1. Media Studies Prelim task GCSE

2. REMINDER - Conventions What are the conventions of teen movies? parties alcohol romance proms cliques conflict rebellion friendship High school alienation

3. Posters What is the purpose of a movie poster? To sell the movie To let the audience know who is in it To let the audience know when it is on To tell something about the story of the movie

4. Posters What are the conventions of a movie poster? Title is large and either at the bottom or top Large image, filling most of the space No text over the characters’ faces Actors’ names at the top. Often in capitals Font is carefully chosen – here to create mystery and romance Lots of light on characters Colours – carefully chosen to create mood. Here, soft oranges to link to time of ‘twilight’ Image carefully chosen to give information about movie – here romance – profiles of main characters before a kiss Credit block at the bottom to give industry information Release details Company logos

5. Homework Choose three of the posters below and write your own textual analysis of them in annotations around the poster A* - B Detailed analysis of three posters Lots of comments about WHY certain elements are chosen C Analysis of three posters Some comments as to why certain images, fonts, layouts used D Annotations of three posters Comments tend to DESCRIBE the elements, rather than analyse

6. TASK Your task is to make one of the posters below in pairs. 1.Choose your poster 2.Plan your photoshoot - costumes, props, who will be the model(s) 3.Write necessary details in your planner for NEXT lesson

7. Planning photographs Do your photos need to be landscape or portrait? How much of each person do you need to see? Close up Medium shot Long shot

8. Poster Create a Media folder in your h drive and call this unit Teen Movies Create a blank document in Moodle Search through dafont to find correct font Layout the poster in Publisher for all except the photograph