Marlborough Media: September 2009

As a group we watched a clip from 'American Gangster', Ridley Scott (2007). We then tried to describe the following from the short clip.

Characters and their relationships
Location both geographically and historically
Context of the film
Genre
Storyline

AS Evaluation Questions

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

AS Blog Content

AS blogs must contain the following information.

Research into similar products

- Film genres

- Compare and Contrast

- Scene/shot analysis

Research into a potential target audience

- Questionnaires

- Focus Groups

- Polls

- BBFC

Organisation of actors, locations, costumes and props

- Casting shots

- Location scouting

- Pictures/sketches of costumes

- Prop lists

Work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting and storyboarding.

- Sketches

- Photographs

- Animated storyboards

- Time management is excellent.

- Diary

- Gantt chart

- Production schedule

There is excellent use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation.

- Images

- Audio/music

- Video

- Podcast

- Slideshows

- Animation

- Weblinks

- Discussion forums/twitter/media website

Marlborough Media

Tuesday 22 September 2009

Interpreting Film

Visual Language - Camera Technique

Blog content Guide - A2 Course

Blog Content Guide - AS Course

Tuesday 8 September 2009

Foundation Portfolio