Prelim As opening

THE BRIEF

Your mission is to carry out the following brief:

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 fiction 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.

The coursework is worth 50% of the AS (same at A2) and the marking (detailed later) is divided into 3 sections:

RESEARCH AND PLANNING: 20%

PRODUCTION: 60%

EVALUATION: 20%

Your work is marked partially on my observations of your approach and level of organisation, but fundamentally its a DVD and your blog that are marked.

EVALUATION

Even before you start shooting (let alone planning) your production, you need to keep this final stage in mind. If you start (b)logging notes on this now it will save you a lot of stress as the final deadline (in May!) approaches. You are tasked with answering these questions (see below for details on how this is marked):

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

• How does your media product represent particular socialgroups?

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

• Who would be the audience for your media product? 

• How did you attract/address your audience? 

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

HOW ITS ALL MARKED [ie THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA]

When I'm marking all this, I've got to write a paragraph for the exam board justifying the marks I've given you. The grid embedded below summarises the criteria I have to follow, and so you're advised to occasionally re-read this and ask yourself where you think you'll fall within the marking scheme!
For each section there are key components of the work which I have to assess as being one of the following:

MINIMAL
BASIC
PROFICIENT

EXCELLENT

If you think you're currently at the 'minimal' or 'basic' level for any of these, ask yourself (and me!) what you can do to jump up to at least proficient.

Analysis on wild child trailer

Wild child is a working title film released in 2008. it is set in the english country side and tells the story of a teenage american girls moving over to England when her farther sends her to a boarding school after misbehaving back in america.

• it is set in the english country side.
• the main actor in a young teenage american.
• the film is set in an all girls boring school.
• they play traditional english sport and drive traditional cars. 
• the boarding school demonstrates the stereotypical america view on England ; all girls boarding school , dirty water , bad weather and cold empty buildings. 
• as the main actor is american this helps to clearly demonstrate this view. 
• all white high class. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Child_(film)

Everest

1) A few key pints i learned from Charles Gants analysis of everest are that it made 3.16 million in the opening of the film , which compared to the few climbing disaster films out there did the best on record. another key point is that it was eighth number one hit for universal this year. one more point that i learned was that paramount and sony had 4 no.1s between them.

2) Charles Gant analyses box office hits in the uk alone. often he has a positive view on them and very rarely had something bad to say. for example one of his recent analogises of a box office hit was of paper towns which he decried to be a "paper towns builds a flimsy number one position at the uk box office." From many of his articles we can gather the sense that he believes that working title are always on top and produce the best of the best as he decried working title as the "winners". http://www.theguardian.com/profile/charles-gant

3) Gant makes many useful points throughout all his reviews on box office hits. all his reviews also have many things in common;

Minions make millions, http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/30/uk-box-office-minions-makes-millions-jurassic-world-biggest-hit-since-skyfall - in this column want again states the winner: Minions' and then 'second place : Jurassic world'. Again (in comparison to the everest article) the winner is working title once again and the warp tile is 'second'. warp titles never have as much money to put into the film production therefore are never going to get as good as a box office in comparison to the working titles who have m,amy famous actors.

Screenshot analysis

• The graffiti on the church denotes the feelings of the director and probably most people in the time the film is set. 
• The old car in the background is a signifier of the time period the film is set.
• "maggie is a twat" on the church connotes roughness and disrespect as they have vandalised a church this also denotes that religion is not present. 
• the graffiti is a polysemy as it can multiple meanings as stated above. 

Screenshot analysis

• We can denote that the title or name of the film is centrally framed this ensures that the emphasis is the photo is on the title. 
• The font used is documentary style , it is also in a bubble font which demonstrates a sense of immaturity , this is appropriate as it is from a young boys view point. 
• The font signifies decay which links to the old flats in the background.
• The flats in the background with the title "this is England" in front clearly shows a certain view point toward England and denotes working class and that the run down old flats are what England is really like.

This is England initial points.

• This is England was realised in 2006 by companies such as Warp films , Big arty production , EM media , Film4 , Optimum releasing and Screen Yorkshire. Screen Yorkshire and EM media were both companies that provided money for the production of the film. 
• This is Yorkshire was directed by Shane Meadows who also directed films such as small time and a dead mans shoes. 
• This is England is a good example of a social realist gendered film , as is it set in the midlands and highlights the contrast between working class England and the stereotypical view of high class culture and living.
•  It made 1.3 million from the uk box office after being screened for 56 weeks , in the uk the starting number of screens was 62 and the highest amount of screens was 151. Whereas in the us it ran for 15 weeks and still only made 328k this is due to the lack of screening it had starting at 1 screening and the highest amount of screenings being 14. This is due to this is England being screened in art house cinemas in the US and not making it to big branded cinema companies such as vue and Odeon. 
• Sweden and France were both countries in with this is England made more than one million pound from box office alone , the total gross of this is England came to a total of $7,847,165 which was highly impressive for an indie film. 

Submarine

This screenshot is the from the first minute of the film , it Is a mid-close up of the main character (protagonist) showing Oliver Tate as a silhouette against the sea of his hometown. He is in the centre of the screen creating a symmetrical picture which I think helps emphasise him , the empty space around him helps us to grasp what kind of person he is without us knowing anything about him as the sea around him and the emptiness could be a metaphor for his vast and empty mind he has.

This screenshot is an extreme long shot showing his house at the top of the hill and his town that he lives in. this helps us to understand the setting and place in which the film is set from this we see that it is a small town in the countryside we also see later on that it is by the sea. The dark colours in this shot sets the mood that maybe it a dull town and maybe miserable.