Planning: A list of areas to focus on

The graphic below is an animated mind-map of areas to focus on for your planning. What a fabulous resource to use to display your initial ideas! Thanks Rhiannon :) Go to www.examtime.com.

Planning: How to Prepare for a Film Shoot

Blog Feedback: September

General targets for everyone:

• Remember to include research on institutions, as this task is to show your understanding of the marketing process of a film. Choose a film company that is likely to develop a film from your chosen genre and look into how they promote films – perhaps choose a film and create a case study (as I did with The Fault in Our Stars).

• Make sure audience research is collected. Your questions should be well constructed so the feedback you receive will directly inform your choices during the planning/production stage. Include the survey you’ve created, then a further blog with the analysis of the results.
• Include the videos of the trailer on the post when you reference them (remember to embed them – the exam board like this!)

Name	Comments	Targets
Zach	Good posts on audience research and posts are detailed and well-presented.	-          Deconstruct some trailers of social realism films (Fish Tank; Trainspotting) -          Take a look at Film 4 or Warp for institution research.
Dan	Audience research is evident. I also like the screencap examples of the camera angles/shots to assist your post.	-          Identify more technical features in your analysis: mise-en-scene, lighting, editing (pace; transitions), sound.
Rhiannon	Detailed and well-presented posts. Excellent analysis of your audience research survey. Terminology used throughout. Well done!	-          Embed YouTube videos (watch or read a tutorial). -          Research into intuitions that produce horror films, e.g. Lionsgate, Hammer).
Izzy	Good inclusion of institutions research on Warp.	-          You could take a look at some of Film 4’s projects as well, as that would fit your chosen genre. -          Deconstruct some trailers of social realism films (Fish Tank; Trainspotting)
Sophie	No posts from September!	-          Upload posts as you go along! Remember, you can always edit them afterwards…
Lily	Detailed survey with well thought-out questions.	-          You need more posts, as there’s only one from September! Watch some examples of trailers – go to my blog to look at the diagram for deconstructing trailers and remember to use technical terminology: mise-en-scene, lighting, editing (pace; transitions), sound.
Luke	Posts are incredibly detailed and full of terminology and analysis – well done!!	-          Remember to do your audience research (survey; voxpop) to inform your decisions when you start on the planning.

 

Deadline for research is 22nd September. From Tuesday's lesson (23rd), I will be expecting you to start on the planning stage of your product). Any gaps in research can be filled in retrospectively, but don't leave yourselves with lots of work to do later on!!!!

Deconstructing Trailers

Use the following diagram to help you to deconstruct a trailer.

Research & Planning Checklist

Research:

Audience research - audience profile, survey/Voxpop with analysis of the result
Industry research into your chosen genre – Bring into this some of the work you did for AS (Section B of exam)
Codes and conventions of genre
Mood boards
Structure of trailers
Examples of actors/characters associated with genre
Examples of films associated with the genre

Planning:


Call sheets, story boards, scripts, animatics, shot lists, filming schedule, etc. (include drafts)
Risk assessments and letters/emails requesting permission for the use of music tracks.
Character profiles
Locations/settings

Remember to:

• Analyse a variety of related media texts.
• Use a variety of sources i.e. websites, journals, media products (DVDs etc).
• Cite research sources accurately i.e. name and date of websites accessed, name and publication year date of journals used.