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.

Preliminary exercise

Each group a different genre -
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.

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/editing.htm scroll down for a description of shot reverse shot and match on action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4wX_dmh8_g  - 180degree rule


Annoying music but useful and true! Some helpful hints.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etVxvl6mcJ8&feature=related