Home Learning - set 9/9/10 due in 13/9/10

1. Personalise your blog – choose a background before the gadgets, including links back to INDUCTION and THRILLER BLOGS; insert a photo for your profile; send your URL to HO.
2. Evaluate the practical tasks so far, using the following prompts for each one (the camerawork movie and the crooping exercise):
- What did you have to do and what was the purpose of the task?
- What have you learnt in terms of skills, key concepts and ideas etc...
- What would you do differently if you had the chance? What lessons have you learnt in terms of pre-production / production; in other words, how will you be more efficient next time?

You also need to embed your CameraWork task and your PPT of cropped images as well.

3. Take an interesting photo of one or two characters and explain your mise-en-scene choices (see the example below which is a student's work from a different centre)


*This is a high angle MS of a white teenage male.
* He is wearing a grey hoody-the hood nearly covering his eyes so it casts shadows across his face, signifying that he may have things to hide.
*He sits against a brick wall in the dark with a spotlight shining on him which creates an interrogation-style effect.
*As one eye is covered a sense of mystery is connoted, as well as darkness which could represent that the character is evil.
*The actor is giving direct address to the camera, which seems chilling and gives a sense of horror.
* The photo is in colour, but the actor is wearing dark clothing which makes him seem evil, as he is central in the photo and we are drawn to the darkness.
*We had to turn off the lights in the hallway so that there was darkness surrounding the actor and the only light came from the police, as if to signify that the character is bad and the police interrogating are good, which plays upon opposites which are a common feature in horror films.
*Furthermore, the actor looks like a 'deer in the headlights', which is great we achieved a feeling that he was not expecting to be caught.

*The shot was achieved using a teenage male sitting against a wall, with someone holding a pag light (without filters) in front of the male.
*I also put dark makeup underneath the teenager's eyes so that he looked more devious.