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Great Review of 'The Other Woman'

Friday Deadline

You've (nearly) all been feverishly editing/screenshotting/voice-overing these past couple of weeks - I just keep seeing you going in/coming out of the media room - like little bumble bees... so can't fault your efforts, that's for sure!

Just to let you know, your blogs need to be 'closed' by the end of day tomorrow (3:20pm).  I will, of course, be seeing you in the lesson tomorrow, but I didn't want ANYBODY to be unclear about how it all ends.

A final post is needed, but remember, it's probably going to be the first post the moderator will read, so don't be mawkish.  Stay professional.

To ensure the deadline happens for everybody, it's necessary for us to change your password to your blog - this ensures no one becomes tempted to add/edit after Friday.

I then have until Wednesday to scour your blogs and evaluations and then arrive at your final marks for all of your coursework products.

You can imagine how difficult this is even without the idea that someone might be sneakily trying to 'alter' posts here and there at the same as me trying to mark them over the 5 day period.

Then, once the exams are over, and we're back starting the A2 on Mon 16th June, I'll give you your new passwords so that you can start on your A2 blog!

So, adieu until tomorrow.

ICT/Tech to help with your Evaluations:

Click on the pic for a post from Pete's blog that suggests creative (free) apps to use if you're stuck for ideas for your evaluation responses:

Essays for over Easter:

Have a go at these essays please.  I'm going to try and get to you all today to give you a hard copy of them - please use them as the front cover sheet of your essay.

Take no longer than about 45mins.

Prep for it beforehand, revise terms etc - but then you MUST do it in one go - do not stop half way through to research a point.. EXAM PRACTICE IS JUST THAT OTHERWISE YOU ARE ONLY DELUDING YOURSELF AND WHAT'S THE POINT OF THAT??

FINAL FILM OPENINGS

Evaluation Questions:

Marking Criteria:

Film Opening Mark Scheme:

Research & Planning (Blog) Mark Scheme:

Evaluation Mark Scheme:

Final Cut Pro - Tutorial

Best lip-syncing video - THIS is what we're aiming for...

Title Sequence Research for you...

What I Was Talking About Today...

And also a great article from yesterday's Guardian (will come in VERY handy for your A2 as well…)

Half Term Exam Prep Question

Spend 40mins on the following question, on file paper, handwritten only.

Examiner's Report - 2013

Here are the best bits from last year's report:

Exam Prep - Section B - Case Studies of Institutions and Audiences

If you google any title of a film and then add 'case study' to your search, this is the kind of thing that you'll get:

Social Media Case Study: How a $15,000 horror movie made more than $7 million with help of Twitter and Facebook from Sorav Jain

Inception from romanyangel4



Obviously, this is how you prepare for Section B.

Evaluation Questions

The 7 questions below are for your EVALUATION videos.

These must be done individually, as discussed last lesson.  It is up to you how you present your answers, but do have the question appear on the screen just before we see your response.

DO NOT WRITE A SCRIPT AND THEN READ IT OUT LOUD TO CAMERA.

Be as natural as you can, but remember that formality must be maintained - clearly, practice beforehand, ensuring that you get in all of your key words.

Here's Alice's plan from last year:

You would be a fool if you did not research all the previous evaluations done by this centre in the past couple of years - watch as many of them as you can, make notes, learn lessons from them etc.

Good article for your Case Studies..