What are the cons (for institutions) and the pros (for the audience) of digital
film piracy?
Year 12AB due in Thursday 18th October.
Year 12AC due in by end of first week of Half-Term.
Thursday 11 October 2012
Monday 8 October 2012
Opportunity to Expand your Learning...
8 - 11 November 2012, York
The Aesthetica Short Film Festival is a celebration of independent film from across the world, and an outlet for supporting and championing short filmmaking.
As a dynamic player in the UK film festival circuit, this year’s festival will take place in the historic city of York from 8 - 11 November 2012. The screenings will cover a wide variety of genres and filmic styles, including: drama, documentary, animation, comedy, music video, thriller, experimental and artists’ film. Showcasing films across 15 distinct and historic locations from medieval halls to ancient city walls, the festival invites visitors to create their own viewing experience.
In addition to four days of screenings, there will also be a series of master classes, workshops, and networking with leading industry figures, as well as special events and opportunities to meet the filmmakers.
Click on the link for details:
Aesthetica Short film Festival 8-11 November 2012
Thursday 4 October 2012
Mr Grogan's homework task for Year 12 Media Studies
12AC and 12AB Media Classes
To do list by the end of Week 6 (Week ending 12th October)
1. Complete rough cut editing of 'The Package' and upload to YouTube and embed in your blog.
2. Storyboard, shoot and edit your Preliminary Task. This should be done in your free lessons.
You will need to include a match on action, show you understand the 180 degree rule, and a shot/reverse shot along with a line or two of dialogue.
You should use the top floor of the EAB as long as it is free. It is essential that you are impeccably behaved up there as future students won't be allowed the same privilege if you spoil it for them.
You can view other examples of prelims by former students on my or Miss Legg's YouTube accounts.
http://www.youtube.com/user/mfgrogan
http://www.youtube.com/user/amlegg
3. Complete updating your blogs with your 'What I have learnt so far...' entry. Write about your storyboarding, filming, use of technology and editing. Examples of particular details are useful.
4. Keep watching the izzyvideos to stay ahead of me so you can pretend to be really smart when using FCPX...
http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/
Monday 1 October 2012
Media Studies Trip to see Looper
It is important
you have contemporary case studies to write about in your exam and thus I have organised a trip to see ‘Looper’ at The
Ritzy Cinema in Brixton on Tuesday the 2nd October. The film starts
at 18:20 and should finish by about 21:00.
The film has
received excellent reviews in the national press.
'A dizzying and exciting time-travel thriller in which an assassin has to hunt himself down'
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Henry Barnes, The Guardian Online: Rian Johnson's thriller about hitmen who assassinate targets sent from the future opened the Toronto film festival in fine style and runs rings around most recent sci-fi releases
'It’s impossible not to be tickled by the playful logic of Rian Johnson’s Looper,
a fashionably sleek, unfashionably smart science-fiction film that
tick-tick-ticks along with pocket-watch precision.' Robbie Collin, The Daily Telegraph
I will meet you inside the foyer of the cinema by 6 o/c
and will release you to make your own way home after the showing. You will
need money for travel and tickets (about £10) and other essentials like popcorn.
Looper: how to invent your own sci-fi: After having the idea about time-travelling assassins, Rian Johnson then got Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play two versions of the same hitman. 'I go to unexpected places,' admits the director http://gu.com/p/3agmh
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