What should be on your blogs already?

1. Essay on structuralism in Halloween, focussing on codes and conventions, and the effect on the audience
2. 4 x timelines on Todorov's narrative theory applied to horror trailers, with structuralist codes and conventions identified.
3. Essay on postmodernism, comparing 28 Days Later with Shaun of the Dead
4. A feminist reading of any horror movie using the terminology in Carol Clover's essay.
5. Your pitches - aim for 4 or 5 - with some evaluation of how effective they are.
6. A treatment of one of your pitches. It doesn't have to be the one that you will film at this point.
7. The timeline analysis of edit/transition types using key terminology
8. Your scanned storyboard
9. You audience research - your questionnaire/survey and the analysis of the results. How will your findings affect your production?
10. Your documentary and evaluation, which was your AS - A2 transition project (this should be the first thing on your blog but if it isn't, you need to explain what it is and why you did it.)

REMEMBER to use your blogs as a production journal. What else have you done? Did you advertise for actors? Research locations? Research props? Then post about it! What challenges did you meet, and how did you overcome them?

Good luck to those of you who still have nothing.

Well done to those of you who are up to date!

A2 Media Studies Class of 2014-2015

Sophie Angus
Sophie Ball
Shahnaaz Begum
Marnia Boyle
Christal Domingo
Zoe Freeman
Todd Green
Hifsa Hussain
Amy Kavanagh
Robyn Marriner
Shannon Martin
Wendy Nguyen
Aleksandra Rusic
Emma Small

Your Planning

 

Well done guys, you did some excellent planning work today and I feel like you're on your way now. I will be emailing you your progress marks this week, so check you emails and when I do send, fill in the 'student comment' section, explaining what you are going to do to improve, and post onto your blog ASAP. See you next week!

A2 Blog Example

A really good example of a blog... This will have got full marks for planning and research.

Remember to research, use your blog as a journal to chart your ongoing creative process. It's an online notebook/sketchbook where I can see your ideas and allocate marks accordingly!

Paralysis - Horror Film Trailer [A2 Media Coursework] - A Grade

Media Lesson

Here's your work. Find and embed on your own blogs at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57preRu9K2g&feature=youtu.be

Good examples of Todorovian Narrative Analysis

SawThe Descent Also, her whole blog is really good; definitely worth a look.

Unit G322

Blogs and Coursework by GRADE

This is a good B grade blog - 2 marks off an A.

AS Media Studies Blogs

Jazmin Headlam-Bispham
Chelsea Howsin
Jack Martin
Candece McAlister
Jessica Pereira

A2 2012-2013 Blogs

Rachel Gibson
Eleanor Ramsay

A2 Media Blogs - the Final Countdown!

This is an example of a good A2 media blog. Have a look, see if you can add any more to yours to ensure you're getting the best out of the blog experience.

AS sound terms

Glossary Of Sound Terms For Tv Drama

View more documents from raybloggs

This may also be useful to clear up anything you're unsure about

Glossary Sound And Music In Film

View more documents from Media Studies

Children in Horror Movies

A2 coursework blogs

Ivana Cicic
Georgia Ioannou
Jaslin Kenejah
Ramarna Knapp
Craig Maskell
Reasha MacLarty
Jake Montford
Orselina Pemaj
Kieron Savage
Navneet Sembhi
Asmaa Tanver
Lily Whitby

Case Studies

Here are Case Studies for your perusal.

A2 Contemporary Media Regulation

Hello!


As you may have read, the BBFC has rejected The Human Centipede II for straight to DVD release as it "poses a real, as opposed to a fanciful, risk that harm is likely to be caused to potential viewers." You can find further information on their site and here is the paperwork of this refused certification.

This is the first time a film has been rejected for an 18 certificate since Grotesque (2009) and previously Murder-Set-Pieces (2008)


The Metro carries this story, and Worst Previews has more detail.


Director of The Human Centipede and The Human Centipede II, Tom Six, responds to the banning (using some strong language) in this Total Film article.

Keep researching and revising!

AS Media studies - Really important links

Guys: RESEARCH is the key to success in Section B of your exam. Read/watch and take notes!

About Time Warner

About Vertigo Films

An Article aout how 3D films may boost cinema attendance

Film and Digital technology

Are 3D movies really the future?

Streaming 3D movies to your phone

Apps and movies

Monsters: the bedroom blockbuster that's the anti-Avatar

Monsters - Behind the scenes with Gareth Edwards

Gareth Edwards - How I made a monsters movie

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Behind the Magic part 1

...part 2

... and part 3


Details of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1's Marketing campaign

AS Homework - due Thursday 25th November

Find 3 music magazine contents pages - one from a magazine from the same genre as you will be doing.

Analyse these contents pages, considering layout, images etc. and especially considering how the target audience is addressed

Post on your blog by 25th November please!

If you don't have the image of the contents pages as a digital file to add to your blog, bring the harad copy to me (with your name on it) and we can scan it to add to your blog later

Have fun! 

Links to Reader Profiles; additional material; STUFF YOU MUST DO!

Examples of existing reader profiles (more are available online; go to the music magazine website and look for advertisers' information)
NME
Mixmag

Additional material you may find interesting
How to create a reader profile
The socio-economic scale

CREATE YOUR BLOGS - this is your method of assessment. MAKE SURE PAST WORK IS UPLOADED ONTO YOUR BLOG

HOMEWORK - to be on your blog by next week's lesson, 18th November 2010! 
Analyse your questionnaire results - what impact will your target audience have on your magazine?
Create a reader profile - WHO are you creating this magazine for and why? How are you going to represent them?