The Life Of A Film!

A power point created in my second media class:

Memento - Films in Class/ Film Club

Title: Memento Genre: Drama/Mystery/Thriller Today in class we watched Memento. It is about a man that has lost his memory after a burglary gone wrong that seemingly lead to the death of his wife. From this film I learned about the use of flashbacks and how much information you can give to the audience via these flashbacks. From the film I was inspired by the use of flashbacks. With each flashback, you thought you'd learn more, but you actually got a lot more confused than you were and had to wait till the end for the film to make total sense. I really enjoyed it though! And perhaps flashbacks could be considered in out opening sequence when we actually make one! The link for the Memento trailer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq9eM4ZXRgs (For some reason it won't allow me to embed it)

Tron - Large Scale Film Research

In my second media class, we were asked to research all of the new technologies that are used to make a recent film. The film that I chose was Tron, which I found to be a really impressive film, mostly because of the special effects and awesome costumes.

Assignment #8: Teacher Assessment.

Assignment #8: Self Assessment.

ASSESMENT OF ASSIGNMENT 8 : Individual Presentation.
Self Assessment:	In this assignment, I think WWW was… - The use of Prezi for my presentation - Well labelled images that were relevant to what I was saying.  - When I presented it to my class, I was loud and clear and they had no trouble understanding me.  In this assignment, it would have been EBI... - If I'd learnt my opening sequence through and through, as when I was asked to explain it, I lost confidence in my idea and didn't convey what it was all about properly.
Record of Grade:	In this assignment I would have graded myself with a grade C because I had good images, but didn't draw my own storyboard and I didn't explain my idea very well. I received a grade D+.
Targets to improve:	To improve on this assignment I need to add more detail and screen shots from films.  Be entirely comfortable with my idea before presenting it.
Teacher Assessment:	(see above)
Peer Assessment:	(see above)
Any additional drafts:	This is the edited draft, as with the first draft, I had an issue presenting it as the background colours and the text colours were too similar. I couldn't work out how to save the amendments as a new presentation, so had to save it over the old copy.

Assignment #8: Individual Presentation

4.3.2.1 - Films in class/ Film club

Title: 4.3.2.1                          Genre: Drama

Today in class I watched 4.3.2.1. It is about a group of four friends and how they are inadvertantly involved in the worlds biggest diamond heist. The film follows through how each of them spend two days after the diamonds are stolen and what happens to each of them within those two days.

From this film I learned about linear and non-linear narrative. In this film, it starts off as linear narrative and then spilts into non-linear narrative as each of them go through two days.

From the film I was inspired by the way of filming. Although it sounds complex, the way it was layed out gave an detailed exaplanation of what happened to each character and as you go through, you see things from their point of view. I really liked this idea but I doubt I will use it when I come to make my own opening sequence.

The trailer for 4.3.2.1...