Welcome

My name is Adiel Mughal. I am an AS level Media Studies Student. On this blog you will find the planning and research, evaluation, premilary exercise and the masin task. For my AS level I amgoing to produce a 2 minuite opening for my own thriller film, this is the main task and everything to do with this task will go on this blog.

We will be focusing on the following:

Step 1: Take Stock

• What's the task?
• What's the assessment?
• What's the time frame?
• What's the equipment?

Task and Assessment:

• Titles and opening of a new fiction film
• Up to 2 minutes
• 20 mark research and planning
• 60 marks construction
• 20 marks evaluation

Time Frame and Equipment:

• Build your skills
• Build up your research
• Build up your planning
• Give yourselves time to shoot and edit
• Keep evidence throughout the whole process

Step 2: Set Up The Blog

• Keep evidence for everything that you do
• Fame, shot description/ location/ time/ actors/ props

Step 3: Build Up Skills:

• Sound
• Camerawork
• Editing

Step 4: Investigate

• What do film openings actually look like?
• What does other students work look like?
• What do you need to know about the titles?
• How are you going to do something that stands out?

Step 5: Brainstorm Ideas

• Possible scenarios for pitches/treatments
• 25 word pitch
• Mood board treatment
• Peer and teacher feed back
• Realistic expectations- keep it simple
• Know the film but make the opening

Step 6: Planning

• Experimenting with camera and editing
• Record shots of locations
• Example of shots, costumes, props etc... on to our blog
• Post it, story board, animatic mood board
• Logistics planning- including risk assessment

Step 7: The Shoots

• Peoples, places, props and costumes
• Rehearsing
• Equipment, jobs on the day
• Keeping a record of the process

Step 8: Edit

• All having a voice/ hand on it
• Screen grabs of process
• Importance of audio and titles
• Foley- not just music
• Rough cut deadline and peer feedback

Step 9: Evaluation

• Seven questions become sever tasks

Suggested Tasks:

• Nine frames
• Split screen comparisons
• Voice over on distribution
• Ideal target audience member

Task 2:

• How does your product represent particular social groupsprocess

Importance of audio and titles

Foley- not just music

Rough cut deadline and peer feedback