Lesson/Teacher/Topic

Supporting Task

These tasks are designed to be completed before your lesson. Your teacher will tell you which one to do. When you have completed the task you should blog a short post about what you have done/read.

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2. IM The blog.

Read this webpage about how to use wordpress.

3. IM Storyboarding.

Read this guide to storyboarding.

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5. IM Planning a filmed sequence.

Read this advice about the pre-production process.

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7. IM The video camera – using manual settings.

Learn about how the video camera works

8. IM Shots – framing, distance, movement.

Learn about shot types - make sure that you also look at "camera movement" and "see also" links.

9. MDM - Assessment 1

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10. IM Intro to sound

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12. IM Intro to editing

Read about why your video will need editing.

13. IM Using Premiere – basic editing task

Read about the software you will be using.

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15. IM Further editing techniques

Learn about the Premiere workspace.

16. IM Further editing techniques

Learn about what the tools do in Premiere.

17. IM Preliminary filming exercise

Read Chapter 1.2 OCR Media Studies for AS

18. IM Textual anlaysis.

Write a short analysis of our preliminary exercise. What did we do well and where can we improve? Rememebr to use the appropriate vocabulary.

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20. MDM - Assessment 2

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22. IM Producing an editing log

Read about logging shots and download a log sheet for use in lesson.

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29. IM Lighting

Learn about basic lighting techniques.

30. IM Dialogue

Explore the BBC's scriptwriting pages.

31. IM Using the titler in premiere

Read this tutorial about creating titles in Premiere.

32. IM Animatic storyboards.

Watch this example of an animatic storyboard

33. MDM - Assessment 3

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46. MDM - Assessment 4

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