KATE WINSLETT WINS A GOLDEN GLOBE

Winning the category of BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION for her role in “Mildred Pierce” (HBO), actress Kate Winslet poses backstage in the press room with her Golden Globe Award at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

CELTEX and ADOBE STORY

Use software like Celtex or Adobe Story to plan your camera angle, shot types and camera movements. Explain in writing or in a voiceover what is going on.

MY CALL SHEET

Each group will produce a call sheet for each shoot as in this example:

• Title of page: AS Media Studies Call Sheet for [name of your film]
• Track
• Length
• Shoot date
• Location
• IMAGE: FROM GOOGLE MAPS
• Crew: [name of person, their phone number, their email]
• Crew: [name of person, their phone number, their email]
• Crew: [name of person, their phone number, their email] etc..
• Camera equipment (this heading then lists camera stuff)
• Lighting equipment (this heading then lists lighting stuff)
• Props (this heading then lists all props)
• Wardrobe [name of character]
• Wardrobe [name of character] etc

RECEPTION THEORY

Today we discussed how audiences receive texts: preferred reading, negociated reading and oppositional reading. We related this framework to two areas of representation: sexuality and race.

We used several case studies:

• My Beautiful Laundrette (dir. Stephen Frears 1985): an ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat.
• Little Britain (BBC with David Walliams and Mat Lucas): exaggerated and stereotypical representations for comic effect. Audiences are expected to share the comic values.
• Billy Elliot (dir.Stephen Daldry 2002): representations of unconventional hetereosexuality with Billy choosing ballet not boxing as his aggressively masculine father and brother prefer; representation of cross-dressing young male who is treated sympathetically but keeps his desires secret
• Bend It Like Beckham (dir,Gurinder Chadha 2002): representations of conventional feminity in the character of Jess within the traditionally masculine sphere of football; the comic treatment of lesbian issues within the relationship between Jess and , which evades discussion of serious isues such as gay relationships; and the homosexuality of Jess's friend, which is side-stepped altogether.
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (dir.Newell 1994): Exaggerated if sympathetic representation of gay male ending in death; low profile gay, even rather secret.
• We discussed historical attitudes to gender roles, starting with what you knew about female authors :Jane Austen and female social expectations ('It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in want of a wife'; George Elliot, the Bronte sisters, who had to adopt masculine pseudonyms); 'the love that dare not speak its name' and the trial of Oscar Wilde.

We talked about Roland Barthes The Death Of The Author.

NEW TECHNOLOGIES and ONLINE MATERIALS

Today we reviewed four valuable online resources:

C4LPT
The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT), a resource site for the use of new technologies for working and learning.CLPT's homepage here


MediaEdu and FilmEdu We subscribe to these two online sites which we visit briefly today, making a note of our login details and password. MediaEdu homepage here.Thriller film makers will find Stephen Hill's PDF useful whilst students making magazines are offered excellent resources too. Stephen Hill on the thriller genre here
The Music Press: history

OCR Media Conference weebly This blog helps us to see examiners' guidance and examples of good practice.OCR Media Conference 2011weebly here

BFI Screenonline The vast BFI online resource provides detailed information on moving image, for example, on British film and television, as well as specific directors. 

OCR Media Studies exam board resource
OCR Media Studies discussion forums

PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

Today students doing the thriller brief plan, film, capture and edit their preliminary task.

Continuity task: filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180% rule.

HOW TO WRITE A TREATMENT

A treatment is a description in clear English in the present tense setting out what your product / film / video has in it, starting at the beginning in the case of a video which has a linear narrative.

Look at http://www.georgeking-assoc.com/education/vid101c_summer07/how-to-treatment.html

or http://www.creando.ca/about_us/treatment.php

Other sites include http://www.mvwire.com/2002/06/13/music-video-treatment-basics/

Here is a sample video treatment: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_Making_Manual/Treatments#Music_Video_Treatment