YOUR FIRST POST

By the end of today's lesson, please write up the very first post that the Moderator will see. In this post, you should:

1. State your name and candidate number like this 

TOM CRUISE  CANDIDATE NUMBER 1717 

CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL 64680

2. State who was in your Production Team: My production team included: Tom Hanks  1700, Tom Hiddlestone 1720 and Tom Hardy 1721.

3. State what Brief you undertook My brief was the film opening task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film (to last a maximum of two minutes)

4. State what you made The title of our film is The Haunting. Our ghost story explores... 

The title of our film is The False Move. It is a crime thriller in which...

The title of our film is Knives Out . As a psychological drama, it combines...

5. Explain exactly what you personally took responsibility for (editing, camerawork, directing, production company logo, set design...)
6. Tell the moderator where to find what you have made

7. When you have completed your film opening, make sure that immediately below this explanation is the actual film opening on YouTube. This may not be by tomorrow!

YR 12 HOLIDAY WORK

For current year 12s. You have created your A2 blogs with PAGES into which these different pieces of research will go. As you know, Component 3 (the A2 production module) is demanding and last year our students started in June and also worked in the summer holidays. The sooner you post, the sooner I can mark.

Deadlines: 

Trailer analysis - by the end of July; 

Poster analysis - 14 August; 

Website and social media analysis - 27 August.

TRAILERS: analyse the trailers for American Sniper, Gravity, Cloverfield, Birth of A Nation, Nocturnal Animals. Present your analysis effectively.

At Advanced level the key to an effective film promotion package is the level of attention to detail. Research is paramount in establishing ‘how the professionals do this’ and CIE recommend the following as initial exemplars of effective film trailers: 

AMERICAN SNIPER (dir. Clint Eastwood, 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99k3u9ay1gs

Pick the main trailer 2.02 minutes and copy/paste in the url yourself

GRAVITY (dir. Cuaron, 2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/ 

Pick the main trailer of 2.23 minutes and copy/paste in the url yourself.

CLOVERFIELD (dir. 2008) Trailer 2.11 minutes. Copy/paste in the url yourself.

 www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/videoplayer/vi78774553?ref_=tt_ov_vi (Cloverfield 2008) 

 

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (dir. Tom Ford, 2016). Trailer 2.22 minutes. Copy/paste in the url yourself.

http://collider.com/best-trailers-of-2016/#nocturnal-animals

 

BIRTH OF A NATION (dir. Nate Parker, 2016) Trailer 2.37 minutes. Copy/paste in the url yourself.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4196450/

CIE recommend identifying how trailers do the following:

 

POSTERS Analyse a minimum of 3 posters. 

Present your poster analysis in poster format attractively. See the poster PAGE at the top of this class blog: 

https://a2mediaclass.blogspot.com/p/film-posters-formats-for-presenting.html

Pick a variety of posters that you feel are excellent examples of their kind: perhaps the film genre is one that you are attracted to working in. Perhaps you want to anlayse the poster, film website and social media of the same film: think ahead to the next task.

WEBSITES Analyse 3 film websites of the type that you can envisage yourself making.

Present your research in an attractive format such as Canva. If you do have a lot of text, it is best to pick out key technical terms in a colour to break up the text.

SOCIAL MEDIA  Analyse the social media for one film (Twitter, Instagram, FB etc)

You (and your Production Team if you are working in one) will each make one social media platform for your film. Convergent links will appear on your film website.

CHECKLIST

All CCRs must be presented in the way that we agreed, not as Word documents.

Guidance for answering is on the blog here

All CCRs must be completed for marking; their quality and timely completion are indicators of future performance.

For your interest:

A2 SUMMER HOLIDAY RESEARCH

You have created your A2 blogs with PAGES into which these different pieces of research will go. As you know, Component 3 (the A2 production module) is demanding and last year our students started in June and also worked in the summer holidays.

Deadlines: post as you go

Trailer analysis - by the end of July; 

Poster analysis - 14 August; 

Website and social media analysis - 27 August.

TRAILERS: analyse the trailers for American Sniper, Gravity, Cloverfield, Birth of A Nation, Nocturnal Animals. Present your analysis effectively.

At Advanced level the key to an effective film promotion package is the level of attention to detail. Research is paramount in establishing ‘how the professionals do this’ and CIE recommend the following as initial exemplars of effective film trailers: 

www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/ (Gravity 2013) 

www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/videoplayer/vi78774553?ref_=tt_ov_vi (Cloverfield 2008) https://www.imdb.com/video/vi78774553?ref_=tt_ov_vi

http://collider.com/best-trailers-of-2016/#nocturnal-animals (Nocturnal Animals 2016) https://collider.com/best-trailers-of-2016/#nocturnal-animals

www.imdb.com/title/tt4196450/ (Birth of a Nation 2016) https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1974974233?playlistId=tt4196450&ref_=tt_pr_ov_vi

www.inc.com/lindsay-blakely/wild-card-hollywoods-independent-movie-trailer-power-house.html (American Sniper 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99k3u9ay1gs
 https://www.inc.com/lindsay-blakely/wild-card-hollywoods-independent-movie-trailer-power-house.html

CIE recommend identifying how trailers do the following:

POSTERS Analyse a minimum of 3 posters. 

Present your poster analysis in poster format attractively like these examples. Pick a variety of posters that you feel are excellent examples of their kind: perhaps the film genre is one that you are attracted to working in. Perhaps you want to anlayse the poster, film website and social media of the same film: think ahead to the next task.

WEBSITES Analyse 3 film websites of the type that you can envisage yourself making.

Present your research in an attractive format such as Canva like this. If you do have a lot of text, like this example, it is best to pick out key technical terms in a colour to break up the text.

SOCIAL MEDIA  Analyse the social media for one film (Twitter, Instagram, FB etc)

You (and your Production Team if you are working in one) will each make one social media platform for your film. Convergent links will appear on your film website.