CHECKLIST

What should be on your blog by now:

LOOK AT YOUR BLOG LAYOUT

• ensure that your template is black font on a white background! Pick a font that is really clear & unfussy like Arial
• the main page should be wide to allow great images and showcase your platforms
• the RH sidebar should be just wide enough to read the text
• RH sidebar: search engine, class blog, friends' blogs
• if you have your friends' blogs linked, uncheck the box that allows updates (avoids clutter)
• layout: collage your photos / make them big
• justify text to the left (usually) not the centre
• over half term, add your candidate number; make your blog look like a media blog
• edit your posts so that they look sharp: highlight key terms in a strong colour

PAGES across the top for: 

SPECIFICATION

PRELIMINARY EXERCISES

1 CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION

2 CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION

3 CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION

4 CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION

 

You can also add the class blog on the RH sidebar

PRELIMINARY EXERCISES Complete the preliminary exercises and post on your blog under the 'page' Preliminary Exercises' at the top. Use the media studio (empty Wednesday afternoons and many lunch breaks) or edit on your laptop. You can often film on your phone with good results. the aim is to show that you have practised.

ART OF THE TITLE (three minimum)

FILM OPENING CODES & CONVENTIONS PowerPoint uploaded as SlideShare

CONTINUITY EDITING Finished video uploaded + blog post account + photos

ON THE SET simple blog post + ideally an image or two

TABLETOP blog post account + photos (second part of filming to be completed soon). Remember to include the background research that you did - with me in class - that consisted of watching other similar work. The post should be more than just a description of your own work. 

After session 2 filming, you can edit in any live action + film title + credits + sound effects.... it should look like a real film opening by this stage.

What you have done for exam preparation:

Written TV drama analysis Coming Down The Mountain + many group lessons orally

Questions on Film Distribution in class

Questions on Film Industry: Exhibition 

What's coming next:

RESEARCH: DISTRIBUTION COLLAGE / PIKTOCHART You present the distribution strategy for one film of your choice like this one, this one  and this one.

RESEARCH: STORYTELLING - WHAT AUDIENCES WANT  You present this using ComicLife like this and this one or this one 

FILM FESTIVALS: what they are for and how they help independent film makers; Bait (dir. Mark Jenkin, 2019)