AS Media - Thriller Coursework - TITLES

Format of TITLES for AS Thriller Coursework

After the IDENT use a FADE IN. The titles should then be in the following order:
(1) 'Your Production Company' Presents
(2) A Film by 'One name - usually the director'
(3) Starring or With
(4) Male star
(5) Female star or other way round
(6) Title of film - or could be at the end
(7) Also starring - 2/3/names - each on seperate title
(8) Then 3/4/5 of the following - you choose - each on seperate title
Editing
Music
Cinematography or Director of Photography
Casting
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Script
(9) Then Producer(s) - can be more than one
(10) Always finish with Director - one name, usually the same as A Film By ...
(11) Could put title here
Remember to use LiveType and try to make titles interesting. They can be either over black or superimposed over your film. Space them out over the two minutes of the film.Give the audience plenty of time to read the titles. 
(12) Finish with a fade out & fade music out

AS Evaluation Questions

Christmas Holiday Blog Catch Up

Over Christmas catch up on your blog. You need to have completed the following posts on your blog:

• Welcome Post
• Macro Features:
• Genre
• Narrative
• Micro Feature:
• Cinematography (Shot Type/Camera Movements)
• Camera Exercise (Embedded from Youtube)
• Camera Exercise Evaluation
• Micro Feature:
• Sound
• Sound Exercise (Embedded from YouTube)
• Sound Exercise Evaluation
• Thriller Recipe and Conventions (i.e. MacGuffin, etc.)
• Alfred Hitchcock
• North By NorthWest Analysis
• Psycho Analysis
• The Birds Analysis
• The Manchurian Candidate Analysis
• Micro Feature:
• Lighting
• Lighting Exercise (Embedded from Blog/YouTube) 
• Mise - en - Scene
• Continuity Editing
• Speed of Editing
• Style of Editing
• Preliminary Exercise (Embedded from YouTube)
• Preliminary Exercise Evaluation
• Past Student Thriller Analysis (http://www.youtube.com/user/robertclackmedia/videos?flow=grid&view=1)
• Collateral
• Source Code
• No Country For Old Men
• Planning Documents
• Treatment
• Shooting Schedule
• Location Sheet
• Costumes and Props
• Shot List
• Risk Assessment
• Storyboard
• Animatic
• Analysis of Title Sequences
• Own Title Sequence
• Production Company Ident Analysis
• Production Company Ident (Embed)

Planning Documents

The following documents will provide extra evidence of planning, please download, complete and upload on to your blogs:

Treatment

Location Sheet

Risk Assessment

Costumes and Props Sheet

Shot List

Shooting Schedule

No Country For Old Men

Collateral

The Catalyst - Michael Banahene, Connor Heather, Joe Glenister, Tom Cameron

Waking Up - By Connor Cahill-Hayes & Aaron Gaston

Source Code

Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

AS Media Studies – Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

Your task is to critically assess your Preliminary Exercise.

      ·        Start by explaining the story you were trying to tell

      ·        Did you include all of the listed editing techniques, if not, why not?

      ·        Carefully explain how you created each of the following:

o   Match on Action

o   Eye line Match

o   Shot, Reverse Shot

o   180 Degree

      ·        Critically assess your own technical capabilities.

o   Did you use each technique accurately?

o   Did you make any mistakes? If so, what went wrong and what would you do differently next time?

      ·        Overall

o   What are the most positive elements of your film (what did you do well?)

o   Where in your film would you need to make improvements?

At the end of the course you will have to assess the progress you have made from this task to the final product.  You will be able to make reference to this piece of work.

Complete this assignment in Microsoft Word first, then post it on your blog

Preliminary Task

You will be demonstrating understanding of continuity editing in the first piece of 

coursework.

This is the PRELIMINARY TASK

This must be completed and posted onto your blog before you begin the THRILLER COURSEWORK

The preliminary task is a demonstration of CONTINUITY EDITING. It must show you can successfully use:

• Match on Action
• Shot/Reverse Shot
• 180 degree rule
• Eyeline match

In the sequence we should see the following action unfold:

• Character A walks towards a closed door
• Character A enters through the door and crosses a room to where character B is seated.
• Characters A and B exchange a few lines of dialogue.
• There is at least one use of an eyeline match
• Character A exits the room

    Script:

Character A Enters the room and walks toward Character B.

Character A:                  Do you have it?

Character B:                  What’s the password?

A:                                 Which way are the birds flying?

B:                                  South. Have you got the money?

A:                                  Yes. (Hands over envelope)

Character B hands over the package. Character A exits the room.

The Thriller Recipe

AS Half Term Blog Catch-up!!!

By the end of Half Term you need to have completed the following posts on your blog:

• Welcome Post
• Macro Features:
• Genre
• Narrative
• Micro Feature:
• Cinematography (Shot Type/Camera Movements)
• Camera Exercise (Embedded from Youtube)
• Camera Exercise Evaluation
• Micro Feature:
• Sound
• Sound Exercise (Embedded from YouTube)
• Sound Exercise Evaluation
• Thriller Recipe and Conventions (i.e. MacGuffin, etc.)
• Alfred Hitchcock
• North By NorthWest Analysis
• Psycho Analysis
• The Birds Analysis
• The Manchurian Candidate Analysis
• Micro Feature:
• Lighting
• Lighting Exercise (Embedded from Blog/YouTube) 
• Mise - en - Scene

Psycho

The Manchurian Candidate

The Birds

North By Northwest

Thriller Recipe

Evaluation Questions

 AS Foundation Portfolio

The Brief 

 You have been asked to produce the titles and opening sequence of a new fiction film in the thriller genre

The sequence should last a maximum of two minutes.

You may work in a group of 2 - 4 students.

As acting is not assessed you are free to use actors that are not members of your group.

The film is worth 60% of your coursework grade.

The accompanying blog is worth 40% of your coursework grade

Together the Foundation Portfolio is worth 50% of the overall AS Level.