Deadline: Christmas

Filming should be underway by now...

Your blogs should be THE BEST they can be. Check that you have completed the following:
The purpose of a trailer
Trailer conventions
Research into similar trailers - inc. links and reasons why your trailer will be similar
Pre-production planning- ideas
Storyboard
Classification of trailer research
Audience theory
Research into your target audience


Please proofread your posts.

What to do next...

Well done to most of you for keeping your blogs up-to-date. There are still a couple that are looking rather empty. PLANNING IS A LARGE PART OF YOUR FINAL MARK AND ALL YOUR PLANNNING MUST BE SHOWN THROUGH YOUR BLOG.

You should now be working on your storyboards/animatics. You may feel ready to start filiming but you must ensure that you have researched, in detail, similar trailers to yours. Make a note of this reearch on your blog.

Happy filming and blogging!

Complete the following by Friday 8th Oct

1. Updated blog posts including trailers conventions and purpose and initial ideas.
2. Research into similar trailers and analysis using terminology from AS. Try to look at 3/4 trailers at least. This should be added to your blog and the more detailed the better!
3. A detailed plan of your trailer, including spiderdiagrams of ideas, details of actors, plot, props, locations etc. This should also be added to your blog.
4. Begin to make a start on the storyboard for your trailer (refer to the sheet that I gave you in last Friday's lesson).

Need to refresh camera angles and movement?

If you click on the link this will take you to OCR's website. Scroll all the way down to the 'support documents'. Here you can watch very short videos on camera angles and camera movement. You should be using this terminology throughout your production.


http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/type/gce/amlw/media_studies/documents/index.html

The importance of SPG

Please can you ensure that you proofread your posts. There are too many mistakes that can be rectified simply by spell checking (click the ABC button when your are writing/editing a new post).

You should also ensure that you are using as much terminology as possible. Refer back to your Yr12 study and if you don't know that correct term then look it up or ask me!

These mistakes will not look good when it comes to external examiners marking your blog.

What you should have so far...

All of you, no sorry, some of you have done an excellent jobs of updating your blogs.

You should have a blog post that details the purpose of a trailer and the conventions that we would expect to find. The best of your posts have links to trailers and pictures. You should then have a post that explains your planning process so far for example, film ideas, spiderdiagrams that show this etc. You could show your ideas by creating a word document (or similar) and adding it to your post (as Lauren's done already!) or you could take a picture of your planning and then add the picture to your post.

In short, you should now have at least 3 blog posts.

Remember you must make your blog interactive, which means including links, pictures and videos.

Lastly, please 'follow' my blog so that you can keep up-to-date with any new blog posts - just click the 'follow' button on my blog page.

Inserting a video into your blog...

A 'HOW TO' TIP: You need to save your video to your desktop. Then simply click onto the video button in 'new post'. You can browse for your video and upload it.

I videoed my cat Pumpkin, just to check it worked - it took a while to upload though so make sure you're  patient when uploading yours.

Remember you should upload all stages of your video/trailer, not just the final cut.