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HOMEWORK: Avatar Trailer (Due Thursday 4th Feb)

DENOTATION = SAY WHAT YOU SEE (AND HEAR)
CONNOTATION = SAY WHAT IT MEANS

Today you successfully used your media skills to begin analysing the Avatar trailer. Some of you didn't get all the notes down so I have put all the denotation into a table for you, I have not put connotation notes.

You can download the table from slideshare (you'll have to sign up to do this) and fill in the connotations, you will need to convert the file from a PDF to a Word document so that you can type straight into the table, use this website to do that http://www.pdftoword.com/ if you can't download email me and I will send it to you.

Continue to denotate and connotate the Avatar trailer. Do this using sets of shots:

• Shots 1-8
• Shots 9-12
• Shots 13-21
• Shots 22-26
• Shots 27-36
• Shots 38-49
• Shots 50-60
• Shots 61-77
• Shots 78-88
• Shots 89-108
• Shots 109-137
• Shots 138-146
  

Textual Analysis Avatar Trailer

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Promotional Devices

Film Promotion: Lesson 5

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Film Posters and the Science Fiction Genre

Lessons 3 & 4

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Transformers: Poster & Trailer comparision table

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Film Posters

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Be Prepared!

I have already mentioned in an earlier post that for your Controlled Assessment you will have to analyse the Avatar poster and trailer. So prepare yourself by:

• Revising audio visual (sound & camera) language
  http://10d1wellingmedia10.blogspot.com/search/label/audio%20visual%20language
  
• Revising science fiction conventions (see lesson 1)


• Revising poster and trailer conventions


• Researching and becoming familiar with the film Avatar http://10d1wellingmedia10.blogspot.com/search/label/Avatar

Homework due: Monday 25th January

In class you compared The Transformers trailer to it's poster by answering questions and filling in a table. Use this same table format to compare the trailer you analysed for homework last week to the poster for the same film.

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If you are finding anything hard or you don't understand any homework tasks please email me rajib@welling.bexley.sch.uk


You can also come to the Media Clinic on a Monday 3pm - 4pm

Homework: Due Thursday 21st January

You must use your knowledge gained from Thursdays lesson on the Science Fiction Genre and on trailers as tools of film promotion.

1. Finish answering the questions on the Transformers trailer


2. Analyse a science fiction trailer from the options below and using my example as a guide and the trailers question sheet to help. Your analysis must be a minimum of 700 words, and include relevant media language (e.g. diegetic and non-diegetic). You must try to use camera language and you have to explain how the science fiction genre is communicated to you (how does it put across genre conventions, ideology, representations, narrative themes? look on your A3 sheet) and how the trailer attracts the interest of the audience.
3. Click here for help with media language http://10d1wellingmedia10.blogspot.com/search/label/audio%20visual%20language

Transformers Trailer Analysis

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Trailer Analysis options

Film Trailers and The Science Fiction Genre

During Thursdays lesson we discussed the conventions of the sci-fi genre, conventions of film trailers, and we began to anyalse the Transformers trailer.

Film Promotion Lesson 2

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Trailer Conventions

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The Trailer help with analysis

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Sound

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/sound.htm

Cinematography (Camera work)

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/

Editing

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/

Controlled Assessment (coursework)

For part of your Controlled Assessment you will be required to analyse, the trailer and poster for Avatar, so begin to familiarise yourself with these texts and and think about how you could analyse them.




AVATAR MOVIE WEBSITE
http://www.avatarmovie.com/index.html

TRANSFORMERS

We are going to be looking at the trailer and posters for Transformers so that you can gain an understanding of film promotion.

NEW YEAR, NEW ASSIGNMENT

Okay guys, so we now have to leave Assignment 1 (Magazines) behind and start a new assignment which is FILM PROMOTION! Are you excited?



Some of the things that we covered in today's lesson was:

• Introduction to the new unit


• Knowledge you will gain and skills you have to use to pass the unit


• Disscussing what film promotion is and it's purpose


• Discussing what films we like and dislike and why


• KEY WORDS - Genre Conventions, Genre, Audience


• Genre Hybrids


• Audience expectation
  

Film Promotion: Lesson 1

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We also started to look a film trailers to see how the genre or genres were communicated and who the target audience was.