Top 5 Films

The Green Mile

Director-  Frank Darabont

Released (in UK)- March 2000

Budget- $60,000,000 (estimated)

I love this movie, it has alot of meaning and emotion, the movie itself takes a while to understand but in the end it all fits together. John Coffee is an amzing character and it is just a great film.

 

This is England

Director- Shane Meadows

Released (in UK)- April 2007

Budget- £1,500,00 (estimated)

This film is amazing, it creates a feeling of what racism was like. it is a funny film but also quite violent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0jkv2bRFgQ






The Shawshank Redemption

Director- Frank Darabont

Released (in UK)- February 1995

Budget-  $25,000,000 (estimated)

Gives a feel of what the high security prisons are like and how a man can actually be inoccent. the brake out is the best bit and most exciting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSDBhczJMU

 The Hangover

Director- Todd Phillips

Realeased (in UK)-  June 2009

Budget-  $35,000,000 (estimated)


Genuinly a funny film. it is a comedy that i could watch over and over without it getting boring. The whole idea of this movie was genius.  



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg_pbMh1daE




The Wizard of Oz

Director- Victor Fleming

Released (in USA) - August 1939

Budget- $2,777,000 (estimated)

This film is one of my childhood memories, id watch this everyday after school. The colours and crops that are used are amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z-9n0ieFIw

My Coursework Task

THE BRIEF, EVALUATION + HOW ITS ALL MARKED

THE BRIEF

Your mission is to carry out the following brief:

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.

The coursework is worth 50% of the AS (same at A2) and the marking (detailed later) is divided into 3 sections:

RESEARCH AND PLANNING: 20%

PRODUCTION: 60%

EVALUATION: 20%


EVALUATION;
Before filming and planning it is best to keep blogging notes, this will relieve me of stress and will keep everything in order and up to date. the deadline is in may! this isn't as far as it seems!

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

• Who would be the audience for your media product? 

• How did you attract/address your audience? 

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

G321 - Simplified Marking Criteria as 1 Sheet

G321 - Simplified Marking Criteria as 1 Sheet