Year 12 Media Studies Blog Checklist

This is what you should ALL have on your blogs thus far:

1. Continuity sequence and evaluation of it
2. 'The Art of the Title' homework task (Leanne)
3. Saul Bass write-up and independent titles analysis
4. Presentation on a title sequence designer of your choosing
5. Pitch video, presentation, feedback sheets and summary of feedback/comments on what you think of it
6. Zombieland analysis
7. Analysis of a title sequence of your choosing
8. Genre notes and analysis of a sequence of your genre
9. Class notes written up, including codes conventions of title sequences and Sound
10. Video of your fight sequence and explanation of what you did and evaluation of what you learnt through the process
11. Audience profile for your film
12. The order of the titles & importance of typography, to include analysis of Se7en/Catch Me if You Can/Lord of War covered in lesson.
13. Write-up of film industry work completed with Shaun.
14. Video feedback from Leanne/Shaun with your comments as to how you are going to address the feedback for improvements.

To move on, you will need to complete the following:
a) REGULAR JOURNAL POSTS - weekly for the rest of the project, detailing decisions being made, problems, successes, revisions to your original plans etc.
b) Storyboards for your sequence and possibly animatics.
c) Typography ideas for your titles & final chosen typography.
d) A production plan - what will you do, when, what will you need and where will you go. You could also add costings and potential issues which may arise and how you will resolve them.
e) Location shots (recce)`.
f) Music/sound research and final soundtrack decision.
g) Film studio research and decision about who would produce/distribute your film so that you can include their logo at the beginning of your sequence.
h) Audience research/feedback on your idea and necessary adjustments made.

Year 12 Blogging

This is what you should have on your blogs so far:

-Continuity sequence and evaluation of it
-'The Art of the Title' homework task (Leanne)
-Saul Bass write-up and independent titles analysis
-Presentation on a title sequence designer of your choosing
-Pitch video, presentation, feedback sheets and summary of feedback/comments on what you think of it
-Zombieland analysis
-Analysis of a title sequence of your choosing
-Genre notes and analysis of a sequence of your genre
-Class notes written up, including codes conventions of title sequences and Sound
-Video of your fight sequence and explanation of what you did and evaluation of what you learnt through the process
-Audience profile for your film

Expand Your Mind: Careers in the Media

Click on this link to check out potential career paths in the media. 

http://www.brightknowledge.org/knowledge-bank/media/careers-in-media

Expand Your Mind: A History of Film

A map showcasing the history of film.

http://www.historyshots.com/film/index.cfm

Expand Your Mind: Right Brain VS Left Brain

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/the-right-brain-vs-left-brain/story-e6frev20-1111114577583

Expand Your mind: Sound and Music

Click the link to learn about the Soundtracks and Sound effects of some of this years top films including Skfall, The Dark Knight Rises, Argo and The Avengers.

http://soundworkscollection.com/

Pitching

Year 12 Media Homework link

 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/04/the-art-of-the-film-title-throughout-cinema-history/

Read article, link it to blog and show that you have read and understood it by picking out at least five points which are of interest to you and copying, pasting and commenting on them.

Expand Your Mind

One of the best and coolest interactive resources for understanding how the film industry works:


http://www.creativeskillset.org/film/business/index_1.asp#

Expand Your Mind

Click the link for good examples of stereotypes within film.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20082_6-insane-stereotypes-that-movies-cant-seem-to-get-over.html#ixzz29ROsssPH

Expand Your Mind

Check out Ms Raji's new blog Expand Your Mind (in the Teachers Blogs) for examples on Cinematography, Sound, Editing and more.

Use this area when you have study periods or when no homework has been set

The more you read about film the more knowledgeable you will be.

http://asa2film20092011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/expand-your-mind.html

Sound Terminology

Glossary Sound And Music In Film from Media Studies

Music Video Briefs

Year 10 Homework project

NEW SIXTH FORMERS Summer Tasks & Equipment List 2011

Media film summer tasks and equipment list

View more documents from leannacatherina.

Year 12 Media Summer Homework

To create a case study of a well-established recording artist, looking at how their image has been constructed through a variety of media. This should include details of how they broke into the business, their ideology, record label and relationship with the label, any significant press attention and crucially, analyses of several videos and how these videos contributed to/created their 'image' and subsequently their success.

This could be done as a powerpoint, prezi or a series of blog posts and should include a variety of images, video and text.

DO NOT CUT & PASTE IT ALL FROM WIKIPEDIA.

Year 13 media cover work Monday 19th March

Crit perspectives exam

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Easter School Idea

Would you like to take part in our RAVENSBOURNE EASTER PROJECT - THE SNAKE PIT? (Details of the project are below). This is for Year 10, 11 & 12 students interested in the following areas - Art & Design, Film, Product Design, Fashion, Graphics, Broadcasting, Music & Sound Production.

The Snake Pit will take place over 2 days - the 3rd & 4th April 2012 and will look great on College and UCAS applications. If you would like to take part please see Ms Whittaker for an application form and return it to me by 23rd March 2012 at the latest.

Are you brave enough to enter the Snake Pit and face the Business Cobras?

The challenge - Working in small focus groups you will be asked to create and promote a fantastic new product/service that can be sold to tourists visiting London during Easter/ Springtime. This could be anything from a printed shopping bag, an easter gift, a springtime 'gadget', an app for phones showcasing spring festivals etc. The choice is yours.....

The only criteria is that it MUST promote both London and Spring.

But the challenge doesn't end there. Once you decide on what you want to sell then you have to produce the costings, market research and develop the pitch that will convince the Cobras that your idea/product is the best.

Many enter the Snake Pit, but only one group will win....will it be you?

Journal posts - Example

'Today we had to show Miss our storyboards to see how we were getting on and it turned out to be a very useful conversation. We realised that the shot of the girl coming up the stairs towards the camera would be very difficult to keep steady, so we are going to use a low-angle shot from the side of the stairs looking through instead. Miss also showed us a sequence made by some students last year: (Insert sequence link) which really inspired us as it manages to keep the air of mystery as to the identity of the main character that we're hoping to achieve but with a good variety of interesting shots. This has given us some good ideas to add into our storyboard. Finally, our conversation got us to thinking about the practicalities of what we want to do, for example how to make the book flutter open and land on a certain page. This could be difficult so we are going to go home and experiment with ways of doing it.'

Title sequences: Saul Bass

http://annyas.com/screenshots/saul-bass-title-sequences/