This is the brief for the preliminary task

1. To be able to identify the strengths of effective product
research.
He who asks is a fool for five
minutes. He who does not ask is a
fool forever.

3. Using your criteria, examine the examples of ‘research into similar
products’. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each?
http://www.charlottesa2media.blo
gspot.co.uk/2012/09/analysis-of-
similar-products-1.html
http://paigemcilhattona2.blogspot.
co.uk/2012/09/researching-similar-
products-trailers.html
http://arnolda2media.blogspot.co.
uk/2012/09/updated-r.html
You need to remember that you are
researching and creating an opening to a
fiction film.
What could you do and include:
• Timeline of opening sequences – what is on
screen and when. Titles etc.
• Todorov’s narrative theory – which aspects of this
are being met in the opening to a film?
• Propp’s character theory – how does the opening
establish characters and which characters? How
do you know and how is information effectively
held back from the viewer?
• Barthes codes of narrative, especially ‘enigma
code’ – how is the desire to watch the rest of film
established in the opening scenes?
Tutorials
Rhian & Ryan
Alex & Cameron
Sara & Hannah
Grace