Friday 21 December 2012

NEW YEAR - ASSIGNMENT 3 & EXAM

Assignment 3

Deadlines in class

You will have time during the first 2 weeks of lessons to complete your trailers. After this time there will be no additional in-class time allocated as we will be focussed entirely on the exam course. 

Teaching of the exam course will take place from Jan through till May though there will be breaks during this for review of your coursework folders and to ensure that you are not missing any work.

Letters will also be coming out to all of you with regard to the parents evening in January.

Coursework Audit

This will take place in the new year to look at all the coursework folders and establish what work needs to be completed and where their are gaps we will be running a catch-up sessions after school, in lunch times and even during lessons to ensure that you have nothing missing.

Friday 7 December 2012

MOCK EXAM REVISION

There is a new page on the BLOG TRAILER - THEORY, ANALYSIS AND REVISION Also below you will find the letter. Please ensure that your letters in response - THE HOMEWORK FROM LAST WEEK - are published to your blogs too. GCSE Mock Exam Brief

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Assignment 3 filming

It is vital that this process continues and that you all make progress towards your completed productions. If this means staying after school, making a commitment to additional time on the project then you should be prepared to do this. You have one week left and this means you have time to make something good.

Key skills which you need to apply as a group

  • good communications between all group members
  • good organisation of production
  • well thought through ideas which fit with the conventions of the trailer form
  • care and creativity in your shooting
  • always keeping yourself safe during production
Ensure that you all bring the camera equipment to Friday's lesson.

Friday 28 September 2012

THE VOTE and your ideas

I thought I would just put down my take on your films to help you get a clearer idea of what they are and to assess at home on your own which most attracts you.

These are the film ideas you voted for:

Mellissa - Kane and Danayi's urban thriller about a good girl who gets mixed up with a bad lad, gets pregnant and becomes the victim of domestic violence. But how far can you push someone before they snap? A rough tough drama about life and love in the hood.

The Day of Reckoning - Annette's Psychological thriller about a girl from a religious family who suffers from mental illness but whose mum refuses her medication on religious grounds. When she meets a mysterious new friend her life becomes more exciting but also more dangerous and her mother begins to believe that she is possessed by the devil.

(No title) Fatima and Zamzam's Psychological thriller about a boy and girl whose relationship develops an unhealthy side as he begins to manipulate her, making her feel increasingly insecure and pushing her towards madness. When finally she is kidnapped the chance for revenge beckons.

(No title) Sam, Kam and Jan's Comedy Horror about three good - but very different friends who are found guilty of a minor crime and given community service in an old abandoned warehouse which is haunted. Fear and laughs in equal measure as the friends respond in hilarious ways to the ghosts and try to find out what happened, who died and why.

Fists of Fear - Lauren's urban tale of one girl's struggle against adversity to achieve success in her chosen sport. Set against the background of domestic violence this is a story of the inner power of the human spirit, of a mother and a daughter united by a common purpose.

(No title) Mariam and Samanta's ghostly horror about two good friends whose cement their friendship when they find two hair antique hair clips on a grave in their local grave yard. However, instead of their friendship becoming closer, it turns gradually to a searing hatred and threatens to spill into violence and murder. Are the clips to blame? Who are these girls anyway? The clues are all there on the grave stones?

And these are the others which weren't your favourites in class but which have as you will see a lot of potential.

(No title) Zahra's Odd couple movie with comedy and dance. Two girls are thrown together one as an academic peer mentor for the other. One clever and nerdy, the other rude and always in trouble. they find in time a powerful friendship forged in the gym when the nerdy girl learns to dance. A feel good movie about friendship between opposites.

(No title) Zhane, Nisha and Aleena's ghost horror. Set in a run down urban estate, a teenage girl's dreams are haunted by visions of footsteps climbing the walls, of two mysterious tower blocks and some secret which they contain. When one day she sees the blocks from her dream she is both scared and intrigued and when a mysterious face appears at a window, she is hooked into investigating more.

(No title) Sarah and Shanze's comedy horror is set one night when two girls are doing a sleep-over. Strange noises and odd happenings persuade them that a ghost is responsible until it is revealed that it is just the sister of one of them having a joke. Only after she has gone to bed, the noises still continue and it becomes the most terrifying night of their short lives.

Down Low Up Close - Kathryn's bad boy turns good story set in a deprived urban estate, a teenage lad coming out of a young offenders institute tries to turn his life around but escaping his past and the gang he grew up with could prove harder than he thought.

His Life - Rhian's coming of age film sees a kid grow up in a single parent family with a depressed mum and struggle to deal with all that life throws at him. But in the end, somehow he will get there.

Tuesday 25 September 2012

Tuesday 25th Lessons

Well done girls. An excellent, lively and well focussed session in which you all displayed creative skills and without exception made an effort. Though we were really only sharing ideas and discussing I believe that you all made progress and I want to see that confirmed through the HW.

Homework:

  1. Continue to develop your story idea through re-writing and complete for next Tuesday. Make sure that you use the ideas given today to make it stronger and clearer.
  2. Write a first draft of what we will see in the trailer - see the example below.

SAMPLE SCRIPT

Black screen

Fade up

Ext. School Playground. After school.

Girl is sitting on a bench alone - in her hand is a mobile phone - she dials a number - waits

Fade to Black

Int. Girl's bedroom. Night

A digital clock reads 4:00am. The girl's eyes open wide in fear.

The handle of the door begins to shaky violently.

Fade to black

Int. Kitchen. Morning

The girl is eating her breakfast. Listening to the radio. Her mother fussing around her. Suddenly, she looks down at the cereal bowl - it's full of blood. She turns to her mother and screams - the mother continues to do the washing up not hearing. A voice on the Radio:

                                  VOICE ON RADIO
              This is only the beginning Laura.

Int. Girl's Bedroom. Night

Digital clock read 4:01am - Laura sit bolt upright.

                                  LAURA
              Whose there?

(etc)







Thursday 13 September 2012

Friday 14th P1

Developing your HW from Tuesday

1.    Improve your150-250 word idea for your film explaining in detail the genre and target audience
2.    Provide 2 examples of film trailers from the same genre: embed trailers and analyse.
CW for Friday
1.    Create a 25 word pitch for the movie
2.    Create a name for their Production Company and design a logo
3.    Create a mood board for their movie using images and words

Extension describe the mise en scene, camerawork and sound you would like in your film.

Post all on the blog.
HW for Next Tuesday
Revise media terminology from glossary for a test

 

Sunday 15 July 2012

FINAL WEEK

Welcome back from your WORK EXPERIENCES, I hope they were all valuable and stimulating.

This week, being our last, we will be having a practical lesson and using the cameras to make teaser trailers for our main film idea.

You will be working in groups and based on how well you work and what you manage to achieve, I will be developing a list of working groups for the autumn.

You will need to bring with you your books, your completed Assigment 2b and any other outstanding work. In September there will be an audit of all assignment work and interim Controlled Assessment gradings so that you all know where you are at, what you need to complete and what you will be predicted for the Summer. But to do this I MUST have Assignment 2b.

Monday 25 June 2012

Monday 25th June

Homework for this week.

Complete one element of your Controlled Assessment 2b

  • either
  • Poster
  • Storyboard
Deadline is Monday 2nd of July


Assignment 2b + Here is the powerpoint for last week's lesson on Assignment 3a&b - MOVIE TRAILERS Assignment 3a & b I have also provided you with the embedded FAST GIRLS TRAILER

Monday 20 February 2012

Intro to Research and Planning - Assignment 2

Completing the CA - Survivor and Anarchy Ad

Wednesday 8 February 2012

HOMEWORK for HALF TERM

Work on draft for Controlled Assessment 2a

Complete draft either in pen or typed and ensure that you bring it with you on the first Monday back (20th of February) as we will be working on it. The better you can make it the better your final version will be and the higher grade you will get.

Check out the updated Assignment 2 page where you will find an embedded video which was part of the Lynx 2012 Campaign - think how this video further reinforces the ideology of the brand and the representations of women and men.

Wednesday 18 January 2012

How Social Media is changing the way we live?



For your amusement and also to get you thinking about how we now communicate.

Wednesday 11 January 2012

ADVERT COMPETITION

Please follow the link and complete the form so that you can enter your filmed advert today.

Be Creative - application

This MUST be completed before the 20th January 2012.

Be Creative

Follow the link above to find out more about how you can WIN AN IPAD.

MORE competitions will be added throughout the year.

Wednesday 4 January 2012

ASSIGNMENT 2A

Please take a look at the selection of options for Assignment 2a.

Assignment 2a is the analysis of advertising across two media platforms and full details of what you will need to produce including a help sheet and some exemplar will appear on the Assignment 2 page in the next week or so.

In the meantime, as mentioned, your homework is to look at and make a choice of which of the adverts (or one of your own) you are going to work on for this assignment.

Levis
Coke
Creature Discomforts

or one of your own.

Sunday 1 January 2012

FIRST LESSON

You will be working on your competition adverts so please bring anything necessary to complete filming and editing. You should consider how you complete the edit and sound post production in time for the January 20th deadline. The Media room will be available on Mon/Tue and Thur by appointment and if you want to make a decent entry your should consider spending the extra time.