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Sophie Dixon, Emily Moore and Melodie Abraham

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Microdrama

Mircodrama was our first time using the camera and editing sofware 'imovie'.

Wednesday 13 October 2010

My Top 5 Favourite Films

1. Honey(Bille Woodruff, 2003)
US Budget- $25,000,000.  Gross- $30 million
This is one of my favourite films because it stars Jessica Alba when she was younger and features some big stars.

Youtube Trailer










2. Coach Carter (Thomas Carter, 2005)
US Budget- $30,000,000.  Gross- $67million
Watched this film many times. Enjoy the acting and the storyline plus i like that it is based on a true story.

[YouTube Trailer]




3. Save the Last Dance(Thomas Carter, 2001)
US Budget- $13,000,000  Gross- $91 million
One of my favourite films, stars Jullia Stiles in one of her first films. Good dancing and a good soundtrack.


[YouTube Trailer]










4. Step Up (Anne Fletcher, 2006)
US Budget- $12,000,000  Gross- $65.3 million
Modern films about dancing, also has a romantic storyline which isnt too bad. Channing Tatum is great in this film.









5. Grease(Randal Kleiser, 1978)
US Budget- £6,000,000 Gross- $181.3 million
Everyone has seen this films, most people know the songs. Olivia Newton John and John Travolta have this film to thanks for their fame.

[YouTube Trailer]

Friday 8 October 2010

My Coursework Task

THE BRIEF, EVALUATION + HOW ITS ALL MARKED

THE BRIEF
Your mission is to carry out the following brief:
Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

The coursework is worth 50% of the AS (same at A2) and the marking (detailed later) is divided into 3 sections:
RESEARCH AND PLANNING: 20%
PRODUCTION: 60%
EVALUATION: 20%




EVALUATION

Even before you start shooting (let alone planning) your production, you need to keep this final stage in mind. If you start (b)logging notes on this now it will save you a lot of stress as the final deadline (in May!) approaches. You are tasked with answering these questions (see below for details on how this is marked):
These questions are making us think how the examiner would be marking our work, when we answer these questions we will see if there are anything we need to do to improve our work.


  • In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 
  • How does your media product represent particular social groups?
  • What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 
  • Who would be the audience for your media product? 
  • How did you attract/address your audience? 
  • What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 
  • Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?


HOW ITS ALL MARKED [ie THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA]

The grid embedded below summarises the criteria DB have to follow, and so you're advised to occasionally re-read this and ask yourself where you think you'll fall within the marking scheme!
For each section there are key components of the work which DB have to assess as being one of the following:
  • MINIMAL
  • BASIC
  • PROFICIENT  
  • EXCELLENT