what YOU MUST include in your blog

YOUR BLOG MUST INCLUDE: 

• YOUR CONTINUITY SEQUENCE  with a critique of how you have used the key elements
• Evidence of research into similar media texts and analysis of their forms and genre conventions - cinematography, editing, mise en scene, setting, characters, lighting, sound and narrative
• outline of any tasks which you have under taken in order to develop your skills 
• A logline for your film idea/concept and or a mind-map exploring narrative/character development - comment on why you have rejected genre
• Draft storyboards and plans 
• A comprehensive set of posts outlining the processes in the development of your 
• film and the decisions and revisions made 
• Location shots 
• Casting Shots 
• A filmed animatic with camera movement/cuts and sound 
• Second/third draft storyboards 
• Music choices discussion and analysis with audio extracts 
• The first cut of your sequence with analysis 
• Detailed critique of the developmental process with reflective commentary on the decisions and revisions made.  
• Exploration of why opening title sequences are so important to the film industry? 
• Photographs of the shoot - you in action! 
• Shooting schedule  
• Mini-evaluative postings showing reflective thought processes throughout the project 
• Evidence of audience profiling -what is a typical member of your target audience like -interests, age, beliefs, hopping habits etc.
• Risk assessment- completed before you start any filming.

Research

You have already completed plenty of  research. This needs to be added to your blog

1. Opening titles analysis - analyse the opening titles to 2 films. Look at the production company credits/logos, the job titles included, star billing, fonts, text movement, and if titles are set against a black background or transparent over particular shots. Comment of the effect of the titles and how they create genre 
2. Analysis of film openings - select 2 different films from two different genre and analyse the first two minutes. Look at the camerawork, the sound, the mise-en-scene, and narrative if present.
3. Add links to the openings so that we can see the films you have used here.

Skills Development

1. Add a post about filming the scene from The Breakfast Club. What did you learn about camera shots, editing etc from this exercise.
2. Using iMovie - what skills have you developed and still need to work on.
3. Write up the garage band lesson- what points are key in terms of sound and music in film. Choose a short film from YouTube and write about the use of music- apply your learning from the music workshop.

That should be enough to keep you busy!!

JLD

The brief and using the blog

Welcome to the blog. Your AS coursework planning, research and evaluation will be submitted to the exam board via your blog. This means that when a post is added you  must :

1. use own words;
2. be written accurately with good sentence structures, correct spelling and in an appropriate tone;
3. not copy information from the interweb;
4. acknowledge sources of clips etc.

You also need to check for new posts and what you need to do each week. The more you show use of technical skills the higher your marks will be. Try putting on a much as poss- tryouts in lessons, skill development etc.


Good Luck.


As part of your foundation portfolio you will have to produce two short filmed artefacts. 

The Preliminary task is a 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.

The main task is to research, plan and make the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. You can work on your own or in a group, maximum of 3. All research and planning should be completed individually.