More tasks

Hi Folks

Some more things for you to work on:

 1. Look at the target audience for the film and how each film attracted their target audience.

2. What type of company distributes your chosen films?

3. How have social groups been represented in these films and how does this relate to the target audience?

4. What are audience expectations for these films?

5. Try and present your findings in an interesting digital format (video-log, Glogster, Prezi, Wordle, Soundcloud, Slideshare, Blogger, Charts, Graphs, Questionnaires etc).

** Also, please ensure that you have analysed the title sequence of 2 films, making a note of all of the timings of director, actors, roles etc etc**

WORK DUE FOR MONDAY 18 JANUARY

Hi Folks

As you are on Work Experience next week, it is important that you continue to do research, otherwise you will be very far behind.

Now that you have chosen your genre, you need to analyse what the codes and conventions (or the set rules that your type of film follows so that the audience is quickly able to identify the type of film they are watching) of your genre are.

Once you have this done, begin to analyse in terms of 
1 titles
2 music
3 shot types
4 mise en scene
5 recurring themes and character types
 and whether each film follows or challenges the codes and conventions for this genre. If you are working in a group, choose 5 DIFFERENT films to analyse.

THIS TASK IS TO BE COMPLETED FOR MONDAY 18 JANUARY. THANKS!

Main Task

It's very useful to have a look at http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/coursework-with-levels.html to get a sense of expectations and mark bands before you begin.

The brief:

Video 
Preliminary exercise: 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. 
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. 
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group. 

Full Specifciation: http://www.ocr.org.uk/images/81037-specification.pdf

There are 20 marks available for research and planning your project. The tasks detailed below will help you maximise your marks for this area:

1.You will give a detailed analysis of the codes and conventions of the chosen genre/sub-genre you have picked (this MUST NOT be a copy and paste exercise).

2. I would suggest that you would then choose a minimum of FIVE films to analyse in terms of titles, music, shot types, mise en scene and whether this film follows or challenges the codes and conventions for this genre. If you are working in a group, choose 5 DIFFERENT films to analyse.

3. Look at the target audience for the film and how each film attracted their target audience.

3. What type of company distributes your chosen films?

4. How have social groups been represented in these films and how does this relate to the target audience?

5. What are audience expectations for these films?

6. Try and present your findings in an interesting digital format (video-log, Glogster, Prezi, Wordle, Soundcloud, Slideshare, Blogger, Charts, Graphs, Questionnaires etc).