PRACTICE ESSAY FOR YOUR G322 EXAM

Today you work on Section B of your summer exam in class. Below are all recent exams and the link to the OCR page where you can find the related Examiner's Report.

You answer on the Film Industry, using the film case studies from the blog post below this one that we did last term and other sources of information such as the Film Distributors' website, the BFI site and the other links on that blogpost.

TODAY you write an essay to answer the June 2009 exam: Discuss the ways in which media products (answer on the Film Industry) are produced and distributed to audiences. Please complete for prep and hand in on paper next lesson.

For OCR Examiners Reports CLICK HERE

June 2009

June 2009

Jan 2010

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Jan 2011

June 2011

2012 G322: INSTITUTIONS AND AUDIENCES (FILM)

Today we work on our summer exam question. The exam in on May 15th.

1. What characterizes British films and what do global, international and national audiences want to see?
   
2. Working Title: its success story. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011) View TTSS trailer here and Working Title website here
3. The InBetweeners (Ben Palmer, 2011) TV spinoff. How the film beat records as most successful British comedy article here on breaking box office records
4. Hollywood and The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012) Home page for The Hunger Games website : how are audiences engaged? Best opening weekend box office for non-sequel taking $155 million (=£98 m): read here. Use Box Office Guru to compare audiences sizes click here for figures and projections and how Lionsgate involved fans all along the way with carefully scheduled marketing. Production budget relatively low ($75 million plus $45 for domestic marketing= under £76 m). Movie tie-in book here. Distopian game play Wikipedia article here
5. Avatar and CGI trends Read this PDF on Avatar's use of digital technology here
6.  Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (Lasse Hallström, 2012) a mid budget with all the hallmarks of a typical British film: literary adaptation, romcom, lovable eccentics, dry self-mocking humour, spectacular Scottish and Middle Eastern scenery, pro-British 'foreigner Johnnies', firm film favourites (Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scot Thomas)
7. Shifty (Eran Creevy, 2008) SlideShare here and interview with Eran Creevy here on how they came out of nowhere to win acclaim
8. Tortoise In Love (Guy Browning, 2011) How TIL (very low budget film) built its audience using social media TIL on FaceBook
9. The FDA 2012 annual report on the British film industry; the winners and losers
10. Newspaper reports and trends: serials, sequels, superheroes, CGI

YOUR EVALUATION

Continue working on your Evaluation questions which must be completed this term.

If you are satisfied that they are complete, turn your attention to the exam question on TV drama. Using our class blog, open the page  G322 TELEVISION DRAMA and get to work!

EVALUATION q. 2 SOCIAL GROUPS

Today we tackle Evaluation q. 2  How does your media product represent particular social groups 
Use Pinterest as a starting point

EVALUATION Q. 3 DISTRIBUTION and 5 AUDIENCE

Remember to complete Evaluation q. 3 DISTRIBUTION and 5 AUDIENCES by Monday 12 March.
Look on the separate pages at the top of this class blog for guidance.
For q.3 Distribution, use Prezi: images, hyperlinks, video, YouTube, lots of separate pages
For q.5 Audience,  use SlideShare: lots of images including your own website design, Twitter, FaceBook