Year 12 - set tasks 21/10

Today I'd like you to begin preparing for your first piece of AS coursework analysis.  I have copied and pasted a couple of links below to help.

You need to have made a note of relevant key terms using the following glossary as well as supplementing it with your own research (for example antagonist and protagonist are not on this list);

 http://brianair.wordpress.com/film-theory/glossary-of-media-terminology/

 

 

Read through the following two pages on Key Concepts and what you need to think about when analysing;

 

http://mediaalevel.edublogs.org/the-key-concepts/

http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevkeyconcepts/alevelkeycon.php

 

 

Finally, look at the AS blogs from last year's class as well as those included on Reepham's blog as they are generally quite good.

 

http://reephamcollegemedia.blogspot.co.uk/

http://asmediajack.blogspot.com/

http://chanrahan6nr4media.blogspot.com/

http://mannisonmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

http://ellagarnermedia1.blogspot.co.uk/

 

On Thursday I expect you to bring either a copy of the opening two minutes to watch and analyse OR screenshots that you intend to talk about. I aim to mark this analysis over half term week.

 

 

 

 

 

 





Year 12 - set tasks 15/10

Hi guys,

I'm not with you today although you have Miss Ella as tech support should you need. I have put the clips from Monday's lesson on the O drive and I'd like you to summarise your notes from the last two lessons and support with screenshots from the clips.

You have a clip of Horatio's one liners from CSI and an example of how they are funny when taken out of the CSI franchise. As I thought, there is a clip from The Usual Suspects, look at how enigma is created - also if you haven't ever seen the whole film you really should, it is extremely clever. I've given you a Lego Star Wars, which will help you identify Propp's character types.

Once you've done that you can look through the rest of the powerpoint and, using your favourite film or story, try to create a narrative flowchart using Tordorov's model.

Media Studies intro to Narrative [autosaved] from alevelmedia

Year 13 - Course Taster

I've had this email forwarded on to me and thought it may be of interest to some of you;

From: Karen Hinton [k.hinton@UCS.AC.UK]
Sent: 09 October 2014 11:21
Subject: New Film Degrees at UCS

Dear colleague

I am writing to let you know that the Film department at University Campus Suffolk (UCS) is now offering two degrees in this area: BA (Hons) Digital Film Production and BA (Hons) Screenwriting and Film Studies.*

The Film degree at UCS has had a number of successes over the years, with the majority of our graduates gaining employment on graduation and many finding work within the industry in production and post-production. These roles (on graduation) include:

- Trainee Editor (now Assistant Editor) - Warner Bros.

- Commissioning Team Assistant - ITV Studios

- Senior Editor - Lightly Frozen Productions

- TV Audience Manager - Applause Store Productions Ltd

- Editorial Trainee (now Assistant Editor) - Fox Searchlight Pictures

- Script Supervisor - Abduct Films Ltd

- Junior Video Editor - iSiteTV

The Film department is running taster sessions on Saturday 1 November 2014, which your students may be interested in attending. This event will run subject to student bookings, so if you think this would be of interest please encourage your students to book a place by emailing film@ucs.ac.uk.

We are also able to offer taster sessions during October to December 2014 in film analysis, screenwriting, and digital film production. If you’d like to bring your students to UCS or for us to visit your school to provide a taster session please email us on film@ucs.ac.uk .

For more information on the degrees please see our website: www.ucs.ac.uk/film and www.ucs.ac.uk/screenwritingandfilmstudies.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,

Alex

Alexandra Leaney
Course Leader
BA (Hons) Film

School of Arts & Humanities
University Campus Suffolk
Waterfront Building
Neptune Quay
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP4 1QJ

Tel: 01473 338826
Email: alexandra.leaney@ucs.ac.uk

*BA (Hons) Digital Film Production is the new title for the BA (Hons) Film degree, and BA (Hons) Screenwriting and Film Studies commences in September 2015.

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G321 Mark Scheme - AS

Seeing as you are now thinking about your preliminary task for this piece of coursework I thought it would be a good idea to give you a heads up as to the marking criteria.

This will give you an idea of what I'm looking for when I'm marking your work.

G321 Marking Criteria from snortontaylor

Year 12 - This Week's Blogs

Just a reminder of the tasks I'd like you to have uploaded to your blogs by Friday.

If you have trouble uploading any of it you may hand it in on a pen drive instead.

Year 13 - Continuing Music Videos

Last year you started thinking about music videos and the music industry for your A2 coursework.  You should have looked at both Kylie and Avril to get an idea of how an artist represents themselves through their videos. We also covered Goodwin's theory and you have written a blog posts exploring examples linked to the theory. By now you should have completed all the initial tasks from last year and blogged them.

Over the last two weeks we have focused more closely on aspects of the music industry for example, audience, institution and representation. I expect to see blog posts covering these aspects in general as well as developing the concepts in relation to your own planning.

We have now reached a point where you are ready to complete your analysis tasks and then research, plan and prepare your music videos. Remember to use the G324 booklet and the epic task list with deadline reminders (posted below) to keep you on track.

Good luck!

Music video tasks from Charlotte Cowles
 

A2 media studies ocr g324 from SJKerr
 

Music industry ownership from Sarah mediafilm

Introduction to AS Media

The first two weeks of the year 12 Media course has, so far, been a bit of a whistle-stop tour through shot types, editing techniques and almost everything you need to know to set up and film a sequence of your own.

A lot of this has been revision for some of you and, for the rest, nothing you haven't already experienced through your consumption of moving image. 

The whole purpose of this is to get you thinking about not only how the camera is used, but how you might use it in your own productions. You will be completing a preliminary film task as early as next week which will demonstrate your understanding of camera movement and editing techniques.

To begin with I asked you all to complete a questionnaire and write a media profile for yourselves using your answers. I also requested a visual representation of the same information. I haven't had a chance to write my own media profile but I have done an example of the collage;

Media collage from Charlotte Cowles

The following PowerPoints are the ones we looked at in the lessons;

1 film language cinematography space from Charlotte Cowles

2 film language framing from Charlotte Cowles

3 film language camera position from Charlotte Cowles

4 film language camera movement from Charlotte Cowles

5 film language continuity editing from Charlotte Cowles

I would like you to have uploaded all work so far to your blogs by the end of next week. That includes the tasks I set for this week and your photography task. The photography task includes the shots you took and your evaluations as well as your comments and feedback on three of someone else's shots as well as the list of shot types and examples. You can upload PowerPoints to Slideshare and embed them to get them on your blog.