Ms Patel's AS lessons

Case Study Research I need you to e-mail me all of your research by Tuesday at the very latest. By sharing this information you will be helping each other with revision. The most important aspect is to relate the film to the 7 defined areas on your hand-out.

Section B Case study research

Tuesday 19/03/13

Click the link to see the layout and questions for a past paper.
Past Paper - 13th Jan 2012

Thursday 14/03/13
Evaluations

Visit the blog below and use the assessment criteria to grade their evaluation.

http://snehalsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/

This link will help you to think about what you need to talk about in your evaluations.

http://thrillerproject.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/evaluation.html

Tuesday 12/03/13
Understanding Filmmaking - The Business

Use this website to carry out your section of the reasearch task: Creative Skillset

• E-mail me your presentation so I can link it to the blog
• You will be feeding back to your peers at 2.40pm

It is vital that all the information is shared as it will be applied to an essay question and be a useful revision tool.

1. The Idea

1. The Idea (2)

2& 3. Finance & Script Development

5&6. Financing & Pre-production

7. Shoot

8. Post-production

9. Sales

10&11. Marketing & Exhibition

12. Other Windows

Using the resources your peers have provided you with, key terminology and your own research, write the following essay:

Discuss the ways in which media products are produced, and distributed to audiences, within a media area, which you have studied. (50marks)

–media products = films

–media area = the film industry

–include detailed references to Working Title

DUE: Tuesday 19th March

Tuesday 05/03/13
Homework - Terminology

There are a lot of key words. You might want to consider working with a partner to make the task easier. Print out a copy of the terms with its definition so you are able to use it during lessons.

Terminology - G322 by

Tuesday 05-03-13
Synergy in Avengers Assemble

The practice exam question can be found in this presentation.

Synergy in Avengers Assemble by

Thursday 28/02/13
Evaluations

Whilst some of the group are working on your rough cut, the remainder of the group can address the evaluation questions. You will NOT be writing an essay. It should be a creative reflective process which is presented digitally and includes media terminology. For some advice on how to approach the evaluation have a look at Pete's Media Blog. Here you will find examples of how other pupils have approached the evaluation.

Remember, it is worth 20 marks.

The questions are:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Thursday 28/02/13
Order of Opening Credits

Watch the following clip (start at 0.34) and make sure you are following the conventions of opening credits.

Opening Credits (with thanks to Conta Productions whose blog I saw this on)

There is also further information on MediaEdu. Come and see me for a login and password if you do not already have one. There is a lot of very useful information on this website that you can make use of throughout the course.

Extract from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits#Common_opening_credits_order)

While there are numerous variations most opening credits use some variation of the basic order noted within:

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s), i.e. "The Cannon Group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").

• (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film.

• FEATURING

Featured actors.

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer.

As a variation some of the below may be noted:

• SET DESIGN
• COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
• HAIRDRESSER
• MAKE-UP ARTIST
• SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
• VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

• EDITOR or EDITED BY

Editor.

• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Director of photography.

• PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown.

• BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)

If based on a book or other literary work.

• BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY

If based on characters from a book or other media.

• STORY or STORY BY

Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story.

• WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY

Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately.^[5]

• DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BYa usually permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Exceptions are made in rare cases such as a death, and subsequent replacement of the director mid-production.,^[6] and for established directing teams such as the Coen brothers.^[7]

Tuesday 26/02/13
Summer Blockbusters - Avengers Assemble (case study)

Summer Blockbusters by

Thursday 14/02/13

Production checklist by MissPatelMedia

Thurs 07/02/13
Assessing Exemplar Film Openings

Assessing Exemplar Film Openings by

Tues 05/02/13
Les Miserables: Target audience and marketing

Answers to the quiz are on the last slide.

Les Miserables by

Les Miserables annotated posters by

Thurs 31/01/13
Peer Assessment Feedback - Cinematography Presentations

I was pleased that all groups managed to present their work to the class. Use the feedback given by your peers to improve/complete your research on cinematography. Look back at the requirements of the task to ensure you have included all the necessary elements. I expect to see your Prezi uploaded to your group blog, in the research section, by Thursday 7th February.

Peer Assessment Feedback - Cinematography Presentations by MissPatelMedia

Thurs 31/01/13
Cinematography: lighting

Research into cinematography and prepare to present your Prezi back to the class at 10.10am. Remember to say how this research has informed your production.

Cinematography by

Tues 29/01/13
Introduction to Section B

Set up a new tab for your exam module (G322). It will be a useful aid when you are revising. You need to complete the questions on audience consumption and upload it to the new page by Monday 4th February. As always, if you are absent from the lesson, it is your responsibility to catch up on any missed work. I am happy to help, just come and ask me.

Introduction to G322: Section B by

Thurs 24/01/13
Audience Profiling - Target Audience

Ensure ALL your group work is uploaded AND published by Sunday 27th January. A list of all the tasks that need to be completed is shown below.

Remember, research and planning is worth 20marks. Ensure you take an active role within your group so that you are awarded for your individual contribution.

Audience Profiling - Target Audience by MissPatelMedia

Thurs 17/01/13
Portfolio - Research and Planning

Lesson PowerPoint

Ensure you have your video posted onto your group blogs by the end of period 4.

As well as your homework, think about what other types of research you can carry out. Look at your schedule and see what needs to be done by next week.