Buckets Of Dead Friends directed by Owain Anderson and Aiden Barker-Dean

Spaghetti Westerns and Spaced in two minutes of carnage.

Brogue directed by Hannah Skidmore

A stylish slice of Film Noir.

Not Just A Flu directed by Eugene Blake

A superb homage to George A. Romero.

Planning and Research mark scheme

Marking Criteria for the Presentation of the Research and Planning

AS Foundation: coursework lesson

Today you need to ensure that you are completely up to date. Check the coursework schedule for a reminder of the work you need to have already completed.

Ideally this week you should be filming and editing if you are making the film opening and taking photos and deciding on layout if you are making the magazine cover.

On Friday 12th I am expecting a draft version of your work. Wednesday's lesson will be a theory lesson so you will need to use you own time effectively to complete the task.

Make sure that you post updates of progress and examples of your work on your blog as you go. This is extremely important. Ensure that all posts are labelled correctly and that you all have a link list and a label list.

Double Edge

This is brilliant example of a film title sequence. Everything in this piece is to a very high standard. The idea, camera work, editing, script, acting and music is all superb. This is the sort of work you need to make to achieve a top grade.

AS foundation portfolio to do list

• create a label list
• make sure all posts are labelled correctly
• create a link list
• add a link to: http://fordlcmedia.blogspot.com/2009/12/g321-as-foundation-portfolio.html which is the course schedule
• read the schedule and make sure you are up to date
• access this sheet (audience profile) via scribd http://lcasmedia.blogspot.com/2010/01/audience-profiling-sheet.html and complete.
• upload your completed audience profile to scribd and embed in your blog.
• create a short term (one week) to do list and add a to be completed by date

It is really important that you don't fall behind. You all have a lot to do and a clearly defined period of time to do it in. You need to use your own time more productively to ensure all tasks are completed.

AS coursework schedule

I have added the AS coursework schedule as a link. (see my link list).It would be sensible to add it to your own link lists. That way it is always on your homepage.

AS foundation portfolio checklist

The majority of the items on the two lists are covered in the timetable. Copy this to your blog and cross them off as you complete them.


Video

1. Juno opening titles swede
2. Analysis of film opening from Youtube
3. Analysis of student opening
4. Prelim task and evaluation
5. 25 word pitch
6. Make a company logo and Ident
7. Nine frames moodboard sheet
8. Titles timeline from art of the Title
9. Storyboard and animatic
10. Recce shots and photos on the shoot
11. Screengrabs throughout editing
12. Rough cut for feedback


Print

1. re-make a cover with your own pictures
2. analyse the relevant four pages from different magazines
3. analyse some student magazines
4. prelim task and evaluation
5. pitch your new magazine within the market
6. make your banner
7. magazine moodboard
8. breakdown of institutional features
9. flatplan and photo-flatplan
10. recce shots and rehearsal shots; photos of group in action
11. Screengrabs throughout of photoshop and DTP
12. Draft version for feedback

G321: AS foundation portfolio

G321 Course Outline Dec 2009 to March 2010

Brainstorming app.

Courtesy of Hannah Skidmore. A pretty decent looking app. to add some interest to those brainstorming sessions you are no doubt contemplating. Click on image above.

Foundation Portfolio

As Media Coursework 1

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Year 12 coursework

Unit 1 G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media (worth 50% of the marks available at AS)

The Foundation Portfolio is a Coursework Unit, consisting of either 2 video productions or 2 Photoshop constructions and an online blog. The first video piece will be a short sequence produced to demonstrate basic technical ability and understanding of continuity technique. The second is a fully developed production produced to demonstrate skill development, consisting of the first 2 minutes of a fiction film, based on an original idea developed by the students. The first Photoshop element will be a cover and contents page for a school magazine. The second is a front cover, contents page and double page spread for a music magazine. All images and text must be original. The students will work in groups but will be assessed individually on their work in the following stages:

*Pre-production: research, planning, development of ideas, scripting, storyboarding, magazine mock-ups, layouts,colour schemes

*Production: shooting, lighting, working with sets, actors and scripts,photography,working with models

*Post-production: editing, special and sound effects, music,photoshop effects,applying text

Evidence for the different stages will be presented via an online blog. Students will be expected to evaluate the finished film production according to specific theoretical criteria and this will also be presented through the blog.

Assessment: Marking is out of 100 (20 marks for research + planning, 60 marks for practical work, 20 marks for the evaluation).

Example AS Blog

THIS is an example of an excellent AS blog. If you look at the range of technology employed you'll notice that we are encouraging you to do more than these students have. What technology can't do however is hide any lack of effort or knowledge. Planning (aka preproduction) is essential, you cannot take short cuts or assume it will all turn out fine in the end. Nothing has been left to chance, they check weather forecasts, create animatics, analyse other film openings, recreate other film openings, describe their target audience by creating profiles, produce rough cuts of their film and get feedback from their peers which informs future decisions, spend 12 HOURS filming in one day, work in their spare time over half term. I could go on.

There is no excuse for not having an exemplary blog, this is one area where all students can achieve top grades and where time is not an issue. EVERY member of TEAM FORD is expected to have a C grade blog at worst.

Finally this blog also demonstrates how all areas of the course are intertwined, their practical is clearly based on representation issues (specifically youth) as well as some of the theory you have covered (narrative).

This post originally appeared in Mr Smith's blog.