FILM-MAKING TECHNIQUES

Students take note! As part of your Media Studies and/or Film Studies courses, you will be required to do some filming. This means you must be familiar with all the basic language of film including the various types of shots. This includes camera angles and transitions and the reasons for using these shots. Sound is equally important.

Always ask yourselves: how will using this shot/angle/sound affect my audience?
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I look forward to seeing some of these techniques being used in your own work in September.

10T Coursework Essay, "The Red Room"

A synopsis of this story and details on H. G. Wells can be found at this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Room_(Wells)

YEAR 10T "The Monkey's Paw" coursework essay

Information on W. W. Jacobs and a good synopsis of the story can be found by clicking this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw

You can find the answers to the questions set on "The Monkey's Paw" by clicking this link:

http://www.zshare.net/download/the-monkeys-paw-doc.html

GENRE: ANDRE BAZIN

Whilst the definition of "genre" is the subject of debate, it is generally agreed that one of the key researchers in this area, was the great film theorist Andre Bazin. Bazin queried why a purely American type of film: the cowboy western, which was about American issues and American history clearly appealed to audiences worldwide irrespective of their culure and background. This led him to develop a theory of genre.

Find out more about Bazin and his research by clicking this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Bazin

YEAR 10T ENGLISH MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

Sequence from the film.





The original film trailer.