WS - My 5 Fave Films

1. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)(1998)

    Budget - $70,000,000

    UK Box Office - £18,740,016

    US Box Office - $216,119,491

2. Casino Royale (Campbell)(2006)

    Budget - $150,000,000

    UK Box Office - £55,287,027

    US Box Office - $167,445,960

3. Lord Of The Rings : The Return of the King (Jackson)(2003)

    Budget - $94,000,000

    UK Box Office - £60,666,284

    US Box Office - $377,027,325

 

4. Step Brothers (McKay)(2008)

    Budget - $65,000,000

    UK Box Office - £6,355,081

    US Box Office - $100,468,793

5.The Godfather (Coppola)(1972)

   Budget - $6,000,000

   US Box Office - $134,966,411

WS - My Coursework Task

THE BRIEF, EVALUATION + HOW ITS ALL MARKED

THE BRIEF

The mission is to carry out the following brief:

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

The coursework is worth 50% of the AS (same at A2) and the marking (detailed later) is divided into 3 sections:

RESEARCH AND PLANNING: 20%

PRODUCTION: 60%

EVALUATION: 20%

The Evaluation:

The Evaluation needs to be kept in mind at all times. Try and start blogging early to avoid stress and a rush towards the deadline. The task is to answer these questions:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

• Who would be the audience for your media product? 

• How did you attract/address your audience? 

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

How it's all marked:

When the marker marks this work, they must write a paragraph to the Exam Board explaining the marks they have given. Try and occasionally read the mark criteria to see what level I am at.

For each section of the work there is key components of the work that must be assessed as being one of the following:

MINIMAL
BASIC
PROFICIENT 

EXCELLENT

If I feel I am working at Minimal or Basic, ask others or Dave how I can improve to at least Proficient.  

G321 - Simplified Marking Criteria as 1 Sheet

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