Mr Halsey

  Estimated current grade: D – due to 2.05 running time. B/C grade for what is there.   Comments & feedback: The opening is really strong – excellent non-diegetic sound, good locations, smooth continuity editing and engaging. There are aspects that need work – e.g. the text messages aren’t legible – but clear potential for a strong opening scene. The title of the show appearing between the scenes makes sense and divides them up nicely. It seems pretty clunky at present though – see if you can make the transitions smoother and also bring in some more TV conventions if you can. Need to check: are the drone shots original? They are great and work perfectly to establish the location but you will need to sign a candidate record form saying all your own work so it’s important to confirm this. The bench scene is confusing – the lack of continuity with the hood means it is difficult to work out what we’re being

Research and planning blog tasks Create a blogpost called ' Print brief research and planning ' and complete the following tasks to plan and prepare your print work. Front cover 1) Research  TV listing magazine front cover key conventions . Find at least five examples of TV listings magazine front covers and post them to your blog. This will give you a good idea of the type of magazine you need to produce.   2) Note down the   design elements  you notice in each front cover example you research and look for aspects you can use in your own work (e.g. camera shots, page design or cover lines).  Medium close up shot/ close up shot/ Medium shot. Lots of cover lines. Clear colour scheme throughout.  3) What  key conventions  can you find across different types of front cover - e.g. title placement, cover lines, main flash or cover line, date/price/barcode etc. Title placed on top of cover. Barcode placed in the bottom of the page. Main flash is the top image. Date displayed on top r

  TYAGI, Tanish Mark: 3   Grade: D / E   Comments for AQA:   This is a largely clear statement of intent that shows a good concept that matches the TV crime drama brief. However, only inconsistently appropriate to brief due to TV listings magazine section. Media language elements are clear with reasonable reference to locations and shots without the detail required for the top  levels. Narrative disequilibrium is covered briefly and reasonably clear how opening sequence will play out and how extract sets up the rest of the series. Representation is lacking completely, keeping this in the lower levels. Audience is addressed with reference to demographics and psychographics appropriate to brief. some use of theory (Blumler & Katz) although again lacking the depth for the higher levels. Lacking more detailed discussion of target audience too. Digital convergence briefly mentioned. Print section has no relat

  1) Type up your teacher's feedback   in full  plus a summary of the comments you received from other students in the class.   One absolutely massive immediate problem: it’s in portrait. This is a professional TV brief and it’s crucial you produce something that could go on Netflix or iPlayer and not look out of place (if you want a top grade). This is effectively a YouTube short which is a completely different type of media. I don’t like the opening POV shot – it feels like a 90s videogame rather than a 2023 TV drama. The prop / blood is OK but the shot lasts too long. I like the heartbeat-style sound effect / music in the background, it’s perfect for building tension. The dialogue communicates meaning but it’s pretty clichéd – it feels like a narrative/character that has been done before. There’s also no clear positioning of the audience in terms of who we are meant to be sympathising with. Are we on his side or not?  2)

Crime Drama •Name: Mercenary •Tagline: Play the game, die by it. •Genre: Crime Drama •TV Broadcasting: Netflix • Opening Sequence (3 minutes) Narrative The opening shots will contain a dimly lit atmosphere which fits the crime genre and gives an eerie vibe to the main character. He will clean up his previous hit he has conducted and gets ready for the next which starts off the main plot. The plot is the main character carrying out a hit on a wanted criminal who has heavily damaged society. This fits with Propp's character theory with the main character being a typical "hero" and the criminal being the "villain". By getting rid of a thug at the very start of the show forms a equilibrium. However, we can than see the emotional baggage of the hit man afterwards who has a mental breakdown over the act he has committed and reconsiders leaving the profession yet is blackmailed by his agency (disequilibrium). This now allows the audience to sympathise with the main cha

  1) Script Write the full  script  for your TV drama extract. You'll hopefully have a chunk of this done from your preliminary exercise but now is the time to make sure you have scripted a full three-minute extract that meets the brief.  *Quick montage with drone of the setting - preferably 15 seconds long* *Jumps into room with main character and criminal with bag on his head* Main character- You already told me all the names and now I have no more use for you. *Takes a knife and slashes the criminal in his head who is in the chair* Screen fades to black Cuts back to the character dropping a bloody knife and washes his blood out his hand in the sink. Gets a drink. Other criminals start to appear and he runs away. *Drone shot of him running away* *Main character feels uneasy and starts to slowly lose consciousness* *faints sound effect following with eerie non diegetic music* Main character wakes up tied to a chair with the sidekick  pointing a gun to his head. Main character: Wha