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.

Your blog tick list

This list must be completed by the end of the double lesson on Wednesday 20th July

Your ideas

Documentary forms/modes explanation      

500 word proposal for a documentary         

Example documentary ideas                       

     

Documentarians

Louis Theroux research                              

Michael Moore research                              

Ross Kemp research                                  

Nick Broomfield research                            

Countries

Two examples of UK documentaries     

Two examples of U.S. documentaries         

Modes

Reflexive documentary                               

Poetic documentary                                    

Observational documentary                        

Expository documentary                             

Participatory documentary                          

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?sort=moviemeter,asc&title_type=documentary&year=2011,2011

I would suggest completing research on some of the documentaries on this site. This will show that you are looking at a number of different types of documentaries, as well as researching very modern ones.

Wednesday 22nd June Cover work

Please complete the following research during today’s lesson. This research then needs to be added to your blog.

1. Research Nick Broomfield generally
1. Create a PowerPoint presentation based on his background and history.
2. Consider the kinds of documentaries he makes and why.
3. Visit Youtube to hear speeches and talks given by him regarding the filming and planning of some of his work.
4. Look on my blog (http://missdonovansmedia.blogspot.com/) to find general information about him
5. Has he received any awards and what for?
6. Who are his influences?
7. Include your PowerPoint and the Youtube clips onto your blog, explaining what you have learnt about him clearly.

2. Now choose one of Nick Broomfield’s documentaries from these:
1. Aileen Wuornos: The Making of a Serial Killer
2. Biggie and Tupac
3. Kurt and Courtney

You must again research one of these and include your research on your blog under the following sub-headings:

·        General information / synopsis

·        Comments made by Nick Broomfield about the documentary

·        Comments made by critics / reviews

·        What style of documentary it is

·        Any other interesting information

All this information and research must be completed in today’s lesson and added to your blog for homework.

Remember to keep adding research and ideas to your blog. Look on my blog to find a good blog created by OCR – this shows you some great examples of student blogs and websites which you can again use in your own blog.

Also, if you have not already emailed me your blog address, please do so now! (ldonovan@heathside.surrey.sch.uk)

Research

Remember to constantly research different documentarians and add your research to your blog. This will show the examiners that you have an excellent knowledge of different styles and forms of doumentary. Try and watch as many as you can, complete research on them and then add the research to your blog, explaining which type/form of documentary it is and how you know.

Welcome

Hi all,

This blog has been set up so I can provide you all with interesting and helpful information. Check it as often as you can because a lot of things included on here can be used to include on your own blogs. The OCR blog, for example, has loads of really helpful advice and info for you, and you can use it to help you during the course.

Remember to send me all your blogs/emails so we can follow each others' blogs.

Let me know if you need help with anything!

Miss D

http://getaheadocrmedia.blogspot.com/