tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42660143530163430942024-03-13T15:22:59.947+00:00Thriller Opening Project (G321)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-35785411678483926542016-04-21T11:50:00.000+01:002016-04-21T11:50:10.548+01:00Dear moderator,Here are the blogs from our AS students (resubmission). The two candidates worked as a pair at every stage of planning, production and post-production. They have produced their own blogs.<br />
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We hope you enjoy their work.<br />
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Candidate 1053 - Simran Deol: <a href="http://simrandeolfpb2014-15.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Simran's blog</a><br />
Candidate 1038 - Nesreen Bin Ishaq: <a href="http://nesreenbinishaqfpb.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Nesreen's blog</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-71467119582989204372015-04-16T10:07:00.000+01:002016-04-21T11:42:15.181+01:00Dear moderator,Here are the blogs from our AS students. They have all worked individually to create a thriller opening.<br />
We hope you enjoy their work.<br />
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Candidate 1263 - Trisha Vekaria: <a href="http://trishato.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Trisha's blog</a><br />
Candidate 1275 - Sumeera Wijesekara: <a href="http://sumeerasthriller.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sumeera's blog</a><br />
Candidate 1094 - Amira Johnson: <a href="http://amirasthriller.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Amira's blog</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-16912888147496493652015-03-26T09:19:00.000+00:002015-03-26T09:27:40.855+00:00EVALUATION - THE FINAL 20 MARKSTHE SEVEN QUESTIONS:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">Who would be the audience for your media product?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">How did you attract/address your audience?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: yellow;">Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
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NOW USE THE GUIDANCE BELOW!<br />
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<a href="http://cw-kb-mediastudies.blogspot.com/">http://cw-kb-mediastudies.blogspot.com/</a>
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Look at Steven's evaluation tasks from last year:<br />
<a href="http://skmattwellthriller.blogspot.co.uk/">http://skmattwellthriller.blogspot.co.uk</a><br />
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Question 7 by Romina:<br />
<a href="http://rominathrilleropening.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/evaluation-question-seven.html">http://rominathrilleropening.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/evaluation-question-seven.html</a><br />
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This is a great response to Question 1 by Kamini from the year before:<br />
<a href="http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html">http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html</a><br />
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These are interesting ones from Yasmin whose evaluation also made it into Level 4 (though it's not perfect!)<br />
<a href="http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Evaluations">http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Evaluations</a><br />
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This is more of a level 3 but shows you how you can annotate your film opening in YouTube for Question 5:<br />
<a href="http://mananv94thriller.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/evaluation-part-5.html">http://mananv94thriller.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/evaluation-part-5.html</a><br />
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This is an example of a director's commentary over the students' film opening (warning: it's not particularly high quality)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0rk4F8S20&safe=active">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0rk4F8S20&safe=active</a><br />
This is a better one:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H45f-zOhXo&safe=active">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H45f-zOhXo&safe=active</a><br />
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<a href="http://twgsbmedia10asgroup6.blogspot.com/">Example from other centre </a>(note - your evalution must feature on your individual blog)<br />
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Also take inspiration from A2 Evaluations - Look at <a href="http://hasinamusicvideo.blogspot.com/">Hasina's tasks </a>and <a href="http://chloebarnhammedia.blogspot.com/2010/12/evaluation_13.html">Chloe's voice over</a> for instance.<br />
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Also look at the examples linked on the left hand-side under Essential Links (towards the bottom of the list on this page)<br />
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<strong>Just to remind you again, here are the criteria for a level 4:</strong><br />
<strong>16–20 marks</strong> <br />
- Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production. <br />
- Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes. <br />
- Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task. <br />
- Excellent ability to communicate. <br />
- Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation
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Suggested tasks:
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<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/48089190/Marking-Criteria-and-activities-for-the-evaluation" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Marking Criteria and activities for the evaluation on Scribd">Marking Criteria and activities for the evaluation</a> by <a href="http://www.scribd.com/hgaldinoshea" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View hgaldinoshea's profile on Scribd">hgaldinoshea</a></div>
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Here is an example of one student's research into the question.<br />
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View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sasstephy">Stephanie</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-82552855089081778332015-01-22T10:11:00.003+00:002015-01-22T10:11:36.314+00:00AS Coursework production with allocated marks out of 60<a href="http://examplesofwork13.weebly.com/as.html">http://examplesofwork13.weebly.com/as.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/coursework-with-levels.html">http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/coursework-with-levels.html</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-34486279538604807522015-01-15T12:27:00.000+00:002015-01-15T12:27:15.619+00:00Private Study for next week (starting 19th January)1. Levi-Strauss' Binary Opposites - Fill in the sheet<br />
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2. Complete the work started in class on The Bourne Ultimatum and The Usual Suspects.<br />
6 frames from each comparing and contrasting the camerawork, editing, style etc.<br />
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3. Complete 2 full film opening analyses from the selection in the post below. Please aim to do The Usual Suspects. Use the guidance questions and the model provided in the previous post.<br />
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ONE ANALYSIS MINIMUM DUE IN NEXT THURSDAY, THE 2ND THE FOLLOWING WEEK.<br />
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4. Watch past students' work and start learning from them. You could start embedding some in your own blog and draw a few bullet points on their respective strengths and weaknesses.<br />
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Trisha, I left a pack of sheets for you in the media pod with a post-it on it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-26554389525528489152015-01-14T21:31:00.001+00:002015-01-14T22:08:31.551+00:00Analysing Film Opening Sequences<span style="color: #99ff99;">Lesson starter: opening scene of What Lies Beneath:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Complete the analysis of two thriller openings.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You will consider and explore</span>:</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How does the opening engage/create interest for the audience?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Does it establish characters? How?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Does the opening introduce themes, mood or story/narrative? How?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How are the opening titles displayed?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How is enigma established?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What you will need to analyse</span>:</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Mise-en-scene;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of soundtrack;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of diegetic sound;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Editing;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Camera shot, movement and position;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of special effects.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span style="color: #99ff99;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Need help with analysis? Read the example below on "</b></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>The Shining"</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b> to see a model of a good analysis.</b></span><br />Here is an interesting analysis of the opening sequence for <em><strong>The Shining</strong></em> which appears on the Long Road Media Blog (thank you, Long Road). Read it carefully to learn some tips.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #99ff99;">You might want to watch the sequence first!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCejsyS0t8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCejsyS0t8</a></div>
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffff99;">The film opens with a series of shots of panoramic landscape vistas showcasing the bleak desolation of the snowy mountainous surroundings, which will provide the backdrop for the film’s subsequent narrative developments. Various bird's eye view shots intermittently cross dissolve into one another, and depict an expansive clear blue lake, a snow-capped mountain range, and a densely populated forest of evergreen trees. The camera moves swiftly through its surroundings in each shot, sweeping past the breadth of the natural environs below it, and thus conveys to the audience a sense of the massive scale and large land span of the location depicted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span style="color: #ffff99;">During the camera’s continual movement, it occasionally captures its views from distorted angles, which undermines the idea otherwise created by this series of shots of the benevolent purity of natural beauty and the wintry American landscape. It thus uses spatial manipulation to contradict the principal connotations of the images of nature captured in these shots, and hence foreshadows the heavy deployment of themes and imagery centred upon the supernatural that will follow.<br /><br />Also indicative of this theme is the use of slow, sombre, unnerving and deliberate electronic music, which in conjunction with the seemingly oppositional images suggest a malevolence to the surroundings shown and imply an unknown danger amongst them.<br /><br />Eventually the camera finds a road snaking through an aerial shot of a thickly forested area then picks out and follows a lone car in extreme high angle long shot, making its way along the road. The camera gradually moves increasingly closer maintaining its birds’ eye view position, but also gradually rotates to distort the angle and create a sense of unsettling foreboding in the manner described above. A series of shot changes track the car’s journey and depict a range of different natural backdrops indicating the traversal of time and space. As the camera finally tracks speedily in to a mid shot of the car from behind, revealing it to be a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, credits rise up through the frame from below in blue typeface, and each gives way to the next, departing the frame by rising out of it.<br /><br />The moving camera overtakes the car and veers away to the left, aerially crossing country before again finding the car and tracking its journey, once again with another series of extreme high angle long shots, while the eeriness of the electronic score continues to aurally unsettle the viewer.<br /><br />The camera’s point of view eventually shifts to depict an extreme long shot of a remotely located building amongst the mountains, trees and lakes. It slowly circles the building, getting gradually closer. This building is the Overlook Hotel, and will be the yellow car’s final destination, and the principal location for almost all of the film’s subsequent action.<br /><br />Overall, the opening sequence has been gradually building up to this elaborate establishing shot of the hotel, and has served to highlight its isolation and remoteness and communicate an implication of danger, that the audience should by now have associated with this idyllic yet spectral location and its backdrop. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">Remember that to achieve higher grades, you need to be ANALYTICAL rather than just descriptive. Don't simply tell me that there is a close up at this point or a tracking movement at that point. Explain how it helps the narrative and how it is supposed to affect the reader.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Choose two openings from the choices below. Write an analysis for each one.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Create a 9 or 12-frame board to illustrate your comments.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #99ff99;">Opening scene of The Usual Suspects (couldn't find it with the opening credits)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;">The opening of SALT - start from 1:40 and stop after the film title (or better, keep watching and use the helpful notes for your own understanding):</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;">Opening scene of The Bourne Ultimatum </span></div>
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<span style="color: #99ff99;">Why not check out this playlist too?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVLJkIZvFlo&list=PLF1EA16AC466B5E47">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVLJkIZvFlo&list=PLF1EA16AC466B5E47</a></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-43418664693290903092014-12-04T11:31:00.000+00:002014-12-04T11:31:22.152+00:00Genre - What is it? Why does it exist?Using the class discussion and the pack provided as starting points, write a post addressing some of the issues around genre. <br />
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You could produce a documentary to engage with the ideas in a lively way.<br />
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Here are some of the slides from a series of lessons (we will look at opening sequences next week).<br />
<br /><iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/42345917" width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//www.slideshare.net/hgaldinoshea/film-opening-conventions-and-discussion-of-genre" title="film opening conventions and discussion of genre" target="_blank">film opening conventions and discussion of genre</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="//www.slideshare.net/hgaldinoshea" target="_blank">hgaldinoshea</a></strong> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-63037486089189032052014-12-04T11:27:00.002+00:002014-12-04T11:31:38.412+00:00Starting your research! Initial Thriller ResearchTime to get more familiar with the Thriler genre.<br />
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Find out about the generic conventions of Thrillers, the different ways in which the sub-genres are categorised, including a look at Charles Derry's classification. Look at how well thrillers do at the box office, which are the most successful of recent times, which are the classics of the genre.<br />
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Start watching too! Embed extracts, opening sequences, screen grabs. Look at gender representation and typical narratives in Thrillers.<br />
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In other words, familiarise yourself with the genre!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-14362343972881205822014-11-20T11:24:00.002+00:002014-11-20T11:24:52.398+00:00Some recommended thrillers<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffff66;">Wecome to the Thriller Project blog!</span></span><br />
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To get you started, here is a list of recommended films you really ought to see in order to get a firmer grasp of the Thriller genre.<br />
Of course you cannot see them all but you'll be expected to have seen at least 8 by the end of the first half-term, then keep watching throughout the coursework unit.<br />
Arrange viewings between yourselves and keep a record of you what you've seen. Discuss what makes these films good thrillers or at least iconic ones. You should develop a better understanding of thriller conventions and sub-genres, and of course get much inspiration for your own project.<br />
Some of these films can be borrowed from the Department. Some of the films from the list are 18-certificates so you will need to have that discussion with your parents / guardians; you also need to consider your own feelings.<br />
1. Heat<br />
2. Se7en<br />
3. The Silence of the Lambs<br />
4. LA Confidential<br />
5. The Departed<br />
6. Reservoir Dogs<br />
7. Chinatown<br />
8. North by Northwest<br />
9. The Conversation<br />
10. The 39 steps<br />
11. Psycho<br />
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest<br />
13. Charade<br />
14. Strangers on a Train<br />
15. The Third Man<br />
16. Memento<br />
17. Enemy of the State<br />
18. The Servant<br />
19. The Night of the Hunter<br />
20. Rear Window<br />
21. Rosemary’s Baby<br />
22. The Others<br />
23. Blue Velvet<br />
24. The Ipcress File / Get Carter<br />
25. The Fugitive<br />
26. The Shining<br />
27. The Killing<br />
28. Blood Simple<br />
29. The Usual Suspects<br />
30. Cape Fear<br />
31. No Country for Old Men<br />
32. Double Indemnity<br />
33. The Manchurian Candidate<br />
34. Les Diaboliques (Clouzot)<br />
35. The French Connection<br />
36. Rebecca<br />
37. Le Samourai (Melville)<br />
38. City Of God<br />
39. Delicatessen<br />
40. Three Days of the Condor<br />
41. After hours<br />
42. Rebecca<br />
43. Minority Report<br />
44. What Lies Beneath<br />
45. Copycat<br />
46. The Bourne Identity<br />
47. The Machinist<br />
48. Fatal Attraction<br />
49. Fargo<br />
50. Schindler’s List (not a thriller but a masterclass in directing)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-32740767352778149432014-10-10T12:44:00.000+01:002014-10-10T12:44:05.667+01:00David Fincher's style - WATCH THIS!You will learn so much about the choices that this director makes in his films, particularly the way he marries camerawork and editing.<br />
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<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/107779620" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-52509311648204057452014-10-09T09:38:00.002+01:002014-10-09T09:38:24.559+01:00The Preliminary TaskOn Thursday you will be doing the first part of your Coursework Production.<br />
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This is the actual work to be produced:<br />
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<strong>Preliminary exercise</strong>: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.<br />
This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.<br />
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Look at this example to prepare yourself!<br />
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<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TtljKx31MJg&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="540" height="280"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-31302826813465260742014-09-27T11:57:00.000+01:002014-09-27T11:57:01.643+01:00Opening scene: The Ninth GateHere's is an amazing opening scene with amazing camerawork and mise-en-scene which build the narrative.<br />
Watch it and deconstruct it!<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/d2VHyMX2rak" width="560"></iframe><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-72386914346073243682014-09-27T11:52:00.000+01:002014-09-27T11:59:59.439+01:00Welcome new AS Students! Some amazing resources to get you started (Composition and Editing)Watch this on Composition:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="375" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/105050530" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/105050530">What Is Composition</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6994428">Press Play Video Blog</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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And this on editing:<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bQtkbQkURCI" width="560"></iframe>
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Finally, this UNMISSABLE, ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC documentary on Editing, The Cutting Edge:<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/U76MBDKQe8s" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-34059421878033341972014-04-30T12:21:00.001+01:002014-05-13T00:00:35.614+01:00Dear Moderator,Here are the links to our AS students' blogs. They have all completed the brief that asks them to complete a continuity task and a film opening sequence. They have produced thriller openings.<br />
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They have all worked on their own to plan and edit their own films. We hope that you'll enjoy their work.<br />
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Candidate 9124 - Steven Attwell: <a href="http://skmattwellthriller.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Link to Steven's blog</a><br />
Candidate 9302 - Rhianna Biggs: <a href="http://rbiggsthriller.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Link to Rhianna's blog</a><br />
Candidate 9585 - Nicole Fleming: <a href="http://nflemingthriller.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Link to Nicole's blog</a><br />
Candidate 8073 - Thomas Hallisey: <a href="http://tomsthrillerblog1.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Link to Tom's blog</a> <br />
Candidate 9424 - Roshni Mepani: <a href="http://roshnithrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Link to Roshni's blog</a><br />
Candidate 9542 - Kareem Tamam: <a href="http://thrillerblogkareem.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Link to Kareem's blog</a><br />
(Kareem is currently rebuilding his blog after his posts got deleted over Easter.) <br />
(UPDATE: A week after Easter, Kareem was admitted for an appendectomy and has not returned to school before the coursework deadline. He has done his best to rebuild his blog from home but has struggled with further medical complications since. We will be asking for special considerations to be given.)<br />
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Please contact me via email if there are any issues with any of the links: h.o'shea@parkhighstanmore.org.uk<br />
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Thank you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-37423265162859955102014-04-02T09:38:00.002+01:002014-04-02T09:38:54.794+01:00Evaluation - The final 20 marksTHE SEVEN QUESTIONS:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media
products?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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<li style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">Who would be the audience for your media product?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">How did you attract/address your audience?
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<li style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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<li style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: yellow;">Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 10.000000pt; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: yellow;">full product? </span></span><br />
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NOW USE THE GUIDANCE BELOW!<br />
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<a href="http://cw-kb-mediastudies.blogspot.com/">http://cw-kb-mediastudies.blogspot.com/</a>
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This is a great response to Question 1 by Kamini from last year:<br />
<a href="http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html">http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html</a><br />
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These are interesting ones from Yasmin whose evaluation also made it into Level 4 (though it's not perfect!)<br />
<a href="http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Evaluations">http://yasminsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Evaluations</a><br />
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This is more of a level 3 but shows you how you can annotate your film opening in YouTube for Question 5:<br />
<a href="http://mananv94thriller.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/evaluation-part-5.html">http://mananv94thriller.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/evaluation-part-5.html</a><br />
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This is an example of a director's commentary over the students' film opening (warning: it's not particularly high quality)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0rk4F8S20&safe=active">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0rk4F8S20&safe=active</a><br />
This is a better one:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H45f-zOhXo&safe=active">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H45f-zOhXo&safe=active</a><br />
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<a href="http://twgsbmedia10asgroup6.blogspot.com/">Example from other centre </a>(note - your evalution must feature on your individual blog)<br />
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Also take inspiration from A2 Evaluations - Look at <a href="http://hasinamusicvideo.blogspot.com/">Hasina's tasks </a>and <a href="http://chloebarnhammedia.blogspot.com/2010/12/evaluation_13.html">Chloe's voice over</a> for instance.<br />
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Also look at the examples linked on the left hand-side under Essential Links (towards the bottom of the list on this page)<br />
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<strong>Just to remind you again, here are the criteria for a level 4:</strong><br />
<strong>16–20 marks</strong> <br />
- Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production. <br />
- Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes. <br />
- Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task. <br />
- Excellent ability to communicate. <br />
- Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation
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Suggested tasks:
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<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/48089190/Marking-Criteria-and-activities-for-the-evaluation" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Marking Criteria and activities for the evaluation on Scribd">Marking Criteria and activities for the evaluation</a> by <a href="http://www.scribd.com/hgaldinoshea" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View hgaldinoshea's profile on Scribd">hgaldinoshea</a></div>
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Here is an example of one student's research into the question.<br />
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<strong style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sasstephy/what-kind-of-media-institution-might-distribute-your-media-product-and-why-3748440" title="What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?">What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?</a></strong><br />
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View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sasstephy">Stephanie</a>.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-14322339229330988062014-03-05T09:34:00.002+00:002014-03-05T09:39:32.364+00:00AUDIENCE RESEARCHIn addition, remember that <u>without <strong>solid audience research </strong>and a <strong>clearly defined target audience</strong>, you won't get a level 4 for Research and Planning.</u><br />
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On top of your <b>BBFC research and discussion</b>, think about the following:<br />
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<strong>You must have identified a <u>clear target audience</u> and you must <u>show the steps you've taken to identify it</u> and to <u>test your ideas against this specified audience</u>. This doesn't mean just an endless series of questionnaires. Use the range of techniques discussed including interviews, preferably with your target audience, and the tools available through Web 2.0.<br /><br /><u>Look at similar films and research their audiences</u> - How was it marketed to appeal to the target audience? What are the viewing figures?</strong><br />
<h4>
<strong>You must be able to answer these questions fully and with illustrations:</strong></h4>
<h4>
<strong><u><span style="color: yellow;">1. What is the core target audience? Is there a secondary target audience?</span></u></strong></h4>
<h4>
<strong><span style="color: yellow;"><u>2. How would you describe the look and tastes of your target audience?</u> </span>(collage with key words perhaps)</strong></h4>
<h4>
<strong>And later, after a little more research and teaching, you also need to answer this:</strong></h4>
<h4>
<strong><u><span style="color: yellow;">3. What functions does this kind of film genre serve to its audience?</span> </u>(uses and gratifications audience theory - why not start researching that?</strong></h4>
<strong>Think of films which features similar plots / characters / settings / types of editing and screengrabs / comment / analyse.</strong><br />
<strong><br /></strong>
<strong><br /></strong>Remember to sum up your findings about <b>core target audience, any secondary audience</b>.<br />
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All magazines do it - for instance, look at NME's summary of their target audience:<br />
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Some ideas for you:<br />
Target Audience Profile and Target Audience Media Consumption Profile:<br />
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<br style="background-color: black; color: #c4c4c4; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-54035144636388888932014-02-26T10:50:00.001+00:002014-02-26T10:51:13.427+00:00IMMEDIATE TO DO LIST<b><u>Use the coursework checklist you were given. Tick off as you go. </u></b><br />
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PLANNING<br />
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Storyboards uploaded to blogs (photos will do).<br />
Take a pic of every single shot for your animatic.<br />
Finished script uploaded to blogs<br />
Shot list<br />
Shooting schedule<br />
Planning of locations, costumes, props etc…<br />
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RESEARCH<br />
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BBFC research - link to blog - study guidance - decide on certificate rating for your film.<br />
Gearing towards a post on more detailed audience research.<br />
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PRODUCTION<br />
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Start filming/editing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-12556894952785989982014-02-26T10:41:00.001+00:002014-02-26T10:44:10.824+00:00Example of an animatic<object height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fRU8HgvDAmc?version=3&hl=en_GB"></param>
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Here is an example of the kind of storyboard you need to be aiming for (though this one is for a music video). You'll be creating the animatic next week:<br />
<a href="http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=XKmGn9565hA">http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=XKmGn9565hA</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-21803399633849171322014-02-26T10:40:00.001+00:002014-02-26T10:44:34.760+00:00Example of a shot list from a different centre<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/116746992" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View shot list on Scribd">shot list</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_61786" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/116746992/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll" width="100%"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-19172527204768626192014-02-05T08:51:00.001+00:002014-02-26T10:44:43.709+00:00DO THIS - DO IT NOW! Planning and Storyboarding
You should be planning furiously as time is short.
Start storyboarding your ideas - It is something that must be done well and that moderators will expect to see.
<br><br><a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/349534/awesome-storyboards-from-15-of-your-favorite-films" target="_blank">Click here to follow the link.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-64090651438845683582014-01-22T10:26:00.000+00:002014-02-26T10:45:08.417+00:00Thriller openings - Analysis<span style="color: #99ff99;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>1. Complete the analysis two thriller openings.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You will consider and explore</span>:</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How does the opening engage/create interest for the audience?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Does it establish characters? How?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Does the opening introduce themes, mood or story/narrative? How?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How are the opening titles displayed?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How is enigma established?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What you will need to analyse</span>:</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Mise-en-scene;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of soundtrack;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of diegetic sound;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Editing;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Camera shot, movement and position;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of special effects.</span><br />
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Remember that to achieve higher grades, you need to be ANALYTICAL rather than just descriptive. Don't simply tell me that there is a close up at this point or a tracking movement at that point. Explain how it helps the narrative and how it is supposed to affect the reader.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Choose 2 extracts from below.</span></b></div>
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Opening scene of The Usual Suspects (couldn't find it with the opening credits)<br />
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The first 2-3 minutes of Memento:<br />
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The first 4 minutes of Enemey of State (though a look at the credits that kick off then wouldn't hurt!)<br />
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First 5 minutes of <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What Lies Beneath</span></i></b>(embedding disabled so link provided instead) <a href="http://youtu.be/3WrycZRmIcs">http://youtu.be/3WrycZRmIcs</a></div>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-32847947805260184642014-01-21T22:44:00.002+00:002014-02-26T10:45:08.409+00:00Investigating genre and generic conventions (lesson: 22.1.14)You will be completing NICCS grids on Blade Runner, The Bourne Identity and one other trailer from the list below.<br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99; font-weight: boldfont-size:130%;">Secondly, you should post your class notes on Genre. Why did you learn? What are the debates around genre? What is the importance of star association with a genre? What can we look for to identify a genre?<br />What about the triangular relationship?</span><br />
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You could write some bullet points to sum up your responses.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-16389020438478211742014-01-15T09:54:00.001+00:002014-02-26T10:45:08.401+00:00Analysis of Thriller Opening - Silence of the Lambs<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #99ff99; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">Complete the analysis of a thriller opening.</span><span style="color: #99ff99;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You will consider and explore</span>:</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How does the opening engage/create interest for the audience?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Does it establish characters? How?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Does the opening introduce themes, mood or story/narrative? How?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How are the opening titles displayed?</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• How is enigma established?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What you will need to analyse</span>:</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Mise-en-scene;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of soundtrack;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of diegetic sound;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Editing;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Camera shot, movement and position;</span><br />
<span style="color: #99ff99;">• Use of special effects.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #99ff99;"><b><i>Silence Of The Lambs</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #99ff99;">The first is the opening of "<i>The Silence of the Lambs" </i>directed by Jonathan Demme (focus on the first 6 min). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #99ff99;">Watch carefully and write a detailed analysis of this opening sequence.<br />Create a 12-frame board of the key shots to accompany your analysis and number the frames for cross-reference.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz7wJ-uq9US12fUyWEokC4Ot_JcWh88ykXY9vSH2TLOTHUQKzyt7Grbah75ivNlUympA4ZJmhiHs6EOjj47PQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Need help with analysis? Read the example below on "</b></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>The Shining"</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b> to see a model of a good analysis.</b></span><br />Here is an interesting analysis of the opening sequence for <em><strong>The Shining</strong></em> which appears on the Long Road Media Blog (thank you, Long Road). Read it carefully to learn some tips.</span></div>
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Watch the sequence first!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffff99;">The film opens with a series of shots of panoramic landscape vistas showcasing the bleak desolation of the snowy mountainous surroundings, which will provide the backdrop for the film’s subsequent narrative developments. Various bird's eye view shots intermittently cross dissolve into one another, and depict an expansive clear blue lake, a snow-capped mountain range, and a densely populated forest of evergreen trees. The camera moves swiftly through its surroundings in each shot, sweeping past the breadth of the natural environs below it, and thus conveys to the audience a sense of the massive scale and large land span of the location depicted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffff99;">During the camera’s continual movement, it occasionally captures its views from distorted angles, which undermines the idea otherwise created by this series of shots of the benevolent purity of natural beauty and the wintry American landscape. It thus uses spatial manipulation to contradict the principal connotations of the images of nature captured in these shots, and hence foreshadows the heavy deployment of themes and imagery centred upon the supernatural that will follow.<br /><br />Also indicative of this theme is the use of slow, sombre, unnerving and deliberate electronic music, which in conjunction with the seemingly oppositional images suggest a malevolence to the surroundings shown and imply an unknown danger amongst them.<br /><br />Eventually the camera finds a road snaking through an aerial shot of a thickly forested area then picks out and follows a lone car in extreme high angle long shot, making its way along the road. The camera gradually moves increasingly closer maintaining its birds’ eye view position, but also gradually rotates to distort the angle and create a sense of unsettling foreboding in the manner described above. A series of shot changes track the car’s journey and depict a range of different natural backdrops indicating the traversal of time and space. As the camera finally tracks speedily in to a mid shot of the car from behind, revealing it to be a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, credits rise up through the frame from below in blue typeface, and each gives way to the next, departing the frame by rising out of it.<br /><br />The moving camera overtakes the car and veers away to the left, aerially crossing country before again finding the car and tracking its journey, once again with another series of extreme high angle long shots, while the eeriness of the electronic score continues to aurally unsettle the viewer.<br /><br />The camera’s point of view eventually shifts to depict an extreme long shot of a remotely located building amongst the mountains, trees and lakes. It slowly circles the building, getting gradually closer. This building is the Overlook Hotel, and will be the yellow car’s final destination, and the principal location for almost all of the film’s subsequent action.<br /><br />Overall, the opening sequence has been gradually building up to this elaborate establishing shot of the hotel, and has served to highlight its isolation and remoteness and communicate an implication of danger, that the audience should by now have associated with this idyllic yet spectral location and its backdrop. </span><br />
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Remember that to achieve higher grades, you need to be ANALYTICAL rather than just descriptive. Don't simply tell me that there is a close up at this point or a tracking movement at that point. Explain how it helps the narrative and how it is supposed to affect the reader.<br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266014353016343094.post-31406045587683993742014-01-15T09:52:00.000+00:002014-02-26T10:45:08.405+00:00Learning about the Thriller Genre (independent study) You will conduct research into the Thriller genre and give a presentation in class about it.
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<strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/reigatemedia/genre-theorists" target="_blank" title="Genre theorists">Genre theorists</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/reigatemedia" target="_blank">reigatemedia</a></strong> <br />
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Now investigate the conventions of thrillers - with examples / clips / screengrabs.<br />
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Explore the different types (sub-genres) of thrillers, identifying their specific conventions (characters, settings, typical narrative and iconography) and giving examples. (Don't just copy the same old PPT that does the rounds every year)<br />
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YOU CAN WORK IN A PAIR BUT BOTH OF YOU NEED TO FEATURE THE WORK ON YOUR BLOG. YOU CAN ALSO PRESENT IN CLASS TOGETHER.<br />
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