The Annual Spooky Story Contest Has Arrived!

 

For inspiration for your own horror films click on the image!

D&AD New Blood Awards Competition

The D&AD New Blood Awards: 17 mind-blowing real world briefs just waiting for your creative magic. As usual, all are set by killer clients and judged by the top superstar creatives of your dreams.

But why put yourself through the sleepless nights, nail biting tension and gruelling pace of solving these top-notch challenges? Winning truly marks you out as one of the best. 

It all starts with a Pencil. Simple.

Check out the different briefs set by the companies here:

http://www.dandad.org/en/new-blood-awards/

Example G324 horror trailer submissions

Find below links to other students' submissions (from other centres) for G324 horror trailers:

What to do with a degree in Media Studies?

As many of you have chosen to delve into Media degrees this may be worth a read:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/apr/24/degree-media-studies

Welcome to A2 OCR Media Studies 2015-16

 

Email contact: mottram@nmbec.org.uk

YEAR 13 TASK AND ANCILLARY TASK DEADLINES

1.     Completion of filming and capturing of footage be shown to ARO/MMM in lesson   28.11.14

2.     Show class a rough cut of your trailer for audience research                     Friday 5.12.14

3.     All research and planning on blogs complete                                           Friday 19.12.14

4.     Editing and trailer complete                                                                 Friday 14.01.15 

5.     Completion of magazine and film poster                                                 Friday 23.01.15 

6.     Film premiere and presentation of magazine and film poster                       Friday 30.01.15

7.     Evaluations complete and uploaded to blog                                            Friday 13.01.15

8.     Blogs completed (80 posts minimum)                                                    Monday 23.02.15

To do:

·         Shooting schedule, shot list, prop list, call lists
·         Test shots
·         Complete filming & photography
·         Complete editing
·         Audience research (filming their reactions to certain scenes during the editing process)
·         Show class a rough cut
·         Take photos for ancillary tasks (magazine cover and film poster)
·         Complete ancillary tasks
·         Prepare invitations to invite your audience to the film premiere
·         Prepare speeches to present your products in the film premiere
·         Prepare questionnaires for all products for audience feedback
·         Prepare evaluations of your complete project, splitting it into these four evaluation questions:

1.     In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2.     How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3.     What have you learned from your audience feedback?

4.     How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

NB: Use a different medium (e.g. prezi/podcast/video diary/moviemaker) for each question and upload onto blog

Does the Daily Express have an agenda?