March was a long and hardworking month for me, I threw all my effort and resources into the research part of my task. It was incredibly difficult, extremely long but I wouldn't change anything about it because I feel like this has really helped me. 

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So starting this project off, I did my Primary research. Each website I used and studied and put there, Harvard reference onto the page labeled it. Anyway, for my primary research, found out a lot of interesting facts about short horror films, different types of films, I hadn't seen before, a lot about genre and much more. Looking at the work I have completed in this time frame, I am over the moon with the results I got. I really did put a lot of effort in with this section and it pays off. Honestly, the only thing that could have gone better would be the time I estimated I could do this in. I did say on my schedule that I would like to complete this in two weeks or so, but it did take me the full month. When I next do a research task for something similar, I think I would change the amount of work I did for it. It is all helpful and useful, I have really benefited from doing this much, however, some of it feels repetitive and discussing similar topics that I have already explored. Like I said before, all the research was so helpful and inspiring, which has made the process go smooth. From all this research, I have a better idea about what I need to include in my actual film and the importance of it. 

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Moving over to Audience research. At first I wasn't really sure to start with this. Yet, with some help from the analysis brief, I realised I need to discuss the different types of audience, my audience, Blummer and Katz and finally a form about my own film. This really allowed me to get a better understanding of who I want my film to reach and what I need to include to get there and why. I am happy with the results I got from all of this, I feel liked I backed up each point very well and my form also helps backs ups the answers I gave. The hardest problem I faced with audience was audience competition. I had to a lot more research and find a lot more evidence to back up these points. When I do these task another time, I think I need to put this task first, as it gave me more ideas for research task, which I had basically complete by this point. Once again this task has really inspired me and helped me think though about the specific thing's I need to include to capture my audience's attention. 

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Finally, onto my media research. This is mainly me experimenting with some things I haven't tried before. for example a different software and colour grading. When looking at the work I did from the different softwares, they do look the same and both are pretty smooth. However, I found it a lot harder to work Final Cut Pro, due to never using it before and not really knowing how to use it. With Premier Pro though, I was able to get this done in a nice speed and didn't really have to worry to much about not knowing how to do certain things. I did enjoy experimenting with the though. The biggest issued I had with this task was time, if I had more time with my project and even just research I think I have had more time too learn Final Cut Pro better and use it for my final piece. I do think it is better than I use a software that I am more comfortable with for my FMP. When it comes to colour grading, I had never done this before and really wanted to try it before I started my pre-production, as I believe it will make my work better. When I gave this ago I was so happily surprised with all my results. It really inspired me and gave me a good feeling for this part of my editing. I just knew though that I wanted more colour in my actual dit but still dark and eerie. 

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Overall, it's made me really excited for my next stages of this project and really got my thoughts racing for what I should include in both production and post production.