Wednesday 23 October 2013

Previous Students' examples of Film Openings

A worthwhile piece of research and one that you can textually analyse or at least comment on the strengths etc..of, is to look at previous students' examples of film openings. Searching on YouTube or Vimeo with any of the criteria 'OCR G321 Media Studies Foundation Film' should bring up hundreds of examples. Try and narrow your research to thrillers and beware of people claiming they got 'top marks' or 'Level 4' - it may be wishful thinking.

Check out our current Y13s work from last year:

Tupton Hall Media
The following students videos all got Level 4 marks (see criteria below):
Amy, Emma, Misha, Molly
Dom. Dom and Harry
Callum, Georgia, Gem and Olly
Plus...Kennedy, Amy, Tyler etc were right at the top of Level 3

The following thrillers also got Level 4 marks - the first one got 59/60

The Edge

John Hunter

The Hoods

The Pursuit

This one isn't a thriller but does show an interesting and inventive use of titles.
Roses are Red

Remember this is
 
Level 4 48–60 marks
 
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:


-holding a shot steady, where appropriate;

-framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;

-using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;

-shooting material appropriate to the task set;

-selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;

-editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;

-using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set;

-using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;

-using titles appropriately
 

Monday 14 October 2013

Confusion with blogger - PLEASE READ!

There has been some confusion with blogger and how your site links to the main blog hub.
Hopefully this clarifiies it but if not please see me ASAP.

1. You should have set up your OWN blog site. You can do this by clicking 'create new blog' . Put your name, AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio and your candidate number (if you know it). Do not post directly to our blog hub, this acts just as a gateway for us and the examiner to find their way to your blog site. Also this is where Mr Hudson and myself will be posting advice ang guidance and you can also look at each others' blog sites.

2. You need to make sure your blog site is not a google + account otherwise the link on our hub page won't take us or the examiner directly to your blog - it will take them to your google + page which pulls together all of your googly ways. You can change this back by clicking on the link at the bottom of this...
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1375600?hl=en