12BMS Feedback

See below for the different feedback for your initial ideas- you can put the relevant ones on your blog and then you will need to discuss what you have learned as you have seen following the criteria above. There should be an appropriate level of detail and you need to consider presentation...

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Target Audience & Production Company Ident

After having discussed possible ideas and come up with a pitch, your next focus should be on thinking about your target audience and designing a production company ident (logo) for your film. These will be discussed together as the production company ident will be largely dependent on what you decide...

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Character Development

It will be necessary and beneficial for you to work out a slightly more 'fleshed-out' idea of your film- this will allow for some important character development and issues around tone (so, is your proposed horror film going to feature dozens of characters being killed or just one person being psychologically tortured?) The character development aspect should focus on your main characters with a...

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Wallander Clip!

I know some of you have been trying to get screen grabs from Wallander but haven't been able to access the clip. Please follow instructions below to access it from FROG. FROG- Second Dot- Departmental Sites-Shared Area- Media- Year 12 Media- Foundation Portfolio- Opening Sequences- Wallander.mp4 You can then download this file and get your screen grabs from the...

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25 Word Pitch

While a good idea can quite easily be ruined by poor execution, a poor idea is much more difficult to save through good production skills. Students often come up with overly-complicated narratives that they then struggle to contain in a brief teaser, or choose ideas that do not really 'work' in terms of allowing for interesting visual ideas. The most important thing is to keep your ideas simple...

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Genre Influences

Having seen the variations of opening sequences as a class, it is crucial that you find additional sources of influences that are more interesting/ personalised for you. At this stage, you are looking to focus on: - influences in terms of genre Again, these should be shown on your blog with visual elements included (stills from the opening of the film) focusing on specific detail of the conventions...

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Ideas

Below is a Prezi illustrating the different stages and things to consider when coming up with an idea...

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Detailed Analyses

For 12A Media: you can now go to the AS Media Opening Sequence site on FROG to access Wallander and Memento to get screengrabs! ...

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Mood Board

For your opening sequence, the precise storyline is not assessed. However, a poor storyline often will make it a struggle for you to obtain the higher marks in your production. While we will focus on more specific aspects of storyline next week, one way to assist the process of coming up with...

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Brief

While this was given to you by Miss Mitchell, see below for the brief: Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes....

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