4. What is the examiner looking for?
• Level 4
• There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target
audience.
• There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.
• There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or
storyboarding.
• There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and
planning
• Time management is excellent.
5. What should you do?
• There is excellent research into similar
products and a potential target audience.
– Show that you understand what a Thriller is
– Analysis a number of Thrillers (different
subgenres) and Directors
– Analysis past student work for all tasks
– Link research to own work
– Show how you have learnt about iMovie/Final Cut
– Do audience surveys, questionnaires, focus
groups, test screening ALL THE TIME and post it!
6. What should you do?
• There is excellent organisation of actors,
locations, costumes or props.
– Mindmaps of costume/prop ideas/mise en scene
– Take photos of your locations and actors etc and
explain decisions
– Write up many many lists of ‘stuff’
– Include a production schedule ( I can show you an
example)
7. What should you do?
• There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts,
drafting, scripting or storyboarding.
– Record everything!!!!!
– Draw good storyboard! Or do ‘photostoryboards’
(you can ‘animate’ these as well)
– Do the shotlist properly! Ask me if you don’t know
how
– Include separate dialogue/music script
– Include drafts
8. What should you do?
• There is an excellent level of care in the
presentation of the research and planning
– SPELL THINGS CORRECTLY
– Use good grammar – paragraphs, tense, sentence
structure, capital letters, tone etc
– Think about layout
– Use labels (Research/ Audience Research/
Construction/ Editing/ Evaluation and YOUR NAME)
– USE A LOT OF TECHNOLOGY
– Vblogs (but know what you want to say!)
9. What should you do?
• Time management is excellent
– Post consistently throughout the project – even
when at the editing and evaluation stages
– Post after every class and every time you do it
outside of class (4 - 5 hours……)
– Work hard in class – I get a say!
– Gather evidence of the work you are doing
10. The Good and the not so good….
• Example One
• Example Two
• Example Three
• Example Four
• Example Five
• Example Six
• Example One
• Example Two
• Example Three