Welcome to A2!

Your blog is the place to record all the Research and Planning you undertake for your short film and its ancillary products (a film poster and a film review page). We suggest you work directly onto the blog as much as possible and also keep all paper records like shot lists carefully so they can be transcribed or scanned in later. It’s worth 10% of the whole A2 so please take it seriously!!
We will regularly post instructions and prompt questions here on the CSG Media A2 2010/11 blog so make sure you follow it by adding the URL to your individual blog and check in at least once a week. Please also check your individual blogs for comments.

At the moment you should be viewing (and recording URL links if possible)as many short films as possible, particularly examples which model the genre you are interested in constructing yourself.
You should post at least once a week
Your blogs should closely deconstruct the films you watch
· Which codes and conventions does the film use which indicate the genre?
· Which specific shots/editing techniques/uses of sound are memorable and

interesting and why?
· What impact is created by the mise en scene ?
· How is the film structured? (Think about beginnings, development of storyline,

endings )
· Which elements of the narrative do you recognise as archetypal or iconic

(eg Quest, Rags to Riches etc)

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/24367/11757852251documentary_script.pdf/documentary_script.pdf
· Which films have inspired you and why?

And then explore
· What would you like to achieve in your film?
· What are your preliminary ideas?
· What are the implications for your own planning (eg locations, lighting etc .. you need to

start a ‘How can I .........?’ list!)