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Blogs Closing Tomorrow...

Don't forget, when you're done, you need to come by my office and give me your username and password by 3:20pm.

Otherwise, you'll fail.

Once you've done that, obviously you won't be able to edit any of your posts.

The marking of your blogs, films and evaluations will be done by the end of May, so when you return as Y13s for your A2s, I'll give them back to you so you can create a new blog using the same name and password.

Blogs Close: Fri 27 April

Megan and anyone else who'd forgot -

Your blogs will be closed on Fri 27 April 2012.

After that date, you will not be allowed to add posts, EDIT posts that are titled 'dkjvn' - all that has to be done by then.. this is because on that Friday at 3:30pm, we'll be moderating and marking all of your blogs.

After that session, if you DO edit anything, it'd be a complete waste of your time as noone will be looking at them.

FINAL DAY OF FILMING/EDITING

By the end of today (or by tomorrow 12noon if you REALLY want to cut it fine), you must have uploaded your FINAL version of your 'Constructed Film' to YouTube.

You must:

Upload it in the best HD possible (think it's 1084HD)

Call it: 'Mac (insert number) AS - 2012 - '(title of your film)'

so it'd look like this on YouTube:

Mac 2 AS - 2012 - 'Fragile'

Eventually, I need to copy all of your films onto a hard drive and put them all on Mac 6 ready to be ripped to DVD for the moderator - but we'll do that on the Thursday lesson when we get back after Easter - in the meantime, how are the Evaluations coming along??

Organising Your Blogs

This is the blog I showed you yesterday - look at how all 3 components are always at the top of her blog, no matter what post you go onto:

Don't forget to use this to organise your labels as well.

Help with editing your Evaluations

Evaluations to Research

Here're are those examples from today's lessons - I'm not saying they have to be ANYthing like these, but they're good to get an idea how to prepare for them.



Like I said today, I really like the idea of 7 different clips, addressing each Eval question but it is entirely up to you.



Also, as confirmed today, you can do your eval in pairs - remember Daisy's suggestion of interviewing each other - that would be excellent.



Whatever you end up doing, make it FORMAL:

Evaluation of your Coursework

Here're the questions you have to answer in your Evaluations:

1. In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your film opening represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your film opening and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your film opening?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this film opening?

7. Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final film opening?

As I said to a few of you last week, feedback from last year's moderator said this:

"Planning and Research was of a proficient to excellent standard throughout and the candidates’ artefacts supported this. It is clear that candidates have been supported and encouraged to research the forms and conventions of genre as well as the industrial conventions associated with the opening of a feature film. Planning shows progression from an initial idea to final construction. The number of blog entries, and the use of ICT, was most impressive. Marking was generally in line with the agreed standard.

The constructions used forms and conventions appropriately, particularly through the use of idents and titles. The best work showed a good understanding for shot composition and used a range of shot types for effect. Most candidates had obviously very carefully considered mise-en-scene and the range of different styles were refreshing to watch.

However the evaluations were overmarked because the format chosen (video interviews embedded on blogs) was not fully exploited. Their brevity, particularly considering some were the work of up to four candidates, hindered them from discussing their responses in detail, and too often comments were superficial and not supported with appropriate examples. Candidates should remember that this component is worth as much as the Planning and Research, and this time should be reflected in their final evaluation.

This Centre has been a pleasure to moderate."

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See?? It's not good practice to have all four of you in the one vid - but I think we ought to discuss the use of maybe a max of two of you - that way, at least a discussion of some sort could take place.

Section B articles

Pete's ppt From Today's Seminar - Tue 6 Mar 2012

Tv drama

View more presentations from petefrasers

Another great article for Sec B:

The 7 Deadly Question Topics for Sec B:

YOU MUST BE FAMILIAR WITH:

1. The issues raised by media ownership in contemporary media practice - Megan/Elisha

2. The importance of cross media convergence and synergy in production, distribution and marketing - Alyce/Sohpie

3. The technologies that have been introduced in recent years at the levels of production, distribution, marketing and exchange - Letisha/Stella

4. The significance of proliferation in hardware and content for institutions and audiences - Cherice

5. The importance of technological convergence for institutions and audiences - Charlotte

6. The issues raised in the targeting of national and local audiences (British) by international or global institutions - Lois/Daisy

7. The ways in which your own experiences of media consumption illustrate wider patterns and trends of audience behaviour.

e-book Activity:

This must be completed by Tuesday.

Horror Genre - Filmmaking

Here's an interesting article from the Guardian a couple of days ago:

It's all about how they made Eel Marsh House in the Woman In Black - v cleverly done and always a good idea to be researching other genres other than the one you've chosen for your film construction.

Thank you

Here's the finished prezi for that Teaching & Learning presentation I did today:

Thanks again (to you all for shushing) for your help - much appreciated!

T&L Comm - Questioning on Prezi

Access the e-book!

Pages 122 - 158

Institutions and Audiences introduction and Film chapter.

Sec B Definitions

To succeed in Section B of the exam you need to develop a couple of case studies on some particular production companies.

These institutions must be located in the contemporary film industries and they must produce and/or distribute films to the UK. The focus will be on how this institution relates to:

PRODUCTION: making films

DISTRIBUTION: promoting films and getting them into cinemas and out on to DVD as well as any spin offs/related media products.

CONSUMPTION: people paying at the cinema, renting or buying DVDs and downloading and purchasing related products.

Sec B - Half Term Task

This is a straightforward piece of content analysis that can lead to interesting data for your exam.

Collect cinema listings for five multi-screen UK cinemas in a specific region. This can easily be done via the internet - simply select a big city and go from there.

1. Over one weekend, how many separate screenings are there?

2. How many films in total are being exhibited?

3. How many films are being screened several times at the same cinema?

4. Of these, how many are being screened at more than one cinema at the same time?

5. Express the number of unique screenings as a percentage of the total screenings.

6. Express the total number of films in relation to the total number of screenings.

7. What conclusions can you draw about film distribution in the UK?

Show all your findings on your blog in a Sec B post. Be creative - think prezi, pie charts, graphs, screen shots of your chosen cinema, url links to their website etc.

How to attach a URL to an image in your blog..

If you don't already know how to attach a URL to an image (like I've been doing with the little screen shots of the articles and then when you click on the pic, it takes you to the full article), here's how:

Or if anyone knows a more user-friendly way, let us know!

Sec B - Great Articles

A couple more great articles for you to use for your research/case studies of Sec B of the exam:

Sec B - Super Article

ANOTHER great article from today's Guardian about what'll come up in Sec B of the exam - obviously from the pic, it's all about how Netflix is revolutionising how most Americans watch/access their films - brilliant!: (click on the image for the full article)

Read the article/essay very carefully - it is exACTly the right style of writing you'll require for sec b...

Where Are All Your Vlogs???

Where are they?

I've just looked at every one of your blogs and commented on them all, and it struck me that NOT ONE OF YOU has produced a vlog since the one that I did for you in groups in a lesson before Christmas..

Shame on you all.

Get a vlog on there before Tuesday please, Thur at the latest.

For Elisha..

Absolutely love this series - thought the first was brilliant, but after the first ep of season two, this promises to be even better! AND is British TV drama!! Excellent!

Particularly love the camera technique used at 0:19 - cash prize to any group that can reproduce that..

Told You The iTV's Coming...!

It's like The Guardian was ear-wigging in on our lesson on Thursday:

Click on the image above for the full article and then BLOG ABOUT THIS VERY SAME THING ON YOUR BLOG!! Is a brilliant piece of writing about the VERY thing we were discussing on Thur - all about tech convergence and distribution of films etc..

See how easy it should be for you, as a cutting-edge Media student, to be 'on' this topic - researching and preparing for your sec B of the exam??!!