Coursework Brief.

You are to create a SHORT FILM in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following ancillary task options:
A POSTER for the film.
Either a RADIO TRAILER or a FILM MAGAZINE REVIEW PAGE featuring a review

Practical work: 60 marks (10 marks poster, 10 marks article or trailer, 40 marks film)
You will receive a copy of the mark scheme detailing how the work is assessed.
For the poster and article / radio trailer it is essential that you participate fully in the creation and production of the work. If you wish to make your own that is a very good idea. You can produce one per group but you must work on the tasks together and prove that you have participated fully.

Research and planning: 20 marks

Types of things to go on blog for Research and Planning:
Genre and narrative research,
Mise-en-scene / lighting,
Comparative textual analysis of posters, short films and reviews and film magazines,
Extensive audience research (interviews, focus groups, surveys (videos of vox pops, online surveys), Practice tasks,
Reviews of short films,
Market research,
Industry based information,
Drafts of work (all tasks) including storyboards, scripts, mock-ups, etc.
Sound practice,
Risk Assessments / Recce checks,
Filming / production diary (How about setting up a twitter account to tweet about what is achieved each day and link it to your blog)
Cast list, crew list, props, locations.
Photos documenting planning stages
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Evaluation: 20 marks
Using your blog - or creating a DVD extra - you will produce an evaluation covering informed responses

Pith

Question 2:

Question 1: Commentary

Permissions.

In our short film there are three tracks:

Wishery - Pogo

Piano B - Phildel

Some cheesy garage band music.

(To the left) Is the email we sent to the composer of wishery's booking agent. The other two tracks are royalty free.

Poster Draft

This is the draft design for the first poster, we had the idea but before we could apply it we first had to plan how the final piece would look.

The second poster had no plan, I decided instead to go by trial and error, which meant I produced around 5 posters before deciding on a final design.

Magazine Article

To the left are is the double page spread for our short film "A Chatroulette Love Story" typical magazine article featuring reviews, snippets of publicity the film has received and stills from the film its self. I used CS4 for the design of the pages.