•      "Giving feedback to my year 12 class I felt a bit like Jack Nicholson in the Shining repeating the same thing over and over again for months."
    Mr Sloan - Media Teacher

    Its difficult trying to find lots of ways to say "you didn't do enough work" but after today's lesson hopefully you get the message now.

    Here are some revision guides and resources I have put in dropbox for you ("thanks sir")

    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t2e2t4eobm6ezov/vyZzxe_PKn

    Hope they help. This week we must get our detailed case study information sorted out for good!
  • I don't know why i have this picture here but this post is about Editing. Anyway...





    So as practice here is your clip. Can you just analyse the use of editing in this clip please. Leave two comments each below.

    Good luck


  • Ok there is no actual treasure, except of course knowledge for your AS level exam which is worth more than gold, obviously!

    Ok

    Step 1: Use your phones to find @mrsloan on twitter

    Step 2: Follow him

    Step 3: Find the tweet that gives you a link to the BFI statistical year book

    Step 4: Write 5 interesting statistics about the UK film industry this year.

    Step 5: Find 5 news or internet articles about Film marketing this year. Post the links on your blog but summarise the content of the article into a sentence or two, explaining why this is relevant to your exam.

    Step 6: Post up information about the marketing and promotion of your two case study films.

    Step 7: Post up the two film posters and any trailers for your films plus examples of their other forms of cross promotion, merchandise, viral videos etc.

    Step 8: tweet @mrsloan with a link to your days work.



    When complete...Relax..You are a media guru. Ommmmmmmmmmm !





  • Today's lesson: Target Audiences.

    You need to design a T.A.P that is detailed and helps inform how your magazine will look and what it will contain.

    Here are a couple of examples





    I want them on your blogs before thursday!

    Get to work!
  • I would never ever advise that you write LOL but actually this story is quite funny so .. LOL..

    http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/10/noel-clarke-storage-24-lowest-grossing-us-film

    The guy who brought you Kidulthood and Adulthood made a film called Storage 24 and it made a wopping... $44!!! In the whole of America ! Your cowboy films could have made more !

    How could you use this type of relevant contemprary example in your exam?

  • I have just recieved this email from the people at Hackney Picture House:

    Industry Insiders: Free course about the film industry at Hackney Picturehouse for 15-19 year olds as part of the Discover Young Hackney festival


    Want to find out more about working in the film industry?  Meet film distributors, programmers, cinema managers, film distributors, festival organisers, film reviewers, marketing bods and of course filmmakers in a 6 week course giving you an exclusive insight into careers in the film industry.
     

    Our Industry Insiders will also get to curate, promote and deliver two special screenings as part of the DISCOVER YOUNG HACKNEY festival with support from the Hackney Picturehouse.

    The course will run every Wednesday from 15th Jan - 19th February (6 weeks) from 6-9pm at Hackney Picturehouse, 270 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 1HE.

    To register for a FREE place for the course, email Leah Byrne at leah.b@picturehouses.co.uk with your name, age and telephone number and a few words about why you would like to be involved.

    Places are limited, and will be allocated by Friday 10 January.

     --

    Leah Byrne

    Audience Development Manager


    You should all apply immediatley ! This is a great opportunity for you to get much needed help for your research project that you will present in your exam. Let me know if you have any questions but really just get emailing that email address above and ask for a place.

    Good Luck




  • For those of you who weren't in today:




    We looked at a couple of clips, the wolf of wall street trailer (embedded in the prezi) and also the ocr exam from a couple of years ago which was from the tv drama ... fingersmith! (embedded below). Try writing 5 or 6 excellent exam style sentences about the representations of characters, using a sound term.



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