Initial Thoughts on the A2 Media Coursework

Overview

For the A2 Media Coursework, a movie marketing campaign must be created. This will involve creating a trailer, that is around 1:30-2 minutes long, for a movie, and two print products - a poster for a movie and a front cover for a movie magazine. These will be used to promote a film. I feel that this will be an interesting piece of coursework, as both moving images and print will be used to complete it.

Preliminary Task

For the preliminary task I will have to produce a short narrative within one of the following genres:

• A Western Gunfight
• A Horror Chase
• A Romantic Encounter
• A Gangster Deal

This will be done in a group of three or four people. The narrative will need two characters and be 60 second long. I must develop skills in using the cameras, iMovie (editing), the tripods and sound.
The preliminary activity must include all of the 11 shots listed below:

• 1.Establishing shot
• 2. Long shot
• 3. Medium shot
• 4. Close-up
• 5. Extreme close-up
• 6. Low angle shot
• 7. High angle shot
• 8. Medium close-up
• 9. Tracking shot
• 10.Over the shoulder shot
• 11.Point of view shot

The project must include a: treatment, a shortlist of every shot, a script conforming to conventions, at least two characters, dialogue between the characters, titles, a suitable soundtrack, thoughtful use of mise-en-scene, a final product that is uploaded to youtube and the blog.