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FILM STUDIES
TRANSITION PACK
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Blog Creation If you are also a BTEC Creative Digital Media student, you will only need one login. You will be able to set up two separate blogs within the same blogger account. All of your coursework will be uploaded onto an electronic blog. No work is submitted on paper at all. Everything is electronic. So your first task is to create this blog. This will require you to sign up to gmail and create an account. Whether you have an existing gmail or not, you will still create a new one just for your coursework. We need to know the password and we cannot do that with your personal accounts. The next few pages will show you how to create the blog. The procedure for the creation of the account will be:
Create a gmail account.
Use blogger to create a new blog.
Use settings to add labels.
Use settings to change privacy/readers.
Use Drive to upload/embed work.
Blog Creation – Guide
1. Go to gmail.com 2. Click on Create An Account
3. Fill in details and create a suitable gmail address.
4. Once in gmail, add the teachers and moderator into your contacts (top left drop down.) The contacts are [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
5. Now click on the cubed icon (top right) and find blogger.
6. At this point you will be asked to create and confirm a google profile.
7. Once in blogger you will be able to select ‘New Blog’
8. Give your blog a suitable name. This should be your name, candidate number and the title A-Level FILM STUDIES Coursework Blog.
9. On the left is a list of tools. Choose Template to
select and modify how your blog will look. How it looks is up to you.
10. Now choose Layout. You will be able to select Add Gadget. Find the ‘labels’ gadget and add it to your blog.
11. Select New Post (top left/orange button.) Add a title ‘Test’ and write ‘Test’ in the main body of the post and click ‘Publish’ on the right hand side.
12. You should now be in the Posts tab (select it if not.) Tick the box next to the post you have just created and then select ‘New Label’ from the drop down menu. Write in the label name ‘Research’ and hit enter. This should now appear next to your post. A label has now been created called Research. When you select the drop down again you will see it as an option for future posts. Now repeat this ‘New Label’ process and use the test post to create the following labels:
Research
Diary Entries
Planning
Creative Artefact
Evaluation
When you view your blog (View Blog button) you should now see a box called labels with all of those labels in.
13. Now choose ‘Settings.’ In privacy, change both options to ‘no’.
14. Still in ‘Settings’, in ‘Blog Readers’ select ‘Private-Only These Readers’ and then choose from contacts at the bottom. Choose all the teachers and the moderator. This will send a request to those people which they need to accept.
Your Blog is now set up and ready for use.
Using Google Drive to upload and embed work
1. Firstly create your document/work. This might be in
a word document or powerpoint.
2. Now use the cube icon in gmail to select Google
Drive.
3. Once in Google Drive, select ‘New’ and then ‘File
Upload’.
4. Double click on the document once it is uploaded.
There is a ‘Pop Out’ option on the top right.
5. The document should open in another screen and
you should now see some dots at the top which drop
down to a menus which has an ‘Embed’ option.
6. Select embed and copy the embed code that is
generated.
7. Go back into blogger. Create a new post. Paste the
embed code into the main body of the post. There is
an option on the far left to change the post
document from ‘Compose’ to ‘HTML’. Do this. You
must always set the post to HTML when embedding
items. Most presentational tools have an embed
code generator (such as youtube) and you will be
able to embed things into your blog using this
method.
8. When you hit publish you should be able to view
the document embedded into a blog post on your
blog.
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS PRE-COURSE TASKS: Section One: Choose a scene from a contemporary English language film. Contemporary in this case means ‘within the last ten years.’ Analyse what we call the ‘micro-technical elements’ used in the scene:
• Cinematography • Sound • Mise-en-scene • Editing
The task here is to look at how these elements are being used and the effects they are creating for an audience. Section Two: Choose a scene from a different contemporary English language film. This time you need to analyse what we call the ‘macro-technical elements’.
• Representation • Messages & Values • Genre • Narrative • Theme • Style • Authorship
The task here is to discuss how these frameworks are demonstrated within the scene. You should use visual screen shots to demonstrate your points.
Upload these tasks onto your new blog into the ‘research’ label.
