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Y12 Independent Study 176 Replies

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Y10- TV Drama Representation Comparison 28 Replies

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Whitney Houston - Death of a Diva 5 Replies

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Reflection of Chase Sequence

Overall, I was quite impressed with the outcome of our chase sequence. As the cinematographer, in the pre-production stage I helped to design many of the shots and mise-en-scene when constructing our storyboard. I also helped towards contributing ideas for our plot.

Although we had planned our shots, when we got to the location we were filming, we got too excited and perhaps didn't follow the storyboard as much. We shot the scenes and shots from the story board but without a director,…

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Posted by Melody Cheung on January 16, 2012 at 22:58

Chase Sequence Reflection

For this chase sequence, I worked with Melody and Miyu, where I took up the role of the editor. During the pre-production stages, we discussed ideas for locations, casts, and the concept of the whole chase sequence, as well as doing the storyboard.

Out of the three days we filmed, I was only able to help out on the last day, as my AYP expedition clashed with the…

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Posted by Kaho Yoshikawa on January 15, 2012 at 10:00

Year 12 - Chase Sequence Reflection

My Role in Our Chase Sequence

My role in our team in creating the chase sequence was the script writer. In the preproduction process when we were deciding which idea we should use, I came up with the idea of using bikes as I felt that creatively we could all come up with ideas to make that initial idea work and when I found out that it had never been done before, the idea had more of an appeal. Once the initial idea was decided the rest of the script was down to me. I found it…

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Posted by louisamfacey on January 10, 2012 at 10:42 — 1 Comment

chase sequence

For the post production of making this short sequence i began to focus on the script that kasja has written as opposed to forming my own personal idea i worked around hers,we developed the script so that only some aspect of the story where still involved. Because the sequence needed to be specific to the conventional chase sequence we cut down dialogue and irrelevant parts of the script. I then had to work out where would be the most suitable areas to film different shots, because the film…

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Posted by Eleanor Clark on December 15, 2011 at 10:12 — 1 Comment

For this Chase Sequence project, i worked in a group of 3 with Christopher and Matthew (from ms curran's class). I was the cinematographer. During the preproduction stage, all three of us met up for…

For this Chase Sequence project, i worked in a group of 3 with Christopher and Matthew (from ms curran's class). I was the cinematographer.

During the preproduction stage, all three of us met up for quite a few times to brain storms ideas and decide on the details. All three of us contributed to coming up with the story of the sequence. As the cinematographer I planned most of the shots after we came up with the rough idea, e.g. the angles they were going to be shot in, how…

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Posted by Trevor Siu on December 15, 2011 at 1:09 — 1 Comment

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Y10- TV Drama Representation Comparison

Over the next month we will be using this forum for you to communicate your notes based on two key texts of study. (These will form CASE STUDIES for your exam) Remember that all four questions in SECTION A of the exam MUST be linked to examples of TV Drama that you have studied. 

Your task is to compare one HISTORICAL TV Drama from the 60s, 70s or 80s with a CONTEMPORARY TV drama...in other words something that is showing now. If possible, choose two texts from the same GENRE and…

Whitney Houston - Death of a Diva


The recent death of US singer Whitney Houston led to many music and media magazines publishing images of the star on their front covers.


Choose ONE of the following covers to deconstruct and post your analysis to this forum.…


Fans & Fandom

For homework, I asked you to read one of three recommended articles in Media Magazine Issue 25 on fans and fandom. In order to share your thinking on some of the ideas and issues raised by the article you read, please add a contribution to this forum based on the following:


  1. Summarise what the article you read is about.
  2. What are the key points of the article?
  3. What does the article tell you about the nature of being a fan?…

The parents & Carers' Guide

Please watch this video entitled The Parents and Carers' Guide to the Internet. As media students approaching the end of your time studying this subject, I am interested to elicit your views on the subject matter addressed in this film.

Do you think we do enough as a school to educate you on the dangers of surfing online, playing online…

Race to Nowhere

As part of the post-screening discussions relating to Race to Nowhere, I'd like to pose a few questions for you to consider.

Firstly, as a documentary...what did you think about the validity of the claims made? Is it possible to correlate the experiences described with your own in Hong Kong?

This is the final text studied as part of the course studying realism. Think back through the texts studied, which encompass The French New Wave, Italian Neorealism, Dogme 95 etc.…

 

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Adrian Ma replied to nepaliain's discussion Y12 Independent Study
"Just several initial ideas that need further developing...not quite sure about what I can do for film history though... 1. Film theory: Genre (of zombie, or zombie apocalypse films) George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Danny…"
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Lau Pak To, Michael replied to nepaliain's discussion Y12 Independent Study
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Melody Cheung replied to nepaliain's discussion Y12 Independent Study
"Over the year, the films we have watched and studied have inspired me a lot. After some thought, I found two areas that I am quite interest in: #1 Realism - however, realism as in "subjective" realism such as that in The Fall (d. Tarsem…"
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