Visit to BFI

On Thursday 19th November, AS and A2 students studying media in the Marlborough school visited the BFI (british film institute) in London.

It was hosted by Tim Woodcock who was the presenter of 'making film opening sequences'. Tim spoke about many different ways to make a film opening sequence to its best ability showing us examples of other productions. We also learnt how important many different aspects of film making was, these include the use of sound, picture framing and the effect of shots.

This is the power point which was presented to us at the BFI by Tim Woodcock.

http://titledesignproject.blogspot.co.uk/

We then had another speaker in the afternoon called Corin Hardy. Corin is the director of 'The Hallow'. He spoke to us about his latest film and how he entered the film industry and first became a director.

This is the trailer to 'The Hallow' by Corin Hardy.

http://www.corinhardy.com/ This is Corin's website.

Wheatley park film festival

On 6th November 2015, me and my media class went to the BFI film festival at Wheatley school. The festival enabled us to view different media productions which were produced by media students in year 12 and 13 from last year.

Over 30 media productions were entered into the competition for the awards of : The best fiction, best music video, best promotional and best overall production. The Marlborough school entered 7 productions. These can be viewed on the Marlborough youtube channel: www.youtube.com/marlboroughmedia

Different media professionals from all over the world judged the media productions. One of the judges was Brian Mitchel. Brian was the director of audio motion studios. Audio motion studios was involved in the production of work such as Call of duty, Harry potter and Iron man 2.

Our school won two awards, the 'best music video' and the 'best fiction'. 

Below is a video of 'the best music video' called 'O.V': 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyMca9ZVwLk 

Below is a link to the best fiction production called 'Pendant':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1TLH7rJzk 

This trip enabled our class to view other peoples performances and gather a better understanding of how other media students complete their work. After the event, it gave me more ideas for my production this year. I was also very pleased that my media production from last year called 'The visitor' was nominated. 

First film date

We have decided our film date for the scene in the common room will be on the 11th November 2015. 

We have arranged that we will be using four different form groups in order to make the common room look as busy as possible to highlight the main actors isolation. The different forms will enter the room by 3 different entrances, circle jazz then sit down. This will clearly identify Jazz as lonely at school.