9 horror films under 9 minutes long

Have a look at these short horror films.

Which of these do you think is best?


http://theweek.com/article/index/250755/9-horror-films-under-9-minutes

Welcome to A2 Media Studies!

We're starting with the horror genre and over the next few weeks we will be watching and analysing:

Nosferatu (Murnau 1922)
Psycho ( Hitchcock 1960)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper 1974)
Carrie (de Palma 1976)
Halloween (Carpenter 1978)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Coppola 1992)
Scream (Craven 1996)
The Blair Witch Project (Myrick & Sanchez 1999)
Let the Right One In (Alfredson 2008) and lots more!

Enjoy!

Year 13 task and ancillary task deadlines

1.     Completion of filming and capturing of footage be shown to ARO in lesson     Thurs 10^th Jan 2013

2.     Show class a rough cut of your trailer for audience research                          Thurs 17^th Jan 2013

3.     Editing and trailer complete                                                                        Thurs 24^th Jan 2013

4.     Completion of magazine and film poster                                                       Thursday 14^th Feb 2013

HALF TERM – planning and preparing evaluations

5.     Film premiere and presentation of magazine and film poster                          Thursday 28^th Feb 2013

6.     Evaluations complete and uploaded to blog                                                  Thursday 8th March 2013

To do:

·         Complete filming and 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/animation) for each question and upload onto blog

Eton parody Gangnam Style! #etonstyle

What about Norbury Style?

New Carrie teaser trailer (2013)

Hitchcock the movie - about the making of Psycho - to be released in 2012
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbjz5uBToTQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbjz5uBToTQ

Scary Mothers!

Check out a range of scary mothers in Horror and beyond...

http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/features/05/05/2010/10-mothers-day-movies