Film review and poster

Writing a film review and film posters from rockinmole

The PPT from the lesson - try to look at Empire magazine reviews and copy its style.

Remember you need to look at conventions and analyse TWO existing film posters and magazine reviews too.

A2 Evaluation

A2 evaluation from rockinmole


This is due for WEDS 8th APRIL!

Planning

When planning your film noir, you must include the following:

• 25 word pitch stating the storyline of your film.
• Script - correctly formatted and written of the film.
• DETAILED storyboard 
• Costume plans
• Location plan with pictures from each location
• Character profiles
• Actors being used
• Shooting schedule
• Production plan
• Call sheets

Pitch

For NEXT Monday.

In your groups, you are going to be doing a pitch on your project.

Your pitch must include:

• Plot line
• Actors and Characters
• Film noir conventions
• Props required
• What's next...

Excellent blogs from last year

http://sophiebarnesg322.blogspot.co.uk

http://rhysmcevoyfilmnoir.blogspot.co.uk

http://flynnjarvismedia.blogspot.co.uk

Initial research activities

1. Follow my blog http://ktsa2media14-15.blogspot.co.uk
2. Introduce the brief/task set (To create a short film (no more than 5 minutes), in its entirety and create an accompanying film poster and magazine film review- brief 10)
3. What is Film Noir – an explanation
4. Log of film noir films seen, summary of what happens in them and information about the film (director, year, studio etc)
5. Upload film noir research worksheet/answers (copy of sheet link below)
6. Grid of film noir films seen and their conventions/features (copy of grid below)
7. Moodboard for film noir – characters/styles/locations etc
8. Conventions of film noir.
9. Typical locations of film noir.
10. Conventions of short film.
11. Detailed (digitally presented) analysis of THREE films

TO BE COMPLETED AND UPLOADED BY 19th JANUARY (2 weeks)

1 hwk intro to film noir worksheet from rockinmole

Sound and music

Taken from the OCR website:
Explanations of copyright:http://www.ipo.gov.uk/c-other-faq-gen-internet.htm
(Copyright Act p47 Ch III para 32-36 covers Education – pages 46-51)
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/cdpact1988.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/legalguidemusicrights http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Webcast/index.html

Copyright free sites(Note: not all music is free to download from copyright free sites – there are download fees)
http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/Copyright-friendly+music+and+sound http://www.shockwave-sound.com/
http://audiojungle.net/ http://www.musicmediatracks.com/?gclid=CK6V-r7ZiJgCFUse3god7XQJCw http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free.html
http://freeplaymusic.com/ (free downloads)
http://www.trackline.com/acatalog/Tracks.html
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/documentary-general-production.html
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/Samples_and_Loops/
www.freesound.org (free music)
http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html (teacher needs to register for this one)

Free Sound Effects from PartnersInRhyme.com:
http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it http://www.jamendo.com/en http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/ http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm http://www.alcljudprod.se/english/ljud.php


Many, many more sites are available just ‘Google’ ‘copyright free music audio download’ or ‘free audio editor software’