Homework

• Sound blog task
• Editing blog task
• Short Film Analysis

Due: Friday 30th September

Short Film Analysis

Below you will links to The BBC Film Network - this has a vast array of short films that you can analyse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004221f
http://www.thefilmnetwork.co.uk/ (You have to sign up for this)

Homework:

Choose 1 short film and analyse how the micro features (you won't be doing editing) have been used to communicate meaning the audience. The title of your post should be 'An analysis of how the micro features have been used in [Film, Dir, Year] to communicate meaning'.

The micro features you need to analyse are:

• Mise-en-scene
• Camera work (cinematography)
• Sound

Due: Friday 30th September

Editing

Put the definitions of the following terms on your blog where possible include textual examples (e.g. clips from films)

• Montage
• Parallel editing
• Dissolve
• Elliptical Editing
• Jump Cut
• Match Cut
• Cut Away
• Graphic Match
• Rhythm & Pace
• Long Take
• Shot Reverse Shot
• 180 degree rule
• Straight Cut

Sound

Put the definitions of the following terms on your blog where possible include textual examples (e.g. clips from films)

• Diegetic sound
• Non-diegetic sound
• Voice over
• Sound bridge
• Foley sound
• Pleonastic sound
• Contrapuntal sound
• Parallel sound
• Silence (write about the impact of silence in films and how it's just as important as the soundtrack)

Unit 8: Assignment 2

Task 2

Types of contracts
Types of contracts 2
Types of contracts 3
Types of contracts 4

Task 3

 

Job roles within media industry from Gemma Pryke

Job roles 1
Marketing Job Roles
Media Management 

Assignment 1: Task 1 (year 13)

Research links:

Digitalisation key to growth of TV industry: James Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp reborn as publishing arm targets smartphones
News Corp: Digitisation key to unlocking India’s creative potential
News Corporation's Star TV partners with Prime Focus

Homework

Every week you would have completed some class tasks and blog tasks which enable me to assess your understanding of the topics taught and you will have one larger piece of homework. You can locate the blog tasks by using the 'Labels' gadget on the right hand side. I will try my best to also to a post like this one so you know what should be on your blog by when.

THIS WEEKS TO DOS:

• Purchase a ring binder folder
• Purchase a memory stick
• Create a blog
• Sign up to SlideShare
• Upload the M.I.G.R.A.I.N PowerPoint
• Complete Mise-en-scene blog tasks
• Upload Facial Expression and Body Languages class task (this was class work)
• Upload Positioning of Characters class task (this was class work)
• Upload Lighting class task (this was class work)
• Complete Semiotics task
• Complete Cinematography tasks

Major Homework: 

Click here and you'll find it

THIS IS ALL DUE ON FRIDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER

Homework

Every week you would have completed some class tasks and blog tasks which enable me to assess your understanding of the topics taught and you will have one larger piece of homework. You can locate the blog tasks by using the 'Labels' gadget on the right hand side. I will try my best to also to a post like this one so you know what should be on your blog by when.

THIS WEEKS TO DOS:

• Purchase a ring binder folder
• Purchase a memory stick
• Create a blog
• Sign up to SlideShare
• Upload the M.I.G.R.A.I.N PowerPoint
• Complete Mise-en-scene blog tasks
• Upload Facial Expression and Body Languages class task
• Upload Positioning of Characters class task
• Upload Lighting class task
• Complete Semiotics task
• Complete Cinematography tasks

Major Homework: 

Click here and you'll find it

THIS IS ALL DUE ON FRIDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER

Homework

Every week you would have completed some class tasks and blog tasks which enable me to assess your understanding of the topics taught and you will have one larger piece of homework. You can locate the blog tasks by using the 'Labels' gadget on the right hand side. I will try my best to also to a post like this one so you know what should be on your blog by when.

THIS WEEKS TO DOS:

• Purchase a ring binder folder
• Purchase a memory stick
• Create a blog
• Sign up to SlideShare
• Upload the M.I.G.R.A.I.N PowerPoint
• Complete Mise-en-scene blog tasks
• Upload Facial Expression and Body Languages class task
• Upload Positioning of Characters class task
• Upload Lighting class task
• Complete Semiotics task
• Complete Cinematography tasks

Major Homework: 

Click here and you'll find it

THIS IS ALL DUE ON FRIDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER

Unit 8 – assignment 1 task 2

Unit 8 – assignment 1 task 2 from Belinda Raji

Unit 10: Learning Aim A - Cinematography (Film Micro Features)

Blog tasks:

1. Find out what the descriptions are for the following shot types and why they would be used. Try to find examples of them and include screen shots

•       Medium Shot

•       Long Shot

•       Extreme long shot/ Establishing Shot

•       Medium long shot

•       Canted/ Dutch Tilt

2. Find out what the descriptions are for the following angles and movements and why they would be used. Try to find examples of them and include screen shots/ video

•       Tilt up

•       Tilt down

•       Tracking

•       Dolly

•       Crane

•       Handheld

•       Aerial/ Birdseye

•       Zoom

Blogging

You should have all started a blog by now, it's important that you have a blog as this will be your online portfolio for all of your work for the whole of the course. By Friday 16th September you have a minimum of two posts (with class work this should really be more!).

Post 1. Why did you choose BTEC Media Studies?
Post 2. You were supposed have copied the M.I.G.R.A.I.N powerpoint. You then have to sign up to http://www.slideshare.net upload your power point and then embed it on your blog.

Unit 8: Assignment 1

Unit 8 – Task 1 Research help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation

http://newscorp.com/about/leadership/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Fox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_21st_Century_Fox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp

http://quotes.wsj.com/FOX/company-people

Unit 8 – Task 2 Research help

Monopoly & Oligopoly

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/121514/what-are-major-differences-between-monopoly-and-oligopoly.asp#ixzz4K8staMfJ

http://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Business_economics/Cinema_case.html

Private & Public Ownership

http://ucmsianyy27.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/public-and-private-ownership.html

Film Lighting

Semiotics

Blog task:

1. What is semiotics?
2. Provide 3 examples to show you can apply the theory of semiotics

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Unit 10: Learning Aim A - Mise-en-scene (Film Micro Features)

Blog tasks:

1. Definition of mies-en-scene
2. What are the elements of mine-en-scene?
3. Definition of iconography
4. Provide examples of iconography (props and settings)
5. Write up at least 4 points from your notes on settings used in The Duchess sequence
6. Write up your notes on settings used in The Last King of Scotland
7. Choose a sequence from a film of your choice and discuss how costume communicates to the audience (if using YouTube embed clip on your blog)

Homework:

Write 500 words on a short sequence of film and analyse how the elements of miss-en-scene have been used to create meaning.