Notes & Handouts

Useful handouts and templates can be downloaded from here

General

• 180degree Rule
• Filming with More than One Camera…a compromise?
• Generic Conventions
• Media Terminology
• Anchorage (Denotation & Connotation) Exercise

Foundation Production

• Thinking about Production Work
• Preparing for your Production
• Notes on this module
• Sample Screenplay (Blue Velvet – David Lynch)
• Sample Shooting Script (Solitude – J. de Bruyne)
• Telling the Story with Your Camera
• Making Your Film Make Sense
• Preparing to Shoot
• Scene Analysis (template)
• Story Board (template)
• Shooting Log (template
• Planning Sheet (template)
• Production Report Checklist (should all go on your blog)
• Evaluation of Production (exemplar)
• Sample Screenplay (to show format ) from The Godfather
• Evaluation Powerpoint

Textual Analysis

• Glossary of Media Terms (from text book)
• Notes on Textual Analysis
• Media Terminology
• Understanding Media Language
• Textual Analysis Checklist
• Film Terms (to be used in analysis)
• Narrative Structure
• Textual Analysis Exercise
• Anchorage & Textual Analysis
• Analysis of Broadcast Drama

Audiences and Institutions (The Music Industry)

• Audience Theory
• Convergence
• EMI Case Study