Describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Production in relation to creativity

The shots in my prelim included an establishing shot, two-person shot and shot / reverse shots: some room for creativity in that I learned to shoot, capture and edit in Adobe Premiere and iMovie.

I got at my most creative when we did our main task however, our thriller opening. It took me and my group a long time to come up with a story that would attract and interest our target audience- a teenage boy who blames himself for his girl friend's hospitalised condition and becomes suicidal. We filmed in Kingston which is a place where our target audience may go to socialise, so our audience could easily relate themselves to it. All the camera angles and shots required creative planning in order to  create a sense of suspense and mystery. In our research process, we also used  a lot of creative ways to present our ideas, for example like a spider web mind map, Prezi, Yudu, Slideshare, InDesign and Photoshop. I find all of the above very interesting, enhanced my creativity and are very user- friendly. 
During our planning, we created storyboards, call sheets and risk assessments, they all help us with organising and preparing for our filming secession and I now realise that without detailed planning everything would have taken us longer and would have lead to simply more stress. However, throughout the project we did make a few mistakes, for example the lighting was too dim or too bright. But we used creative ways to solve these problems for example by using colour correction on Adobe Premier to adjust the brightness and contrast in order to create suspense.
I also think I advanced creatively with all the editing software we used. For example, I was able to teach myself to use colour correction, edit pieces of film together and many other things, which I think requires a good level of creativity.