Half Term Homework: Prep for Mock Exam 1 Week 1

Your next exam is about exploring and contextualising the factors that affect film production.

This means explaining how politics and social values affects censorship, how marketing and formulaic special effects driven 'event movie' have shaped and dominated what you now see at the cinema and how the cinema itself has evolved from a run down 'Fleapit' in your local high street to the 'Multiplex'. We will also be revealing how Film Piracy is not a new thing.

Complete the following tasks with your mentor partner & post to your blog for presentations Tuesday & 25 min Mock Exam on Friday

Task 1:
http://leighmediaasfilmessays12.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/starting-point-jaws-anatomy-of.html

Make notes - 
What was so significant about Jaws?
Outline the characteristics of a Blockbuster
Apply:
Identify a newly released Blockbuster now showing at the cinema
Analyse the promotion and mind map - poster, trailer, merchandising and identify

Task 2: 
Read & Apply- Case Study of a newly released Blockbuster
http://leighmediaasfilmessays12.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/characteristics-of-summer-blockbuster.html

Apply:
Go and see the film in the cinema. Analyse the characteristics using the above reading

Task 3:
http://leighmediaasfilmessays12.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/big-dumb-movies-transformers.html

Watch the video and identify the arguments from Mark Kermode
What are the criticisms of Big Dumb Movies?
What is your standpoint on this - how did we get to the point where the cinema is dominated by these films?

Apply:
Record your own review of the Blockbusters in the cinema over half term in the style of Mark Kermode

Task 4:
http://leighmediaasfilmessays12.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/activity-next-blockbuster.html

Pitch me 'the next blockbuster' - record the pitch and swede your own 30 sec trailer