Media teacher

My Year 10 Media class are submitting their work through a blog to make the work more authentic. Everything they put up on the blog can be seen by anyone, and therefore should be treated seriously. Come in and have a look at what they have learned.

• Joseph
• Anthony
• Daniel
• Peter
• James
• Luke
• Dylan
• Adrian

First week homework (15/7/16):

• Genre 2016 worksheet
• Send me the link to your blog
• Complete your first entry: best films 2008-2016

First Practical Activity:

Recreating a Famous Movie Scene

film exercises criteria

On your blog:

• Upload the storyboard
• Discuss what makes it a good scene
• Link to the YouTube clip
• Link to your scene recreation

Second Practical Activity

On your blog:

• List a few cliches from your genre
• Pick one to illustrate as a short film
• film it, edit it, upload it.

Week 5 classwork (26.2)

• Find three different movie reviews of a movie that you have seen.
  • Provide links to these on your blog
• Copy every descriptive word into a document. Highlight those that are specific to movies and movie reviews.
• Come up with a table containing lists of descriptive words for:
  • Actors
  • Story/plot
  • Direction
  • Special effects
• Write a two paragraph review of a movie that you have seen (not the one from above).
• Post to your blog.

Movie Trailer Requirements

• Storyboard – around 60 frames
• Script – using Celtx – include shots and camera movement, titles and voiceovers
• Shot list
• Set, props and costumes list.
• Weekly production journal entry on blog including images and short video clips when necessary

AND THEN

• You can film (but not until then)

Production Journal Questions

Tell me what you’ve learned during the past week – from using software, from filming, from lessons, from classmates. (2 marks x 5 entries)

How will you use the things you’ve learned in your production? (2 marks x 5 entries)

What difficulties did you have during the past week? (2 marks x 5 entries)

What ideas did you have that you can use in this and future projects? (2 marks x 5 entries)

Describe your team’s progress on the project. (2 marks x 5 entries)

Script example (from www.writersstore.com)