My Five Fave Films

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman (1975)


Hilarious characters played by funny actors. Jack Nicholson is a legend.


Budget: £3.2m
UK box office: ?
US box office: $112m



2. American Gangster - Ridley Scott (2007)

Great story line, awesome chase scenes. Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington are legends.


Budget: £63m

UK box office: £9.6m

US box office: $130m

3. Saving Private Rryan - Steven Spielberg (1998)

Large amount of action, cussioned by a softer storyline. Tom Hanks and Matt Damon are legends.



Budget: £44m
UK box office: £18.7m
US box office: $216m






4. Gladiator - Ridley Scott (2000)


Good fight scenes. Russell Crowe is a legend.


Budget: £63m
UK box office: £30.7m
US box office: $187.6m










5. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan (2008)




Explosive action, quality acting and wicked twist. Heath Ledger is a Legend.


Budget: £115m
UK box office: £48.6m
US box office: $533.3m

My Coursework Task

THE BRIEF, EVALUATION + HOW ITS ALL MARKED

THE BRIEF

Your mission is to carry out the following brief:

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

The coursework is worth 50% of the AS (same at A2) and the marking (detailed later) is divided into 3 sections:

RESEARCH AND PLANNING: 20%

PRODUCTION: 60%

EVALUATION: 20%

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?  

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

• Who would be the audience for your media product? 

• How did you attract/address your audience? 

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

DB marks the course work by giving it a level:

Minimal
Basic
Proficient
Excellent

and has to write a short paragraph explaining why he chose this level.


G321 - Simplified Marking Criteria as 1 Sheet