Script to screen

Watch an extract of 'Ladybird'(Gerwig, 2017) - Car scene - while simultaneously viewing the script.

Short films are not just short long films

to read the article please click on the kink below:
https://blog.musicbed.com/articles/new-theories-of-the-short-film-a-conversation-with-dr-richard-raskin/77

A-level Film Studies - Course Overview

To view presentation, please click on link below:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t2mmPIhKMM6KLsWwbNsp5Y9x94D-gn1P

Coursework

Summer Homework - A-level Film Studies 

 This work must be submitted by the deadline: Wednesday 12^th September, 2018.

Summer Homework required for progression to A2 Film Studies

Component 3 coursework

Please complete the following work:

1.     Script (1600 – 1800 words) in appropriate format

2.     Digitally produced storyboard with 20 images showing a key sequence of your script

3.     Analysis of narrative of a minimum of five of the exam board-approved short films 

4.     Apply three aspects/techniques of your short film analysis to your own script/storyboards.

There are many new resources to help you which can be found at: https://nowonfilm.blogspot.com/

"We don't have stars anymore."

Trump mocks the Oscars

article in the Guardian by Gwilym Mumford
please click on link below for full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/06/oscars-2018-viewing-figures-for-ceremony-lowest-ever-recorded?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Media+briefing+2016&utm_term=266504&subid=8253140&CMP=ema_546

Narrative - an important point

The Inciting Incident



please click on the link below:
https://narrativefirst.com/articles/plot-points-and-the-inciting-incident

The Dolly Zoom or Vertigo Shot

Goes by many names, including optical compression, tracking zoom, dolly zoom, Hitchcock zoom, contra-zoom, trombone shot, and push-pull zoom.
Also sometimes referred to as the Vertigo Shot


The Vertigo effect explained
Please click on the link below:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VertigoEffect