Mr. Curran's Lessons

Below are the Powerpoints for Mr. Curran's Friday lessons.

Storyboards for Trailers

Practicing Production

Practicing Production II

Editing

Editing II - Audio

URGENT

Ensure that you bring in your camera equipment tomorrow to class.

We will be looking at your footage and beginning the edit - this is your chance to review your work with me and alter your plans as necessary.

SECURITY!

Due to changes in our school internet usage policy we have to make some important changes to the way we use the blogs.

Please do the following.

Go to SETTINGS
Then PERMISSIONS
Change people who can read the blog to ONLY PEOPLE I CHOOSE
The add my email - tholloway@(at the usual school address)

Then save - you may add each other from your group but no one from outside the class.

PLEASE DO THIS IMMEDIATELY IT IS IMPORTANT

FINAL PREPARATIONS

GCSE Media Studies ASS3 Nov 8

Storyboards for Trailers

Storyboards for Trailers

Guardian Teacher Network

Guardian Teacher Network

Resource sheet for SUBMARINE

Please complete the activities on the sheet on your blogs.

MEDIA MAGAZINE & DEPENDENT FILMS

Check out the link to Media Magazine in the VITAL LINKS section bottom right.

Use the following login to access the site and read, download and enjoy.

Media Magazine is aimed at YOU and is designed to develop your skills. If you use it to research you will improve your grades. If you quote from it in your research you must ensure that you reference it clearly and make your own comments and analysis.

Read the articles on production.

Media Magazine

The login and password are:

mediamagazine9
je423st

Also check out the link to DEPENDENT FILMS which gives you access to all manner of useful documents which could be included in your portfolio - location release forms, risk assessments, script template, storyboarding, contracts etc. You will need to adapt these to use them but they show that you understand how important the planning is and demonstrate your professional approach. Good work experience stuff whatever you go on to do after school.

ASSIGNMENT 3 PRODUCTION GROUPS provisional

Group 1

Humaira
Sheida
Aishah

Group 2

Melina
Sasha
Genia

Group 3

Sara
Daisy
Faiza

Group 4

Farhana
Hali
Rafia
Shima

Group 5 (individual film makers)

Gabi
Tarryn
Tilly

As these are provisional, there may be some movement between groups and this could lead to some changes. However, we will need to finalise these groupings very soon and production schedules and deadlines fixed in the calendar.

Please remember that each of you will be responsible for creating a 12 page portfolio of evidence of your research and development in preparation for your film trailer/opening sequence.

Suggested elements to have in your portfolio include: analysis of trailers, analysis of still images, plan for marketing of the finished film, survey of responses to trailers, research into classification of films, script, storyboard and shot list, risk assessment, schedule for shooting.

Film Pitches

CHECK THE LAST THREE SLIDES FOR HOME LEARNING

Gcse Ass3 l6

FRIDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER

ASS 3 L4

OPEN EVENING

Please remind me to give you forms if you are available to help on open evening next Wednesday the 28th of September.

Thanks

TUESDAY

INSTRUCTIONS

Please read through the rest of the powerpoint and ensure that the work is completed. Clearly we are not able to work on the editing of the footage which you shot last week but you can and MUST complete the survey and the other home learning.

You will also notice that it was our intention to begin the process of developing ideas for your films. You may already have started this and the time has come for you to begin to put these into words so be prepared with good ideas for Friday.

FRIDAY

Lesson will focussed on developing ideas for trailers, looking at the audience research and seeing how this could apply and a practical task involving the cameras and edit.

SURVEYS

IDEALLY, surveys should be embedded into blogs and you should get friends and family to do them online. Then I'd like you to analyse the results perhaps in a graphic form - google docs can help with this. It can of course be done on paper too.


Gcse Ass3 l4

STUDENTS ON WARNING

For incomplete on non-existent homework and/or not having equipment.

Hali
Faiza
Tarryn
Shima
Sara
Gabi
Daisy
Sasha
Farhana

All must have completed the work set by Friday's lesson OR will have detention Next MONDAY the 19th September.

HOME LEARNING

Please ensure that you have written up your notes on your blogs in detail by Tuesday's lesson.

Remember that you are focussed on the Conventions of a trailer, and the specific conventions of the genre used.

Areas which you must comment on:

• Editing: types of cuts used (straight cut, fades to white or black, dissolves from one image to another), pace of editing, rhythm, whether it mirrors the sound cuts of not, freeze frames and other special editing effects.
• Sound: diegetic or non-diegetic, use of music (including well know songs), voice over/narration (either by character or the 'deep voiced movie trailer man'), synchronised dialogue
• Titles and written language: use of titling and credits, use of written language on screen either over picture, black or another background, position timing and font of titling, how narrative, theme or tome are conveyed through the written language (or not), titles for film marketing including credits, representation of institutions, individual etc.
• Picture: use of camera shots/angles/movement, mise en scene including costume/set/location/lighting etc., acting and moments of drama/comedy/etc. shown, casting (importance of cast and how they feature)

Remember, the more detail you write now the better your research will look later.

OPEN EVENING REQUEST

Open evening is coming up on the 29th of September and this means getting the Media Studies room ready to impress potential students. To do this I need your help both before the day AND on the night.

I know some of you were prepared to help in the holidays and due to a mix up we didn't quite make it happen. Now however is your chance.

There will be two rewards - one in terms of house points and another which may include food or chocolate. However the real reward is knowing that you have done a charitable thing and supported both your school and your subject well. I hope some of you will be willing and able to get involved.

Preparing the room including displays and emptying boxes after school starting next week.

Welcome back

Welcome back to year 11.

Friday's lessons will be about preparing the ground for your Assignment 3 projects.

You will need to be making notes during the lesson on the trailers we watch, and identifying the codes and conventions of both the trailer form and the specific genre of the films.

These notes will need to be transfered into onto your blogs and will in time be written up to go into your portfolio.

The focus on Friday will be CONVENTIONS OF A TRAILER but this doesn't mean that we won't begin to discuss other elements too including camera. lighting, mise en scene, editing, sound and written language.

Brush up on your use of media terms and be prepared to work fast and efficiently.

DISPLAY CREATION IN C1

Anyone who wants to come and help with displays and unpacking today in C1 - the large downstairs classroom in the Curie block is welcome from 11am - 1pm.

See some of you there I hope.

Mr H

LATEST ACTION ADVENTURE TRAILERS

Here are some of the latest Action Adventure Trailers - good to view but be warned, they are very CGI (Computer Generated Images) heavy so may not be a particularly good guide to what you should be trying to create.

However, you could think about the planning of the trailer, the way narrative is drip fed to us through the images, dialogue and sound effects. How people and places are represented and how the audience is directly targeted.

I particularly like the first one - Super 8 as it is clearly aimed at a family audience. Think about whose POV we get in each of the trailers and how this helps us to identify the audience. Also make a note of who the Producers, Directors and Executive Producers are. Then look up what else they have done.

Also note the Lego video game advert which I have put in to get you to think about how important Marketing across different media platforms is. The game helping to advertise the Film franchise. And the the film helping to sell the game and also Lego toys. You may get a question which asks you to think about this.

PRELIMINARY MATERIALS

These have been sent in the post but for those of you able to get online.

Here is what they are asking you to do.

AQA-48101-PM-W-PM-Jun111

Good luck

Check out the EXAM RESOURCE PAGE

ON the new page you will find useful tips and vital materials for your continued study and revision.

Uncle


Livonia St


Humaira and Rafia

Check out the links above to find your way to UNCLE which is where you will be based.

Action Adventure - developing skills

AA Revision

The likely revision day in the half term will be Tuesday from 10am - 12pm.

Letter will go out next week with the brief for the exam.

Viral Marketing campaign for The Dark Knight

E-SAFETY

Please review your blogs from the perspective of E-Safety.

This means:

• ensure that you have posted NO personal details which put you in danger - remove photographs of yourself and ONLY use your first name not your surname. Also ensure that you do not post email addresses, telephone numbers etc.
• Do not post images which might be inappropriate or harmful
• Do not accept requests from anyone outside of the GCSE class wanting to your blog
• Keep your login and password safe

Data Protection

• In addition please be aware that we are subject to copyright laws and as such should credit where possible images and texts which may have come from another source
• With the open source nature of the internet it is not always possible to do this, I understand but please make every effort, mostly you are using sources available online as a starting point for analysis which is acceptable.
• Do not publish any information about yourself or other which could be used by a 3rd party.

More about e-safety next term.

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ACTION ADVENTURE RESOURCES

With an acknowledgement to Teachit who provide online resources, here is a pack which will allow you to practice analysis of Action Adventure films and prepare for the examination in June. Work through the exercises and use them to stimulate your own thinking about Action Adventure films.

Remember, you all need to watch films over the break and to spend time annotating and discussing them.

There will be a MOCK EXAM on your return and the brief for this is also posted here for you to examine and prepare.

AA REVISION

AA Mock Exam

Good luck.

ALSO PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE ALL COMPLETED YOUR STORYBOARDS AND POSTERS BY THE APRIL 27TH DEADLINE.

ACTION ADVENTURE - NARRATIVE THEORY

A&A narr

ACTION ADVENTURE

Due tomorrow.

Work on Why So Serious?

I see some are ready but some haven't been on their blogs for weeks! Catch up now or catch-up after school in a compulsory way!

Please can you ALL check your school EMAIL. I have sent you all a detailed email about the CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT.

HOMEWORK: Due 23rd March

Create a draft of your 'Energy Drink' poster. Re-create your own energy drink.
Research and Planning Task:

Print or web-based/new media – mock-up 

design for an advertisement for a magazine,
newspaper or billboard.

Action Adventure - ongoing work preparing for exam

Please find this weeks presentation.

I realise that you are very busy with your work on the Controlled Assessment but you still need to keep going with the exam work too. Once the second Assignment is finished we will be focussed completely on the exam.






AA L5

Unit2-9.3.11

BLOGS and CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT

BLOGS

Not all of you blogs are linked to the course blog, please send me the link so that I can update this ASAP and could the person whose blog is called 'Magazine Article' change it to their 'nameGCSEMedia'.

Those of you who have not updated for over a month NEED to get up to date - no excuses - by Monday.

CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT

Assignment 2a will be submitted electronically ie. as a word doc. or PDF.
Assignment 2b can be submitted electronically OR on paper.

The deadline for submission of both is the 30th of March 2011.

The controlled assessments begin next week and will take place in the CLC on computers. You will be able to save your work to a shared drive in the CLC and will also be expected to email your work to Ms Doyle/Ashton and to yourself (or save it onto USB) at the end of each Wednesday lesson. This is to ensure that we can keep track of your work in progress.

You will also need to email your work back to yourself (personal or school account) or bring it in on a USB each week if you have developed it or improved it which you will be expected to do for HW.

We will remind you about this regularly.

HOMEWORK REMINDER DUE 2ND MARCH

Well done on all those who completed their print ad analysis.

Students who have not completed their TV ad analysis, MUST complete TODAY...

Blogs will be checked in the morning.

EXAM DETAILS

The date for your GCSE exam on Action Adventure is:

13th June 2011 (a Monday afternoon)

Preliminary materials will be released on the 16th of May giving you 4 weeks to prepare for the exam during which most of you will be doing your work placements for two weeks and there will be some intensive revision sessions on the lead up to the exam.

The exam lasts 90 minutes and you will have 4 questions to answer - two analytical and two creative.
The four weeks of preparation should allow you to do well in this exam if you are focussed and revise well.

ACTION ADVENTURE FILMS

Tasks for Monday.

• One group to work on developing 25 word pitch for a new action adventure film and then writing 250 word synopsis.
• The other group to work on watching an action adventure trailer and writing a short analysis onto their blog.

Here are the links for the watching and analysing group and an example of a pitch and synopsis for the writing group.

Sample log line or short pitch

• A mechanic shunned for carrying a disease, rescues an android, secretly repairs her, and fights to protect her when she endangers the colony.

Note how the log line includes the protagonist, the genre, the inner conflict, the outer conflict and the climax (without giving it all away).

A Synopsis for The Bourne Ultimatum

• Matt Damon returns as the trained assassin Jason Bourne for the latest showdown in The Bourne Ultimatum. In the follow-up to 2002's The Bourne Identity and 2004's The Bourne Supremacy - the smash hits that have earned over $500 million at the global box office - acclaimed director Paul Greengrass joins returning cast member Julia Stiles and Joan Allen and new additions David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez and Albert Finney.
• All he wanted was to disappear. Instead, Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was.
• Now, in this new chapter of espionage series, Bourne will hunt down his past in order to find a future. He must travel from Moscow, Paris, Madrid and London to Tangier and New York City as he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne - all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of cops, federal officers and interpol agents with him in their crosshairs.
• The Bourne Ultimatum was shot in Morocco, Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Note that paragraphs 2 and 3 could be for a new film. 

Action Adventure Films - Exam course preparation

Please find the presentation from last lesson.

REMEMBER to make go back over your notes at some time in the near future.



Gcse Aa l1 Genre

NEXT LESSON - MONDAY P4

Key Concepts:

• Media Forms and Conventions
• Media Language: visual and aural languages
• Media Institution 
• Audience 
• Media Representations

Media Forms and Conventions
Genre:

• the importance of genre as a marketing tool
• the codes and conventions of the genre
• the sub genres that constitute the genre, leading to a consideration of hybridity

Our tasks may well involve watching clips and deciding on genre and sub genre, explain reasons for choices based on what we see and hear.

We will also begin the case study of how a specific film is marketed through it's genre.