2. What you will be doing
Coursework: 50%
Blog (40 marks)
Film Opening (60 marks)
Exam: 50%
Representation in TV drama
The film industry and audiences
3. VLE
All work will be posted onto the VLE
Homework
Lesson PowerPoint's
Resources
Deadlines
If you miss a lesson ensure you log in and find out
what you have missed as you have strict deadlines to
meet
5. What is a film opening?
Discuss this with the person next to you.
What are the conventions of a film opening?
6. Se7en
This opening sequences is probably one of the most
famous.
What do you think of it?
Is it conventional?
Where there any conventions you missed?
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/se7en/
7. Examples from last year
The titles in the opening sequence are just as important
as the narrative when you are making your own.
Here's an example from last year that did a good
opening sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMWnw4TE_FY&fea
ture=youtu.be
8. What do you think?
Did they do well?
What could they have done to make it better?
Was it conventional?
9. Homework
To complete your first blog post (we will set your blogs up this
lesson)
Timeline of an opening:
Pick an opening (film) from 'art of the title' and paste on your blog the
nine frames.
Watch the sequence, download it to your computer to enable you to
look at the timeline.
Get a big sheet of plain paper and mark out a timeline, then go through
and write on it where each title comes in. This should give you a really
good model for your own layout of a title sequence, including timings
and jobs.
Here's an example post:
10. Setting up your blog
You will need to set up your own blogger blog for your AS work to
be submitted on.
You must set up one on blogger no other blogging websites please.
Click here to register and set up your blog http://www.blogger.com/.
Make sure you are going to remember your details.
When you have set up your blog you must send your blog details and
your email address to us. To do this click here
http://tspavins.wix.com/a2media#!submit-your-details and fill in the
form ensuring both your EMAIL ADDRESS (that you check) and BLOG
ADDRESS are included.
11. Basics about blogging
Blogs are fantastic ways of presenting your work as they are stored online so you can access them
from anywhere without having to carry anything around. they allow you to upload files, embed
youtube videos, images, sounds and much more. Your blog should be a completely multimedia
product. If you are only adding text to your blog you will not do very well in this subject as marks are
awarded for your use of ICT and creativity.
Organisation is key with your blog. You will have at least 28 posts when you submit at Christmas so it is
vital that all of your posts have a decent title that is easy to see what the post is about and most
importantly it is TAGGED or as blogger calls them LABELS! Tagging your post is like putting it into a
category. On your deadline sheet i have included a column that tells you what tag you need to add to
that post. The examiner will use these tags when marking your work so it is very important that you do
this.
Although a blog is a thing that many people use casually in their leisure time to rant and rave about
things that is not what we are using ours for. You must remember at all times this is an examined piece
of work and you should at all times write in proper English, full sentences and SPELL CHECK your work.
The blog has a spell checker that you can run. Make sure you do this!
