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2013 MAIN Post 12.7: Question 7

Post Title - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Tasks

1. Select three elements from your preliminary task that you developed/improved upon.
2. Describe these elements using screen grabs / images to support your discussion.

ULTIMATE DEADLINE FOR ALL WORK

End of DAY*******2013

2013 MAIN Post 12.6: Question 6

Post Title - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Tasks

1. Create a moodboard illustrating all of the technologies you have used in your production and blog.
2. Annotte the illustration to highlight specific skills that you have learnt.

2013 MAIN Post 12.5: Question 5

Post title - How did you attract/address your audience?
Tasks

1. Using screen grabs from your film describe how you attracted your audience through unique selling points.
2. Describe what you did to get an audience for feedback on your film?
3. Comment upon what BBFC rting your film would get and why? How does this attract/address your target audience. Link to BBFC Website

2013 MAIN Post 12.4: Question 4

Post title - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Tasks

1. Using research that you've done in recent films (box office statistics) and the responses to your questionnares (pre-production research) write a brief description of your target audience.
2. Describe one member of your target audience in detailed thinking about all aspects of their lifes and include a picture.

2013 MAIN Post 12.3: Question 3

Post Title - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Task:

1. Using your knowledge from Ms Rolfe's lessons and information previously discussed; discuss the post title and support with visuals. Think about the following;
• Role of the produciton company - How far they normally take the film.
• Where might a production company get the funding for making of the film - especially a British Film.
• Distribution Company. Who they are and why you would want them to distribute your film?

NOTE: Link your thinking back to the films that have influenced you.

2013 MAIN Post 12.2: Question 2

Post Title - How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Tasks

1. Select a photograph or screen grab of two of your characters in costume.
2. Select a photograph or screen grab of two comparable characters from your genre.
3. Briefly discuss how you media product represents your characters' particular social group/s.

2013 MAIN Post 12.1: Question 1

Post Title - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Tasks
1.1 Write a director's commentary to highlight how your opening sequence uses or breaks away from conventions. Comment on the following as a minimum, not necessarily in this order.

• Structure of sequence
• Style of presentation
• Style/colour of font
• Genre
• Narrative enigma
• Introduction of characters
• Camera
• Sound
• Editing & Special Effects
• Mise-en-scene

1.2 Record script - you'll need to do this while watching your title sequence to get the right timings. (Last year students said too much and had to pause their films, providing what you are saying is important then you can still do this.)

1.3 Layer the audio over your film saving in your own area so that you don't affect your groups work.
1.4 Export & put on YouTube.
1.5 Insert into blog.

2013 MAIN Post 12a: Evaluation - Audience Feedback

There are 2 parts to this blog post so read the instructions carefully.

Part 1 - Audience feedback on rough cut.

• Screen your film to your target audience.
• Where possible film/record audio of feedback given.

Then......
Option A

•  Blog recording and produce a written summary of comments.

OR

Option B

• Edit the recording of feedback and insert your own thoughts to create a DVD commentary. THIS will take much time but will ensure that you are working towards a level 4 grade.

Part 2

• Screen your finished film to an audience and colelct feedback (perhaps through a questionnaire).Note: This is not just your fellow class-mates you need to get it out on YouTube etc and get feedback.
• Summarise feedback on your blog.

2013 MAIN Post 12: Evaluation Introduction

There are seven sections to the evaluation and I have detailed tasks over the next seven post of what is expected from you. The tasks are designed to enable you to achieve a level 4 in ICT without which you can't achieve above a C. If you have additional suggestions on how you would like to present the information required then please run them by Mrs Shipp to ensure that they meet marking criteria first. 

YOU MUST ANSWER ALL 7 SECTIONS INDIVIDUALLY.

Level 4 - Marking Criteria for the Evaluation

Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.

• Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.
• Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.
• Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.
• Excellent ability to communicate.
• Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation

2013 MAIN Post 10: Post-production

Although some of you struggled with time and equipment avaliability during your preliminary task you do now need to do all of the following steps as the edit suites wont be able to manage with you capturing all of your footage so, please follow the steps below:

1. Set up a new folder in my documents, title 2011 AS OS ******** (replace the **'s with the title of your film.)
2. Proceed to set up a new Adobe Premiere Pro Project ensuring that you use PAL (widescreen 48hz)
3. Log your footage - highlighting your decisions of which takes you will use.
4. Batch capture ONLY the "yes" footage.
5. Create a rough cut remembering to take screen grabs of the process and recording decisions and revisions made in your post-production report.
6. Show to your colleagues, gain feedback and record their thought READ MAIN Post 12.1 Part 1  for details of what exactly to do and put evidence under Post 12.1.
7. Continue edit adding, titles, transitions, music etc.
8. When you think you are complete - SHOW MRS SHIPP!
9. Export your project.

DEADLINE FOR POST-PRODUCTION and complete report ON BLOGS.

***** April 2013.latest.

2013 MAIN Post 9: Production

Again you need to produce a production report recording decisions and revisions made. I strongly recommend that you take a digital stills camera out filming with you and tke some photographs of you setting up equipment and filming (although remember to stop the flash so that it doesn't ruin your video).

DEADLINE FOR PRODUCTION complete and report ON BLOGS.

 

***** March 2012.......latest.

2013 MAIN Post 8: Pre-production documentation

In this post you have to create all of the same pre-production documentation that you did for your preliminary task but obviously on a grander scale plus a bit more. Here is a list although not definative and some will be more relivant to one group than another. You will also notice at least two pre-production meetings with Mrs Mellish, this is so that we have a clear idea of what you are trying to do and can support you in succeeding, checking that you will are on the right track to quality production and provide any additional technical suggestions where necessary. Reducing the need to re-film!

DEADLINE FOR PRE-PRODUCTION complete and ON BLOGS.

*******February 2013.......latest.

• Synopsis of whole film.
• Synopsis of opening sequence.
• Treatment (complete with detail of titles and their timings)
• Location Recce
• Shot list

YOU WILL NEED A PRE-PRODUCTION MEETING WITH Mrs Mellish

• Script (may not be necessary - Ms Wells / Mrs Shipp will decide.
• Storyboard & technical detail
• Technical recce (this will be explained at the above meeting with Ms Wells and Mrs Shipp
• Risk Assessment
• Crew list
• Mise-en-scene plans (details of all elements presented however you decide)
• Shooting schedule

YOU WILL NEED A 2nd PRE_PRODUCTION MEETING WITH Mrs Mellish

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  Finally a pre-production individual report detailing decisions and revisions made throughout the pre-production process.

2013 MAIN Post 7 - Focus Group

Even though you've decided on your genre you still need confirmation that there is going to be a market for your film and that it will meet with audience expectations.

Task/s

1. Discuss your film's plot and opening sequence with a focus group of your target audience.
2. Record their feedback (flip video).
3. Blog results.
4. Amend plot and/or description of opening sequence accordingly.
5. Blog a record of decisions and revisions made.

2013 MAIN Post 6: History of your chosen genre.

  

Grease

If you are to get your audience's attention then you need to understand the genre you have chosen. Where has it come from? How has it developed? What are its conventions? How have they been manipulated over time? Is it a currently popular genre, if so why? If it is an older genre that you have decided to revive, why did it die out? How will you avoid your film being a flop?

Moulin Rouge

The Princess and the Frog

TASK; Research the history of your chosen genre and imminent plans for its future.

TIP: Don't just wikipedia your genre, take a deeper look and consider additional opinions and then draw your own conclusions with the facts presented.  

High School Musical

2013 MAIN Post 5a: Macro/Micro analysis of an opening sequence from your genre.

Task:

• View two films from your chosen genre and construct a macro/micro analysis of the opening sequence. This is more than simply identifying the conventions it is breaking the sequence down into its different elements. You will not truely beable to isolate the macro from the micro, rather the micro constructs the macro so make sure you talk about the links in your analysis.
• Macro
• Narrative
• Representation
• Genre
• Micro
• Camera
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene
• Editing
• Special Effects

ONCE AGAIN STAY VISUAL IN YOUR WRITE UP.

2013 MAIN Post 5 - Title Timeline

Tasks

1. Individually watch an opening sequence from a film of your groups chosen genre and make a note of the exact timings that the titles appear.
2. Individually draw a timeline of the information.
3. Compare your timeline with those produced by the other members of your team.
4. Summarise your findings and comment on how this has influenced your opening sequence design.

2013 MAIN Post 4b - Narrative / Character Research

Write about the research you've undertaken to develop your narrative or character, what you found and detail how this effects your film.

For example 2012 opening sequences:
Behind Blue Eyes you could do / talk about your research into sexual grooming, abuse etc and how this has influenced your work. Ensure you include links and visuals in your blog post.

Dispatch you need to research do research into what its like to be an MI6 agent etc.

2013 MAIN Post 4a - Plot Development

For this lesson we used information gathered from http://www.lightsfilmschool.com/.

• Introduce the examiner to the task and why we were doing it (need to depict your plots/narrative in more detail).
• Insert the timeline of the film you considered and describe the different stages of the timeline and scenes you've sighted.
• Insert your timeline for your film and talk the examiner through your thought process in deciding what went where.
• Insert the following with the subtitle "Synopsis"
• Title of film
• Genre
• Target Audience
• Logline - Summarize the premise of your film in one sentence that contains 25 words or fewer; this is known as a "logline." It can be something as simple as "An extraterrestrial gets left behind by his peers and must fend for himself in suburbia".

• Full Synopsis
• Opening Sequence Outline - Identify what will be in the opening sequence in more detail.

2013 MAIN Post 4 - Group Meeting

Tasks

1. Hold a group meeting and discuss the following:
• Genre of your opening sequence
• Plot of whole film.
• Description of opening sequence.
2. Minute everyones comments (everyone in the group needs to be recorded as having said something).
3. Write up these comments on your blog clearly highlighting who said what and what was agreed.