Saturday, 16 May 2015
2015 A2 and AS Film Projects
Hospital Bed - AS Film - Sarah Maxwell, Olivia Granger, Heather Armstrong, Molly Wilson
Pandora's Box - Natalie Stebbings
Pandora's Box - Hayley Wilson
Suspicion - Connor Welsh
Nightmare - Benjamin Jones
Angels - Georgia Booth
Soul Mates - Hannah Tempestoso
Lucida - Alice Bell, Nancy Bytheway, Ema Mullen
The Chauffeur - Jack Blakeley
Repeat - Connor Welham, Jack Storey, Alex Smith
Into The Woods - AS Film sequence - Rebecca Carroll, Karen Taggert, Lauren Khurana
The Post - AS Film short - Glyn Husband, Aaron James
Doll - AS Short film - Rebecca Siddall, Jessica Robson, Alexa Singleton
Thursday, 10 July 2014
2014 A2 Films
Well done to the A2 Film Students for their superb coursework. A range of screenplays were produced and the following short films:
The Box - Luke Cartwright
Cutting Edge - Matthew Davies & Ruben Murphy
My World - Andrew Thomson
Premonition of Mann - Matthew Wilson, Tom Gates, Tom Loftus, Alex Wright
Reflection - Katie Mitchell (Antonie Thomas, Natalia Edwards and Emily Wears)
One Year - James Yates
The Box - Luke Cartwright
Cutting Edge - Matthew Davies & Ruben Murphy
My World - Andrew Thomson
Premonition of Mann - Matthew Wilson, Tom Gates, Tom Loftus, Alex Wright
Reflection - Katie Mitchell (Antonie Thomas, Natalia Edwards and Emily Wears)
One Year - James Yates
60ish second films
In the final lesson of AS Film the task was to plan, film and edit a 60 second version of a feature length film. Here are the results:
The Big Lebowski - retold through the best quotes, some shocking wigs and a little bit of help from the real film. (Ben Beckett, Will Todd and Jack Blakeley.)
127 hours - re-imagined as a student who finds himself trapped on the way to a lesson.
(Benjamin Jones & Noah Harrison.)
Edward Edward Scissorhands - great use of paper, wigs and scissors.
(Hayley Wilson, Natalie Stebbings, Charlotte Walkett, Adam Young, Hannah Tempestoso.)
The Big Lebowski - retold through the best quotes, some shocking wigs and a little bit of help from the real film. (Ben Beckett, Will Todd and Jack Blakeley.)
127 hours - re-imagined as a student who finds himself trapped on the way to a lesson.
(Benjamin Jones & Noah Harrison.)
Edward Edward Scissorhands - great use of paper, wigs and scissors.
(Hayley Wilson, Natalie Stebbings, Charlotte Walkett, Adam Young, Hannah Tempestoso.)
Saturday, 22 February 2014
Sunday, 1 December 2013
WORLD CINEMA
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
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, 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
Friday, 14 December 2012
SIGHTSEERS British Film Case Study
2013: FM1 SECTION A: PRODUCERS AND AUDIENCES
Independent British film case study: Sightseers
Director: Ben Wheatley (Kill List)
Producer: Edgar Wright
Genre: Roadmovie, dark comedy
IMDb page: http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt2023690/
Trailer:
ARTICLE FROM SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
Why Sightseers is the British film of the year | Opinion/Comment | Screen
Quote from article:
"The film itself is brilliant and original — showing characters we’ve never seen before on screen in locations we’ve never seen on screen. It is faultlessly crafted, expertly paced and blackly comic, but with some moments of warmth amidst the chicken sacrifices and bashed-in skulls."
ARTICLE FROM BOXOFFICEBUZ.COM
http://boxofficebuz.com/news_full.php?id=5849
Quote from article:
"An all-round disappointing affair from people who could, and will, do so much better."
Monday, 26 November 2012
Saturday, 21 January 2012
A2 FILM STUDIES STUDENT FILMS 2011- 2012
TRIPTYCH Film by Chris Parker, Callum Lamb and Jess Wagner
WHO FRAMED CHARLIE CHAPLIN Film by Caitlin Boak and Megan Humphrey
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Film by Matthew Hunter and Ben Jefferson
DISTURBED Film by Jess Marshall, Tori Scott, Paul Duncalfe, Autumn White
PIE IN THE SKY Film by Jade Lanaway
Sunday, 15 January 2012
FM2 SECTION A: Funding British Cinema Debate
Following the closure of the UK Film Council David Cameron has announced that the British film industry should focus more on supporting commercially successful pictures.
- Andrew Pulver's article for The Guardian weighs up the arguments from both sides.
- The Telegraph article response to the same news here.
- BBC News with Ken Loach video link.
Read the information and watch the clip to help you to consider the arguments for and against such a decision.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
AS FILM 2012: FM2 SECTION B: BRITISH FILM - THE HORROR GENRE
For this unit we will be studying 2 British horror films:
Both films were released in 2008.
Mark Kermode reviews Eden Lake here
Sightonsound provide a podcast review here
AIMS:
We will be focusing on what defines British horror. We will investigate the production of the 2 films using some of this information for FM2 Section A.
When studying the 2 horror films our ultimate concerns are narrative, themes and representation.
Kermode mentions The Final Girl concept in his review (Carol Clover) which will be useful in our study.
We will examine the representation and theme of children in the two films.
"Paedophobia" is a term used by Kermode and others to examine the fear of children present in such films.
We will use Andrew Tudor's narrative ideas about invasive threats and explore paranoid and secure horror narratives in order to understand these films further in relation to the genre of horror.
Through this investigation we will be asking ourselves "what makes a horror film?"
We will also be developing our understanding and appreciation of the 2 films as examples of British cinema.
Both films were released in 2008.
Mark Kermode reviews Eden Lake here
Sightonsound provide a podcast review here
AIMS:
We will be focusing on what defines British horror. We will investigate the production of the 2 films using some of this information for FM2 Section A.
When studying the 2 horror films our ultimate concerns are narrative, themes and representation.
Kermode mentions The Final Girl concept in his review (Carol Clover) which will be useful in our study.
We will examine the representation and theme of children in the two films.
"Paedophobia" is a term used by Kermode and others to examine the fear of children present in such films.
We will use Andrew Tudor's narrative ideas about invasive threats and explore paranoid and secure horror narratives in order to understand these films further in relation to the genre of horror.
Through this investigation we will be asking ourselves "what makes a horror film?"
We will also be developing our understanding and appreciation of the 2 films as examples of British cinema.
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
A2 FILM STUDIES
FM3 Section A SMALL SCALE RESEARCH PROJECT
Example of a research project studying Lynch under the framework auteur and examining how film noir has influenced his style. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhMmZpbG1zdHVkaWVzfGd4OjcxNGU0NDJlNmI2ZDRjN2M
FM3 Section A SMALL SCALE RESEARCH PROJECT
Example of a research project studying Lynch under the framework auteur and examining how film noir has influenced his style. http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhMmZpbG1zdHVkaWVzfGd4OjcxNGU0NDJlNmI2ZDRjN2M
AS FILM STUDIES 1st TASK
AS FILM HOMEWORK TASK 1
1. You need to choose a 5 minute sequence from a film of your choice.
Week by week you will apply what has been studied in class to your own film extract.
Your sequence needs to therefore be one that you are happy to study again and again.
You will be examining PERFORMANCE, MISE EN SCENE, SOUND, CINEMATOGRAPHY and EDITING in the extract.
It is best not to pick an animated film for this study.
2. Once you have chosen your film you need to visit the Internet Movie Database website www.imdb.com and find out the following details:
The director of the film
The year of production
The running time
The genre
The budget (if possible)
The country of origin
You need to present this information in a word processed document underneath the title of the film.
3. You must then write a small explanation as to why you have chosen the film and the particular sequence from that film as your case study piece.
I look forward to reading your choices and reasons.
1. You need to choose a 5 minute sequence from a film of your choice.
Week by week you will apply what has been studied in class to your own film extract.
Your sequence needs to therefore be one that you are happy to study again and again.
You will be examining PERFORMANCE, MISE EN SCENE, SOUND, CINEMATOGRAPHY and EDITING in the extract.
It is best not to pick an animated film for this study.
2. Once you have chosen your film you need to visit the Internet Movie Database website www.imdb.com and find out the following details:
The director of the film
The year of production
The running time
The genre
The budget (if possible)
The country of origin
You need to present this information in a word processed document underneath the title of the film.
3. You must then write a small explanation as to why you have chosen the film and the particular sequence from that film as your case study piece.
I look forward to reading your choices and reasons.
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Monday, 9 May 2011
AS FILM SECTION A EXAM REVISION
FM2 Section A:
This is all about PRODUCERS and AUDIENCES.
You must respond to case study material and bring in your own examples to help you to answer the question.
Useful sources to find out a bit more about the film industry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/subjects/VGVmL3N1YmplY3QvYnJpdGlzaCBjaW5lbWE
This Radio 4 source allows you to listen to a range of programmes concerning the world of cinema.
This is all about PRODUCERS and AUDIENCES.
You must respond to case study material and bring in your own examples to help you to answer the question.
Useful sources to find out a bit more about the film industry:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/subjects/VGVmL3N1YmplY3QvYnJpdGlzaCBjaW5lbWE
This Radio 4 source allows you to listen to a range of programmes concerning the world of cinema.
Other ways to revise and prepare:
- Watch some film trailers for 4 films due to be released this month. How are they advertised? Who is their target audience? How do they appeal to the target audience?
- Visit this link (Pearl & Dean and remind yourself about cinema audiences) http://business.pearlanddean.com/audience_profile
- Go over your Winter's Bone notes from the Roy Stafford event. He told you some very important and useful facts about cinema, distribution, audiences and exhibition.
- Look at earlier posts on this blog for actor rates, British film information, marketing.
- Look at this weeks listings for Showcase (Stockton) Cineworld (Middlesbrough) and the Arc (Stockton) to see what choice and variation the cinemas have to offer. Compare these to what films are showing in London, Manchester, Bradford to get a sense of audiences being catered for.
- Use your own blogs to revise: You should have a completed british film case study, Paul marketing information, new Hollywood information, BBFC information.
- Revise using class notes. We have covered Hollywood studio system, New Hollywood, New New Hollywood, High Concept films, Hays Code, BBFC, Internet marketing and Word of Mouse, new media technology and film, festivals, multiplex and film choice and experience, independent film and cinemas, British film companies, piracy, Straight to DVD, TV film screening, awards ceremonies, stardom, fandom, Orange Wednesdays, Where film ideas come from, Opening Weekends, case studies include Birdemic, Christian Bale bad publicity, Blair Witch Project starting Internet marketing revolution, more recent examples include Cloverfield, but also think about Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Harry Potter, Paul, Oscars 2011, Pi Faith in Chaos (Aranofsky), Garden State (Zac Braff), The Last Broadcast (Avalos)
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