TERM TWOPrep Tasks for first half of Term Two 2009
PREP WEEK ONE
Prep Week 1 EMAILED: MONDAY 05 January 2009 09:25
DUE: Thursday 8th Jan
1) Finalise folders with your group and hand in.
2) Analyse 2 Hurtwood Thriller openings from either the Hurtwood youtube channel or a previous DVD.
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their content e.g. effectiveness of cast, mise-en-scene, sound fx, special fx like titles, editing, colour schemes and anything else significant.
Most importantly…
Does it produce significant rising tension for the audience?
(300 words for each = TOTAL of 600 words.)
PREP WEEK TWO
MEDIA SHOOTS FROM MON-THURS. BEX BACK ON FRIDAY
* BEX EXPLAINED WORK FOR MON-THURS AT START OF CLASSES MONDAY MORNING
* HARD COPIES OF ALL HANDOUTS WERE LEFT IN ROOM N03
(IN THE GREEN BOX MARKED “AS WORK FROM BEX”)
* STUDENTS WERE ALSO EMAILED WORK DIRECTLY
* ALL STUDENTS ASKED TO COME TO ROOM N03 DURING THEIR LESSON TIME EACH DAY TO MARK OFF THEIR NAMES ON THE REGISTER IN THE GREEN BOX
THIS WEEK IN LESSONS (FROM MON – THURS) YOU SHOULD…
TASK: Read and highlight keypoints in the class handouts (which can be found in the GREEN BOX in N03 near Bex’s computer) on the consumption and distribution of films in the U.K. and be sure to make some specific references to them in your answer to the following question.
Prep Week 2
Q. In what ways has your experience of new media (internet use, social networking etc) had an impact upon the way in which you watch film – consider how you choose your films, how you watch them and where you watch them?
Length: 600 words Due: Friday 16 January – BLUE BOX
PREP WEEK THREE
Prep Week 3
* Complete blog entries in MS WORD using the CHECKLIST for blogs, then post on your blogs DUE: Thursday 22nd Jan
*REMEMBER: This is the bare minimum that should have been completed before your shoot day. Continue to add at least 2 entries per week to your blog. Entries should outline the progress of your coursework and your role in its development. Keep your language (Mode of Address) academic and try to link lesson content to your project’s context.
See attached file or find the hard copy of CHECKLIST distributed in class
* CHECKLIST - A/S Media Coursework Thrillers 2008/9
Blog updates to be posted into your individual blogs
Post in this order…
• Intro to stills camera (brief account of our lesson)
• Intro to video camera (brief account of our lesson)
• Intro to using Final Cut Pro editing package
• Account of shooting preliminary task
• Account of editing preliminary task
• Account of lesson on “What is a Thriller”
• Account of giving presentations for possible Thriller ideas
(outline your idea) — including an account of who your target
audience is and what kind of institution would make your film
(e.g. mainstream Hollywood film Co, independent British fin
Co or TV production Co like CH4)
• Account of first production group meeting to finalise the narrative elements or key images and themes required to produce your title sequence.
• Account of how you then began the process of producing a written version of the technicalities on your storyboard which was then pasted into the Word storyboard template ready for visual images to be inserted or drawn in.
• Account of the research sources that you considered/used and what they taught you (internet mages, newspaper stories, films we have studied — making comment on their use of camera, sound, lighting, music, atmosphere, narrative ideas, casting etc). Make ref to several sources!
• Account of who your target audience are (list age, social class, gender, expectations — i.e. for a complex and psychologically challenging experience that encourages uncomfortable audience voyeurism etc...) Target demographic audience and psychographic profile of audience.
• Discussion of what kind of institution would produce your film and why? Why not consider “Bullet Boy” case study first, then look at other examples of recently released U.K. films.
• Account of locations requirements and how they were found, where they are and why they are suitable. Also explain how you visited them (on a reccy) to take digital pics and design lighting plans by considering where the main sources of light were and how these could be blacked out so that we could light the set artificially using video lighting which is controllable.
• Account of casting decisions made. Who did you need to cast and where were they sourced from. Did you experience or encounter any problems? Post digital pics into your blogs.
• Account of props and costumes required and where these will be sourced from. Identify that they are essential in generating realism. COSTS?
• Discussion of the production of the shooting schedule and an explanation of how you organised your day and why this document is so important. (Add any other relevant details from your production folder, e.g. storyboards)
• Final discussion of the effectiveness of the pre-production process identifying its strengths and weaknesses and exploring what it has taught you about film making!
*REMEMBER: This is the bare minimum that should have been completed before your shoot day. Continue to add at least 2 entries per week to your blog. Entries should outline the progress of your coursework and your role in its development. Keep your language (Mode of Address) academic and try to link lesson content to your project’s context.
PREP WEEK FOUR
* THE FOLLOWING TEXT WAS EMAILED TO EACH GROUP MEMBER SHORTLY AFTER INDIVIDUAL SHOOT DAYS.
DON’T PANIC!!! IT IS THE SAME TASK AS Prep Week 4 BELOW IT
Pictures of your shoot day are at the following in the mediaserver
\\mediaserver\Resources\AS MEDIA STUDIES\G321 - Foundation Production Portfolio\BEX AS FILMS\AS COMPLETED SHOOTS
Please write a detailed evaluation of the day's events. Strengths, weaknesses etc.
I would like this emailed (in a word document) to me asap please. I will check it and then you will post on your blogs.
Prep Week 4
* RESEARCH AND PLANNING BLOG
ENTRY FOR YOUR FOUNDATION PRODUCTION PORTFOLIO
For this week’s prep, I want each of you to produce an account of the shoot day. This should be word processed, and sent to me before they are uploaded to your blogs. Your accounts should cover the following areas:
• Last minute preparations for the shoot day
• The equipment that was used on the shoot day
• Which elements of your planning did you fulfil?
• What changes were made to your plans during the shoot day and the effect of these on the project
• What went well during the shoot day and why?
• What could have gone better during the shoot day and why?
• What would you do differently, if you had to shoot again
Illustrate your work with any photos/images from the shoot (you may need to compress them if they are large pictures!! Ask me how if you're not sure!)
Length: 500 words Due: Thursday 29th January
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PREP WEEK FIVE
Prep Week 5
* You will be graded on your contribution to your group’s individual shoot day with Matt and Bex.
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PREP WEEK SIX
Prep Week 6
* You will be graded on your contribution to the editing process of your production.
