The Hunger Games: Film Club - 27th September

Many thanks to those who came along and I hope you enjoyed the film. Feel free to leave a comment below on what you thought of the Hunger Games.

Congratulations to Film students on their excellent exam results.

Just a quick post to congratulate all Mexborough School students who have recived their AS and GCSE Film Studies results recently. There are some superb results and grades and you should all be really proud of your achievements. I look forward to seeing you all soon and hope that you'll look to continue your studies into AS and A-Level. For those of you who are interested or intending on taking Film Studies in the Sixth Form, keep an eye out for more information soon.

Shot Sizes and Angles

A quick overview on the different shot sizes and angles for camera work. A useful video we used in Media Studies for people looking to make their own films:



This PowerPoint from SlideShare has some good explanations and also includes more definitions about movements:

Shots

Finally, this website has some excellent examples and good set of explanations. http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/

Camera Movements

Bit of revision on camera movements after the lesson today where we discussed these in relation to the exam paper from 2011. This first video is designed for people making films but has some very good explanations and excellent examples to reinforce the movements being shown. Please note: this video is American in origin and so may use slightly different terms (such as a trucking movement, which we would call a tracking movement).
 This second video is used for Media Studies and again designed for people who are looking to make films but has some very easy to understand explanations for camera movements:
 Finally, here are a couple of guides from SlideShare:

camera movements

View more PowerPoint from guidedbyboognish

Camera Movement

View more PowerPoint from Tom Whittaker

Tsotsi Revision

Tsotsi revision - Exploring Films Outside Hollywood - Paper 2

View more presentations from Ian Moreno-Melgar.

GCSE Film Studies Revision 2012 - Paper 1

WJEC GCSE Paper 1 Explanation 2012

View more presentations from Ian Moreno-Melgar.

AS Film Revision

Section A

AS Film Studies Fm2 section a revision pdf

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Section C

Fm2 section c pdf

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Useful Websites: Art of the Title

Over the next few posts I'll be explaining about some of the Useful Websites that are linked on this blog. They've all been chosen to either help your work in Film Studies both at GCSE and AS / A-Level, but to also develop your interest in all things related to the Film Industry.

In this post we'll take a quick look at Art of the Title. Art of the Title is a website which looks at the title sequences of films (the information about who stars in and who made the film that you see at the start of a film before any 'action' happens). Those of you who have been in some of my Film lessons will know how much I go on about watching Credits, both at the start and end of films, as they provide you with lots of really interesting and useful information about the film. For filmakers, credits have developed over the last 70 years and are now usually quite long, very artistic and designed to not only tell you about the film but also set up the style of the film. (At some point in the near future I'll do a blog post on the importance of credits and credits sequences-especially useful for Coursework both at GSCE and AS-Level.) With credit sequences being so interesting and artistic in modern cinema, Art of the Title looks at these and breaks them down and explore the style of the credits, the techniques used and usually, interviews some of the key people who helped make them. Below are some pictures of the sorts of things you might find on Art of the Title.

Each film is given it's own post on the blog of the website. You can select the credits for each film by using the side bar on the right hand side of the website. Each post usually starts with an HD clip of the titles from the film, as seen above.

The blog posts usually then goes through some really specific detail about why certain images were chosen and the influences on them, especially in establishing the style of the film.

Some of the posts will also have an interview with someone who helped make the credits and then show how these credits were actually made.

Recently, Art of the Title has also begun to look at the Title Credits of videogames as this is an area which is rapidly growing and many 'big' videogames now have interesting and complicated Title Credit sequences.

Art of the Title is a really interesting look at an area of cinema that many people don't realise just how complicated and how much thought and time is placed on. The website could be useful in coursework for GCSE and AS Level work, but also if you have any interest in art and design, possibly as a career after school.

Welcome to the Mexborough Film Studies Blog!

Hello!

Thanks for taking the time to find us and visit the Film Studies Blog for Mexborough School. If you're here as a student from school you'll find plenty of useful and interesting information relating to your Film Studies lessons, including resources from lessons, things to help with coursework as well as general information about Film and Film Studies. You'll also find information about the upcoming Film Club including dates and times of Films to be screened and links to competitions related to Films. If you're a visitor to the Blog who isn't a student at school, welcome along anyway-I'm sure you'll find something that will interest and maybe even help you.

Over the next few weeks whilst the Blog is set up I'll add a few posts explaining about the sorts of things that you'll find on the Blog, what the useful websites will have on them and why you should visit them and also how you can use this Blog to improve you interest and learning in Film Studies.

Please feel free to get in touch and leave comments and share your thoughts and opinions, especially about films you have seen and the films which will be discussed on here. Finally, if you've got any ideas about what you think the Blog should have on it or should be used for, please get in touch and let me know.