Unit 26

Edexcel BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production Assignment abbreviated Television & Film whole 26 Film Studies Title uninflected Approaches and Relationships surrounded by Films and their Production mount Year 2013 Group Year 12 Assignment Handout Assignment Deadline Assessor / /2013 Draft Submission / /2013 G. Rushworth last-place Submission / /2013 This brief has been approved by particular date J. MacKay Jan 13 Context This unit aims to develop learners understanding of how films be created for specific audiences and how they make heart and soul for those audiences through an exploration of industry practices and the application of a effigy of theoretical approaches. The insights that learners develop totallyow for inform their future production work. Learning Outcomes Unit Be able to apply different analytic approaches to films 26. 1 image the kin between films and their production contexts 26. 2 Useful Resources ww w. imdb. com Film website with range of industry and film information www. empireonline. co. uk Possibly words biggest and scoop film magaizine with huge back catalouge of reviews/features There is a very life-size selection of DVDs available in Media Studies.Just ask a Media teacher to arrest a look. +-+ Task 1 Analytical Approaches PASS Using the analytical approaches of literary genre analysis, content analysis and auteur theory, create a ? P1 detailed give-and-take of the gangster genre. You will look at the film Goodfellas, and extracts from The Godfather, Scarface, American gangster and prosecute Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. ? Your contendion of the genre whitethorn be done as a 1400 word report, or as a fifteen minute Power Point presentation with consecutive notes. In your analysis of the gangster genre you should also consider the pastime ? Codes and Conventions Iconography Findings from both your conte nt and textual analysis Narrative structure earshot Readings ? MERIT In contributeition M1 Relevant examples that get under ones skin upon elements or exposit of the films studied will be given to carry what is said, but you will not describe these examples to show how they illustrate the degree they ? support. In discussing codes and conventions in a genre analysis you might note The poke is incite of the iconography of the horror photo and is often the means by which the victim is killed.In 12 of the 15 movies I studied for my content analysis a knife was use for at least one of the murders and in five it was employ for all of them. The other two common means of killing were strangling with a rope and with the b atomic number 18 hands. Knives have connotations of slashing movements and gushing blood. The just about famous example of this must be the shower scene in Hitchcocks Psycho. Being knifed to death is particularly f rightening because you can fancy the person killing you.Its not wish shooting, which is done at a distance and is a much much cold-blooded government agency of killing. This is why the gun is the courtly weapon in gangster movies kindred Scarface. government note Ideas will be developed and points supported with arguments and well focused examples which are D1 elucidated in such a agency as to splice out of the example precisely what it is about it that ? exemplifies the point it illustrates. Examples will summons to precisely defined elements or expound of the films studied.In discussing codes and conventions in a genre analysis you might note The knife is part of the iconography of the horror movie and is often the means by which the victim is killed. In 12 of the 15 movies I studied for my content analysis a knife was used for at least one of the murders and in five it was used for all of them. The other two common means of killing were strangulation with a rope and with the bare hands.What these methods all have in common is that they pick up close bodily contact between the victim and the killer, which makes the murder more frightening, unlike shooting which is done at a distance and is a much more cold-blooded way of killing. This is why the gun is the conventional weapon in gangster movies like Scarface or war movies like Platoon, where the killing of Elias by Barnes shows how far apart they are morally as well as physically and Barness act suck inms even more calculating because it is so careful and deliberate. Knives have developed connotations through intertextuality that are specific to horror movies, such as slashing movements and gushing blood. In the most famous example of this the shower scene in Hitchcocks Psycho we never actually see the murderer, but we do see the movement of the knife repeated over and over again, a nd the blood swirling see the shower outlet as though it is just water. Task 2 Relationship Between Films And Their Production Contexts PASS Empire, an established film magazine, wants you to bring out an illustrative article (800 words) about P2 Hollywoods Goodfellas (1990) and Britains Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). ? You can use your notes from confinement 1 to help you. Your article will look at the affinity each film has with the production company and the factors that influence that relationship. Your article should discuss the following Stars Social issues Regulatory bodies Financial determinants Distribution and Exhibition vertical and horizontal ntegration Synergies between different films ? You will ensure your article looks professional. You should add stills from both films, and use impound font and layout. MERIT You will reprimand about the relationships between production contexts a nd films, in such a way as to M2 show why they are the way they are, or the effect they have on the films that are produced. ? Relevant examples that draw upon elements or details of the films studied will be given to support what is said. Relevant literal information about production contexts will be offered although it will not be used to support developed argument. DISTINCTION You will run out critically about the relationships between production contexts and films, justifying D2 points ? made with supporting(a) arguments or conclusion. You will draw out of an example precisely what it is about it that exemplifies the point it illustrates.Material about production contexts will be well researched and will adjoin to precisely focused elements or details of the film/films studied. You will succeed full and extensive explanations and consistently provide arguments to support points made. Relevant examples that dr aw upon elements or details of the films studied will be given to support what is said. Guidance for this Assignment Task ? To achieve a PASS grade, the evidence must show that you are able to P1 Apply approaches to analysing films with some appropriate use of subject oral communication 1 P2 Describe the relationship between films and their production contexts with some appropriate use of subject 2 terminology To achieve a MERIT grade, the evidence must show that you are able to M1 Apply approaches to analysing films coherently with reference to detailed illustrative examples and slackly1 correct use of subject terminology M2 Explain the relationship between films and their production contexts with reference to detailed illustrative 2 examples and slackly correct use of subject terminology To achieve a DISTINCTION grade, the evidence must show that you are able to D1 Apply approaches to analysing films critically, supporting points with arguments and elucidated examples and 1 consistently use subject terminology correctly D2 comprehensively explain the relationship between films and their production contexts with elucidated examples2 and consistently using subject terminology correctly Tutors Feedback Referral What the learner should do Tutors Signature/Date IV Signature/Date Learners Feedback Learners Signature/Date marking Criteria Text taken directly from criteria in BTEC guidelines