D Day!

The deadline has arrived! You have until 3pm today to update your blog - beyond this point you should not edit, amend or add anything unless I come to you and advise you to do so in person.

You need to create a final blog post called 'Post Evaluation Production'. In this post you need to be clear about what you have done to improve your work and why. Do a mini evaluative paragraph about your final products.

Good luck and make sure if we arrange time to meet at the start of next week you are available.

Deadlines

Final Draft Deadlines (all work completed to the best of your ability) NO EXCUSES!

You must have made you trailer amendments by: Friday 1st May

You must have your print products completed by: Friday 1st May

Your evaluation must be completed by: Wednesday 29th April

You will have feedback on all of these elements by Tuesday 5th May

You must have ALL amendments posted on your blog by FRIDAY 8th MAY. This deadline is non-negotiable. 

NOTHING IS TO BE CHANGED OR ADDED TO YOUR BLOG AFTER THIS DATE. 

Links for Evaluation

Some examples you may want to look at.

http://shannoncotton2.wordpress.com/category/evaluation/

http://sidrah-horrortrailer-a2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/e-v-l-u-t-i-o-n_03.html

http://nickwilsona2media.blogspot.co.uk/?view=classic

http://lydiadeblangya2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/evaluation-question-1.html

http://enorfmcmanusb.blogspot.co.uk/?zx=99769a3e76fb8579

The chief examiner offers some guidance here.

http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/evaluation-for-ocr-coursework.html

Evaluation

Deadline: Wednesday 6th April

Progress Check

Please can you look at your progress so far and address any incomplete tasks by Thursday 19th March. This includes a full length, complete draft of your trailer and your poster and magazine cover too. 

Homework/ Expectations

Your February feedback will be emailed to you by Monday 9th February - I will ask Mr Love to remind you of this on Monday. Please can you read this and upload it to your blog with your comments. 

You must have the following things on your blog by Thursday 12th March:

- ALL Research and Planning tasks completed and changes made (using feedback sheets)
- A first edit of your trailer with a detailed post about how you reached this point and what you will do to complete/ improve this
- A first draft (completed) of your ancillary texts.

DVD Cover

Following on from your half term homework you need to start thinking about creating a DVD cover for your film. This may appear 'easy' but it my mind is the hardest of the three ancillary texts to produce. There are a lot of details on a DVD cover and if you miss them/ fail to pay attention to them, it is quite tricky to attain a Level 3/4 (a C grade or above).



Have a look at the post below to get started. It is vital that you do not use the same image on your ancillary texts. This show a limited effort and technical capability (and more to the point laziness on your part!)





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Progress Update

You have until I see you next to rectify your ambers and reds...

Half Term Homework

It is important that you understand the importance of ancillary texts and the marketing of films in print. Your trailers are worth the most in terms of marks but in order to succeed you must show continuity and a clear a brand identity.

Your tasks:

1. Research at least one film from your chosen genre and find all of the promotional materials associated with it (particularly billboard posters, film magazine front cover features and DVD covers). Similar to your AS studies create a case study of each element but instead of focusing so much on analysis you need to focus more on the key concept audience. Create a blog post.

2. Ensure that you have done some planning for each of these ancillary texts for your production. Have you considered continuity between your products? A colour scheme? Typography? Images - you must have more than one to attain the higher marks...

Due: Friday 27th February

Progress Update and Deadlines

See the spreadsheet for incomplete work - you must blog the work that you produce:

Deadlines: 

By the end of the lesson on Thursday 26th February you need the following things on your blog -

• Any research and planning that is incomplete (this should also have been improved using EBIs)
• A first edit of your trailer (at least 1 minute 30 seconds in length with transitions and sound)
• A first draft of your ancillary text(s) including all features and images (magazine cover only)
• Half term homework - see my next post

iMovie ideas and help

As today is the deadline for all of your filiming you should all be working in iMovie to edit your footage. At home and in your frees you need to continue to produce research and planning on ancillary texts (see my previous posts and check you are up to date!)

If you need help on how to achieve something specific with editing in iMovie - apple provide detailed instructions on how to achieve these and there are often video tutorials on youtube:

iMovie help

Planning your Magazine Cover

You need to start planning the layout and design of your film magazine front cover. Today you should do the following:

1. Design several layouts and post these on your blog with an explanation.
2. Hand draw mock ups of your magazine front cover x2.

Ancillary Texts

It is time for us to move on...

1. Create a post reflecting on the following question:

• What are the three main film magazines?
• Can you create a collage/ mood board of existing film magazine front covers?
• What conventions do you notice? (Consider colour, layout, design, typography, features, shot type etc.)

2.  Select a film magazine cover that features a film from your chosen genre. Use a technology that you deem appropriate to analyse the front cover. Remember: write analytical paragraphs (denotation+ connotations+ link to key concept)

You must have finished filming by Thursday 12th February to be in a position to submit your trailer for assessment at the end of the month.

If there is anything missing from your research and planning you must complete this and catch up! Have you reflected on feedback and made a positive change?

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You need to complete risk assessments as part of your research and planning. This is homework and I would like to see evidence of it next week. Please upload to your blog by Thursday 5th February. 

Cover Work and Progress Check

We are moving on to look at print products (ancillary texts) next week so you need to finalise any research and planning for your trailer this week. This includes consideration of sound, locations, shooting schedules and any filiming/ photography.

Before next lesson (Thursday 29th January) you need to do the following:

• Finish your final pitch/ theory sugar paper posters (upload a photo onto your blog)
• Catch up on any missed work or incomplete tasks from research and planning (see the spreadsheet below) 
• Look at the example of Risk Assessments on the exemplar blog http://gemmacooneymedia.weebly.com/risk-assessments.html create these for your trailer

Your final deadline for all research, planning and products (including trailer and print products) will be Thursday 26th February.

Final Pitch

It is very important that you are clear on your film ideas and there is a rationale behind the decisions that you have made.

Print out your final pitch (it should be about 600-1000 words). Stick it on a piece of sugar paper and use the handouts/ your notes and understanding of media concepts and theory to annotate your ideas.

What has informed these ideas? Can you give examples from your research and planning? How have you followed generic conventions or subverted them?

Write detailed, analytical paragraphs that address all of these and 'show off'' making clear links between Mr Love and my lessons.

Get creative and enjoy!

Holiday homework reminder...

Your next lesson with me is on Wednesday 14th January. Have you done the minimum? Is that enough? You should be thinking outside of the box and spreadsheet! If you have completed tasks you need to think about the next stages and what you can research or plan to improve you work. Keep going...