MOODLE

Please check Moodle to see what work you have outstanding! Remember the spring challenge! Work as hard as you can and you will achieve well! xx

Producers and Audiences

Please make sure you are working on your INDIVIDUAL case studies. You have been given the Hollywood Case Study Focus Sheet, please use tis to ensure that you have covered all aspects fully. Post this to your blog. This needs to be done in great detail and with care and attention as it will be what you refer to in your exams. I look forward to seeing your progress.

High Concept Films continued....

Focusing on Top Gun as an example of a high concept film please apply your ideas of how the film fits into the high concept model. You must give examples from the film "Top Gun". Once again you will need to use the Unit 3 sheets on The High Concept Model. I expect you to break down your response under the following headings. I want at least half of this done by the end of todays lesson Tuesday 2nd February 2010.
The headings that you need to know are listed below;

• A style of post generic filmmaking
• Use of extended montages (type in montage and watch some examples)
  
• Production design frequently reflects the graphics, glossy look and layout of contemporary advertising styles (remember this film was made in the 80s)
  
• Scenes are easily replicated in trailers (you should be able to view this online)
• Formal excess (not in a melodramatic sense)
• Music track interrupts the film narrative for a separate 'performance'
• Self concious allusion to other films and television
• 'Detached' appearance of stars, like the guest stars in a television series
• Hyperbolic physiques of protagonists and hyperbolic action
• Ironic distanciation: Walking-talking brand

If you refer to your sheets you should not have any problems. This is class work so I expect it to be completed to a high standard. If I do not see good progress by the end of the lesson then I will be forced to mark you absent.

High Concept Films

Read through UNIT 3 section in the handout you received in class today and create a checklist of the factors that make a film high concept, bring checklist to tuesday's lesson ready to apply it to "Top Gun"!

Question for COURSEWORK ONE...FOR Sam!

An exploration of how __________ and ___________ CONSTRUCT MEANING AND PROVOKE RESPONSE IN _______________




Please include title at the top of your coursework!

Film Work

I am so sorry about the double booked room and my lack of voice, it is not very convenient when it comes to teaching!!
Please read through the link The Film Industry and Audience and apply some of this information to your presentations.

This section of the course requires that you investigate the following aspects of the film industry;

• The American Film Industry - specifically contemporary Hollywood, including its impact on UK audiences
  


• The British Film Industry - specifically the contemporary industry including issues of independence, distinctiveness and profitability

YOU MUST INVESTIGATE ASPECTS OF FINANCE, ORGANISATION, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION (INCLUDING MARKETING) AND EXHIBITION.

I expect these elements to have been thoroughly examined within your presentation...in essence you are completing a case study!Good luck and come and see me in room 17 with any questions or queries.Cx

THE HIGH CONCEPT MODEL

Please make sure that you keep working on your film presentations, detailed below!

I would also like you to make sure that you complete the research activity in the Post-generic filmmaking section of your Unit 3 - The High Concept handout!

Please also submit the notes you made from the "Hollywood Machine" videos.

Thanks guys and gals!