Friday, 15 January 2016
Advanced Portfolio Key Tasks Checklist
Advanced Portfolio
Key Tasks
Deadline: January 31st
2016
You will
need to make sure that the following key tasks have been completed and uploaded
to your blog:
- Three examples of film trailer analysis
- Individual film plot summary
- Group plot summary
- Storyboard – video and voice-over
- Three examples of film poster analysis
- Photographs of setting
- Photographs of props
- Animatic
- Evaluation of animatic
- First draft of film poster
- Audience feedback on animatic
- Three examples of film magazine front cover analysis
- Audience Moodboard
Remember to include
any research and planning that you have completed independently that is not in
the checklist!
Thursday, 1 October 2015
Trailer Analysis
Main Task
· Construction of a film trailer (Group)
Ancillary Tasks
· A film magazine front cover, featuring the film; (Individual)
· A poster for the film. (Individual)
Research and Planning
Before you begin to plan your film trailer, you will first need to carry out important research in relation to the following:
· The codes and conventions of your chosen film genre.
· The function of trailers as a promotional device.
· The codes and conventions of trailers.
· The structure of trailers.
· The expectations of the target audience for your chosen film genre.
· How do film trailers work?
· Where are film trailers most commonly found?
· Why do film studios use film trailers?
· Are film trailers effective promotional devices?
Research – Textual Analysis
Analyse three or more film trailers by answering the following questions:
1. What is the genre of the film?
2. How is the audience able to identify the genre of the film?
3. How does the trailer target an audience?
4. How long does the film trailer last?
5. How many shots are used in the trailer?
6. What transitions are used in the trailer?
7. How is diegetic sound used in the trailer? – Focus on dialogue and sound effects.
8. How is non-diegetic sound used in the trailer? – Focus on music and sound effects.
9. How does the trailer represent characters and their relationships?
10. How does the trailer create a sense of narrative?
11. What does the trailer reveal about the plot of the film?
12. How does the trailer create a code of enigma?
13. How does the trailer use titles to communicate with the audience?
14. How does the trailer establish the mood and expectations of the film?
15. What types of camera shots and angles are used most commonly in trailers?
16. How is mise-en-scene constructed in trailers?
17. Why has the film studio used the trailer to market its product?
18. How successful is the film trailer in targeting an audience?
19. Make a list of 10 codes and conventions that you have identified in the film you have analysed.
20. How effective are film trailers as a promotional device for films?
· Construction of a film trailer (Group)
Ancillary Tasks
· A film magazine front cover, featuring the film; (Individual)
· A poster for the film. (Individual)
Research and Planning
Before you begin to plan your film trailer, you will first need to carry out important research in relation to the following:
· The codes and conventions of your chosen film genre.
· The function of trailers as a promotional device.
· The codes and conventions of trailers.
· The structure of trailers.
· The expectations of the target audience for your chosen film genre.
· How do film trailers work?
· Where are film trailers most commonly found?
· Why do film studios use film trailers?
· Are film trailers effective promotional devices?
Research – Textual Analysis
Analyse three or more film trailers by answering the following questions:
1. What is the genre of the film?
2. How is the audience able to identify the genre of the film?
3. How does the trailer target an audience?
4. How long does the film trailer last?
5. How many shots are used in the trailer?
6. What transitions are used in the trailer?
7. How is diegetic sound used in the trailer? – Focus on dialogue and sound effects.
8. How is non-diegetic sound used in the trailer? – Focus on music and sound effects.
9. How does the trailer represent characters and their relationships?
10. How does the trailer create a sense of narrative?
11. What does the trailer reveal about the plot of the film?
12. How does the trailer create a code of enigma?
13. How does the trailer use titles to communicate with the audience?
14. How does the trailer establish the mood and expectations of the film?
15. What types of camera shots and angles are used most commonly in trailers?
16. How is mise-en-scene constructed in trailers?
17. Why has the film studio used the trailer to market its product?
18. How successful is the film trailer in targeting an audience?
19. Make a list of 10 codes and conventions that you have identified in the film you have analysed.
20. How effective are film trailers as a promotional device for films?
Blog Checklist - October 2015
Blog Checklist
You must make sure that you keep your blog up to date with all of the research and planning that you carry out for the Advanced Production.By November/December you should have completed and uploaded the following evidence for research and planning:
- Your original individual plot synopsis
- The group plot synopsis
- Analysis of the codes and conventions of genre films (x3)
- Analysis of the codes and conventions of trailers (x3)
- Youtube links to videos
- Storyboard (Slideshare)
- Audience research - questionnaires
- Audience research - evluation of results
- Audience research - profile/moodboard
- Information about classification
- Secondary research - critical theory about your chosen genre
- Information about costumes and props (photographs)
- Information about actors (photographs)
- Information about setting - location shots
- Health and safety checks/authorisation to use locations
- The animatic
- Focus group response to animatic
- Interviews with target audience
- Any other ideas that you might use to show evidence of research and planning
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