Friday, 19 September 2014

WHAT TO POST BY THE DEADLINE ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH

Entangled | Short Cuts Canada | TIFF 2014 from TIFF on Vimeo.



Deadline One: Initial Research (refer to pages 4-6 of booklet)

- Your initial summer research on short films should be returned to and you should have acted upon comments made.
- Each group member to post research into a further 5 – 7 short films.  Remember to apply MRANG to each film.  See page 5-6 of booklet for guidance.
- Comment on aspects of the films you find successful or interesting, and suggest elements of these films that could inspire your group’s work.
- Complete a separate posting on titles and credits and document similarities and differences here and any initial ideas that you have - consider how the title works to intrigue the audience - can you account for the choice? Consider and explain the choice of font, colour, placement of title in the film itself (at start? after film starts?)
- Suggest audience profile for each, commenting on what may be learned by where the film was found (eg Youtube? Virgin Media? vimeo etc)
- Think about structure, format (multi-media) and variety of posts
- Clearly label each post with your Name, a title of “Initial research into Short Films” and then follow the advice at the bottom of page 4.

Friday September 26th midnight.

SHORT FILM EXAMPLES

I'll be posting some more ideas of where to go to look for short film research inspiration. Here is a link to vime 'SHORT CUTS' - the new short film strand on vimeo.

Burnt Grass | Short Cuts Canada | TIFF 2014 from TIFF on Vimeo.

NEW LINK ON THE RIGHT TO 'FILM MAKER MAGAZINE' ON SHORT FILM AND TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL

There are some great comments here about the problems with distributing short films, and the concept of audience. Notice also the links to award winning short films from the Toronto Film Festival (one of the most important in the film festival calendar). Link here to the page directly, or use the link list on the right hand bar.

Sunday, 14 September 2014

WELCOME TO MY 2014-15 BLOG!


Welcome to my Advanced Portfolio Blog for 2014-15! 
Check here for advice, links, examples of good work, and reminders of deadlines.
Good luck on your journey to excellence!
Here's a link to the Toronto Film Festival results for short films and other categories. Keep up with festival film news!

We're in the process now of checking that you have completed all of the Summer holiday work. Your research deadline is Friday September 26th

Thursday, 20 February 2014

YOUR FINAL CHANCE TO IMPROVE YOUR GRADE!!!

We have marked your Short film and Poster work over half term. 

Read our comments.

We have indicated ways in which you can return to these products and improve them.  The suggestions that we make are fairly achievable in the limited time that we are giving over to you.  For some groups, we may not have made any suggestions because it is not worth the investment in time, and you would be better served by working harder on the exam based assessment.  However, it is likely that you have been given comments about the Poster or Review instead.

You have TWO weeks in which to make these alterations (DEADLINE MARCH 7TH) AND THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER TIME ALLOWED - THESE ARE FINAL CHANGES.

If you do act on our advice, you must write a new post and label it - "Final improvements to Short film and Poster" and write an explanation of what you have changed (including timings for film alterations) and why.  We will then know that we need to re-mark the work.  No comment will mean that we will assume that no alterations have been made.

These alterations will need to be done in your own time - no lesson time will be given over to this.  In addition, normal Media Studies homework deadlines will continue and must be met.

Friday, 24 January 2014

EXTENSION TO FINAL EVALUATION DEADLINE

You should be aware by now that the final deadline for the EVALUATION has been extended as follows:


Revised Media Studies A2 deadline for the evaluation.
 We have decided to alter the final deadline. 
Drafts with comments on how to improve will be returned by the end of January.
 The new revised final deadline will be Midnight Wednesday February 12th.

Monday, 6 January 2014

EVALUATION DRAFT DEADLINE IS MONDAY JAN 6TH!

 HAPPY NEW YEAR, AND WELCOME BACK!
If you met this deadline, you can expect full feedback from us.
If you have not, you cannot expect the same level of support (as was explained in your original briefing lesson on this element).

YOUR FINAL EVALUATION DEADLINE IS:
SUNDAY JANUARY 25TH, MIDNIGHT.