Half-term Independent Study Task - Narrative theory research

As part of your research (make sure you all a research label to all these tasks) you will need to summarise some key narrative theories, and use a film/films you know well in order to demonstrate these theories.

In your research there should be at least a paragraph each devoted to Todorov, Propp, Levi Strauss (not the maker of jeans), and the 'Equlibrium theory'.

Look at PowerPoint presentations on Slideshare to help you.

 

 

Search YouTube for films you have watched and know well. Then try to identify the different stages of the narrative (e.g: Beginning/Exposition, Complication, Climax/Crisis, Resolution) and take a photo of the corresponding scene using the snipping tool.

 



Mr Smith's lesson on Sound & Music in Film

Your learning task (22nd October)

As part of your research, and in order to develop your understanding and awareness of what you will be evaluated on in your blogs, please look at the following OCR AS Media Student blogs:

Kamini

Snehal

Anujan

Imagine you are the OCR Media Studies moderator. Try to predict what each student was awarded  out of 100 marks - with 20 marks for research and planning, 60 marks for construction, and 20 marks for evaluation. The grading bands are as follows:

 

 

• As part of your ongoing research, try to look at as many examples of media students' blogs to 'borrow' ideas - particularly students looking at producing a film opening in the thriller genre!

Research tasks

Can you all have your Hitchcock prezis completed by Tuesday's lesson, so we can embed them into your media blogs as part of your genre research? The other research topics will be on going, but we want to complete the bulk of the research by half-term. We want you to be using a range of different media platforms in order to present your research.

Mr Smith's lesson on Editing

Good Morning Media Crew,

Your homework before our trip to Aardman is to formulate ten questions to ask on the day. The questions could be about the creative process of making Film and Television products, about working in the Media, or about Aardman's ethos as a company.

You could also link your findings to the Thriller genre, as Aardman often play with the conventions in some of their work.



On an unrelated note:


For those of you who want to use I-Web to present your foundation portfolio coursework here's a tutorial if you want to practice in advance:


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44673657/Z%20-%20Wiki/Resources/Software%20Tips%20%26%20Advice/iWeb%20Tutorial%20PDF.pdf

Mr Smith's lesson on conventions of Thrillers