Media Studies

Prelim taskGCSE

REMINDER - Conventions

• What are the conventions of teen movies?

parties

alcoholromance

proms

cliques

conflict

rebellionfriendship

High school

alienation

Posters

• What is the purpose of a movie poster?• To sell the movie• To let the audience know who is in it• To let the audience know when it is on• To tell something about the story of the movie

Posters• What are the conventions of a movie poster?

Title is large and either at the bottom or top

Large image, filling most of the space

No text over the characters’ faces

Actors’ names at the top. Often in capitals

Font is carefully chosen – here to create mystery and romance

Lots of light on characters

Colours – carefully chosen to create mood. Here, soft oranges to link to time of ‘twilight’

Image carefully chosen to give information about movie – here romance – profiles of main characters before a kiss

Credit block at the bottom to give industry information

Release details Company logos

Homework

• Choose three of the posters below and write your own textual analysis of them in annotations around the poster

A* - B• Detailed analysis of three

posters• Lots of comments about

WHY certain elements are chosen

C• Analysis of three posters• Some comments as to why

certain images, fonts, layouts used D

• Annotations of three posters• Comments tend to DESCRIBE

the elements, rather than analyse

TASK

• Your task is to make one of the posters below in pairs.

1. Choose your poster2. Plan your photoshoot - costumes, props,

who will be the model(s)3. Write necessary details in your planner for

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Planning photographs• Do your photos need to be landscape or

portrait?• How much of each person do you need to see?

Close up Medium shot Long shot

Poster

• Create a Media folder in your h drive and call this unit Teen Movies

• Create a blank document in Moodle• Search through dafont to find correct font• Layout the poster in Publisher for all except

the photograph

http://www.impawards.com/1995/clueless.html

http://www.ejoydrama.com/movie/Napoleon-Dynamite/

http://www.ejoydrama.com/movie/Napoleon-Dynamite/

http://www.ejoydrama.com/movie/Napoleon-Dynamite/

http://www.ejoydrama.com/movie/Napoleon-Dynamite/