Hello year 12s and welcome to AS Media Studies.
In the first term you will be completing 50% of your AS level by producing an opening sequence to a film of a particular genre. All your work will be stored online and sent to the examiners as a blog link. The marks are divided as follows:
20 - planning and research
60 - construction
20 - evaluation
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
Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.