Beginning Research and Planning

You are starting to do research in class. You should have done the following already:
- watched thriller trailers in class to identify conventions and blogged a summary version of the conventions
- applied these conventions to at least 1 whole short animated film in class (The Simpsons Cape Feare, and/or Wallace and Gromit A Close Shave). You should be blogging your analysis of these films as a thriller. You can blog these as a group post.
- beginning individual research on openings (starting with class analysis of the opening of 'Seven' and going on to study several more of your own).
You will all be marked individually on research, so it is essential that you make individual posts on this - create a heading '........'s analysis of the opening of....', and that all of you post equally. It is useful to discuss the openings however, so that you agree what you are inspired by.

What Next?

You should by now have completed all of your posts related to earlier interim deadlines for the Preliminary, and your evaluation so far. This coming week we will be screening the finished products in your video gaming lessons, and your teacher will suggest areas for technical improvement (eg framing, continuity editing, use of mise en scene and delivery of the scenario). You should use these to improve your work for the Main Task.

You all need to upload the preliminary to your blog. If you are unsure of how to do this, speak to either Andy or Richard in the edit suite.

You are about to start work defining the thriller film and analysing existing examples as part of your research work for the main task. It is important to realise that although you will study some examples in class, a substantial amount of research is meant to be independent and conducted by your group to inspire your own product - so do not rely on lessons to provide you with all of your research material! Start looking at the openings of thriller films or tv programmes you know, and study the techniques used.

snow today!

I hope you were able to enjoy the snow!
Please aim to get the evaluation blogged (and any other missed posts) by the end of today. We will assess these and post comments on your blogs. Next week we will evaluate the finished product.

Deadline Tomorrow!

You should all be aware that the deadline for the Preliminary Exercise is tomorrow. You need to read the comments I have posted to make last minute improvements. Many of you have still a lot to post in relation to the interim deadlines set for the task, and many of you need to do the evaluation. It is essential that you all contribute to the blog, and that you post your own evaluation.

Preliminary Exercise Deadline

You will need to finish the preliminary exercise by the end of this week. If you weren't able to finish editing before xmas because of the snow, you will need to finish in your own time early this week, so that you can go on to the Evaluation (due at the end of this week). You will have 2 lessons to work on the evaluation, but you may need more of your own time, particularly as you each have to post your own evaluation onto the blog.

Welcome!

If you are reading this, you are probably being supervised by me for your Foundation Portfolio. You need to make sure that you are following this blog on your group's blog, so that you get messages quickly. I will be using this blog to post advice, deadlines, suggestions for research, links and individual and group feedback.