12C2 P1 Mon 15th December Cover Work Miss Holliday

LO: To develop a film pitch.

Organise yourselves into the groups that you want to work in for your practical productions (remember that the maximum number allowed by the exam board in a group is four).

Look at the brief you have been issued with for your practical production coursework. Your task is to prepare a film pitch (where you would pitch [try to sell] your idea to a film studio/ production company to get the budget you require of £5m).

Prepare a presentation can be on powerpoint, video, multimedia (moviemaker) etc. to include the following for your pitch:

• Overview of the idea (Film Treatment) explaining the genre of your film, a synopsis of the narrative (referring to narrative theory), details of setting, characters etc (use Propp's character terminology).
• Which production company(ies) would you be pitching to? Detail them and explain why they would be relevant for the genre of film you are aiming to produce.
• Explore fully how your film would appeal to more than the mainstream 16-25 youth market.
• Address what content is likely to be in this film that would mean the trailer could only be shown in cinemas showing films that have been classified as 15 or 18.

Bear in mind that in order to make a meaningful trailer (where you condense the narrative using a montage of shots) you must understand the full narrative structure of your film.

In Wednesday's lesson you will pitch your ideas to the 'film board' to see if they consider your idea suitable for funding. You must all play a part in the pitch process!

Remember from here on in this is all about being CREATIVE, let's see the creativity start flowing now and not just have people reading from the whiteboard!

To get an idea of how NOT to pitch a film please see the following Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn attempt!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w1KMg6bLDlw

12D1 P1& 2 Miss Holliday Cover Work Friday 5th Dec

(12C2 P1 Miss Holliday Cover Work Thursday 4th Dec)

Analyse the trailer of the film ‘300’:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wDiUG52ZyHQ
Using all of your knowledge of media texts and their construction write an analysis of the trailer using media language applying MIGRAIN and relevant theory. Consider in particular how narrative and genre are communicated to the audience particularly through lighting and sound.
Analysis to be typed up and should be a minimum of 750 words (maximum 1,000)

12C2 Cover Work Thurs 27th Nov P1 Miss Holliday

Institution Case Study
Investigate a British independent film institution. Carry out a case studyinto its workings, using at least three different internet sources. (Include the urls in your posting). Find out:

• who owns it...people and other organisations involved
• a history of the institution...how has it developed or changed
• the texts it produces...give lots of examples
• institutional values...what is its remit
• information about its finances & income...provide actual data
• recent developments...how is it responding to the 'new media' age
  

Try to make this as detailed as possible, include images & logos etc. that are relevant, and make sure it has been written in your own words and not cut and pasted from other sources.

All work to be completed by Monday 01/12/08

13C1 Cover for Miss Holliday Fri 21st Nov P 5&6

Med 5 Independent Study Presentations (peer reviews)
Students to present their Med 5 work. Students to peer assess presentations and write a www and ebi comment for each focusing on relevance and range of research gathered/applied. Students should each be covering where they are currently at, what else they still need to do and what problems they are currently facing with their study. Homework: each student to post up their www/ebi comments onto their peers' blogs and of course to develop their study in line with feedback.

12D1 Cover Work Miss Holliday Friday 21st Nov P1 & 2

Film Poster Analysis

Study the images here and note how they have been analysed (images are also in shared documents on VLE if these are difficult to read).

Find 2 film posters of your own for British films produced in the last 5 years on a budget of less than £5m. Post the images to your blog and annotate (use headings and write up notes under each heading following the structure above using media language and key concepts). Once you have annotated both please analyse any differences between the two account for why these differences may have occured through difference in genre conventions, representation, target audience etc).

PLEASE NOTE: This analysis should be in the form of extended prose (NOT bullet points!). Students to stay in DF10 throughout the lesson to complete this work. Please all make sure you sign a register and give to the English office.

Institution Case Study

Choose a media institution that is responsible for producing one of the British trailers you've analysed so far.

Carry out a case study (#1) into its workings, using at least three different internet sources. (Include the urls in your posting). Find out...

• who owns it...people and other organisations involved
• a history of the institution...how has it developed or changed
• the texts it produces...give lots of examples
• institutional values...what is its remit
• information about its finances & income...provide actual data
• recent developments...how is it responding to the 'new media' age

Try to make this as detailed as possible, include images & logos etc. that are relevant, and make sure it has been written in your own words and not cut and pasted from other sources.

Then, carry out another case study (#2), this time into a different institution: "A British independent Film and Television production company" (i.e. not the BBC or anything to do with Hollywood, as it states in the brief). The company you looked at in case study #1 one may also have fulfilled this criteria, if so choose another one. The Wikipedia page on British Cinema is a good starting place.

This - along with the peer assessment work from yesterday - all needs to be completed for homework by Monday's lesson 19.11.08.

12C1 COVER Wed 12.11.08 p6

Stay in the classroom throughout the period...do not leave!

Task - Peer Assessment of Trailer Analyses

Select three trailer analyses that you all did for homework and that are up on your blogs (the most recent ones, in essay format on the Year 12 productions).  

Read them carefully and then carry out an evaluation of each one, just like we did in Monday's lesson for Kiran's. You need to cover at least three www and one ebi. These need to be posted onto their blogs in the comments section, after their analysis.  

Then choose one paragraph for each and re-write it (three paragraphs in total), improving on it by...

• adding more detail, 
  
• making the spelling/punctuation more accurate, 
  
• writing more clearly, 
  
• using more media terminology, 
  
• including other missing key concepts or aspects of media language. 
  

These re-written paragraphs need to go on your own blogs.  Include a link to the original blog (and say whose it is) so we can compare fully the two versions but also cut and paste the original paragraph after yours in your blog posting so we can be sure you have made some aactual improvements.

Anything not completed in the lesson needs to be done for homework by tomorrow, Thursday 13.11.08, p1.