AS Media StudiesWelcome

Coursework: 50% Blog (40 marks) Film Opening (60 marks)

Exam: 50% Representation in TV drama The film industry and audiences

What you will be doing

All work will be posted onto the VLE Homework Lesson PowerPoint's Resources Deadlines

If you miss a lesson ensure you log in and find out what you have missed as you have strict deadlines to meet

VLE

You will be making a film opening of a

MAXIMUM OF TWO MINUTES

Coursework

What is a film opening?

Discuss this with the person next to you.

What are the conventions of a film opening?

This opening sequences is probably one of the most famous.

What do you think of it?Is it conventional?

Where there any conventions you missed?

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

Se7en

The titles in the opening sequence are just as important as the narrative when you are

making your own.

Here's an example from last year that did a good opening sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMWnw4TE_FY&feature=youtu.be

Examples from last year

Did they do well?

What could they have done to make it better?

Was it conventional?

What do you think?

To complete your first blog post (we will set your blogs up this lesson)

Timeline of an opening: Pick an opening (film) from 'art of the title' and paste on your blog

the nine frames. Watch the sequence, download it to your computer to enable you to

look at the timeline. Get a big sheet of plain paper and mark out a timeline, then go

through and write on it where each title comes in. This should give you a really good model for your own layout of a title sequence, including timings and jobs.

Here's an example post:

Homework

You will need to set up your own blogger blog for your AS work to be submitted on.

You must set up one on blogger no other blogging websites please.

Click here to register and set up your blog http://www.blogger.com/. Make sure you are going to remember your details.

When you have set up your blog you must send your blog details and your email address to us. To do this click here http://tspavins.wix.com/a2media#!submit-your-details and fill in the form ensuring both your EMAIL ADDRESS (that you check) and BLOG ADDRESS are included.

Setting up your blog

Blogs are fantastic ways of presenting your work as they are stored online so you can access them from anywhere without having to carry anything around. they allow you to upload files, embed youtube videos, images, sounds and much more. Your blog should be a completely multimedia product. If you are only adding text to your blog you will not do very well in this subject as marks are awarded for your use of ICT and creativity.

Organisation is key with your blog. You will have at least 28 posts when you submit at Christmas so it is vital that all of your posts have a decent title that is easy to see what the post is about and most importantly it is TAGGED or as blogger calls them LABELS! Tagging your post is like putting it into a category. On your deadline sheet i have included a column that tells you what tag you need to add to that post. The examiner will use these tags when marking your work so it is very important that you do this.

Although a blog is a thing that many people use casually in their leisure time to rant and rave about things that is not what we are using ours for. You must remember at all times this is an examined piece of work and you should at all times write in proper English, full sentences and SPELL CHECK your work. The blog has a spell checker that you can run. Make sure you do this!

Basics about blogging