Out of school (Tusday 9th December)

Well done those of you who have got your title sequence presentations uploaded. I will try to take a look at these on the train tomorrow (I am on a course in London). Those of you who have not managed to finish them, please do so. Your next step is to identify the genre in which you are working and to begin finding title sequences for movies in those genres. You may have to use Art of the Title initially, since you probably (still) don't have access to YouTube. I have posted an example on my blog of a reasonably structured approach, but missing the analysis.



You have just under two weeks to get 5-10 analyses on your blogs...

Interesting (if slightly lacking in analysis)

This is quite a detailed description of a title sequence, but there is very little analysis (of shots, angles, choices, representations, industry standards etc.) The format is good (lots of screengrabs) but the lack of detailed analysis limits its effects. You should aim for something which looks something like this, but contains a lot more depth

Analysis of a opening sequence – kiss kiss bang bang from conner3326

Out of school today (croak)

I am not in school today on account of still not being able to speak...  You should carry on with your research into title sequences. If you have any problems, please email me.

Lots of posts...

I have posted quite a few things today designed to help you set up your projects. Please consider them as you start your planning.

Foundation portfolio - main project

Continuity project comments

Comments for all projects should now be posted on your blogs. If you've not completed your evaluation, please aim to do so before the end of the week.

Continuity Project: weeks 3 and 4

You should now be well underway with your continuity project. Remember - the initial deadline for the edit is the end of next week. However, if you will struggle to achieve this, an extended deadline is available; final cuts should be posted no later than Friday 28th November.

 

You should then evaluate your work. This includes a detailed consideration of your process (what you did) and your outcome (how your work looked). You should analyse and offer constructive criticism of what you think you did well, what you could have improved on and (crucially) how you will make sure that your final piece is better. You should also cover the following areas:

• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Looking back at your previous work, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

You are advised to use a range of approaches. For example, with the audience questions, you could show people from your target audience your work and interview them. For the technologies process you could compare the pieces you have done, discussing how you used and improved on various effects and so on.

You could do all of this as part of a single documentary, or use a range of approaches. Although you can use written blog posts to support your answers, you should aim to use the full multi-media functionality of your blog; otherwise, you will be unlikely to get a +L3 mark.


You should make sure that you are consistently blogging about your work, going into some detail about the process. The blog should not just be descriptive - it should be analytical and insightful, explaining not simply what you have done but why you have done it, with some degree of appraisal.