DEADLINES FOR COURSEWORK AND EXAM DETAILS

A reminder about the deadline.

ASSIGNMENT 3

All Assignment 3 work must be completed by the 27th of March to allow me to mark and moderate your work.

My submission date is the 7th of May this means that I have to post everything off BEFORE that date and I have to have time to assemble the all your work to do this.

It is vital therefore that you have it all printed out in plastic wallets with a contents page and that it is REALLY CLEAR. You must have your film trailers/opening completed by this time too though I am not expecting them to be made into DVDs by the 27th - I will be doing this after the date.

CONTROLLED ASSESSMENTS


There will be 2 half day catch-up session in half term to complete any missing elements of your Controlled Assessment folders. This might include missing elements from previous Assignments 1 or 2.

EXAM

The exam brief will be given to us on Monday the 14th of May and from that date onwards, I cannot formally teach you but I will be 'guiding' you and I will be there to advise you if you are going the right way about your preparations. You will NEED to work independently in preparing for the exam and to have developed sophisticated responses to the brief.

The exam is to be held on the 14th of June in the afternoon and you CANNOT take any notes into it so whatever you did to prepare will have to be in your head.

Remember the best way to revise is actively using your notes and watching LOTS OF TV CRIME DRAMA critically.


FINALLY

We will be doing a mock exam in May based on a brief which I will give you on the 27th of March and which you will need to prepare for over the holiday.

TV CRIME DRAMA

Check the TV crime drama page for details of the homework.

Tuesday 7th February

Beginning to write the evaluation


Evaluation

Tuesday 10th January

Preparing for the exam.

Investigating the Media
TV Crime Drama

Opening task: set up your own TV Crime Drama page, set a range of research tasks including viewing of TV dramas, investigating the audience and the institutions.

These task could involve:

• Analysis of TV schedules on the main channels and working out what times of day and what days TV crime dramas are broadcast
• Analysis of the types of characters one might expect to find in a TV crime drama - protagonists, antagonists, think about Propp
• Analysis of crime formats: research involving watching a range of different TV crime dramas and thinking about how these dramas tell their stories - Todorov narrative theory.
• Analysis of audiences: for example, teenagers and working out how these audience find out about the TV Crime dramas they watch - focus on new technology and use of marketing through the internet, use of social networking. Thinking about Uses and Gratifications theory.

This week:

Home Learning

Watch a crime drama: focus on narrative and characters - what are the conventions of the narrative, how the crime is set up, what are the characters, how are they introduced, how is the crime solved.

Your notes on the Crime Drama you watch must be published on your new TV Crime Drama page by next Tuesday.

FRIDAY'S LESSON

P3

EDITING on film trailers/opening
Review

P4

Begin exam preparation

Homework

Watch crime drama on TV and identify codes and conventions of narrative

FIRST WEEK

Some deadline for Assignment 3

Editing

All groups are working towards completing the picture edit. The deadline for this is 20th of January.

Sound edit

To be completed using Garageband by half term.

Portfolio and Evaluation

Assembled 12 page portfolio
800 word evaluation
Completed by end of March.

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.