Film Ancillary task guide

Blogging Task

Magazine front cover

1.     Analyse three magazine covers —  Choose the magazine covers. Annotate the magazines for: —  Colour palette  —  Protagonist —   Camera shots —  Intertextuality —  Camera angles —  Semiotics —  Genre —  Representation —  Audience —  Narrative —  Connation —  Denotation —  Sound. —  Sound effects. —  Theory (youth-Hall, Hebdige, gender-Mulvey, race-Malik, Barthes-signs and enigma code, Medhurst-awful because they are not like us.)

2.     Genre Institution research Magazine conventions: what is expected, common conventions: —  Choose one magazine cover to annotate. List what you expect to see in them, consider: —  Layout —  Colour —  Text use —  Content —  Image features Research into the magazine institution: —  Who are the main companies —  The cost of creation —  How is the magazine distributed —  When they started —  Successful examples —  Technological developments- how have they responded to the internet etc...

3.     Survey Monkey on what the TA want What is your age? What is your gender? What are your hobbies? What genre of magazine, film, documentary do you like? What features do you like in magazine, film, documentary? What colours schemes  do you find appealing? ·      Text, fonts, colours, actors, features, style, writing vs image ratio,  (film and doc) ·      Text, fonts, colours, actors, features Locations to promote, (mag)

4.     Masthead ideas ·      Screen shot text ideas ·      Annotate why they would appeal to the audience ·      Fit the genre ·      Create the appropriate style for the genre of magazine or newspaper.

5.     Title ideas ·      Draw out suggested names for your magazine ·      Annotate why these will appeal to the audience ·      Fit the genre ·      Create the appropriate style for the product.

6.     3 flat plans ·      Draw out in pencil what the basic layout for your magazine cover will be ·      Annotate why these will appeal to the audience ·      Fit the genre ·      Create the appropriate style for the product.

7.     Photography research ·      Look at an overview of technological advancements in photography and how this would impact your photography. ·      What styles of photography are used in your type of magazine? ·      Research a photographers style that you like. ·      Collect images of the photography you like and annotate why this will appeal to your audience.

8.     Lighting research ·      What types of lighting are used in photography? ·      What impact does this have on the images? ·      What kind of lighting will you use and why?

9.     Cast list ·      List of the people who will feature in your film- how they will fit the genre and appeal to the audience. ·      An image of them- annotate their features that fit to the genre and attract the audience.

10.  Equipment list

11.  Location plan

12.  Original images

13.   Journal Critical reflection on shoot

14.  Screen grabs of editing process

15.  Front cover draft 1

16.  Final front cover

Film poster

17.  Analyse three posters —  Choose the poster. Annotate the poster for: —  Colour palette  —  Protagonist —   Camera shots —  Intertextuality —  Camera angles —  Semiotics —  Genre —  Representation —  Audience —  Narrative —  Connation —  Denotation —  Sound. —  Sound effects. —  Theory (youth-Hall, Hebdige, gender-Mulvey, race-Malik, Barthes-signs and enigma code, Medhurst-awful because they are not like us.)

18.  List of common conventions for a poster —  Choose one poster to annotate. List what you expect to see in them, consider: —  Layout —  Colour —  Text use —  Positioning —  Camera shot type —  Mise en scene

19.  Survey monkey on what the TA want —  What is your age? —  What is your gender? —  What are your hobbies? —  What genre of magazine, film, documentary do you like? —  What features do you like in magazine, film, documentary? —  What colours schemes  do you find appealing? —  Text, fonts, colours, actors, features, style, writing vs image ratio,  (film and doc) —  Text, fonts, colours, actors, features Locations to promote, (mag)

20.   3 flat plans —  Draw out in pencil what the basic layout for your posters will be —  Annotate why these will appeal to the audience —  Fit the genre —  Create the appropriate style for the product.

21.   Cast list ·      List of the people who will feature in your poster- how they will fit the genre and appeal to the audience. ·      An image of them- annotate their features that fit to the genre and attract the audience.

22.  Equipment list

23.  Location plan

24.  Original images

25.  Journal of critical reflection

26.  Screen grabs of editing process

27.  Poster draft 1

28.  Final poster