1. AS MEDA STUDIES – Teen Title Sequences 2014_15
Blogging checklist
Blogging Task Technology Date due Date posted
Introduction to the Foundation Portfolio.
1. Introduce your group – post a photo and welcome note
2. Find and embed your prelim film (from September)
Research for Title Sequences and Teen Drama Films:
3. What is a title sequence? Summarise what you learned about
title sequences, take a photo of & upload your notes
4. Analyse 2 title sequences from www.artofthetitle.com
5. Extension activity –– what is the purpose of a film opening –
watch the Documentary “Watching” and answer the questions
6. Post a photo of your worksheet on the 4 types of film opening.
Pick your favourite title sequence and embed it in the blog
7. Pick your favourite film, analyse the type of title sequence it
uses, and the order the credits are in
8. What is Genre and what is a Teen Drama film? Post your findings
on the institutions that produce teen drama films and how the
title credits may differ?
9. Extension activity – who makes title sequences? Find out who
makes title designs, how they get their ideas & their relationship
with the film studio and director (www.artofthetitle.co.uk or
http://www.watchthetitles.com)
10. Post up your target audience research including What is a target
audience / Target Audience Interviews & Survey results & who is
the target audience for Teen Dramas
11. What are the sub-genres of Teen Drama films?
12. Analyse the order of titles for a High School drama and titles for a
Youth Drama film - summarise differences and similarities
13. Sub-genre conventions - plots and storylines / characters and
social groups introduced in teen drama films
14. Sub-genre conventions - Post your analysis of camera, editing,
sound and mise-en-scene conventions in High School and Youth
Drama title sequences

2. 15. Individual Post: Pick a title sequence from either High School or
Youth Drama and analyse camera, editing, sound and m.e.s.
16. Practical Remake Activity – post your planning decisions /
storyboard / evidence of filming / editing and final sequence
17. Practical Remake Activity – evaluate the success of your practical
activity - Include images and screen grabs
18. Summarise how to create titles in Motion
19. Summarise how to create sound tracks in Garageband
20. Individual XMAS homework task: Watch, research into and
answer questions on a Teen film of your choice
21. Blogging Health Check 1 – post your teacher’s feedback
Planning
22. Initial ideas: which sub-genre will you create / initial plot or
storyline ideas / character ‘types’/social groups to introduce
23. Which institution / studio will produce your film? Which
company is likely to distribute the film you are creating a title
sequence for? Give examples of other films they have produced /
distributed?
24. Shortlist of font styles and typeface you would like to use
25. In TimeToast, plan the order that your title credits will appear in
26. Extension activity – use Motion to create a rough draft of how
you would like your titles to look and appear on the screen
27. Sound planning and editing activity completed in lesson
28. Find 3 real media texts that influence you. Post screen grabs /
embed clips with some explanation of how you might use them.
29. Create a sound design – find a minimum of 4 copyright free
sounds and create a list of Foley sounds that you might need
when filming.
30. Complete location activity pack and post up an overview of the
locations you have found
31. Complete costume activity pack and post up an overview of your
costume analysis from lesson
32. Complete costume ‘wardrobe activity’ from lesson

3. 33. Rough draft of storyboard 1 with feedback
34. Production schedule
35. Completed framing activity
36. Updated storyboard / animatic – including how you have
addressed the feedback from storyboard 1
37. Brand your blog visually - change the design of your blog so that
it reflects the design ideas of your film (think about the use of
font and typeface, the colours that you use and so on)
38. Pitch tasks
39. Pitch feedback 
40. Revisions to pitch and final decisions in light of feedback
41. Blogging Health Check 2 – post your teacher’s feedback
Production of Teen Title Sequence
42. Photos from filming sessions (with captions explaining where
they are taken and what is happening in them) MUST use flickr,
photo-bucket or similar to display photos. This will require
several group blog entries. 
43. Reflection on what goes well and what needs to be re-shot after
each session – this will require several group blog entries.
Reflect on successfulness of costume choices, locations choices
and what changes you need to make as you go along.
44. Extension activity: Create a Wix website for your film’s title
sequence to promote the film, the production company, the title
designer, the director, cast and crew and to attract a target
audience for your film opening. 
45. Film and edit interviews with director, cinematographer, editor,
sound designer, actors and title designer of your title sequence.
Post these as separate clips to the blog or upload to your Wix. 
46. Rough cut 1 with feedback 
47. Rough cut 2 with Feedback 
48. Final embedded video
49. Blogging Health Check 3 – post your teacher’s feedback.

4. Evaluation
50. Completed Evaluation questions – clearly labelled
51. Final Progress Review Blog: Produce a vlog where you consider
the following / How successful your blog is /How well does it
show all aspects of the research, planning and production of your
Foundation Portfolio? /Where are the gaps in your blogging
work? /How many individual blogging entries did you produce? /
What would you change, given another opportunity?
52. Final blogging task: Formally close off your blog.
How your blog will be marked
Like the title sequence you produce, your blog is a media text in its own right and is worth
20% of your coursework. Below is an outline of the mark scheme that your teachers will use
when they mark your work. For an A grade, you must show excellence in the following areas:
 planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed;
 research into similar products and a potential target audience;
 organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;
 work on shot lists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;
 care in the presentation of the research and planning;
 Time management
Evaluation Questions
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression
from it to the full product?