Year 12 preliminary genre task

Task 1 - Present your trailers to the class
Today is the deadline for presenting your re-worked trailers to the rest of the class. You should:

• Upload the original trailer to your blog
• Upload your new trailer to your blog
• Email your blog address to Miss Ghost and Mrs Hurcombe

Your presentation must include:

• How you decided on the trailer you picked and why you picked it
• Why you chose to adjust the genre of your trailer to the one you picked
• How you assigned roles (if you worked in pairs) and why those people were given their particular role
• How you went about the production of your trailer (editing, sound, etc.)
• Time management of the production (did you meet deadlines, etc.)
• Whether your roles changed, or whether you supported more on task than another
• Problems that arose during production and how (or if!) you overcame them
• What you have learnt from this process and how you will improve for next time

Task 2 - Written evaluation
Once you have presented to the class and have received feedback from your peers and the teacher, you will need to write up the questions from above as an evaluative piece. This is good practise for your production portfolio, which includes marks for evaluation.

As part of your evaluation, you should also answer the following questions:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How effective is your media product? Is it good/bad? Why?
• What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Post your work on your blog.

Task 3 - Planning and research for your own product
You should continue with planning your own idea for your film trailer. If you are stuck for ideas, go to IMDB and watch some existing movie trailers. Or alternatively, use Youtube to watch some A grade media studies trailers like this:


If you have an idea in mind, then your next step is to do some research.

1) Produce a comprehensive guide to your genre. It should include:

• Key theories associated with that genre
• Camera angles
• Key terminology (amplification, illustration, etc.)
• Examples of existing movies in that genre (and sub genres)

2) Analyse 3 movie trailers from your genre. Your analysis should include:

• Camera angles/movements
• Sound
• Editing
• Effects
• Mise en scene
• Lighting
• Genre codes and conventions that do/do not feature in the trailer

All of this work should be posted to your blog before your next media lesson for myself and Miss Hurcombe to comment on.