1. You should have started your Thriller Opening blog over the holidays. I only have Rhianna's URL to add to the list at present so make sure you email me straight away. I should see your initial research on there (see Rhianna's).
2. Spend some time going through last year's blogs (this will give you an idea of the kind of research, planning and evaluation you'll need to do) and film openings (and the year before that!) Choose a couple of the students' film openings, embed into your blogs and write a few bullet points about the strengths and weaknesses you can see.
If you visit the OCR Media Studies weebly here http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/coursework-with-levels.html and here http://examplesofwork13.weebly.com/as.html you will find other film openings with their given marks out of 60. (for the 2nd one, scroll down past the magazine work to find the film openings)
Again, you can select one of the best ones (in terms of marks received) and take a few screengrabs. Annotate what you think the strengths are in terms of camerawork, mise-en-scene, editing and lighting.
3. Visit THE ART OF THE TITLE WEBSITE
Your coursework brief is to create the opening 2 minutes of a film and that includes professional looking titles/credits. Spend some time exploring the wonderful examples from this site (you'll come back to it again and again).
Make sure you spend a portion of your time looking at thriller openings.
Then choose a film opening (from the website or otherwise) and embed it into your blog. Your task is to design a timeline of the credits. You can use the presentation below to help you (ignore slide 11). Slide 10 shows the model I usually show students.
Credits and timelines from hasnmedia
Work well and publish as you go. I'll be keeping an eye. Email questions.
Work well and publish as you go. I'll be keeping an eye. Email questions.
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