Final Girl Official Trailer #1 (2014)

  Click on the image above to see the trailer...

Make sure you go to bed with the lights on! Scary horror short film that will make you think twice about sleeping in the dark sweeps the internet

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 media technologies in the construction, research and planning and evaluation stages?

Year 13 task & ancillary task deadlines

Take test shots and compare to real media texts	W/C 16th Dec 2013
Completion of filming & capturing of footage be shown to ARO during lesson	Friday 10th Jan 2014
Show class a rough cut of your trailer for audience research	Friday 17th Jan 2014
Editing and trailer complete	Friday 24th Jan 2014
Completion of magazine & film poster	Friday 7th Feb 2014
Film premiere and presentation of magazine & film poster	Friday 14th Feb 2014
HALF TERM – planning & preparing evaluations
Evaluations complete and uploaded to blog	Friday 28th Feb 2014

                                                                       

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

The Last Final Girl: How Danielle Harris Survived The Transition From Child Star To Scream Queen

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/from-child-actor-to-scream-queen-how-danielle-harris-became

 

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!