City of God
Really helpful workbook found on SlideShare. Well worth reading and completing some of the tasks alongside the workbook you already have for this unit.
http://www.slideshare.net/mattheworegan/city-of-god-booklet
Sunday 1 December 2013
Sunday 8 September 2013
CCAD VISIT 16th SEPTEMBER: Attention all students applying for Film & Media courses at University
In the lesson on Monday 16th September Diane Fletcher (from CCAD) is joining us to speak about the Foundation Degree in TV & Film Production at CCAD.
As well as a course outline, she will offer you important tips about applying for uni courses and ideas about what types of work students go into once they have completed the course.
As well as a course outline, she will offer you important tips about applying for uni courses and ideas about what types of work students go into once they have completed the course.
A2 FILM COURSEWORK PRODUCTION: Introducing the Research Project
Welcome back!
As you know you are spending the first term completing your short films or screenplays and you will be making a significant start to your research project.
This week you will be asked to formulate some ideas for a possible research project by completing a proposal form.
The proposal form will be used for the initial assessment so fill it in carefully and make sure it is detailed.
As you know you are spending the first term completing your short films or screenplays and you will be making a significant start to your research project.
This week you will be asked to formulate some ideas for a possible research project by completing a proposal form.
The proposal form will be used for the initial assessment so fill it in carefully and make sure it is detailed.
Friday 14 June 2013
Film, Media & Arts Summer Exhibition
An opportunity to view the films, read the screenplays, eat popcorn and enjoy the work produced by the A level Film Students.
A level and Diploma Media work will also be exhibited on the ground floor of the Applegarth Building. Copies of Era magazine will be available to purchase.
Upstairs Art, Photography, Textiles, Graphics and Design & Technology work will be on display.
Sunday 12 May 2013
A2 Film Studies 2013 Short Films
Here are the completed films by A2 Film Students. As always, an interesting range of films and some inspired ideas.
Well done to all of you. Enjoy!
Brandon Middleditch: The Courier
Armin Peroznejad, Jack Bower, Blake Forrest: Fractured Reality
Yvonne Maxwell, Anna Leng: Pasta Way
Ethan Hogbin Helpless
Zoe Dean, Jonathan White, Anthony Pallister: Imaginarium
Charlotte Agar: A Different Perspective
Well done to all of you. Enjoy!
Brandon Middleditch: The Courier
Armin Peroznejad, Jack Bower, Blake Forrest: Fractured Reality
Yvonne Maxwell, Anna Leng: Pasta Way
Ethan Hogbin Helpless
Zoe Dean, Jonathan White, Anthony Pallister: Imaginarium
Charlotte Agar: A Different Perspective
FM2 Section C: Comparative US Film Study
Key Points:
National Lampoon's Vacation, 1983, Ramis
National Lampoon's comedy writing team, previous film production, Saturday Night Live. Recognised cast and crew.
Mainstream film $15 million budget
Made over £65 million at US BO
Warner Brothers
11th biggest film at US Box office in 1983.
Genre: Comedy / Road Movie
Slapstick and visual gags. "Laugh a minute" formula.
Everything is set up to create a joke.
Style of the film enhances this, consider how the music prepares us for the punchline in a very theatrical way. Consider how we see the jokes before they happen.
We are positioned to laugh at the expense of Clark and the Griswalds.
Stereotypes are used as short cut devices to deliver visual and obvious gags. Consider how some of these stereotypes are problematic today.
70s / early 80s attitudes to gender include examples of women being objectified. Ellen's topless scenes, Ferrari girl's role. We can apply ideas from Mulvey to this (Male gaze, male subject, female object).
We can link the film to the National Lampoon's audience (primarily male if we consider Animal House).
Themes / Messages / Values: Family, American Dream / Social Class, death, gender.
Narrative:
3 Acts (Todorov)
Cause and effect - classic narrative
Episodic events
Focus around Clark
Binary Opposites
Cultural codes (1980s, American middle classes, American representations, intertextual references to other films - Psycho, Chariots of Fire)
Little Miss Sunshine, 2006, Dayton and Farris
Debut feature length film, previous work: Music videos, advertisements
Independent film
Smart cinema example.
$8 million budget
Made over $100 million worldwide BO
Distribution rights purchased by Fox Searchlight
Genre: Road Movie / comedy / drama
Comedy is dark, satirical.
Situational comedy, farcical moments in life - as well as troubles, sadness, mundane moments.
Audience laugh with the family or laugh at social commentry, rather than at the family. Identify with scenarios.
Social comment on pageantry - false, sexualised representation of young girls.
Grandpa as a baby boomer, rebellious and free spirited compared to the more uptight, stressed Generation X of his son Richard. The spirit of Grandpa comes through and passes down to Richard (end of film.)
Very much a product of the noughties with implied anti-Bush sentiments - we identify with a dysfunctional family.
Liberal, middles class sentiments.
Themes, messages and values: Family, death, American dream and representations, gender, age.
Narrative:
3 Acts (Todorov)
Example of a question and plan of what to include:
National Lampoon's Vacation, 1983, Ramis
National Lampoon's comedy writing team, previous film production, Saturday Night Live. Recognised cast and crew.
Mainstream film $15 million budget
Made over £65 million at US BO
Warner Brothers
11th biggest film at US Box office in 1983.
Genre: Comedy / Road Movie
Slapstick and visual gags. "Laugh a minute" formula.
Everything is set up to create a joke.
Style of the film enhances this, consider how the music prepares us for the punchline in a very theatrical way. Consider how we see the jokes before they happen.
We are positioned to laugh at the expense of Clark and the Griswalds.
Stereotypes are used as short cut devices to deliver visual and obvious gags. Consider how some of these stereotypes are problematic today.
70s / early 80s attitudes to gender include examples of women being objectified. Ellen's topless scenes, Ferrari girl's role. We can apply ideas from Mulvey to this (Male gaze, male subject, female object).
We can link the film to the National Lampoon's audience (primarily male if we consider Animal House).
Themes / Messages / Values: Family, American Dream / Social Class, death, gender.
Narrative:
3 Acts (Todorov)
Cause and effect - classic narrative
Episodic events
Focus around Clark
Binary Opposites
Cultural codes (1980s, American middle classes, American representations, intertextual references to other films - Psycho, Chariots of Fire)
Little Miss Sunshine, 2006, Dayton and Farris
Debut feature length film, previous work: Music videos, advertisements
Independent film
Smart cinema example.
$8 million budget
Made over $100 million worldwide BO
Distribution rights purchased by Fox Searchlight
Genre: Road Movie / comedy / drama
Comedy is dark, satirical.
Situational comedy, farcical moments in life - as well as troubles, sadness, mundane moments.
Audience laugh with the family or laugh at social commentry, rather than at the family. Identify with scenarios.
Social comment on pageantry - false, sexualised representation of young girls.
Grandpa as a baby boomer, rebellious and free spirited compared to the more uptight, stressed Generation X of his son Richard. The spirit of Grandpa comes through and passes down to Richard (end of film.)
Very much a product of the noughties with implied anti-Bush sentiments - we identify with a dysfunctional family.
Liberal, middles class sentiments.
Themes, messages and values: Family, death, American dream and representations, gender, age.
Narrative:
3 Acts (Todorov)
Cause and effect - classic narrative
Focus around each family member who has their own narrative
Binary Opposites
Cultural codes (2000s, Bush, Sexualisation of children, financial struggles for middle classes, Nietzsche and Proust references to connect to characters, Baby boomer/ Generation X)
Example of a question and plan of what to include:
Thursday 31 January 2013
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