AUTUMN TERM: NEXT STEPS

Your RESEARCH component is awarded 30 marks. You have nearly completed genre research into trailers. I have emailed each individual student asking for the 3 CIE trailers to be completed by Sunday 23 August.

You should now complete genre research into film posters and film websites. You should complete all research by Friday 11th September so that Production Planning and Construction can start. It can take ages to plan a trailer that gets the green light! And you have to make two trailers.

Other kinds of research may happen further on, depending on your production, for instance into social groups / issues and into your audience. 

1.  Trailer analysis: three of the trailers recommended by the CIE board, in addition to those you have done /planned. Follow the CIE guidance on our blog's TRAILER page.

2.  Film poster analysis. Follow the CIE guidance here:

When you analyse Film Posters 

1) identify the written codes -  title, the tagline, placing of the star talent, the billing block, release date

2) identify how layout and mise-en-scene has been used effectively in a poster: decide how the poster has prioritised the images. What is central to the poster image  / the key image? 

3) mise en scene: how do background images reinforce the narrative or genre or marginalise certain other characters? 

4) what is the colour palette used and how has colour been used to create effect? 

5) how have graphics and font been used to promote the production company and link the products from the package? Where are these positioned? How has colour on the fonts been used to distinguish between different elements of the written aspects of the poster? 

6) what is the narrative contained in the film poster (and perhaps links to the trailer content) 7) how are the film's generic conventions signalled?

3. Website analysis: analyse three and present them together in one Canva presentation.

4. Preliminary exercises: in your 'page' entitled PRELIMINARY EXERCISES you should have examples of practice for your year's production work, for example:

• high quality stills (perhaps experimenting with Photoshop as practice film posters)
• editing that looks like a trailer (not continuity editing) with soundtrack, inter-titles, release date, film name, accolades
• production company idents, experimenting with fonts

5. Bear in mind that you will be writing about the following in your Creative Critical Reflection, so pay attention to what is expected in terms of social groups / issues, branding and your audience:

6. This term, we continue with exam preparation. Component 4: 2 hours, 60 marks, two sections. Section A - two questions: one on Media Regulation (how the Press, film and internet are regulated) and one on either Post-Modern Media or Power and the Media, each 15 marks. I have PPs on all these for you.

Section B - Media Ecology: show knowledge of at least 2 media forms, 30 marks.

CIE has a school support hub for teachers (it requires my login) so this note is to remind us all that we have a supply of question papers. 

 Preliminary exercises: