Year 12 - Summer Homework

By the end of the summer if you are making a trailer you need to have completed:

1. An analysis of 3 front covers of 3 different film magazines. these are likely to be Empire, Sight and Sound and Little White Lies.

2. You should use a different technology with each analysis. E.g. Word, Photoshop, Prezi or Powerpoint.

3. You should upload each presentation to your blog, clearly label them research and planning and make sure you comment on how you found using each technology.

If you are studying short film you need to have analysed 1 front cover of a film magazine (Empire) and then analyse two review pages of two different magazines (Total Film, Little White Lies, Sight and Sound).

4. We then need to turn our attentions to the analysis of 3 Film Posters in the presentation below and you should focus on posters in the same genre as your intended trailer or short film. Who are the target audience and how do you intend on reaching them?

Year 12 - A2 Week 2 - Homework

Read copy of Sight and Sound magazine and pin down the audience profile - who reads this?

Read this to find out:

Sight and Sound Magazine

Using a different 'technology' than your annotation of Empire - likely to be Photoshop or Prezi - annotate the front cover of your chosen copy of Sight and Sound in detail. Use the prompts from the Powerpoint presentation on the Department blog.

12AB and 12AC - For Friday please.

Year 12 - A2 Week 1 - Homeworks

Read your copy of Empire Magazine.

Find examples of how Empire conforms to the audience profile of affluent (ABC1) 76% male, movie fans and cinema hounds...

You might look at the adverts as well as the content...

To be completed by Wednesday for group 12AC and Thursday for group 12AB.

This is preparing you for your second homework of the week, an analysis of an Empire magazine front cover.

Look at slides 5, 31, 32 & 36-38 of the presentation below to give you some tips on how to annotate.

You need to annotate 3 different magazines by the end of Week 2 of your return (21st June) - Empire, Sight & Sound and another film magazine - Total Film or Little White Lies or something similar. You'll be able to find an Empire magazine cover online.

Those of you considering the short film option - you need to annotate at least one magazine front cover and then turn your attentions to the review pages of a couple of magazines. See the second section of the presentation for more details.

 

A2 media Empire magazine cover and review from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department