YOUR BLOGS

Checklist for your blogs:
Search engine, pages for evaluations 1-7 at the top; pages for OCR, blog tools and past papers; blog lists at the right.

In class today we cover how to change the blog post date and how to add images and hyperlinks. Trouble placing pages? Tackle this through Template Designer drag and drop.

RESEARCH: FILM OPENING OF NOWHERE BOY

In your end of year exam, Section A is the analysis of representation in television drama. An unseen clip will be screened four times.
You are expected to analyse and discuss the technical aspect of the language and conventions of moving image in the extract's representation of individuals, places, groups and events.

• camera shots, angles, movement, composition
• editing
• sound
• mise-en-scene

 You will be asked to discuss how these technical elements create specific representations of individuals, groups, events or places and help to articulate specific messages and values that have social significance. Particular areas of representation that may be chosen are:

•Gender

•Age

•Ethnicity

•Sexuality

•Class and status

•Physical ability/disability

We watch Nowhere Boy (directed by Sam Taylor Wood, 2009) and analyse the visual codes (camera angles, camera movement, shot types) and sound (dialogue and soundtrack).
We use technical codes (the language of moving image).

We note the exam mark scheme for a grade A response:

• use of terminology (8-10 marks)
• use of examples (16-20 marks)
• analysis, explanation, argument (16-20 marks)

We practise from the very start formulating responses that cover these three elements in the order given above. We note just how precise  and detailed our points must be: similar to PEE in your Englsh examination technique (point, evidence, explanation).

OCR GUIDES

PREP Learn the language of cinematography from OCR's presentations so that next lesson you can use media language to analyse representation in television drama and film. Go to the OCR media studies website  and study the three 'Guides to...'

DISTRIBUTION: LAUNCHING FILMS INFO

What distributors do: we watch the animation  On the FDA micro site www.launchingfilms.info

DISTRIBUTION: PRIDE

See the BBC news article HEREWe investigate how the film Pride is attracting and addressing audiences.
The film website

How are audiences involved in order to generate buzz prior to the film's release? For example:
A video soundbite from actor Andrew Scott urging audiences to book tickets 'as there is only one week left.'
'The real LGSM and stars of #PRIDE marched with a live band to Odeon Cinema, Camden on Tuesday 2nd September for the Premiere! Here are our highlights.'
What else?

DISTRIBUTION: WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY

On the Macs, create a folder with your name and a Word document entitled WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY
You have 15 minutes to research this new British film and make a note of your sources.

• Its genre? Source of your info?
• Target audience? Source?
• institutions spreading the word?
• what did you learn about it from the trailer?

PREP Write up your research. Keep it crisp. Use quotations and images. Give sources.

How does distribution work? We view this week's releases using www.launchingfilms.com from the Film Distributors Association. We watch the trailer for Pride
http://www.pridemovie.co.uk/trailer

HOLIDAY WORK

Your holiday work is what I have already asked you to write down in class, so no surprises. To remind you:
1. For Section A of your next exam unit, you need to write about the thriller film opening that you made this year. It's best to do this whilst it is still fresh in your mind. See what you have to do by opening this link to our A2 blog HERE the G325 page. Write about what skills you used to make your film opening under the 5 headings in blue below:

Question 1(a) requires you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of their production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio. The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development, and the question will require you to adapt this to one or two specific production practices. The list of practices to which questions will relate is as follows:
    Digital Technology  Creativity     Research and planning  Post-production 

    Using conventions from real media texts In the examination, questions will be posed using one or two of these categories.

 

2. For Section B, you should view some of the film and TV texts that we will study for the unit on Collective Identity. Here is the link to the relevant section in our A2 blog HERE.
Use YouTube and other means of film viewing to work through the TV programmes and films that you do not know. The aim is to get the gist of how people are represented.
The Millionairess (1960) 
The Indian Doctor (BBC1, 2012)
Goodness Gracious Me (1996-2000, BBC radio and TV comedy sketch) 
The Kumars at No.42 (BBC, 7 series, 2001-6)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985, from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi)
Anita And Me (Meera Syal, 2002) 
Ae Fond Kiss (Ken Loach, 2004)
Yasmin (dir. Kenneth Glenaan 2004),
Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2011)
East is East (Damien O’Donnell, 1999 screenplay Auyub Khan Dinh)
Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha),  
Anita And Me (Meera Syal, 2002)  
Diary Of A Badman (nearly 4 million views) in which a British Asian Muslim presents a comic video diary. 
Make Bradford British, the TV reality show that threw together a mix of Bradford people