PLANNING: CASTING

Write a post entitled PLANNING: CASTING

CASTING Note Examiner's report here Examples below and here in Piktochart, here in Slideshare

In your post, first draw a portrait (write / describe) of each character in your production. Then, underneath each of these, describe your casting decisions. Consider what presentational platform to use: Visme, Canva, SlideShare?

The recent release of the Examiner's Report threw up useful points, such as the good practice of including a post on casting. See their comment (in yellow) below beside an example from a student blog. You will present the casting with images, such as your casting of the character (and perhaps a stereotype character from a film?).

PLANNING: CREATE SHOT LIST

When you have completed your post on your Treatment and worked out your storyboard, the next step is to create a shot list, then call sheets for each shoot. (Info on call sheets below this.) 

A shot list helps you organize the order of your edit, so that you think of the whole narrative arc. 
Start a draft version. It may change during the edit. 
This is a group task so work together on one Word document. Some people find a collaborative document like Google Docs useful so that you can all access the same document.
Below is an example, made in Word, for the start of a 30 second TV commercial (open link) made for Young Enterprise.

Look at each line from left to right across. The first box SOUND: LOVE HOME BAKING? describes what we hear (such as dialogue, music), the second box VISION is what we see at the same time (live action), the third box ACTORS notes the actors needed, then look to the right for the props PROPS.

Then drop down to read the next shot. 

ROYALTY FREE MUSIC

 You could try sites like BenSound

CLASSWORK

 As the rains have come, it is not possible to film outside, but you can film in the media studio if you wish, or the drama area if you have booked this with the HOD drama.

Otherwise, please work on your blog posts such as your planning and construction posts.

Here is a checklist.

STORYBOARD

You can shoot your film opening on different occasions. Storyboard each shoot first. The method below uses movable Post-it notes so that you can re-arrange the order later and also so that different members of the group can take responsibility for different parts of the storyboard.

We consult the OCR AL Conference Weebly 2014 to see how Steve Thorne recommended approaching the business of creating a storyboard.

As you draw your storyboard, which is on paper with yellow PostIt notes, you save them in your group's folder in the classroom. The folder STAYS in the classroom so that it is safe and everyone can access it. 

CHARACTERS, SOCIAL GROUPS & STEREOTYPES

Post title: CHARACTERS & SOCIAL GROUPS

CHARACTERS The exam board ask us to consider social groups and stereotypes. Examples of this are in this post here, this post and here

Present this in Pinterest

Add some theoretical framework by referring to stereotyping and Stuart Hall

Examples of this are here and here  and here and here

By doing this properly now you can save yourself a lot of time when it comes to your evaluation (called the Creative Critical Reflection q.1)

PREP Post on your blog before the lesson on Friday 4 December.

FILM INDUSTRY: BLACK PANTHER CASE STUDY

BP case study from jennymann

Acknowledgements: Mark Dixon www.essentialmediatheory.com

After this lesson, open the PAGE on the Film Industry and pick out the exam questions that you think could be answered using this case study.

PREP Write about a side of A4 using Black Panther as your case study. Email the essay to me by the end of Wednesday 2 December. (This work would form about a third to a half of an exam essay.)

June 2017 
‘Marketing is vital to the success of both established and new media products.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement in relation to the media area you have studied?