Blizzard Group - Preliminary Task
Ben Start
Blog
Ben's Evaluation
Jessica Cotier
Blog
Jess' Evaluation
Rory Pitts
Blog
Rory's Evaluation
Solar Flare Group - Preliminary Task
Jack Craig
Blog
Jack's Evaluation
Aimee Stone
Blog
Aimee's Evaluation
Rojan Gurung
Blog
Rojan's Evaluation
Hurricane Group - Preliminary Task
Emily Darter
Blog
Emily's Evaluation
Hollie Breed
Blog
Hollie's Evaluation
Tsunami Group - Preliminary Task
Danny Buckley
Blog
Danny's Evaluation
Anna Higginson
Blog
Anna's Evaluation
Aimee Kemp
Blog
Aimee's Evaluation
Wildfire Group - Preliminary Task
Robert Wheelhouse
Blog
Rob's Evaluation
Richard Falconer
Blog
Richard's Evaluation
Matthew Howard
Blog
Matt's Evaluation
Alexander Francis
Blog
Alex's Evaluation
Monday, 4 March 2013
Monday, 3 December 2012
Expected Work on your blog
By the first week back, the following should be on your blog:
- Thriller film pitch individual outline of plot of the whole film (3 ideas posted in total from the group)
- Continuity editing in the first 2 minutes of Thriller films
- Preliminary task progress
- Preliminary task script/storyboard/shotlist
- Preliminary task plans
- Production company profile - What your 'company' makes and why
- Your ident
- Results of interviews - what you found and why
- Interviews with potential target audience
- Target audience identification. This must be tagged and present
- Results of your internet survey with charts and pictures
- An internet survey looking at target audience
- At least three internet research posts looking into target audience of individual films
- technical conventions of a film opening group mind-map/ notes/ initial thoughts on what a film opening should establish
- establishing narrative in opening 5 mins of a film individual detailed CEMS analysis of one film opening (any genre)
- character types within Thrillers and micro-elements used in their portrayal individual detailed description of one character type from Thriller + egs from existing films (could make links to Propp)
- genre-specific conventions of a Thriller opening group prezi/ mind-map, research notes + egs
- detailed group CEMS analysis of ‘Seven’, ‘Da Vinci Code’, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ – how are they established as Thriller films?
- themes and symbols used in Thriller films individual research notes + egs + illustrations
- cross-sub genres used alongside Thriller film individual research notes + egs
- credits ordering, timings and style individual detailed anlysis of 3 opening credits sequences (2 must be Thriller)
- narrative structure of Thrillers individual research notes + egs of one of the following: Levi-Strauss - binary oppositions Propp – functions/ character types Barthes – enigma code
- implications in the first 2 mins of a Thriller film
- Welcome post
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Moderator Post May 2012
Dear Moderator
Please find the requested sample students below (their preliminary tasks are also linked for you, you will also find links to their videos on their blogs also)
Sirius Group - Preliminary Task
6053; BYFORD, HARRY G
Blog
Evaluation
6231; TICKLE, WILLIAM C
Blog
Evaluation
Supernova Group - Preliminary Task
6234; TZEN, HARRIS M
Blog
Evaluation
Altair Group - Preliminary Task
6121; DUTTON, JOSHUA S S
Blog
Evaluation
6148; HADDOCK, DANIEL
Blog
Evaluation
Gemini Group - Preliminary Task
6201; PEARCE, MICHAEL A
Blog
Evaluation
Andromeda Group - Preliminary Task
6156; HOOPER, JOSHUA D
Blog
Evaluation
6229; THORNBERG BERGDAHL, SIMON G
Blog
Evaluation
Northstar Group - Preliminary Task
5004; ANDERSON, CAROLINE I J
Blog
Evaluation
5148; PAPIER-BANTICK, MILES
Blog
Evaluation
Please find the requested sample students below (their preliminary tasks are also linked for you, you will also find links to their videos on their blogs also)
Sirius Group - Preliminary Task
6053; BYFORD, HARRY G
Blog
Evaluation
6231; TICKLE, WILLIAM C
Blog
Evaluation
Supernova Group - Preliminary Task
6234; TZEN, HARRIS M
Blog
Evaluation
Altair Group - Preliminary Task
6121; DUTTON, JOSHUA S S
Blog
Evaluation
6148; HADDOCK, DANIEL
Blog
Evaluation
Gemini Group - Preliminary Task
6201; PEARCE, MICHAEL A
Blog
Evaluation
Andromeda Group - Preliminary Task
6156; HOOPER, JOSHUA D
Blog
Evaluation
6229; THORNBERG BERGDAHL, SIMON G
Blog
Evaluation
Northstar Group - Preliminary Task
5004; ANDERSON, CAROLINE I J
Blog
Evaluation
5148; PAPIER-BANTICK, MILES
Blog
Evaluation
Monday, 28 November 2011
Uses and gratifications model
• The need to reinforce a view of personal identify by comparing our own roles and values with similar roles and values represented in the media.
• The need to have companionship and interactions with others. Media being used to aid social contact.
• The need to be informed.
• The need for entertainment and diversion.
• The need to reinforce a view of personal identify by comparing our own roles and values with similar roles and values represented in the media.
• The need to have companionship and interactions with others. Media being used to aid social contact.
• The need to be informed.
• The need for entertainment and diversion.
Audience - Two-step flow model
• The text does not directly go into audience’s head – it is mediated by “opinion leaders” who communicate it to those who have influence.
• Audience then received information directly from the media but influenced with the ideas and thoughts from opinion leaders rather than a direct process.
• The text does not directly go into audience’s head – it is mediated by “opinion leaders” who communicate it to those who have influence.
• Audience then received information directly from the media but influenced with the ideas and thoughts from opinion leaders rather than a direct process.
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Target Audience Profile
- Age
- Location
- Class
- Ways of consuming films
- Interests
- Values
- Beliefs
- Other films they enjoy
- settings
- plot
- characters
- actors
- music
An analysis of what you are going to take from this.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
List of Thriller Films
Black Swan
Shutter Island
The Talented Mr Ripley
The Game
Fatal Attraction
The Departed
Cape Fear
Diabolique
Memento
The Usual Suspects
Taxi Driver
Mulholland Drive
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
Following
The Sixth Sense
Donnie Darko
Unbreakable
Jacob’s Ladder
The Machinist
Hard Candy
Frailty
Shutter Island
The Talented Mr Ripley
The Game
Fatal Attraction
The Departed
Cape Fear
Diabolique
Memento
The Usual Suspects
Taxi Driver
Mulholland Drive
Pi
Requiem for a Dream
Following
The Sixth Sense
Donnie Darko
Unbreakable
Jacob’s Ladder
The Machinist
Hard Candy
Frailty
Monday, 14 November 2011
Places for Audience Research
http://boxofficemojo.com/
http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/resources/how-to-start-a-local-cinema/annex4
Articles that may help
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2001/feature-articles/audiences/
Audience Theory Prezi
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Moderator Post AS Level 2010-11
Dear Moderator
Please find the requested sample students below (their preliminary tasks are also linked for you, you will also find links to their videos on their blogs also)
Emily Rodgers
Apollo Group - Preliminary Task
Daniel Bird
India Fiala
Luke Ogilvie
Artemis Group - Preliminary Task
Sophie Balser
Hyperion Group - Preliminary Task
Amelia Quinn
Benjamin Smith
Iris Group - Preliminary Task
Benjamin Baxter
William Gregory
Zeus Group - Preliminary Task
Tobias Osborn
Other Students (not requested)
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Evaluation
Evaluation Questions
For your evaluation you will have SEVEN questions to answer in a variety of formats. Therefore, it is worth knowing these now so that you can plan them into your work management.
Your COMPLETE evaluation will be in ONE post with different SECTIONS.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
AS A GROUP you are to select:
- Two PAIRS of frames (the pair will be a key frame from yours and a key frame from a real Thriller film) where you have USED the forms and conventions of real media products
- Two PAIRS of frames where you have DEVELOPED the forms and conventions of real media products.
- Two PAIRS of frames where you have CHALLENGED the forms and conventions of real media products.
Then, INDIVIDUALLY, you are to explain HOW you either USED/DEVELOPED/CHALLENGED these. By HOW, you will need to refer to:
- Camera, Mise-en-Scene, Editing
- Sound (for this you could post two mp3s if you wished)
- Whilst also discussing HOW this works with your media product.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
This is an INDIVDUAL post and is to be presented using the online application PREZI (you can make a group account and make 2/3/4 presentations on it). You must include screenshots from your video in this. You could also use images from your other video.
In this you need to
- What are the social groups represented in terms of gender, age, class, race, disability interests.etc?
- How have you presented them? Positive or negative?
- Are the social groups represented in a stereotypical way? I.e. men dominant and women passive or mentally disabled people in the role of the innocent?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The presentation of this will be a GROUP entry on the MEDIA STUDIES WIKI (address below) with the title being the title of your film with a link
For high PRESENTATION marks it will need to have LINKS back to your blog and other websites and IMAGES. For high CONTENT marks you will need to JUSTIFY the reasons behind your selections.
Remember to consider:
- What type of film yours is (mainstream or art-house) and how may this be affect by distribution? (Remember distribution organises exhibition).
- What themes it covers and how might that affect the distribution company?
- Convergence, vertical/horizontal integration and synergy – Who would/might you work with and why?
- Why would it be released? Does it offer opportunities for franchises, sequels or merchandising?
- Link your conclusions to a discussion of the mise en scene (visual style) of your thriller.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The presentation of this will be done INDIVIDUALLY on the BLOG. You will need to include IMAGES and EMBEDDED LINKS in your piece
Create a profile of your ideal audience member – considering:
- Their age, class, gender, location
- Their hobbies, interests and pastimes (would do they do?)
- What they spend their money on
- Their beliefs and values
To get HIGH MARKS in this you need to think of all the things your audience would be interested. To get HIGH PRESENTATION marks you must include IMAGES and LINKS
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
This is a GROUP post
- You are upload your video to youtube and add multiple tags to it (careful of TIME and DURATION)
As you go through the video – point out the features that attract your audience and WHY they do (remembering always to link it to, draw attention to:
- Camera work (movement & angle)
- Editing
- Mise En Scene
- Establishment of character
For HIGH MARKS you will need to link your observations back to conventions and the creation of suspense – ALSO always make sure you discuss the IMPACT of the choices of you have made
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
This is an INDIVIDUAL task and will involve you taking PHOTOGRAPHS of you using the equipment. You can then either:
- Annotate the photographs with text in PHOTOSHOP
- Write next to the images straight the blog.
The question is self-explanatory – it wants you to talk about what you learned about the various technologies – this includes online and offline – so may include things like: FCE, photoshop, blogging, prezi, youtube etc.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
A GROUP TASK: Using your preliminary task you will either:
Insert text into your preliminary text in Final Cut Express and upload this to Youtube.
Or
Make notes on your uploaded preliminary task through TAGGING on youtube.
Include details on
- Your progression in planning
- Your research into genre, storyboarding and how this helped you.
- Your progression in practical work.
- Your confidence with the equipment
- How successful you have been
For your evaluation you will have SEVEN questions to answer in a variety of formats. Therefore, it is worth knowing these now so that you can plan them into your work management.
Your COMPLETE evaluation will be in ONE post with different SECTIONS.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
AS A GROUP you are to select:
- Two PAIRS of frames (the pair will be a key frame from yours and a key frame from a real Thriller film) where you have USED the forms and conventions of real media products
- Two PAIRS of frames where you have DEVELOPED the forms and conventions of real media products.
- Two PAIRS of frames where you have CHALLENGED the forms and conventions of real media products.
Then, INDIVIDUALLY, you are to explain HOW you either USED/DEVELOPED/CHALLENGED these. By HOW, you will need to refer to:
- Camera, Mise-en-Scene, Editing
- Sound (for this you could post two mp3s if you wished)
- Whilst also discussing HOW this works with your media product.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
This is an INDIVDUAL post and is to be presented using the online application PREZI (you can make a group account and make 2/3/4 presentations on it). You must include screenshots from your video in this. You could also use images from your other video.
In this you need to
- What are the social groups represented in terms of gender, age, class, race, disability interests.etc?
- How have you presented them? Positive or negative?
- Are the social groups represented in a stereotypical way? I.e. men dominant and women passive or mentally disabled people in the role of the innocent?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The presentation of this will be a GROUP entry on the MEDIA STUDIES WIKI (address below) with the title being the title of your film with a link
For high PRESENTATION marks it will need to have LINKS back to your blog and other websites and IMAGES. For high CONTENT marks you will need to JUSTIFY the reasons behind your selections.
Remember to consider:
- What type of film yours is (mainstream or art-house) and how may this be affect by distribution? (Remember distribution organises exhibition).
- What themes it covers and how might that affect the distribution company?
- Convergence, vertical/horizontal integration and synergy – Who would/might you work with and why?
- Why would it be released? Does it offer opportunities for franchises, sequels or merchandising?
- Link your conclusions to a discussion of the mise en scene (visual style) of your thriller.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The presentation of this will be done INDIVIDUALLY on the BLOG. You will need to include IMAGES and EMBEDDED LINKS in your piece
Create a profile of your ideal audience member – considering:
- Their age, class, gender, location
- Their hobbies, interests and pastimes (would do they do?)
- What they spend their money on
- Their beliefs and values
To get HIGH MARKS in this you need to think of all the things your audience would be interested. To get HIGH PRESENTATION marks you must include IMAGES and LINKS
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
This is a GROUP post
- You are upload your video to youtube and add multiple tags to it (careful of TIME and DURATION)
As you go through the video – point out the features that attract your audience and WHY they do (remembering always to link it to, draw attention to:
- Camera work (movement & angle)
- Editing
- Mise En Scene
- Establishment of character
For HIGH MARKS you will need to link your observations back to conventions and the creation of suspense – ALSO always make sure you discuss the IMPACT of the choices of you have made
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
This is an INDIVIDUAL task and will involve you taking PHOTOGRAPHS of you using the equipment. You can then either:
- Annotate the photographs with text in PHOTOSHOP
- Write next to the images straight the blog.
The question is self-explanatory – it wants you to talk about what you learned about the various technologies – this includes online and offline – so may include things like: FCE, photoshop, blogging, prezi, youtube etc.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
A GROUP TASK: Using your preliminary task you will either:
Insert text into your preliminary text in Final Cut Express and upload this to Youtube.
Or
Make notes on your uploaded preliminary task through TAGGING on youtube.
Include details on
- Your progression in planning
- Your research into genre, storyboarding and how this helped you.
- Your progression in practical work.
- Your confidence with the equipment
- How successful you have been
Monday, 15 November 2010
Rules fo Story Writing
Kurt Vonnegut's Rules for Short Stories
Sounds suspiciously like Syd Field's rules for screenplays:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time
was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.*
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful
things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so
to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few
pages.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Monday, 18 May 2009
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Shared Conventions of TV Drama
Shared Conventions of TV Drama
Characters who offer shorthand representations of real types of people or stereotypes.
Narrative which is visually presented and demands high levels of audience understanding (of what is assumed to happen in between edits – the different between plot and story)
Mise En Scene, all the elements which add up to an instantly recognisable atmosphere, which is “authentic” for the events, themes and people for the events, themes and people that are being represented in the Drama.
Camerawork and Editing that ensures continuity and creates drama through visual conventions.
Dialogue Sound and Music which create a balance between verisimilitude (the logic of the text’s world which appears real) and drama (dialogue which might be less polished” in the real world, music which tells the audience the motion they should feel)
Characters who offer shorthand representations of real types of people or stereotypes.
Narrative which is visually presented and demands high levels of audience understanding (of what is assumed to happen in between edits – the different between plot and story)
Mise En Scene, all the elements which add up to an instantly recognisable atmosphere, which is “authentic” for the events, themes and people for the events, themes and people that are being represented in the Drama.
Camerawork and Editing that ensures continuity and creates drama through visual conventions.
Dialogue Sound and Music which create a balance between verisimilitude (the logic of the text’s world which appears real) and drama (dialogue which might be less polished” in the real world, music which tells the audience the motion they should feel)
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
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