Annaleigh Quinlan - A Level Media Studies Blog

 Since the account is not public, these are screenshots of my Instagram posts as previously featured in the blogs.

This is my post card mockup for Parley Through Time:

  When I started my short film in November, I knew I wanted to make it based around something important to me. Identity is something very personal to a lot of people and a fact that I struggled with for years, so making the film, I wanted the theme of it to surround the topic of identity and discovering and learning about who you are through, what feels like, an incredibly repetitive series of events. Going into research, I looked into time loops for the reason that they have been used to show character growth in films like Groundhog Day and reflect how I have felt at different points in time while figuring out who I am. Time loops are a fun way to show character development because the process can be repetitive, it often feels monotonous (as per the tagline of the film), but it does lead to something. That’s why I changed the aspects of the loop as I went. The character learns more and more about themselves through repetition. Furthermore, the character repeatedly finding more i...

 Instagram post ten is very similar to the two that came before it, since it is just announcing that the film releases the next day and where it is releasing. It's important for people being able to access the product, so in the posts I give the film festivals that it would be at. I also note that the film was releasing digitally, since that could get a wider audience, since people can't always travel out to the film festivals. Post eleven is the link to the short film. I thought it would be a good idea to release this on Instagram to allow more traffic for the short film. Even though Instagram allows reels to be longer, I formatted it as a talking head with me telling people where to watch the film. Instagram primarily puts videos in that use portrait mode, and reels that use landscape can't be zoomed in on and it could make it more difficult to watch. Also, the icons would be visible and could become distracting to some viewers.

 Instagram posts eight and nine are two posts about the upcoming film release, with three days left and two days left. It's a countdown, as talked about previously, inspired by the Owl House season three release countdown by Dana Terrace. The images I used aren't what I had originally planned to, with the numbers in the actual photos rather than in the captions or added as text, but I think they have a more mysterious air to them because of that. Without the numbers physically in the picture, the images look more mysterious and like they appear in the final film, which they don't. That aspect could add to the realism of the minor task. It also works for marketing, since staged photos like the ones I wanted to do originally could do less to get the viewer intrigue, since they don't reveal the true nature of the film.

 The director's cut is just the unedited version of the final cut, reflecting the extra footage and second version of how I wanted the film to look without the time constraint. I think the final cut, objectively, a lot better than the director's cut. The clips are edited more precisely, rather than just using the same clips the exact same way over and over. The audio in the director's cut is missing because I didn't like the way the audio lined up with the extra minute and a half. Professional director's cuts have audio and are closer to the final version of the product rather than an early draft of it, but the second one is possible. I'm happy with the director's cut, but glad I took the extra time to not just remove footage but edit the repeating loops. Director's Cut