Describe how you developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.

I am going to be discussing creativity in relation to research and planning and how it contributed to creative decision making.

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way". Researching typical conventions for a thriller helped me with my creative skills as I looked into what were the norms of a thriller opening. Some of the conventions i adhered to were establishing an equilibrium, introducing the antagonist, a policeman who was not clearly shown to be the protagonist and many more. This gave me an idea into how I should plan my thriller opening. I also saw shinning and se7en as inspiration and used intertextuality by using part of host. The scene in the bedroom of se7en and 

I also included a hybrid of genres, using a psychological thriller and a crime thriller. I realised from researching into genres, that because it is difficult to be creative within boundaries, it is common to use a hybrid of genres, which is what I