CHECKLIST FOR JANUARY / EARLY FEBRUARY - BY HALF TERM!

Look how far you have come! I am proud of you! 

But here is your Survival Guide for this half term:

• 2 REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL GROUPS: research done on blog, photos added to Piktochart of your own actors, and then Piktochart posted on Evaluation question 2.
• 6 NEW TECHNOLOGIES: concise yet precise information on which new technologies you used + how + hyperlinks to your finished work so far. All ready to make into the final presentation in NewHive for Evaluation question 6.
  4 TARGET AUDIENCE: audience profile, image + text, posted in Evaluation question 4
• 5 ATTRACTING & ADDRESSING YOUR AUDIENCE : Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, website design, poster design (just started, not finished!)
• PRELIMINARY EXERCISE uploaded and clearly titled post
• TREATMENT
• STORYBOARD
• SHOT LIST
• CALL SHEETS (ongoing)
• FILMING (ongoing)
• EDITING (ongoing)
• FEEDBACK (ongoing) Get down any feedback on your blog. This will be useful for Evaluation question 7. Upload / show bits of your film and ask for comments. Be brave!
• PRODUCTION COMPANY IDENT 
• TWITTER Update your tweets to demonstrate your interest.
• HAVE YOU USED NEW TECHNOLOGIES? Like Pinterest, Visme, Emaze, Animoto, Picmonkey, Snapchat, Facetime, Google Docs, Pinterest, Calameo?
  
  
  

SNOW

In my absence today, please continue working on your film production, such as posting updates on your blog, discussing the next filming with your group or updating evaluation question material.

Demi: please return the camera card to my drawer, in an A4 plastic envelope, clearly marked.

EXAM DATES

AS Art and Photography Thursday 7th & Friday 8th May all day.  This includes 4 A2 students who study both art and photography. The following pupils will be sitting this exam:

Demi Collins
Harvey Gillett
Frederick Howe
Tamara Rudd
Marcus Couling

BFI STUDY DAY: WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY

Year 12: ‘UK Cinema: Audiences and Institutions Study Day’ at the British Film Institute on Wednesday 11 February 2015

The media department has arranged a trip to The BFI South Bank to attend a study day in support of their OCR GSE examination Key Concepts: Audiences and Institutions. It will be delivered by Matthew Hall, OCR media studies specialist and author. The trip will be led by Mrs Mann and Mrs Bradley.

UK film has had remarkable critical and commercial success in recent years with films as diverse as 12 Years a Slave and Skyfall. Our great directors are frequently courted by Hollywood, and Hollywood regularly visits these shores to make films like Gravity and the new Star Wars films. Why do audiences, both at home and abroad, enjoy British films? How do UK filmmakers appeal to these audiences? The study day will examine these issues and relate it to case studies of two independent film companies – Vertigo and Warp Films. These two companies are producing and distributing films that are commercially successful but which also retain a uniquely British flavour - and a willingness to tackle themes and content that Hollywood usually avoids. In the afternoon there will be a film screening and a Q&A with the film-makers giving students and teachers a chance to ask questions about the state of UK cinema and how it will develop in the future.

Travel arrangements

Year 12 students will meet at Waterloo under the clock at 9.30 a.m. The group will walk between Waterloo and BFI Southbank. Students returning to Claygate will catch a train from Waterloo at 16.03, reaching Claygate at 16.34. Students who prefer to return direct to their home station will be accompanied at Waterloo until they have all located their relevant trains.

Students should bring a packed lunch that we will eat under cover at The National Theatre.

EVALUATION Q: SOCIAL GROUPS

Check that you have addressed the issue of how your audience engages with the characters that you create. Look below at my wording as an example. I refer to stereotypes and link my film to others that my target audience will be familiar with. Use expressions like 'my audience will be familiar with...', 'my audience will recognise...' 'I use the genre stereotype of...'
ADD IN STILL PHOTOS OF YOUR OWN CHARACTERS IN COSTUME and caption them.

TECHNICAL ISSUES: CANON 600D

Before you start filming, take the time to CHECK the recording size. You don't want fuzz and black bars down the sides!
Open the PDF for the Canon 600D here. 
If you find black bars down each side of the frame, adjust size to 1920 x 1080.

SOCIAL NETWORKING STATISTICS