WELCOME TO MEDIA BOOT CAMP

Hello - I have been looking over your grades, attendance and average GCSE scores and have already put you in production groups.

You will need all to raise your game from AS. Now it gets challenging and proper A Level standard. 

The activities will be measuring your independence and group work - there will be no teacher support outside of classes, but there will be technician support.

Your conduct and discipline over the next four weeks will be closely monitored and recorded to make a final decision about your groupings and will have an impact on my predictions of your grades for UCAS. 

By next week you must complete/sorted the following to successfully Go Green

• Set up a new Google account and a Blogger Blog (see link for instructions), and email me the link the page site (XXXXX.blogspot.co.uk)
• You must create/join a class Whatsapp group and download the app to your phone
• Buy and bring your own ring binder, A4 pad of lined paper, (ideally a portable hard drive), a set of pens and highlighters and your given A2 Transition Booklet 
• You must attend all lessons during Transition
• You must complete 3 hours of weekly individual and team based work 
• You must complete 1 hour of academic Prep work (reading and summarising using Cornel Notes system)

You will be tested on Terminology each week and resources will be provided ONLY via the blog - it is your responsibility to print off resources or to ensure you access the teaching blog.

You will be expected to take notes in class to complete the A2 Transition Booklets

All homework and Prep is listed in you Transition Booklets on the Course Outline

The way the blog is labelled is as follows:

1.1 or 1.2 or 1.3 means 1st Week, lesson 1, 2 or 3

1	Class 1 Analysis & evaluation of student Horror Trailers – (Oscars) marking Identify Framework 1 conventions & Iconography & Semiotics Horror mood board, Thinglink annotations	Class 2 Framework 1 Sub genres of horror presentation (Thinglink poster with iconography) Stock Scenes and Stock Shot Types	Class 3 Framework 1 Teaser and Trailers Content analysis conventions of form (Variety of Genres) between them - (montage, titles, jump scare and Todorov narrative conventions)	Homework In booklet: Individual analysis of 3 existing Horror Trailers in booklet (different subgenres)    Create an interactive mood board-poster 9 sub genres Go Green: Buy and bring a folder, set up a blog, pad of A4, highlighter pens; booklets hole punched	Prep: Read over Genre Theorists: Burton and Neale and Metz – summarise their theories on your blog in 100 words Revise for Terminology quiz on conventions and Theorists
2	Lecture 1: Iconic Horror Films 50s-60s Metz Genre Cycles Experimental	Lecture 2:  Iconic Horror Films 70s-80s Metz Genre Cycles Classic	Lecture 2: Iconic Horror Films 90s-2010s Metz Genre Cycles Parody & Deconstruction	Homework Research the films in the booklet and find out why they are Iconic Horror films and Critically Recognized Develop an idea for your summer Trailer to pitched in class (use booklet) Find 3 films that are influential and develop your own idea	Prep: Identify and source 12 pieces of footage of genre set pieces and iconography for your Mash Up Trailer Read over Narrative Theorists: Todorov, Levi Strauss and Barthes – summarise their theories on your blog in 100 words Revise for Terminology quiz on conventions and Theorists
2	Class 1 Basic Final Cut Edit workshop Re-make a Horror Trailer Titles Placement and Shutterstock footage – structure of Horror Trailers using cuts and fades to black	Class 2 Edit workshop Re-make a Horror Trailer Titles Placement and Shutterstock footage	Class 3 Sound editing (Garageband to score an existing Horror sequence workshop)	Develop Treatment for idea for a Horror Film drawing on 3 existing films as influences – find a suitable Horror location (recce) and present in lesson (this will be filmed over summer) create a mock poster using template	Prep: Read over notes on Subtexts, Final Girl and Scream Queens (Clover, Dobbs & Mulvey, Phallic, Yonic) Put together pitch with 3 films drawn from
3	Class 1 Pitches	Class 2 Framework 2 Theoretical Analysis of Horrors: Subtexts & Semiotics	Class 3 Framework 3 Are Horror Films Misogynistic? Feminism Theoretical Analysis of Horrors	Summer Work 1. Swede of an influential horror film trailer, shoot and edit on Splice or shoot your own idea 2. Complete Booklet for assessment and groupings Prepare pitch outline for your own individual idea for film 3. Individual Location Research – video selfie of a location & risk assess	Prep: watch instructional video on Youtube how to create supernatural effects with Jump Cuts (Melies and student work)