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This chapter is from the AS Media Studies text book and the film industry and will help you prepare for the exam. It’s a PDF file that is 25MB in size, so don’t worry if it takes a little while to appear.

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Here are 3 example exam questions for Fight Club:

1. What does your chosen film reveal about the usefulness of one or more critical approaches you have applied?
2. Consider debates that have arisen in the critical reception of your chosen film, either at the time of its initial release or now or both.
3. ‘Despite the gesture of destroying symbols of corporate power at the end, FIGHT CLUB is a film about power and control, not liberation.’ How far do you agree?
   

For those students who missed today’s lesson - shame on you!!

The tasks you missed are as follows - you MUST do them as soon as possible to catch up as they are all essential in developing your understanding of the film:

1. For each of the 4 main characters in the film, write down their first name, last name, any issues or problems to do with being able to name the characters, a description of each character (which could include adjectives to do with their appearance, their personality, or their actions in the narrative), the name of the actor/actress who plays the character (one of the actors has appeared in 2 other films directed by the director of Fight Club - name those 2 as 2 of the 3).
2. Which of these characters is the protagonist, which is the antagonist? (If you don’t know what these words mean… look them up!)
3. Name the director of this film.
4. Name as many films as you can remember that this director has directed.
5. Name the film he is currently directing and what it is about.
6. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much did you like Fight Club?
7. Find out what suspension of disbelief means.
8. Was your ability to suspend disbelief broken at any part of the film?

For students studying AS Film, working on their photographic storyboards, here is the blank storyboard sheet, and an example:

blank-storyboard-sheet

blank-storyboard-sheet-example

Remember the following:

• 15 - 25 images
• images can be repeated but do not count as a new image
• plus up to 5 found images of shots which we cannot reasonably expect you to take yourself (such as the establishing shot of a spaceship, or a car exploding) - these found images can be used from the internet, screenshots from movies, or commissioned artwork
• You must acknowledge the source of your found images - what website they are from, what film they are from, etc.

Any problems please ask Mr. Hurren

If you are working on movie trailers, here are 3 images which may help (click on them to make them bigger):

This page has a very good example of an evaluation for the AS Media Studies coursework. When you click on the page, scroll down to where it says

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

This is from the 18 January 2010 edition of The Guardian newspaper:

So how many times can The Sun find pretexts for mentioning James Cameron’s movie Avatar in its news pages? Answer: quite a few. “Rugby in a 3D first… 3D fever, begun by the film Avatar“, “3D set to go seedy… adult film makers have jumped on the Avatar bandwagon”, “District 9 review: James Cameron’s £300m breathtaking Avatar is currently taking cinemas by storm…”, “Ava-Ta Very Much… The huge success of 3D blockbuster is helping Cineworld to battle the recession” and so on. The Sun is owned by News International, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, which also owns Twentieth Century Fox, which made… Avatar.

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Here are also some links which might help:

 http://www.moviepitch.com/good_idea.htm

 http://levilarringtonlives.blogspot.com/…

 http://yacomink.com/reblog/2006/10/the_1…