Coursework: Preliminary Exercise

 1) Write a 100 word statement of intent explaining what you are going to make for your preliminary exercise.

Statement of intent: 100 words explaining what you plan to make.

Example statement of intent [145 words]: 

I plan to produce a magazine with two-page spread and 145 words talking about a girl discovering a strange abandoned museum with nobody around her to help and how her lifestyle is. My magazine will start with how the girl forgot the way home and ended up leading herself somewhere that looked like nobody's visited for many years with strange images around covered in dust. The character in my magazine will be a teen girl from the age of 15-16. 

The first page will feature a large dull type of photograph of the young girl from behind facing the abandoned area which was a museum and this was found at a strange time at night with a big text at the top. My text will provide a brief introduction and an overview of the young girls lifestyle. I'll use a clean, funky type of a font to give the text a intrigued, overwhelmed feeling.

The second page will break down specific reasons of the young girls current situation. I'll proceed to include a few small images, each simply standing out on the different parts of the girls life and where she is. The text will kind of analyse the different part of the images and clearly show the meaning of them and what is going on. The overall tone of my magazine will seem kind of one sided, allowing the readers to feel interested and wanting to know what happens next. My page will end with a

2) Write an outline for your preliminary exercise on your blog. This needs to include talking points and photo lists. To see how a magazine is presented, and to look at professional examples, check out the following link which gives lot of tips and tricks on how to layout and plan your magazine.

3) Casting: Who will be in your magazine?

A young girl aged 15-16

4) Plan your locations: Where you will shoot your preliminary exercise? (You can take photos off-site if you wish to do this for homework - this is what we would strongly recommend). Important note: You CANNOT take any students out of any other lessons OR disturb any other lessons in the school. If you wish to take shots in-school then you will need to shoot with Mr Ray supervising or after school with a Media teacher present. 

5) Write your shot list: every shot you plan to film. This needs to be far MORE shots than you will actually use in the final edited version - plan extra angles, close-ups, long shots and more. You can find an example shot list here. This is for a narrative film but the layout will be the same.