Preliminary Task: Creating A Storyboard Of Our Initial Ideas

12 Shot Challenge 

In todays lesson, we were tasked with the '12 Shot Challenge' - This is where we have only 12 shots to complete our Preliminary Task. To begin with, we created a list of our ideas for camera shots, camera angles and camera movements:

1. An establishing shot of the field and the base in the background.
2. Long shot of un-named figure from behind walking towards the base.
3. Crabbing shot (close-up) of the figures feet.
4. Birds eye view of figure climbing through a window.
5. Mid-shot of figure (from the inside) climbing through the window, pan slowly towards the door as the figure walks towards it.
6. Close-up of hand on the door.
7. Girls Point-of-View of door opening and the figure walking towards her.
8. Mid-shot of duct tape getting ripped off the girl.
9. Over the shoulder shot facing towards the figure.
10. Close-up of girls face.
11. Extreme close-up of girls teary eyes.
12. Over the shoulder shot facing the figure who then proceeds to take off the mask.

We then created storyboards, created dialogue for the characters and imagined what the shots would look like whilst filming.

Here are the storyboards:





By creating story boards, it allowed me to understand the significance of planning so that we can visualise the outcome of the shots before hand.

Preliminary Task: First Ideas

An unidentified figure opens a door and walks into a dim lit room with a young female tied up in the centre. The figure then proceeds towards the girl and rips the duck tape from her mouth. Conversation continues and the girl, at the end, finds out who her kidnapper is.

Understanding And Applying Basic Terminology

Basic Camera Angles And Shots

 Over the Shoulder Angle

High Angle

Low Angle

Long Shot

Mid Shot

Close-Up

Extreme Close-Up

Two Shot

Point-Of-View Shot

Establishing Shot

OCR Video Guides To Basic Technology

OCR Guide To Basic Camera Movements

OCR Guide To Basic Camera Shots

OCR Guide To The 180 Degree Rule

OCR Guide To Basic Camera Angles

Foundation Portfolio - What Is It?

Foundation Portfolio : What Is It?

50% of your grade will be earned through your Foundation Portfolio. This consists of a preliminary task and a main task, the details of which can be found below.

The Preliminary Task is designed to illustrate the processes of pre-production, production and post-production that will be required, albeit in more detail, when you come to undertake the Main Task. The Preliminary Task is not marked but MUST be completed and submitted alongside the Main Task to the examiner. If it is not completed, marks are deducted from your Main Task.

The Main Task is marked out of 100. These marks are broken down as follows:

20 marks - Research into similar media products and planning of your own media product.
60 marks - Construction of your own media product including filiming and editing.
20 marks - Evaluation of your own media product.

All of your work must be posted to your blog as this will be accessed by the examiner in May of 2016.

For each of the criteria above, marks are available in 4 levels with level 4 being the highest. 

The progress thermometer below shows the key words for each level of the mark scheme.

This is what you have to do:

Preliminary Exercise

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main Task

The titles and opening of a new teen horror film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks must be completed as a group. Maximum four members to a group.

Me As A Consumer Of The Media

Me As A Consumer Of The Media

My most frequently used form of media would be the internet purely because it's become so much a part of my everyday life, whether I'm at school in a learning environment or at home. 

YouTube is probably my favourite and most often used site along with Netflix. YouTube allows me to listen to my favourite music, create my own playlists along with being able to discover new artists and bands, and explore different genres of music that I wouldn't usually listen to. I can also subscribe to my favourites YouTuber's Channels such which then notifies me when they upload their weekly videos.

                                                                                               

 

 

My favourite YouTuber is Thatcherjoe (Joe Sugg).

 

 This is one of my favourite videos from his channel.

 

 

Click Here to visit his channel and see more of his videos.