For Amie, Emma and Jo

Sorry, but could not post onto your blog for some reason.

Fantastic amount of work here - I am staggered by your output.

Few things to consider

1. Your animatic - should be the same length as your film. Each shot should represent the actual film shot. So, if this is the end version you are a few minutes short.
2. You will need to consider title and end credits as well at some point - will they be integrated into film or "subtract" seconds from your footage?
3. I believe Marion discussed with you the possibility of some ambiguity in the ending - have you considered this?
4. Representation - well done you have considered how you will portray young people. There are two issues here, both Gender and Age!
5. Glad to see you are identifying who your target audience is. I was a bit concerned when you begaan to blog the views of family - remember they do not form part of your target audience.
In your discussion of narrative, consider "Narrative Structure" - how does yours relate to some of the theorists that we have looked at - it may adopt this or challenge it.

Well done for alos considering issues around the industry aswell.

Update - comments on your second deadline - Pre production Planning

Please read your blogs carefully and look at any comments. By and large, most of you have good ideas, some need a little bit of working on. Please try to ensure that it is easy for me to identify this your final ideas for filming, perhaps a heading of "Final Submission for Short Film" with an accurate animatic and some expalnation - that would be very useful to me.

Thanks

Snow

Yes, college was closed today, however, you should be working independently now - you can still view the films on either the Virgin Media or BBC websites and so, no alterations to the deadline for Friday.

See you all tomorrow.

Heading Two

This should be "Research Tasks"

Use the link to Virgin Shorts/BBC Short films on the right hand side of this page

a) Using the prompt sheet/handout, you need to blog comments on "Joy Ride".

b) Using the prompt sheet/handout, you need to blog comments on the other 4 films referred to on the Prompt sheet".

c) Again, using the prompt sheet/handout, you need to blog comments on any Short films that you have viewed on the Virgin Media site or BBC site.

Rememeber, your blog must look like a blog and not an essay. Use multi media applications wherever you can - links, stills, video clips, comments etc.

Heading One

This should be "Lessons learnt from the Foundation Portfolio".

Visit your evaluation of your AS coursework and remind yourself of any mistakes made. Most important, blog on how you intend to rectify these problems this time around!

Andy paul has your AS blog address from last year.

Advanced Portfolio Brief

Happy New Year and welcome back everyone

I will now be using this blog as the front page of the Advanced Production for those whom I will be responsible for. If you have not already signed up to follow this blog then do so now. It is your responsibility to to keep yourself up to date. This is the first part of your advanced production instructions and a more detailed booklet will follow. A good tip is to start looking at loads of short films Virgin Shorts and BBC Film Network are good places to start.


What does the Advanced Portfolio consist of?

The Advanced Portfolio has three parts, all of which relate to each other:

The Main Task: creating a short film lasting 5 minutes

Ancillary Task: creating a poster to advertise the film
Ancillary Task: creating a review of the film for a magazine


This booklet only concerns the Main Task; further advice will be given for the two Ancillary Tasks later this half term.

What do you have to do for the Main Task?

The OCR specification states:-

Main task: Produce a short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes.

DEADLINE FOR THE MAIN TASK: HALF TERM – EXACT DATE TO BE ADVISED

In order for you to be able to answer questions in the exam based on your production work, you must work within the following genre or style frameworks:

• Social Realism
• Horror
• Crime or Thriller
Or a combination of these…(hybrid)


Also, in order to answer other possible questions in the exam, you must consider the following areas in your planning:

• Narrative structure
• Representation
• Genre
• Audience
• Film Language

Is this an individual or group project?

• This is a group project.
• You have to work in groups of no more than 4.
• Despite it being a group effort, you will still be marked as individuals. So, if an individual in the group does very little, this will be reflected in that individual’s mark.
• You have a responsibility to each other – do not let each other down. Group members have every right to inform their teachers of individuals who prove to be unreliable.
• As occurred during the Foundation Production work, Andy and (technicians) will also be keeping a record of which group members are involved in the editing process and this feeds into final grades