Tasks

1. Summarise your treatment in 25 words, present to the class and upload to your blog. The chief examiner suggests you do this as it really focuses you and others in the group may have some bright ideas to help you! (think, the orange advert!) 2. Set up your focus group for your target audience

Film about Southend

Filmmakers Guide

What do filmmakers have in common?

passion, focus, commitment and resiliency.
and talent?
(Jacques Thelemaque, Withoutabox)



Which of these do you think you have?

Which might you have to develop?

Write about what you know, what you are passionate about.

Consider Todorov's theory of storytelling.

Equilibrium, disequilibrium, resolution.


What is the pattern of narrative? All stories benefit from structure for audiences to create meaning and understanding.

Consider Vogler's theory of 12 stage journey for a hero. For a short film, these 8 points may help give you structure.

1. Introduce main character, set the scene
2. Give them a problem, obstacle, obsession or addiction.
3. Let the character work out a plan to overcome the problem.
4. Have a moment of doubt before they set out, they may have encouragement from a mentor figure.
5. With a new resolve (and sometimes a magical gift e.g., Ruby Slippers or James Bond's gadgets) they set off
6. Next comes extreme opposition, a battle.
7. They appear to be failing but with a superhuman effort, recover themselves.
8. They win the final battle, they return to their natural self, wiser, stronger, cured and with a renewed self awareness.

Use your focus group,

'Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work the critics don't like, then cultivate it. Thats the part of your work thats individual and worth keeping'
Jean Cocteau

Planning Guide

Planning and research is an important element to your A2. Please download and copy this into your own blog and ensure you have fulfilled all the tasks. Checklist

Grade Boundaries

Evaluation Questions

These need to be answered in different formats.
You need to be aware of these as you are researching and planning your project.

In the evaluation the following four questions must be addressed:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real

media products?

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?