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.