18th Sept - Research and Planning - identifying codes and conventions / researching standards expected / housekeeping

Focus: R&P: codes and conventions
task - complete the work set last lesson - deadline - Monday 23rd September

Focus: researching standards expected - look at the A2 work for this year http://a2mediaproductionschs2014.blogspot.co.uk/ - look at James Ivett and Genna Rayners work
or the AS/A2 for last year
http://schsmediastudies2013mediaproductions.blogspot.co.uk/
Luke Anderson / Rachel Savage / Kat warnes (A2) (grades BB-B)
or
Jemma / Matt / James / Sam / Lucy - (grades BBAAB-)

LOOK AT THE RANGE OF METHODS, TECHNIQUES AND LANGUAGE USED - be prepared to discuss

Focus: housekeeping - you need to work on ensuring that your blog is clear and easy to access:

1. on the design tab select basic and tick - moderate comments 'always', no of posts per page change to 30
2. on the design tab select basic and invite me as an author - humplebye@sprowstonhigh,org
3. select advanced setting and make sure that the title includes your name and AS media production
4. select edit posts and publish all drafts ( I cannot see drafts and you can always edit them later if they need improving

deadline - Monday 23rd September

Heads up - for Monday next week you MUST have your sweded films and any poster/planning/storyboards etc all uloaded to your blogs - we will be showing them to each other a recording feedback sessions

week beg Monday 16th Sept. Research & Planning: identifying the Codes and Conventions of a FILM Opening Sequence: intiial study text: se7en (1995)

Activity 1: (10) minutes - the following are examples of presentations on opening sequences to films - take time to read them and discuss your findings in pairs before adding the actual slideshares and a review of them in a post on your own blog.
Starters questions to ask your self:

• how successful are they at identifying conventions?
• who is the audience?
• what is the purpose of the presentations?
• is the format successful?
• did they identify ALL of the conventions accurately?

Conventions of an opening sequence from emiliefreddie

Codes and conventions of opening sequences from kcasmedia

An Analysis Of The Opening Sequence Of Vertigo from Media Studies

Conventions of a thriller opening from zubairkhan93

activity 2: (5 minutes) on your blog construct a bullet point list of what you think are the core conventions of an opening sequence to a film

Activity 3: original analysis of Se7en (30 minutes) - writing to communicate YOUR understanding of CONVENTIONS and STYLE

SOURCE: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/se7en/

task 1
follow the link to the page at Artofthetitle.com / read all of the reviews, interviews, articles and watch the drafts

task 2
in a post add links and explain which conventions of an OTS are being met / being challenged  in this opening sequence - choose the format of your explanation it should be suitable to show images and text

task 3 - ."the opening sequence is considered one of the most innovative of its era". Discuss how true you think this statement is (max 200 words) using at least one quote

Homework: for next Monday: complete activity 3;  tasks 1-3 and  repeat Activity 3 with a film of your choice. add it all to a new post with hyperlinks

Extension task - explain which conventions you have used in your own Sweded film: which would you use if you would do it again? - add this to a post with an upload of your Sweded film

remember WG11 is open Tuesday-Thursday lunchtimes for support with Blogging

well done and Thank you

Well done for the work you put in on induction day.

Please enjoy the holiday task and pass on the holiday brief and the link to this page to anyone who missed the day: I look forward to seeing all your Sweded Films in September.

You can email me at humplebye@sprowstonhigh.org

If you send me your blog addresses i will add them to this blog

Enjoy the sun

organisation? and timing - how long does it take

creating this blog and all of the posts below took me 62 minutes

what is an animatic? what is a storyboard?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard#Animatics



vimeo and youtube have good examples of animatics choose wisely and add one or two to your blog - add comments

Animatics from Juston Gordon on Vimeo.

whereas animatics add sound and dialogue plus intended timings a storyboard is usually just a series of images and instructions in order

though some do both

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut

what is a sweded film?

you can find a lot of information on the internet, and through social media.

One definition i like is found at:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweded-films

Be Kind Rewind premiered on February 22nd, 2008 and earned $4 million in the United States and Canada in its opening weekend. The domain for the site SwededFilms.com^[1], which serves as a database for sweded movies, was registered the next day.

 On February 24th, the sweded film blog Sweded Cinema^[6] was launched and included rules for creating sweded videos:

1. Must be based on an already produced film
2. Range 2-8 minutes in length
3. Must not contain computer generated graphics
4. Based on films less than 35 years old
5. Special effects must be limited to camera tricks and arts ’n crafts
6. Sound effects created by human means
7. Hilarious.

one of the biggest sweded group productions is the star wars 2 hour sweded film produced by hundreds of people each submitting small sections