Some New Tasks

Ok, we're starting to get serious now.......

What I would like each group to do now is to set up a blog collectively for their movie.

In this blog I would like you to start posting your influences on your movie and reasons why you have chosen them.

I would also like you to give your blog a "skin" and identity that reflects the mood of your film.

This Blog should be called by your production team/movie name.

Once you have decided on your movie genre/style, you need to define the conventions as you see it of that genre, examining what the language of those films are.

You must then examine what the audience expectations of a movie from your chosen genre would be.

I would like a synopsis of your WHOLE movie first.

Storyboard to be done for Tuesday 3rd February (finished for class on Tues)

Another School's Thriller Video

Ghostbusters...the video game!!

As if by magic, the gods of videogame have just made those childhood dreams come true...

Spooks Analysis (for Tues 2nd December)

As part of preparation for your mock examinations (and for your AS exam), I would like you to to do a thorough analysis of representation in the BBC Drama Spooks.

Please try to follow the rubric as you would in an exam (take one hour to do this)

Watch Spooks on iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00flyz9/Spooks_Series_7_Episode_6/

The extract is from 04.45-10.06

• The extract will be screened four times.

• First screening: watch the extract; no notes are to be made this time.

• Second screening: watch the extract and make notes.

• There will be a brief break for note-making.

• Third and fourth screening: watch the extract and make notes.

Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of social status and class using the following:
• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene [50]

Justin.tv VS The Premier League

A really interesting article of football streaming culture....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/nov/26/premierleague-bskyb

Editing and sound

To be done for Tuesday 18th November

Time to start finding examples and writing commentary from British TV drama of:

Editing

Transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-out, wipe,
superimposition, long take, short take, slow motion, ellipsis and expansion of time,
post-production,
visual effects.


Sound

• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound;
synchronous/asynchronous sound; sound effects;
sound motif,
sound bridge,
dialogue,
voiceover,
mode of address/direct address,
sound mixing,
sound perspective.
• Soundtrack: score, incidental music, themes and stings, ambient sound.

Coursework pt 1

This is the preliminary exercise you must compete before attempting your main project.

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door,crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action,
shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.