Ill Manors Film Review

Please complete for the next lesson after you've watched the film:

1. Use the above to write a plan for a film review of ''Ill Manors". Post the notes on your blog.

2. After planning, write a review of the film of at least 750 words (posted on your blog).

You should refer to the best film review sites to help you...

IMDB

Rotten Tomatoes

Metacritic

...but DO NOT plagiarise anything. Your review MUST be entirely in your own words.

12D: MEST2 Progress report

Individually, you need to create a new blogpost with the title ‘MEST2 Progress Report – 20 January’. 

Use the following subheadings to write a detailed progress report on how your production work is going:

• Work completed since 6 January
• Any incomplete pre-production tasks
• Next steps/Action plan
• Date filming will be complete
• Requirements for photoshoot next week

Homework for next week:

Bring in costume/make-up and props for photoshoot next Wednesday in class.

Important: remember you CANNOT film with any kind of weapon (or anything that resembles a weapon) in school or any public place.

The British film industry: institutional context

To complete our introduction to the British film industry, we need a little more institutional background.

We will be using another Media Factsheet to finish our background research on this exam topic. Complete the following tasks on your blog:

Important note! Our Media Factsheet archive is now on the M: drive Media Shared:

M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets. 


1) Find Media Factsheet #100 on the British film industry. Save it to USB or email it to yourself so you have access to the Factsheet for homework.

2) Read the whole of Factsheet #100 British film industry

3) What is the 'cultural test' to see if a film counts as British?

4) Complete the task on the Factsheet, researching the films listed and finding out what they score on the cultural test: Sweeney, Attack The Block, The King's Speech, We Need To Talk About Kevin and Skyfall.

5) What is the main problem for the British film industry?

6) What are three of the strengths of the British film industry?

7) What are the two options for the future of the British film industry?

8) In your opinion, which of these two options would best safeguard the future of the British film industry?

You have a week to complete these tasks for homework as next week's lessons will be used to watch our case study film Ill Manors. Due: next Friday.

Arthouse screening cancelled

Apologies, due to staff absence we are unable to run this afternoon's film screening. This will be rescheduled for next week.

MEST2 Print brief

Your MEST2 Print brief is as important as the video work you are currently filming. It is crucial that you research, plan and design print work that could comfortably holds its own alongside professional examples. Our AQA MEST2 brief is here, with the key task as follows:

Print
All entrants have been asked to create pages for a promotional booklet which will demonstrate the variety of local film-making talent and provide information on the shortlisted entries. Each entrant is therefore asked to create their own pages for the booklet. You should create two to three A4 pages. You are encouraged to be creative in your approach and try to make your pages distinctive and visually appealing. You should include information about you, your production team and the film itself.


What do you need to produce?
1) A5 Little Picturehouse programme front cover featuring YOUR film
2) A5 Double-page spread contents page
3) A5 Double-page spread feature on YOUR film

Now complete the following tasks to plan and prepare your print work:

Research

1) Key conventions. Look over the magazine cover key conventions notes sheet and ensure you can confidently identify the key aspects that are found on a magazine cover.

2) Write an analysis of this BFI Film Festival programme front cover. How many of the 12 key conventions of magazine covers can you see? In what way does this print product differ from a traditional magazine cover? How have the designers made this programme visually interesting?

3) Find at least 5 arts centre or cinema programmes/brochures aimed at a similar target audience to your project (arthouse cinema). For each one, pick out one design idea that you could use in your own print work.

4) Find at least 5 contents pages from arts programmes or magazines. How are contents pages designed? How do they use a combination of text and images to create an effective design?

Planning and sketching

1) Create a spider diagram or bullet point list of all the things your target audience might be interested in. How can you use this information to create a main feature about your film that will appeal to your target audience?

2) Produce an A5 sketch of your front cover including the key conventions and design tricks you have studied in existing programmes and then planned in planning task 1 above.

3) Produce an A4 sketch of your double-page spread contents page. In terms of the text for your contents page, you will need to find out the names of the films of other groups in your class. The other films in the class will make up the rest of your contents page.

4) Create a spider diagram or bullet point list of ideas for your double-page spread feature. Write a list of potential headlines and sub-headings for the article you choose to go with.

4) Produce an A4 landscape sketch of your double page spread design now you have chosen the subject matter.

Photoshoot

1) Which of your main characters will appear on the front cover of your programme?

2) What image or images do you need for the contents page?

3) What image or images will you use for the double-page spread?

4) Write a shot list for the photoshoot. Make sure you plan a variety of camera shots you will look to capture - medium shots, close-ups etc.

5) What costume, props or make-up will you require for the photoshoot?

6) How will you make sure you have everything prepared for the photoshoot on Wednesday 20 January?

Use the lesson to complete these planning tasks but you'll need to finish for homework - due Wednesday 20 January.



Homework
In Microsoft Word, write the text for your double page spread feature. Plan it out carefully then write a headline, sub-heading and at least 500 words for the main article.

Due: Thursday 21 January/Friday 22 January

MEST1 Section B: The British film industry

We will be focusing on the British film industry for Section B of your MEST1 exam.

In your lesson, you will have been taken through the rich history of British film from the Second World War to the 2000s. Your blog task is as follows:

1) Use our brilliant Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets)to find Media Factsheet #132 on British Film. 

2) Read the whole of Factsheet #132 British Film

3) Write a one-sentence definition of what makes a film British.

4) What is the difference between a Hollywood production context and production context of a British film?

5) When did the James Bond franchise start?

6) In terms of film censorship and graphic content, what began to change in British film in the 1970s and 1980s?

7) What groups are often represented in British film? Give examples of films these groups feature in.

8) What does the Factsheet suggest might be the audience appeal of British film?

Complete for homework anything you don't finish in the lesson - due next Friday.

January assessment: learner response

Your learner response for the January assessment will be to type up your feedback and then re-write your weakest question on the blog. 

If you have two questions on the same lower mark, choose the one you feel is your weaker area. Use all the following links and documents to help you - the objective here is to use all possible resources to write as close to a 12-mark answer as you possibly can.

The Sussex Safer Roads Embrace Life clip is available here:




The question paper you took on is available here.

The mark scheme - with suggested content for each answer - is available here.

The Examiners' report - with detailed analysis of where students did well and badly in the real exam - is available here.

If you don't finish this in the lesson make sure it is completed for homework - due Monday.