the circumstances and my actors let me down, through such a long production I learned important skills that will prepare me for university. The FMP taught me not to be overly ambitious because I planned to make a big project in college but I didn’t get given enough time and my actors were either late or they didn’t try, I made a second project which I handed in on time, I painfully learned that I have to make a project that has limits to fit the circumstances not make a project that stretches the limits and is impossible in the circumstances, I also learned the different parts that makes suspense for my own horror story with the right music and camera movements. Overall, the FMP taught me to make projects that are doable and what specific techniques to use to make an effective film, these big lessons will prepare me for university.
- 11. The Future • I want to be a film director for big league corporations, being a director of big league corporations makes you a memorable director, being part of independent corporations puts you in the bad director books because they make movies that are nothing but torture to watch. I want to join a corporation that makes the best type of movies I like (action, horror, CI-FI etc), there are many choices: Universal Studios, Warner Brothers (if they stop making bad movies), Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox, Entertainment One, Paramount Pictures, Dream Works, Blum House Pictures, New Line Cinema, Amblin Entertainment, DC, Rat Pac but personally I’d work for Disney because they own Marvel and Lucas Films because they make the best movies. • University will help me join those corporations by helping me get the qualifications and teach me the skills to make proper movies. I will learn the different parts that make movies and how to use the different filming equipment to help me know everything about movies and how to properly make them so I can be a successful director. If I pass the university’s tests then the qualifications will give me the opportunities to join the big league corporations and then I can join whatever big league film corporation I want.
- 12. Conclusion • I want to go to university because I want the proper qualifications to be a director, learn how to make professional films and make films for fun because they’re my main hobby. Going to university will help me get the right qualifications to become a director and the right qualifications will also help me join big league corporations, not the hell spawns that are independent film corporations. I want to learn how to be a director because it has been what I have wanted to achieve for a long time, learning the ways to direct and make films will help me accomplish my goal by going to university. Film has always been my main hobby since 2017, I’ve always been a film enthusiast and making films for my obsession gives me great happiness, I always want to make movies when the opportunity arises, university offers constant opportunities to make films and joining university will allow me to continue my hobby of happiness. I’ll make a good candidate because I have a vast imagination to make loads of interesting ideas for movies, I have experience in movie making, I make my work the best it can be and I get it uploaded in time.
- 13. Introduction • I want to go to university because I want to learn how to be a director and I want to apply for film production. I want to join film production because I want to learn how to make movies and have fun making them because filming is my hobby, and I want to make this hobby into a profession. University will help me become a director and with those qualifications I will be able to become a professional director and join big league corporations to make the movies I want.
- 14. Year 1 Review
- 15. Which projects have you enjoyed most this year & why? • I enjoyed doing the music video the most this year, and it’s my personal favourite project I did this year. I enjoyed it the most because it was the first project I was allowed to be in charge of and let my imagination run wild, I got creative control to bring my own idea to life when the opportunity arose (I like to make movies when there's an opportunity not my spare time). The specific elements I liked was selecting a song I liked, coming up with and filming the kills and filming the actions scenes, the song was used as a basis for my project and using that to make a film that fit my artistic vision made the whole project fun, coming up with and making the practical effects and using them to make professional kills gave me the fun and perfection I was looking for, I got to film my own action scenes that were brutal and engaging and getting to direct them and bring them to life how I wanted gave me a lot of fun. • I enjoyed making the FMP video second most this year, even though it had a troubled start of production it still looked professional and was effective. I enjoyed it because it succeeded in being and effective horror story and even though it was remade from something impossible it looked professional. The specific elements of the project I enjoyed were the kills and the paranoia atmosphere, the kills were brutal and imaginative and getting to make them in the best way they could be in the exact way I wanted filled me with happiness, the new experience of making a phycological atmosphere with all of it’s mystery and creativity filled me with excitement.
- 16. Which projects have you least enjoyed [& why]? • I least enjoyed the audio project, it wasn’t the worst I made but it’s still one that isn’t my favourite. The first problem was how many restrictions it had, I had to make a horror ghost story in a short time-limit, I wasn't able to use my imagination to make an in-depth story. The second problem was how difficult it was to make audio, I didn’t have may options to make good sound effects which just ended up sounding amateur or I had to reuse the audio. • The one project I least enjoyed the most was the adventure project and this one is the one I regard as the worst. The first problem was that it was split into two parts and one of them was making posters, it was hard enough to do parts in a short time-limit but making posters that never seemed to end and were very boring to make just made that whole part of the course pointless. The second problem was making the second half, I had to make animation which takes forever but having only four weeks to make it made the project look incomplete and amateurly rushed.
- 17. What is you biggest success • My biggest success was the Paranoia of Edward Stanton Final Major Project even with it’s massive past failure. My ambitions were too high, I wanted to make a science experiment gone wrong in college with my fellow students, but everything had a time-limit and all the actors didn’t try or even show up when I had to film. What made this project a success was how it rose from the ashes of my tire fire of a past idea, everything on my power points got changed and made better in a day and filming had no time-limit which gave me enough time to film everything in time for the end of year FMP deadline. • What was the true success was how it succeeded in horror, for once a movie I made turned out the way it was supposed to. Thanks to the constant planning of creative kills and me getting the right practical effects this made brutal deaths full of the realistic of blood and gore that left a disturbing impression on the audience. The deaths may have helped but the creepy atmosphere was the magnum opus, careful planning and timing made this; a character who you sympathise with is just trying to protect his son but something always feels off, when more gets reviled tension rises and the plot twist builds up to an effective massive scare.
- 18. What has been your biggest mistake in coursework • As you well know by now my biggest mistake was being overly ambitious in my FMP which lead to everything having to be remade. I wanted to make a science experiment that went wrong which eventually ended with brutal and gory deaths, everything would take place in the college and I would use the students to be the characters. The first part of the mistake was that everything had to be booked which lead to it all having a short time limit and I didn’t have enough time to film everything, but the worst thing was the actors because they dropped out or didn’t show up on time and most of them didn’t bother to try. • Because this lead to a metaphorical tire fire I will learn from my mistakes in future projects so I don’t have to start again. I will learn to have smaller ideas so it can fit into a proper time limit and I can get everything done in time. I will learn not to set my ideas to high so I can make a project that has a simple story to follow and has actors who try.
- 19. Which skills do you think you have develop most? • I three skills that I think developed the most; filming in cinematography, editing thanks to premier and photoshop and working in time management. I used to only film with my iPad in sloppy shaky cam, my skills developed when I got to film with a real camera, I was able to hold shots steady and do zoom in shots and turn the brightness from light to dark. I only learned how to edit in iMovie with my editing being simple, learning to edit in premier and photoshop made my skills develop, I was able to edit my footage to look smooth and clear and professional, I also was able to slow down and speed up footage and zoom in on photos and footage, I was able to make pixelmation and make clear or unaltered images that looked polished and real. A lot of times in my previous education years I was poor in time management and college was the last time I gave work in late, college helped develop my skills and I was able to get work done on time by filming certain things in lesson or making a certain amount of slides in lesson (or just finish work in my own time).
- 20. What area are aiming to specialise in during Year 2? • There are two area’s where I aim to specialise in; camera work in filming and learning how to make and use audio. Even though I’ve become better in filming than I did, I can still learn more camera techniques and how to film them so I can make proper and unique camera shots, this fits with my future goals to go to college and be a director, if I know the different camera techniques and make unique camera shots I will have the proper skills to pass the tests in university and get the qualifications to be a director. Audio was never my strong suit, it would be wise to learn the different techniques to make sound effects both physically and digitally because audio is an important part in film, wanting to specialise in audio fits with my future goals because leaning audio is part of what you need to go to university and become a director, if I learn how audio works I’ll pass the tests in university and achieve my goal.