Showing posts with label Horror Coursework. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horror Coursework. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 September 2016

1.2.1 Coursework 1: Development Stage Homework 25-50% Complete Presentation


Resources for completion of your groups Development Stage using the content of your Booklets

Presentations of your Screenplay Concepts, leave feedback and present on weebly


1. Scenes identified for the 3 Acts - Equilib/Disrupt/Montage OR Individual Scene and how this will be montaged (Photo or copy & Paste them from script)
2. Mood Board Collage   
3. Target Audience - Age, Gender
4. Influences - existing Horror Design & Visual Style
5. Horror Genre Conventions - (Burton - Icon, Setting, Stock Characters, Costume & Props)
6. Certificate - look at http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/15  to explain explicit content likely to be in it

Saturday, 3 September 2016

1.1.2&3 Editing Skills lesson - Analysis and reconstruction of a Teasertrailer


Trends in Trailers.
To recreate the edit of a teaser trailer - skills Final Cut

Starter: Suicide Squad - a film edited by Trailer Producers
Look at response form fans and critics and the Trailer


  • A Evaluate how your trailer uses conventions of form
  • B Create your own version using stock footage
  • C Analyse the structure and conventions of Teaser Trailer
  • D Categorise and identify terms with examples

Teach each other using notes sheets
Watch WTF is going on with with Trailers
&
https://youtu.be/TXuuWMDqBak

List the current trends in Trailers and Horror Trailers

  • C - What is the difference in how they are made?
  • B - What are the reasons for these trends?
  • A - What issues do these aspects have on the success or audience enjoyment of the film

Task: Deconstruct an existing Teaser Trailer for a current Horror campaign of your choice.

  1. Mise en scene - setting, characters, set pieces - search for Shutterstock
  2. Editing - strobes, pace, montage, jump scare, structure (b-m-e), transitions
  3. Sound - drones, horns, climbing strings
  4. Titles - production company, title card, billing block, release date

Task: Using your Teaser Trailer from Summer, download from Youtube and improve the work, applying the above conventions. Add in footage using Shutter Stock

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If you have not shot your Summer Trailer (D grade students) use Shutter Stock to build it

Plenary: Write a commentary on the following
Narrative - Equilibrium, Disruption, Resolution
Genre - sub genre set pieces, genre trailer conventions

Prep Work: individually choose a synopsis and read the script. 
Select one that appeals and is practicable.
Print and annotate the screenplay to identify the key stock scenes and Horror moments, as well as key plot points for the Trailer. 

You will present and pitch your film next week to camera and be assessed. 

http://www.simplyscripts.com/unpro_horror.html 

Homework: Develop a pitch and create a poster for your film to go with your pitch.

Prep - WTF happened to Film Posters

Prep work - summarise and identify conventions of horror posters

https://youtu.be/VXJiBkFgprQ

Find your own examples

Class project on photoshop remake

Prep work - make notes and summarise conventions of trailers

https://youtu.be/LqQhaV-fWyg

Identify horror trailer conventions

Prepare examples of the use of 'Drones ("voooooooo') and 'Horns'

Wednesday, 8 June 2016

1.3 ICONIC HORROR FILMS - find out why?

Starter: Recall Quiz - Name the Films in Order



Objective
To examine the history of Horror Films, referring to significant films and understand why these were iconic
Contextualise
The social changes influencing the film
Analyse
4-stage development of Genre (Metz) examples for specific iconic intertextual moments
Apply
Prior Knowledge of sub-genre and conventions
Identify and describe
Genre Conventions and Key Facts/dates/Directors


Prep work needed to be completed: http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/a-brief-history-of-horror/

Find out why these films are Iconic and Historically Important/Critically acclaimed


1960's & 1970's - 1980's & 1990's - 2000's & 2010's


http://www.ctklms.com/coursework-g324.html

Supplement the research using www.imdb.com

In your groups of 3 make notes using your booklets from the class lecture and the additional resources you have found online.

Plenary:  http://filmmakeriq.com/quizzes/history-of-horror-quiz/

Key Aspects from your notes - 
EGP: What are the 'Trends' from each of the 6 decades?
AGP: What social factors have influenced Horror Films







New Info (D)
What was going on in the 1980s in UK
What were Video Nasties
How did this influence the content of these films?