Welcome
Hello everyone and welcome to AS Media Studies!
We are very excited to be following a new brief this year of an opening sequence to a film genre of your choice. Hope you don't find blogger too annoying everyone masters it in the end and it's how we send all your work to the examiners.
Miss Shuttle and Miss Brookes are always at hand to help so don't hesitate to ask.
Good luck in all your A level choices.
We are very excited to be following a new brief this year of an opening sequence to a film genre of your choice. Hope you don't find blogger too annoying everyone masters it in the end and it's how we send all your work to the examiners.
Miss Shuttle and Miss Brookes are always at hand to help so don't hesitate to ask.
Good luck in all your A level choices.
Video
Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.
Evaluation (see evaluation)
Assessment
Level 4 48–60 marks
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
material appropriate for the target audience and task;
using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
shooting material appropriate to the task set;, including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.