Let it snow!

Hi team

Sadly our production deadline had to be extended due to the snow and the early closure of college. So, get your trailers finished by the end of the first week back and then we need to set up a in college screening for audience feedback.

I would also recommend uploading your productions to Youtube to get some feedback when they are complete.

Happy holidays and see you in the New Year.

A2 Media Studies: questions to consider for the evaluation

You need to be thinking about these questions all the time as they must be addressed in your evaluation.:

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?

These questions need to be answered in a formal or informal presentation to the whole class.

Reminder: Shooting Day on Tuesday 1st December

Tuesday is an entire day for you to film - so make the most of it!

Timetable for the day:
9am - all meet at the media suite. Both groups must give me their shooting schedule, so I know exactly where you are and when. Collect equipment.

Make sure you have with you:
Props
Shooting schedule
Equipment
Cast (!)

Meet back at school to debrief and show me shooting for the day:
13.30pm - Hauntsville Productions
14.30pm - 666 Productions

Good luck!

Any problems please phone the college and they'll put you through to me.

A2 Media Studies - The Seven Deadly Sins of Camerawork

Now you are about to embark on your filming - take a look at this film to help you avoid the obvious pitfalls.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Camerawork

G324 Advanced Production: deadlines for planning, filming and editing

The info you've all been waiting for:

Thursday 26th November 2009
Storyboards uploaded
Shooting schedules
Prop list
Cast list
Call sheets
Group roles

Monday 7th December 2009
All filming complete (inc. full day on DLD 01.12.09)

Wednesday 16th December 2009
All editing complete

What are teaser trailers?

Here are three examples of recent teaser trailers:

Cemetery Junction (no footage from the film just Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant joking about Ralph Fiennes)

G-Force 3D (only clips from the film)

Cloverfield (a mix of 'gimmick' and 'clips')

These seem to highlight the fact that there is no set definition of a teaser trailer in Hollywood and that the only criteria is that it is released a longer time before the film than the theatrical trailer and that it is shorter. Generally it could be 30 seconds but no more than 90 seconds, as anything longer would be a theatrical trailer.

(http://getaheadocrmedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/g324.html)