Tuesday 2 December 2014

MOCK EXAM FEEDBACK


  • Don't confuse editing with camerawork
  • Always explain effects
  • Saver character questions for no. 3
  • Exam technique question 3 isn't about genre
REVISE EDITING!


Question 1:

  • Elaborate on why it is spectacular, thrilling, magical for the audience
  • You do not explain who is the 'heroic protagonist' & 'villanous antagonist' explixitly. You will get the marks if you use the terminology!
  • Then explain in what way Martha is heroic. What qualities does she show? (courage, leadership, goodness)
Question 2:
  • Include what impact it gives on the audience
  • Editing distinguishes distinct narrative element
  • Impact/effect
  • VFX
  • You don't follow this through to support it- WHAT GADGETS?
  • Give details of gadgets/technology
Question 3:
  • Q.3 is not about genre
  • Add typical and non-typical features of men and women
  • Soldiers?
  • Men?
  • Marthas ethnicity?

Monday 1 December 2014

PLANNING | OUR FILM TITLE

07/11/14| PLANNING | OUR FILM TITLE

Our film is about a deadly infection going around in the area. This is made clear by a public service announcement that is aired during the film. The voice that is saying the public service announcement is cold, robotic and neutral- it is also the central voice of the film opening. Because our film opening is based around this announcement we decided to call it 'Public Service Announcement' as it is mysterious, ambiguous and worry enducing. We did however, consider calling it 'Contagion' but we worried that it would have been to obvious and not give the viewer a sense of mystery.

PLANNING | BRAINSTORMING

9/10/14 |  PLANNING | BRAINSTORMING

In today's lesson time, we discussed what genre we will do as part of our opening sequence. We have chosen to do a thriller film opening. However we are still unsure. We brainstormed for most of the lesson and assigned different roles, and also came up with a few ideas for different scenes. We discussed how we will use/make blood (if we choose to use it) and what props we would potentially need.

In this lesson we discussed when and where we will meet and designed and created a call sheet to remind us.