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.

FILM INDUSTRY: CROSS MEDIA CONVERGENCE & SYNERGY

Exam revision - see your email today for the essay outline and also revise from the class blog here

Starter activities: 

• The Film Programme - we hear from The Uckfield Picture House 
  
  
  

• Warner 
  
  
  
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• Biometric facial recognition as a strategy for regulators to prevent underage social media users and screen paedophiles 

TV DRAMA: EMPIRE

9607/22 Paper 2 Key Media Concepts May/June 2018

Section A  Clip details: Empire (series 1 episode 1, Pilot, 2015, dir. Lee Daniels) Clip duration: 4:50 Start point: 00:00 End Point: 04:50

Discuss the ways in which the extract from Empire constructs meaning through the following: • camera shots, angles, movement and composition • sound • mise-en-scène • editing. [50]

Mark scheme available 

Watch clip here

PAPER 2 EXAM: KEY MEDIA CONCEPTS

Section A is the analysis of TV drama.

The key terminology is HERE

 

The question is always the same but the TV drama extract is always different and you are unlikely to have seen it before, but you may have. 

Discuss the ways in which the extract from XXXXX constructs meaning through the following: 

• camera shots, angles, movement and composition 

• editing 

• sound 

• mise-en-scène. 

 

TOP TIPS:

• First screening - just watch; don't look down; don't miss anything!  
• Can you compose a very brief introductory sentence that sums up the extract? this will often calm you down and order your thoughts. "This extract..."
  
• Next screenings - whether you are typing or handwriting, start to write in the space where your full answer will be. Personally, I don't think that time spent making loads of notes (which don't count) is time well spent, so write leaving gaps. 
• DO NOT divide your response into  camerawork, editing etc. Instead, deal with each scene as a whole, as where a person is, how they act, what they say, how they react - it is all bound up together. 
• For every scene. it is easiest to start with mise-en-scène, as the place, period, setting, room, scenery and so on often shape the representations.
• You can group analysis together. You don't have to pretend that you don't know whet is about to happen in the next minute. Treat representations as a whole. This should avoid you re-telling the story (rather than analysing representations and how the media language makes meanings) and the "and then he did this" approach.
• Stick to the three-pronged approach where you can: Terminology + example + what meaning is made
• Check back - have you covered sound, editing?
  

Section B is about industry and audiences.

 

The key areas are HERE.

You will be given credit for your knowledge and understanding, illustrated through case study material, relevant to the question. Assessment will take place across three criteria:

• explanation / argument / analysis [20 marks]This means answering the question relevantly
• use of supporting examples [20 marks] This means your case studies
• use of terminology [10 marks] This means using relevant vocabulary

 

Read the question's key instructions:

 

Use your case studies to answer. 

 

Hollywood ‘Big Six’ / majors:

·      Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler 2018) Marvel Studios, Walt Disney

·      Captain Marvell

·      Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

British films:

·      Sorry We Missed You (dir. Ken Loach 2019) and BBC Films & Sweet Sixteen, supported by BFI Film Fund, distributed by eOne, Canal + (amongst others in different territories)

·      I, Daniel Blake (dir. Ken Loach 2015) a UK/French co-production, received funding from BFI and BBC Films, distributed by BFI (UK) Le Pacte (France)

·      Emma (2020) Working Title https://www.workingtitlefilms.com/film/emma/

Low-budget British film

·      Bait (dir. Mark Jenkin 2019), Early Day Films, distributed by BFI

Netflix film:

·      Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón 2019), released on Netflix

Guerrilla film-making:

·       This Is Not a Film is an Iranian documentary film by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. It was released on 28 September 2011 in France, distributed by Kanibal Films Distribution.

·       The film was smuggled from Iran to Cannes on a flash drive hidden inside a birthday cake. It was specially screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and later at the New York Film Festival, and others. It also took part in the International Competition of the 27th Warsaw International Film Festival.