Two Weeks To Go

There are now only two weeks left to complete the research and preliminary task sections to your blog. Use the holidays to ensure that all the key areas are covered.

Your Preliminary task will be added to your blogs shortly so keep an eye out for it and ensure that you evaluate the completed task using technical language; what did you learn? How will it inform your approach when planning for the thriller opening?

Well done to all those students who have added multiple posts, many of which make really interesting reading. The ones that work best are those that have included personnal responses to found material, i.e. a film reviews, responses to theory, film analysis. This approach demonstrates an engagement with the material and is evidence of your growing knowledge and understanding of Thriller films. Keep it up.

For those that have yet to post a comment, time is running out. I'm sure you would agree that blogging is prefereable to writting an essay but the rule of a deadline still applies. The more you find out, the more informed and prepared you will be to create your own Thriller Opening - so there is a point to it all!

Have a great holiday and remember that the deadline is the first Tuesday back.

Skills

Just a reminder to you all...
You should also be blogging your developing technical skills and your experiences of filming and editing.
Here are some hints and questions to ask yourselves;

• Which camera are you using?

• Before filming, what checklist would you give yourself?

• Explain your knowledge of camera shot types and angles explaining how these communicate to audiences.

• What is continuity editing?

• Explain the 180 rule. (you could use a diagram or picture...remember it cant be worse than miss williams' drawing!)

• Explain what a 'match on action' is. remember you can use diagrams / drawing etc.

• How did your filming go? Did it happen as planned? Did you have any technical difficulties?

• What have you learnt from the pre-lim filming exercise? If you could do it again, what would you do differently?

• Who did what in the pre-lim?

• How do you feel you performed in your production role?

• What camera / editing skills did you have before you started? What skills have you now got? Are there any more specific or identifiable skills that you will need for your thriller?

  
  

Thriller Research

Once you are up to speed you must start your Thriller Research. The Deadline for the research is Tuesday 4th November (first AS lesson after the holidays).

You must find information from a range of sources (remembering to reference correctly) and use both Primary and Secondary research methods to gain a solid understanding of the Thriller genre, its audience and producers.

Areas to cover:

• Defining the genre
• Sub-genres
• Target Audiences
• Directors
• Actors
• Industry

Up to Speed

During the lesson on Thursday 2nd October you familirised yourself with your groups blog, how to create, edit and delete posts and how to add images and video to your posts. The blog should record your technical and theoretical development throughout your practical.

You have been asked to get your blogs up to speed and to record all your learning so far in terms of your preliminary task and thriller opening analysis. Appropriately title each post and cover one point per post, for example;

• Thriller codes and conventions
• Thriller openings
• Intoduction to the Premlinary Task
• 180 degree rule
• Camera shots
• Camera workshops

Remember to reference all secondary material correctly.

When using images taken from a google search find out the URL of the site that the image orginated from.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing you next week.