Final Decisions

Please add a post on your blog where you explain your groups final decisions for the following:

1) Costumes
2) Props
3) Lighting
4) Mise en scene

Include images, videos and links to other websites for support. Don't forget your bibliography!

What Should I Have On My Blog?

What should I have on my blog so far
Log onto your blog and ensure the following are up to date:

1. Group Film Idea

2. Film opening analysis

3. Codes and conventions of film openings

4. Genre Research Task

5. Mood Board with explanation of the key concepts.

6. Treatment Draft

7. Audience Research Task

8. Questionnaire

9. Questionnaire Results Analysis (Graphs)

10. Narrative Research Task

11. Final Cut - Blue Screen

Final Cut Blue Screen Task

1.Film footage using the blue screen background
2.Import and cut video footage
3.Add titles to your footage
4.Use the blue screen technology in your footage
5.Publish your footage on the Media blog

Narrative Theory

You are now going to add a section to your blog entitled ‘Narrative Theories Research’. In this section you should outline:

• What narrative is
• Why narrative is important
• Explain what the three narrative theories are
• Decide which one you think is will be most useful in creating an effective narrative opening for your film
• Bibliography
• Filmography

TASKS (21st Oct)

Please complete both tasks below:

1) Audience Research
2) Primary Research Task

Primary Research Task

You then need to begin your primary research. As we are aware the target audience is very important in any media product. You must meet their needs in order for your product to be a success. So, decide on your target audience for you film (teen…) and create a questionnaire which sets out to discover what movies (of your chosen genre) are popular with this audience, what conventions they rate as the most important as well as anything else you can think of

Hint: make your questionnaires easy to fill in and give the participants choices to choose from. Don’t ask a random question like: Why do you like horror movies? Instead, give them a list of possible reasons to choose from to state why they like horror movies – this will make your analysis much easier

You can analyse your results anyway you like, the simplest is to create charts in Microsoft Excel, but the more creative the better.

Audience Research

You are now going to add a section to your blog entitle ‘Audience Research’. In this section you should outline:

•Why audience research is important
•How audiences are categorized (demographics)
•Some key audience theories and which one you think best explains the media’s relationship with the audience
•Bibliography
•Filmography

(Remember to reference your work with hyperlinks to websites/images/videos where appropriate)