Checklist for unit 4 Task 1

Checklist for unit 4 Task 1

1.     Audio visual presentation identifying and explaining the importance of a range of pre-production activities. http://rescreativemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/pre-production-research-tasks.html

2.     Part two of the presentation with a focus on pre-production for exclusively online digital media.

http://rescreativemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/online-digital-media-products-lesson-9.html

3.     Case study. – presented as a podcast

http://rescreativemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/unit-4-case-study.html

4.     Create a blog called Unit 4 assignments.

5.     Introductory paragraph explaining that you represent Surrey County Council and that the following presentations are to underline the importance of proper pre-production, that any media company commissioned by the council must follow.

http://rescreativemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/unit-4-assignment-briefs-copy-these.html

6.     Upload your presentations.

UNIT 10 Investigating Genre

Checklist for Unit 21.

1.An introductory short paragraph greeting your potential employers and expressing the wish that they enjoy your report.

2.A sequence exemplifying all of the film editing techniques originally stated by Pearson.

3.Close analysis of at least 5 specific edits you selected – If you are aiming for a Distinction, do them all. How is meaning created through editing? What specifically are the meanings that are created?

4.Close analysis of 3 scenes from your designated Oscar winner - How is meaning created through editing? What specifically are the meanings that are created? – Why did the film win the Oscar for best editing?

5.Examine a live television broadcast – what are the challenges faced by live TV editors? Find examples of a) a very successful live TV broadcast and b) one that went wrong. Review and present selected examples of footage: How is meaning created through editing? What specifically are the meanings that are created?

6.Track the history of editing from its origins to the present day – identify 5 key innovators and evaluate their contributions.

7.SIGN OFF – directly addressing your potential employers.

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THIS IS A SUMMARY – CHECK ALL OLD UNIT 21 BLOGPOSTS FOR MORE DETAIL

UNIT 4 - CASE STUDY

Pre-Production Case Study by RES Media on Scribd

UNIT 21

When you have completed the analysis of the sequence you have uploaded, remember that the work on your chosen Oscar winner needs to be completed.

Here is the final task, when finished, look at the previous post about how to present your assignment.

Complete an analysis of the following sequences:

1.     Describe the significant examples of editing – what happens in the sequence.

2.     How does the editing assist the effectiveness of the narrative?

Videos

The following videos are useful to show early and more contemporary uses of editing techniques for discussion.

●      Battleship Potemkin: The Complete Odessa Steps Sequence, documents an early use of montage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJ_1P-Py2k 

●      Way Down East - DW Griffith, Early Example of Parallel editing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI2e3pXat54  

●      Example of Parallel Editing in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1x6uADFtM

●      Rocky III Training montage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4soF2wigKSM 

●      Team America  - spoof montage explains the use of montage well, though the lyrics may not be appropriate for younger audiences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhWiTORp22k

UNIT 21 - HOW TO PRESENT IT

Vocational Context

1.     Prepare a welcome message post – choose a film studio you’d like to work in – post on your assignment blog:

2.      

Example – Hello to the personnel team at Warner studios. Thank you for considering my application. I’m very happy to have made it through to the task-setting stage. Please enjoy my videos and posts demonstrating my expert knowledge of film and television production techniques. Thank you, - A Candidate

Structure for assignment:

-       Welcome message

-       Your sequence demonstrating your knowledge of the prescribed editing techniques

-       An analysis of this sequence (commentary or written – showing you know WHAT EFFECTS have been created by the specific techniques.

-       [THE MORE THOROUGH THE BETTER]

-       A focus on the following

UNIT 21 Assignment Brief - COPY THESE SLIDES INTO YOUR NEW UNIT 21 ASSIGNMENT BRIEF BLOG AS THE FIRST POST

UNIT 4 Assignment Briefs - COPY THESE SLIDES INTO YOUR NEW UNIT 4 ASSIGNMENT BRIEFS BLOG AS THE FIRST POST

UNIT 8 - Task: The Brief is completed by the commisioning client, under the prompting/guidance of the media producers. Come up with a specific media product (leaflet / showreel / radio advert / whatever...) that is required by a fictitious company - work in pairs or threes to fill out the brief. Save the completed brief to your area and upload to blog.

Briefing Form by RES Media on Scribd

UNIT 4 - ONLINE DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTS LESSON 9 B1 Procedures to follow

UNIT 21 - Case Study - editing - Oscars

UNIT 4 BLOG CHECK - CHECK LIST

UNIT 8 - MEETING CLIENTS IN THE MEDIA - you'll need this in tomorrow's lesson...

Unit 4 - lesson 6

Unit 4 – lesson 6 by bob keats on Scribd

UNIT 21

Using found or self-shot footage, create a portfolio of prep-studies showing that you understand and can exemplify the following editing techniques. Take screengrabs of your sequences and annotate them with each specific technique demonstrated.

UNIT 4

Pre-production – Video Case Studies

UNIT 4 – LESSON 4 - Writing a screenplay

UNIT 4 – LESSON 4
Make sure that you have finished and uploaded your storyboard.


Read the following document and make notes on how to correctly format a screenplay script.

Write a one page screenplay excerpt for a TV or Film of your own devising.

http://www.finaldraft.com/mm_media/mm_pdf/How_to_Format_a_Screenplay.pdf

Unit 8 - Lesson 3

lesson 3 unit 8

Pre-Production Storyboarding

Pre-Production - research tasks

EXAMPLE FOR TRIPLE AWARD - A1 Use of research and background material

A1 Use of research and background material

FILM - textual analysis - LESSON WORK

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS – FILM Watch the opening 20 minutes of a film Pick out a key sequence or scene and make notes on the following: Shot type / angle / movement / edits [cinematography] Sound – diegetic and non-diegetic Lighting – hard / soft / high key low key Make-up / costume / acting / dialogue / sets / props [mise-en-scene] Genre / sub-genre – what is it and how do we know? Lesson example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVmsbslNNZ8 YOU MAY NEED TO RESEARCH THE TERMINOLOGY - INCLUDE DEFINITIONS AND EXAMPLES FROM YOUR RESEARCH TOO. Post to your blog

TASKS for CM group

Areas of Interest

The Stone Roses - Beautiful Thing