THRILLER - ASSESSMENT 10

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 10 – GROUP TASK
DEADLINE DATE : TBC

UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST:

10a - LOCATION RECCE

10b - COSTUMES & PROPS
FORMAT : Images and text

 

Task details:

 

10a - Location Recce - Scout for locations and carry out a Location Recce (dowload forms.) Take shots of your location and post these on your blog, explaining your choices as you go along.

 

10b - Create a list of costumes and props and how these will be sourced.

 

 

THRILLER - ASSESSMENT 9

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 9– GROUP TASK
DEADLINE DATE : Thursday 7th November
UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST: ANIMATICS
FORMAT : VIDEO

Use Premier to create your animatic. Include titles and music. Upload this to your blog.

THRILLER ASSESSMENT 7

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 7– GROUP TASK
DEADLINE DATE : THURS 24TH OCT
UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST: PRODUCTION GROUP IDENT
FORMAT : JPEG & TEXT

Task details:

7a- Create a name and ident for your production company. Uplaod this to the blog and explain how and why you chose and created this design.

7b- Create a credits list in order of appearance in your final sequence. Which cast, personnel, organisations, job roles will you include in your title sequence?

7c- Fonts - Consider a variety of font style, size and colour for your titles. Post these ideas and examples of titles on your blog. Here is an example of what your final posting could look like.
http://cmdiplomachristina.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/fonts-for-titles.html

THRILLER - ASSESSMENT 6

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 6 – INDIVIDUAL TASK
DEADLINE DATE : WEDNESDAY 23 OCT, 8pm.
UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST: TITLE SEQ. TIMELINE
FORMAT : JPEG & TEXT
(Task taken from http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/film-openings-for-level.html)

Pick an opening (film) from 'art of the title' and paste on your blog the nine frames.
Get a big sheet of plain paper and mark out a timeline, then go through and write on it where each title and image comes in. Think about how the music changes as the timeline continues.

See this example taken from a student's media blog.

THRILLER - ASSESSMENT 8

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 8 – GROUP TASK
DEADLINE DATE : WEDS 6TH NOVEMBER
UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST: STORYBOARD DRAFT 1 & 2 + FEEDBACK
FORMAT : JPEGs

Task details:

Create the storyboard for your opening sequence. You'll need to inlcude images and the titles from Assessment 7.

Use post-it notes on the A3 sheet so you can move shots around easily.

Number each shot in order

Below each shot give info on camera framing, sound, mise en scene, music and dialogue as appropriate.

During your storyboard pitch you will be given feedback. Include this feedback in your posting with suggestions on how you can improve your second draft.

THRILLER ASSESSMENT 5a-5d

THRILLER ASSESSMENTS 5a-5d

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 5 – INDIVIDUAL

DEADLINE DATE : MONDAY, 21 OCT
UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST:

5a: Who watches thriller?

5b: Profile of my target audience

5c; Film Distribution

5d: Independent Film Distribution

FORMAT : PPTs with images and clips

 

TASK DETAILS:

 

5a: Who watches thrillers?

 

Research and write about the target audiences for a variety of thrillers. Include data, statistics, charts etc

 

5b: Who would be the audience for your film?

 

Create a detailed profile for your target audience.

This should include: age, gender, occupation (relate to the key concepts), hobbies and interests, lifestyle, movies/TV shows they watch, music they might listen to, what they have seen in the last 6 months – relate this to the lesson on audience demographics but you need to expand on these points.

 

Include pictures of people who fit this profile.

 

5c:  What is film distribution?
 

 Research and the write about major film distributors and the process of distribution.

 http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-distribution.htm

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/distribution/distribution1.html

 

 

5d: What is an independent film distributor? How are the different from the major film distributors?

Research and write about 2 independent film distributors. You need to Look at their websites and research their distribution processes. Consider the titles they have distributed in the past and how they do this.

 

 

BLOG CREATIVITY – A FEW TIPS

FONTS:

Experiment with a MIX AND MATCH approach – play around with a variety of font styles, colours, font sizes and see what works. It will still need to look like these work together on the final blog design.

http://www.shazleenkhana2media.blogspot.co.uk/

 

VIDEOS:

·         Director’s commentary

·         Behind-the-scenes

·         Interviews with cast

·         Interviews with crew

http://snehalsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Evaluation%204

 

·         Interviews with target audience

http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Audience%20Profile

 

·         Clips used for analysis

·         Screen grabs from your films – this can be at any point during editing as well as the final cut. It depends on what you use these videos for. Videos need to accompanied by some explanation and analysis. Don’t leave clips up there on their own!

·         Short film of group work/group discussion

·         Auditions for cast

·         Annotate clips / the whole film

http://snehalsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/evaluation%205

 

 

IMAGES/PICTURES

·         Of your plans, post-it notes, notes made during discussions

http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Planning

 

·         Of the equipment

·         Screen shots with and without annotations

·         Behind the scene shots – taken on location while filming

·         Rough visuals

·         Locations shots – before and after it has been ‘dressed’ for the shoot

·         Pictures of props on location http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Construction

 

·         Cast

·         Costumes

·         Specific frames to help you answer the evaluation questions http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html

http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Preliminary

·         Print screen of your soundtrack / audio channel / video channel

·         Have frames from your film next to frames from real films – compare and contrast http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html

·         Analysis of real films – posters and shots from the film itself – scroll down this page

http://snehalsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Research

 

·         Create a collage of clips from your film – if this helps you answer the question – and then analyse it http://snehalsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Evaluation

 

 

OTHER:

·         Tables

·         Prezis – a good idea to record a ‘walk-through’ of your Prezi

·         Slideshare – as above

·         Graphs

·         Pie charts

·         Other diagrams

·         Flow charts

·         Etc..

 

MORE BLOG TIPS…

http://designitchic.blogspot.co.uk/p/003blog-tips.html

http://weblogs.about.com/od/blogdesign/tp/10-Easy-Ways-To-Make-Your-Blog-Design-Shine.htm

 

THRILLER ASSESSMENT 3

THRILLER ASSESSMENT 3

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 4 – INDIVIDUAL

DEADLINE DATE : WEDS, 15 OCT, 3PM
UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST: OWN IDEAS

FORMAT : PHOTO

TASK DETAILS:

 

• Post a photo of your 'own ideas' mind map from today's lesson
• In about 200 words explain a few of your initial story ideas. 

 

THRILLER ASSESSMENT 4

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 4 – GROUP TASK
DEADLINE DATE : THURS, 16 OCT, 3PM
UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST: FILM IDEAS
FORMAT : PREZI ( ideas and audience research)

'KNOW THE FILM, BUT MAKE THE OPENING.'
Pete Fraser

1. Decide on your sub-genre and explain why you chose this
2. As a group mind-map lots of ideas for your own opening sequence
3. Pick 2 ideas and write a 25 word pitch for each one.
4. Carry out some audience research and pick the winning idea (speed dating groups)
5. Next , explain how your idea follows genre conventions and how it attracts your target audience. Keep your audience research in mind.

Some advice from Pete Fraser, the chief examiner for Media Studies:

'Keep them (the ideas) simple. The more complicated your idea, the more will go wrong. Try to whittle down the pitch so it can be explained in 25 words, like these here or try to summarise it so that if you were explaining it to someone in a lift, you would get through your explanation and they would understand it by the time the lift reached the floor you are going to.'

THRILLER ASSESSMENT 2

THRILLER ASSESSMENT 2

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 2 – INDIVIDUAL TASK
DEADLINE DATE : TUESDAY 15TH OCT
UPLOAD ON BLOG?: YES
TITLE OF POST: ANALYSIS OF THRILLER OPENINGS
FORMAT : POSTING WITH CLIPS

Task details:

Analysis of atleast 2 opening sequences which deal with two different sub-genres within the thriller genre. You need to include clips along with your analysis on your blog.

Camera

Editing

Sound

Mise en scene

Use PEE and key terms.

 

 

 

THRILLER - ASSESSMENT 1

YEAR 12 UNIT G321
ASSESSMENT 1 – INDIVIDUAL TASK
DEADLINE DATE : TUESDAY 20TH JANUARY 2015
UPLOAD ON BLOG?:  LATER DATE
TITLE OF POST: ‘WHAT IS A THRILLER’
FORMAT : PPT SCREEN GRABS ON WORD DOCUMENT


Task details:

Complete your research on the ‘thriller’ genre.

Create a set of slides on the genre. You need to cover these areas:

• What is a thriller?
• What are the different types of thrillers? (with examples)
• What are the main themes dealt with in thrillers?
• Key characters found in a thriller
• Codes and conventions of thrillers
• Case study on one key director of the thriller genre, including examples of his/her films.
• Your PPT must include text and images as well as a few short video clips with explanations