Animatic Task

Remember to update your blog during the completion of this task. You could focus on the following:

• How did you develop the 500 word overview for your imaginary film?
• How did you create the storyboard for your trailer? - What were the key decisions that your group had to make during the storyboarding process?
• What is an animatic?
• Why do you need to create an animatic?
• How do you create an animatic?
• How will you use the animatic during the pre-production of your trailer?

Deadline for blog updates: Friday 18th December 2009.

Production Tasks

1. Complete your textual analysis of the film trailers that you have selected.

2. Post the 500 word plot summary of your imaginary film.

3. Complete the storyboard for your trailer.

4. You need to explain why you have created a storyboard and how you created it.

• Focus on how decisions were made during the development of the stroyboard.
• You should also explain how you intend to use the storyboard during the production phase of your project.

5. Create an animatic of your storyboard.

• Use a digital camera to photograph an image that represents each of the pictures of your storyboard.
• Download the pictures into Premier Elements and edit them into sequence.
• Add any relevant dialogue or music to give an idea of what the trailer is going to sound like. These do not have to be your final decisions about sound. This is part of the drafting process.

The deadline for the above tasks is Friday 11th December.

Film Trailer - Textual Analysis

1. Make a list of the key codes and conventions of film trailers that you have identified in the texts that you have analysed.
2. Which of these codes and conventions will you use in your own trailer?

Film Trailer Analysis

G324 Advanced Portfolio

Promotion Package for a New Film

Main Task
· Construction of a film trailer (Group)

Ancillary Tasks
· A film magazine front cover, featuring the film; (Individual)
· A poster for the film. (Individual)

Research and Planning

Before you begin to plan your film trailer, you will first need to carry out important research in relation to the following:

· The codes and conventions of your chosen film genre.
· The function of trailers as a promotional device.
· The codes and conventions of trailers.
· The structure of trailers.
· The expectations of the target audience for your chosen film genre.
· How do film trailers work?
· Where are film trailers most commonly found?
· Why do film studios use film trailers?
· Are film trailers effective promotional devices?
Research – Textual Analysis

Analyse three or more film trailers by answering the following questions:

1. What is the genre of the film?

2. How is the audience able to identify the genre of the film?

3. How does the trailer target an audience?

4. How long does the film trailer last?

5. How many shots are used in the trailer?

6. What transitions are used in the trailer?

7. How is diegetic sound used in the trailer? – Focus on dialogue and sound effects.

8. How is non-diegetic sound used in the trailer? – Focus on music and sound effects.

9. How does the trailer represent characters and their relationships?

10. How does the trailer create a sense of narrative?

11. What does the trailer reveal about the plot of the film?

12. How does the trailer create a code of enigma?

13. How does the trailer use titles to communicate with the audience?

14. How does the trailer establish the mood and expectations of the film?

15. What types of camera shots and angles are used most commonly in trailers?

16. How is mise-en-scene constructed in trailers?

17. Why has the film studio used the trailer to market its product?

18. How successful is the film trailer in targeting an audience?

19. Make a list of 10 codes and conventions that you have identified in the film you have analysed.

20. How effective are film trailers as a promotional device for films?

Advanced Portfolio

Preliminary Exercise 2

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

Evaluate your finished film.

Advanced Production Preliminary Tasks

A2 Portfolio

You must learn how to use the technology before you begin your film trailer.

Complete the following tasks in order to develop your filming and editing skills:

Camera Skills

Take a 5 second shot using each of the following camera distances:

1. Medium Long Shot of a character inside

2. Close up of a female student

3. Extreme close up of a male or female student’s face

4. Two shot of a male and female student


Take a 5 second shot using each of the following camera angles:

1. High angle shot of a female student

2. Point of view shot of a character looking around a car park


Take a 5 second shot using each of the following camera movement:

1. Pan left – exterior

2. Crab left – interior

3. Crab right – exterior

4. Zoom in on a female character

5. Tilt down – female character outside


Editing Tasks

Task 1
Use Adobe Premier Elements to edit the shots in your film timeline into the following order:

1. Extreme Long Shot of the Blorange
2. Medium close up of a male teacher
3. Long Shot of three characters on the field
4. Zoom out on a male character
5. Tracking shot of a character walking
6. Big close up of a male student’s face
7. Bird’s eye shot of a male and female student
8. Extreme close up of an object
9. Close up of a hand on a door handle
10. Tilt up –male character inside
11. Canted shot of a male and female student
12. Low angle shot of a male teacher

You should remove any unnecessary footage from the timeline before moving onto task 2.

Task 2
Remove any footage of the clapper board by cropping each of the shots.

Task 3
Add the following transitions to 5 of the shots on your film timeline.
· Cross Dissolve
· Dip to black
· Dip to white
· Wipe
· Zoom

Task 4
Add the following effects to 4 of the shots on your film timeline.
· Black and white
· Old Film
· Line Drawing
· Lightning

Save the completed video as a Windows Media Player file when you have completed editing the footage.

Welcome Year 13!

Welcome to the King Henry Viii school blog for Year 13 A2 Media Studies students.

This blog will be used to record the research, planning and evaluation for your G324 Advanced Portfolio unit.

The first posts on this site cover the preliminary film work that we have covered since September 2009. Make sure that you keep a detailed record of all the research and planning decisions that you make during the construction of your trailer.

A2 Media Studies

G324 – Advanced Media Production

A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with two of the following three options:

· A Website homepage for the film;

· A film magazine front cover, featuring the film;

· A poster for the film

Research, Presentation and planning MUST be presented in electronic format.

All research and planning must be recorded by keeping a log

Examination - G325 – Critical Perspectives in Media

The examination is made up of two sections:

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

You will answer two compulsory questions. The first question requires you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.

The second question asks you to identify one production and evaluate it in relation to one theoretical concept.



Question 1(a) requires you to describe and evaluate your skills over the course of your 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.

Question 1(b) requires you to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. The list of concepts to which questions relate is as follows:

· Genre

· Narrative

· Representation

· Audience

· Media Language

In the examination, questions will be set using one of these concepts only.

Therefore the first section of the examination will be based on your Coursework Production!
In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

· In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

· How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

· What have you learned from your audience feedback?

· How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?