A2 Students - Blog feedback

Blogs checked on Sunday 18^th September 2011

Adam

J	K
Prezi on documentary idea Research into background of documentaries and specific documentaries	Include more detail about your timeline for your documentary

Anna

J	K
Secret Millionaire Prezi	Very little work on blog – need to add to it asap

Bea

J	K
Documentary powerpoint Word cloud Prezi – social networking Research and analysis	Include more detail about your timeline for your documentary Avoid lots of text in big chunks

Danni

J	K
Prezi on documentary idea Research	Include more detail about your timeline for your documentary Some section don’t contain anything Use of various technologies

Lydia

J	K
Research Nick Broomfield powerpoint	Where is your documentary idea? Avoid large sections of just text – use different technologies

Nisha

J	K
Prezi on documentary idea Research	Include more detail about your timeline for your documentary Avoid large sections of just text – use different technologies

Alex

J	K
Your documentary ideas – map, prezi, mind-map Research	Include more detail about your timeline for your documentary Avoid large sections of just text – use different technologies

Nick ???

Megan ???

AS Media - Films to Watch!

Now my little Media "grasshoppers" (now if you don't know which film "grasshopper" comes from then you need to do some serious research!), I am recommending the following films to you because I truly believe that you can not be proper Media Studies students until you have watched and appreciated the brilliance of some of these films! Watch them immediately! They are not all Thrillers, but ARE all amazing. Remember that you are looking specifically at the openings of films - even though you should definitely watch the WHOLE film, analyse just the openings and include on your blog.

There are 25 of them so you have loads to choose from! Amazon do really good deals, or just go to HMV and buy a stack load really cheap!

Sunday, coffee, duvet cover, film, blogging ... perfect.

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Reservoir Dogs

3. Shawshank Redemption

4. The Godfather Part 1

5. The Godfather Part 2

6. Schindler's List

7. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

8. The Dark Knight

9. Goodfellas

10. The Usual Suspects

11. Psycho (original)

12. Se7en

13. American History X

14. Taxi Driver

15. Snatch

16. The Green Mile

17. Once Upon a Time in America

18. Pan's Labyrinth

19. Gladiator

20. Kill Bill

21. Disrict Nine

22. Casino

23. V for Vendetta

24. Avatar

25. In Bruges

The OCR Media Blog - very useful!

http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/index.html

Good example of student blog - have a look!

http://mediastudiesringwoodfinnd.blogspot.com/

Good A2 blog examples

Here are some links for you to look at:

http://achoudhurydocumentary.blogspot.com

http://ellendocumentary.blogspot.com

http://oliviadoc.blogspot.com

http://tillyguess.blogspot.com

http://zoedoc.blogspot.com

http://gcndocumentary.blogspot.com

Look at how many different types of technology have been used in the blogs.

You need to use your blog to support your work; add as much detail to it as often as possible!

Wednesday 20th July - Cover lesson

You will be in Y6 so can use the computers to add to your blogs. Please complete the tasks on the Blog Tick List that I gave you last lesson (also on my blog) and make sure that everything is included on your blog in as much detail as possible.

I would also suggest googling other A-level blogs and see if  they have included anything on their blogs that you could use. Type something like 'A2 Documentary Blog' into google and see what you can steal!

I will be checking all your blogs to see how you're getting on. Please email me if you need anything or have any questions.

Good luck! Have a brilliant summer! I'll see you in Year 13!

Codes and Conventions of a Documentary

• ·   People being interviewed, framed in a medium shot, medium close up or close up.
• ·    Interviewees framed to left or right of the screen. To show a range of shots when having more than one interviewee.
• ·   Framing with the rule of thirds. Eyeline is a third of the way down the frame.
• ·   Interviewees looking at the interviewer, not the camera.
• ·   Mise en scene, the background reinforces the content of the interview.
• ·   Interviews are never filmed with the light behind, the light is always in front of the interviewee.
• ·   Questions the interviewees are being asked, are edited out.
• ·   Cutaways are put into interviews for two reasons: 1. To break up the interviewand to illistrate what the interviewee is talking about. 2. To avoid jump cuts when questions are edited out
• ·   Cutaways are either: 1. Archive material 2. Suggested by something said in the interview and therefore filmed after the interview. 3. Sometimes aspects of the interviewee are filmed with another camera, such as extreme close ups of eyes, mouths and hands and used as cutaways
• ·   Graphics are used to anchor who the person on screen is and their relevance to the topic of the document.