Scenes to Inspire

Above is the pivotal scene in Christopher Nolan's film 'The Dark Knight' starring Christian Bale as The Batman and Heath Ledger as The Joker.

As an avid Batman fan this scene brings these two legendary characters together and begins the telling of the Batman/Joker saga. These two opposing forces which act has each others driving force and nemesis creates a relationship unique in popular culture and film. One can not exist without the other which makes comment on the philosophy that good can not exist without evil.

Brilliantly acted by both Bale and Ledger this scene has a solid place in the 'great movie scenes of all time'.

Audience Research

Media Studies - Audience Research.ppt

Media Studies Production Planning

In the Media Studies folder on the shared drive you will find an Excel file called 'Media Studies Production Calendar 2013-14'. This calendar sets out the key parts of the production process and is a guide to when and how long you should be spending on the four areas of film production.

1. Production Research
2. Pre-Production
3. Production
4. Post-Production



Please open and save this file to your on document area and use it to track the progress of your own productions.

AS Foundation Production Candidates 2013

Dear Moderator,

Please find below a list of AS Media studies Students and links to their indivdual blogs.

1. David Allen - http://daveallen96.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Josh Bagnall - http://joshbagnall291.blogspot.co.uk/
3. Katie Bannock - http://katiebannock.blogspot.co.uk/
4. Ellie Bunce - http://elliebunce.blogspot.co.uk/
5. Lauren Carpenter - http://www.laurencarpenter1226.blogspot.co.uk/
6. Jess Dale - http://jessdalemedia.blogspot.co.uk/
7. Dionne Franklyn - http://dionnebethanyfranklyn.blogspot.co.uk/
8. Beth Hutson - http://bethanyhutson.blogspot.co.uk/
9. Andrew lush - http://andrewlushmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
10. Bryony mann - http://bryonymann.blogspot.co.uk/
11. Sam Parker - http://samparkermedia.blogspot.co.uk/
12. Camille Pierrart - http://camillepierrart.blogspot.co.uk/
13. Ben Pilston - http://benpilston95.blogspot.co.uk/
14. Dan Sweet - http://dansweetsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
15. Alex Underwood - http://alexunderwoodtryingtocreateanewblog.blogspot.co.uk/
16. Bryony Ward - http://bryonysmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

Product Research Resource

http://movieclips.com/

Movieclips

By TIME Staff Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010

Need to find a scene from your favorite film? With more than 12,000 film snippets, Movieclips has one of the most comprehensive collections available on the Web — and there's no need to wade through duplicates. You can search by film title, character name, actor or keyword. Searching for "fight" yields an interesting library of Rocky moments, period sword duels and even a pillow battle or two, whereas "first kiss" brings up famous on-screen smooches from the likes of Romeo, Scarlett O'Hara and the cast of Grease. But Movieclips is a quintessential film index with a twist. With a built-in editing tool, users can create their own video mashups with relative ease. We opted for a Wizard of Oz–Inception mashup — watch it here — and were able to create the entire thing in less than 10 minutes.

Comparing the best & the worst

Below are two fight scenes from different productions. Comparing like scene of different quality highlights the technical and creative aspects of the scene and allows you to identify what makes a good scene more easily.

Watch the scenes below and identify how they and used the various criteria for film language to create scenes which although have simular content actually have very different results.

Pay attention to:

• Camera shot
• Camera movement
• Mise-en-scene
• Location
• Setting
• Framing
• Editing
• Character
• costume
• Props
• Dialogue
• Lighting
• Treatment