Tuesday 23 September 2014

AS Coursework (G321) 2015

Centre Hub G321 - June 2015
ST. BONAVENTURES SCHOOL
Centre No: 23236
GCE MEDIA STUDIES: June 2015

All students have individual blogs which contain clearly labelled links to their research and planning, construction tasks and evaluation.

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. 

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. 

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate. 

Jacqueline B, 6031
James de la Cruz, 6047
Sebastian C, 6040
Kingsley C, 6045
Darran H, 6072
Zhane E, 6055
David O, 6129
Louie P, 6151
Acshayan S, 6171
Marc Y, 6200

AS re-submissions
Morgan H, 3249
Zannath U, 3369

What is amazing/different about this music video?

Horror genre conventions

Frozen - recut as a horror trailer


WHAT MAKES THIS A HORROR TRAILER?

Mary Poppins - recut to a horror trailer


WHAT CHANGES THIS FILM FROM FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT TO HORROR?

Tuesday 16 September 2014

Useful sites for cinematography (camera shots, angles, movement and composition)

General guides

A good detailed guide to cinematography - which includes
Media Knowall has good links to terminology with examples
Empire's version - The film magazine


Camera shots according to OCR (our exam board)



Composition: Depth of field explained
(a little technical but it does explain the basics)







Slideshare overview:


Create your own:

Example identification of cinematrography


Test yourself - without annotations:




With annotations: