Coruse work report

In media we have been creating our very own media text in order to convey our understanding of the media word and how they construct a media text. We were instructed to create a thriller directed mainly at a young adult or teenage audience. Our work was set into sections preproduction and production.
In my preproduction I produced a script of a section of my film called Teacher's Pet. It is about a teacher that purposefully uses psychology and mind tricks to manipulate his student and drive to commit suicide. I felt this would appeal to the a teenage audience because the movie involves teenagers in school which is something teenagers can relate to. I watched several thrillers in order to get examples such as Gone Girl (2014) by David Fincher and Short term 12 (2013) by Destin Daniel Cretton.
Gone girl is a popular thriller which gave me ideas about what the conventions of thrillers are and what makes a thriller, a thriller which is it has to be about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Then I adopted that into my film because its about school kids with a really evil teacher. Thrillers often have a lot of dark undertones and murder, which my film has due to its themes of murder and manipulation. Short term 12 wasn't a thriller but it showed me how to appeal to a teenage young adult audience. Firstly the movie must be relatable so I made it about teenagers in school.  I scripted the several scenes from my film using the script format of a movie which I got from reading Gone Girls screen play.
For my production I worked individually to create a poster and DVD cover for my movie Teacher's Pet using photo shop. I heard this was the best way to do it however I had no skills using the program and struggled immensely to grasp the difficult to understands operation of separating things from the layers to make a new layer, in fact I knew nothing about photo shop however I tackled the issue by requesting assistance from a team of photo shop experts in my vicinity. They helped me comprehend and figure out how to use photo shop for myself with lessons on creating new layers and not locking them and how I can decipher a even the most heinous of problems  by clicking the step backward button and eventually with a lot of practice and patience I understood photo shop.