Setting up lesson AS media

1. AS MEDIA STUDIES
WELCOME

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

4. COURSEWORK
You will be making a film opening of a
MAXIMUM OF TWO MINUTES

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&feature=youtu.be

8. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
• Did they do well?
• What could they have done to make it better?
• Was it conventional?

9. THE BLOG
• All tasks you are set this year will be on our school blog.
• www.stma2mediastudies.blogspot.co.uk

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 anblog details (e.g.
www.missspavinsmedia.blogpot.co.uk) and your email address to
tspavins@stm.beds.sch.uk

11. SET UP BLOG POST TITLES
• Now on your newly created blog create a blog post for your 21 research and
planning posts (blue and yellow on the task sheet)
• In order starting at post 1 create a new blog post for each task by typing the
title of the post into your new post and pressing publish.
• Remember spelling and Capital letters!!!

12. 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.

13. BASICS ABOUT BLOGGING
• 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.

14. BASICS ABOUT BLOGGING
• 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!

15. HOW YOU ARE MARKED/DO WELL
• All blog posts have a set of marking criteria at the bottom of the post. This is what we
are using to mark your work, so before you submit your work it is your job to check you
have done it all.
• What is posted on the blog is the MINIMUM you need to complete, all tasks and
deadlines are compulsory.
• If you want to get the top level you need to ensure you complete all higher tasks in
green.
• To show yourself to be the best students you need to be independent – go further than
we have asked in research, find a different way to present your work etc.

16. 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:
http://www.anthonywickendenasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/1-timeline-of-
opening.html