EVALUATION DEADLINE
Friday 30th April 2010
All coursework must be totally completed by this date.
Back up with WORD
Students - one or two blogs have become 'corrupted' and have turned to code. We are therefore recommending that you keep a copy of your blogs on word documents.
Please don't worry too much about this - it has only happened a couple of times. However - do begin to keep a back up - just in case. your blog will be 40% of your coursework grade so it is in your interests to keep a back up!
thanks - Mary, Rebecca, Bernard, Dan, Donna, Annabel, Tony, Andrew, Ana, Justin, Micky, Marisa
Pitch & Planning - over half term
Over the half term you should be forming your ideas for your actual Thriller Film Title Sequence opening, as when you return to college you will have to present your PITCH. So you need to be sketching initial ideas for storyboards, compiling a list of titles, looking for locations and taking photos. When you return you can firm up your ideas with the rest of your group (that's if you don't manage to meet over the holiday).
Good luck with your planning!
mary
Storyboarding is a really important aspect of your planning and you will be awarded MARKS FOR GOOD STORYBOARDING. You should take a lot of time thinking about the type of shots you need to use, where the titles will come in and the sequencing of your shots. Don't worry if you can't draw - as long as the gist is conveyed that's fine! One word of advice - FILL THE FRAME - don't draw tiny objects in the square. If the shot is a close up - draw a close up!
Good Luck
mary
Art Of the Title Sequence
Have a good look at this website, choose a title sequence you admire and blog about it. The link is on the right of this screen.
Comment on:
*the style of the titles themselves and the fonts used
*what the titles say
*the images, or lack of images the titles are placed over
*the types of shot (WS, CU etc) whcih are used in the title sequence
*What it is about the title sequence that appeals to you
This exercise will boost your blog marks!!
mary
STOP!
Before you blog, make sure you have clicked onto your group number!!
Lots of people are posting on this page - the home page. This work will not be marked, and will be deleted shortly! If you have blogged in the wrong place, please copy and paste into a new entry before they are removed. Any problems, come and ask me for help in 322.
thanks, mary
Watching Documentary
There is a brilliant half hour documentary in the Thriller folder on the macs about Film Openings. It is called WATCHING. Your blog and your coursework would really benefit if you watched this and posted notes about it on your blog. It's really interesting!!
The Brief
You are to create a title sequence for the opening to a Thriller film.
Your title sequence must:
*contain an opening title sequence
*contain some filmed footage
*be a maximim of two minutes long
*have a soundtrack that is non copyright
What will I be marked on?
*Your own contribution to the title sequence, including the completion of the preliminary 'Match Cut' exercise
*Your own blog, which will evidence all planning work
*Your evaluation work, which will be on your blog
Do you have a Media Card?
A few people still have not paid their £5 media charge. Your Media card lets you book out equipment such as cameras, use the colour printer in the media room and it gets you entry into the cinema to see you film on the big screen. Please bring your £5 to your teacher NOW: no card =no equipment!
thanks, mary.
On the 19th of February 2010 My group met up to begin preperations for our film. We drafted our intial ideas and then came up with our final idea of which we all agreed. It took us quite a while to think of how to craft each stage of our story together as we wanted our story to be edgey and unpredictable, we also wanted it to be unique i.e not ressembling any other typical thriller films. It was quite difficult to work out where to place particular scenes as we wanted the film to make sense and in order to this the scenes needed to mesh together neatly.
Following the meeting we took pictures of the locations we intended on using so that everybody became familiar with the surroundings and to see if we all deamed the area to be suitable.
Silence of the lambs
This is a perfect example of a psychological thriller as the FBI had to gain clues from a prisoner to find a killer. she had to constantly visit Dr Hanibal (Pictured above) as he had a better viewpoint of how a killer would behave and this benefits the FBI to solve the crime.
Suspense can be defined as the growing interest of and excitement felt while awaiting a climax or resolution, as of a novel,play,series of events,etc.
