Task 4 - Narrative

Homework

For Friday's lesson - Complete the 'Film Pitch' tasks up to number 5.

FIlm Pitch

Task: Prepare a developed film pitch around the following idea:

New technology has made space travel even easier. Led by a female Captain and a male First Officer, NASA launches a revolutionary spaceship that can travel through the universe using the technique of 'Space Folding' making it possible to travel vast distances. The journey is very exciting, and takes the crew to a new world where the inhabitants have strange but seemingly peaceful customs. The humans then realise that all is not as it first appeared and must work out a plan to escape and get back to Earth - but not without tragedy, love and an unexpected twist of fate...

1. Continue writing the synopsis above until you have explained the film in more detail

2. Give your film a title and explain your reasons.

3. Next, a cool/clever tagline is needed to get the main point of the film across succinctly.

4. Cast the main parts and explain your choices.

5. You also need a director?? Who's that going to be? Explain your choice.

Extension tasks:

6. Look through a range of typefaces that could be used for the title of your film. Present your final choice with annotations that highlight your choices.

7. Using images from the web, design a poster for the film.

Representation Task

Task 1:
Look at a range of films and try to identify the ways in which people are represented.
Create a Google Presentation to evidence your findings. Find 5 and use images to illustrate.
Headings could include - geek, scientist, every man, fall guy, femme fatale, girl next door, hag, hero, jock, killbot, reluctant hero etc etc
List their character atributes within the slides.

Extension task 1 - gather names of existing fim characters that fit with the headings. e.g. Reluctant hero - Bilbo Baggins

Extension task 2 - list the characteristics that are usually associated with the characters in question.


When you have pasted the embed code into the HTML side of the post, update the he numbers to read 600 and 450. This will resize the drawing to be the same size as the one above.

Representation

Task 2 - Sci FI FIlm research.

Using the web, find out as much as you can about the big Sci Fi films that have been out within the last few years.

Make a copy of THIS DOC for your findings.
If you have completed in plenty of time, create Google Presentation of your findings - this way you can take advantage of images and text.

The roots of scifi