BTEC Creative and Media Production Unit 1 Homework 1

BTEC CMP Unit 1 Homework 1

Layout Design for a TV Listings magazine

Example Grid-of-9 for a film trailer

When you analyse film trailers on your blog for your research and planning section, the grid of 9 is a helpful format. It links to a technique used on the Art of the Title website. Discipline yourself to keep your writing within the space available (do not allow the grid to expand enough to go on to 2 pages) and you are only allowed 9 screen shots from the trailer. You need to begin referring to theory and theorists at this stage. This is an example grid, analysing the trailer for Silent Hill.

Grid of 9 for the Silent Hill Theatrical Trailer

Comparing a Teaser trailer with a Theatrical Trailer

The trailers for the original Silent Hill (dir. Gans, 2006) show an interesting comparison between the 2 minute, 30 second Theatrical Trailer



and the 30 second Teaser Trailer. It is interesting to see what has been kept and what has been left out and how the features that remain mark the USP of the actual film.

iTunes Movie Trailers

The iTunes Movie Trailer site is a great place to look at trailers by genre. You can see trailers for the latest releases but also you can sort the trailers by genre and see at a glance some of the more obvious genre features.

Video Production and the Law

The best site to answer questions about film, video and television law is the online site for the BBC Editorial Guidelines. This gives an index where you can search for all aspect of the law mentioned in the BTEC specification. A good summarey of what editors have to follow is here.

Here is a link on copyright and royalties in Music Video.

This is a link about guidelines on Music played by broadcasters during war.

A BTEC Level 3 Student's Blog TV Production

Here is a good example of a Distinction grade blog at BTEC Level 3 showing how to illustrate the process of taking a TV production from the brief, through planning, filming and post production.

A Useful Guide to making a video proposal

A useful guide to making a real video con be found here.

Here is an advert used by Chat Noir Productions to advertise their services in making videos.

The narrative structure of a Film Trailer

Freytag's Pyramid

A fan trailer showing The Shining as a horror.

The Shining re-cut as a RomCom trailer

The Original trailer for The Shining

Here is a link to the original trailer for The Shining. Does its structure follow Freytag's triangle?

The Hallway Scene from The Shining

The Shining Opening Credits

Mrs Doubtfire re-cut as a horror trailer

Mary Poppins re-cut as a horror trailer

Sleepless in Seattle re-cut

Re-touching magazine covers with photoshop

This website shows some of the changes made to a magazine cover model using Photoshop. Be patient - it takes a long time to load.
If a female reader were to aspire to have this appearance, she would wish to achieve something that never existed in the first place. How does this fit with Baudrillard's theories of simulacra and hyperreality?

Media NQT Conference - Creative and Media Diploma

For an overview of the Diploma in Creative and Media, the Skillset and the Lonsas websites are good places to start.

Discuss two or more media texts that you would define as ‘postmodern’ and explain why you would give them t...