1. AS Media Studies
Unit G321: Foundation Portfolio
Project 2: Superhero movie opening sequence
Unit completion date: Thursday December 16th (last full day of
term)
Total marks available: 100 – this is 50% of your overall AS grade
Research & Planning 20 – this covers all aspects of the work done
up until the point where you start filming
Production 60 – covers the filming and editing of the
sequence
Evaluation 20 – answers to the question set by the exam
board
THE BRIEF
Working in production groups of no less than 3 and no more than 4, produce the
opening sequence of a new superhero film consisting of original characters only,
including the titles (approximately two minutes duration).
Research & Planning – tasks to be completed:
1. Textual analysis on opening sequences in superhero films – Blog
2. Analysis of narrative structure and use of narrative codes in superhero films -
PowerPoint presentation – embedded into blog
3. Research into audience tastes, genre and film classification - photos / videos
on blog
4. Completed treatment sheet – Word document – embedded onto blog
5. Draft screenplay – Word document – embedded onto blog
6. Revised screenplay – Word document – embedded onto blog
7. Storyboard – can be drawn or photographed
8. Animatic – a filmed storyboard - to be submitted as a DVD extra
9. Shooting schedule – who / what / where / when – to be submitted as a Word
document – embedded onto blog
10. Risk assessment for filming locations
Production – tasks to be completed:
1. Preliminary shooting exercise
2. Shooting of material to form the sequence
3. Editing of the shot material to achieve a ‘final cut’ of the opening sequence
Evaluation – tasks to be completed:
• Multi-media presentation of evaluation
ALL COURSEWORK IS TO BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY – NO
WORK IS TO BE SUBMITTED IN PAPER FORM