Congratulations on a successful first term, and welcome back!

Okay, it's looking like we're all on board with having established our blogs now, with some really good posts detailing what you did on the preliminary tasks. Some of your blogs are really detailed, with evidence of the work you did last term on film genre as well. Well done!
Over the next week I would like you all to use your blogs to provide further evidence of your research and planning into your film opening projects.

Here's what to do:



1. Post details of everything that you have done so far. This could include:

• Details of our work in class on what makes a successful film opening
• Exploration of different genres of film. You could refer to your notes from the different presentations that the class prepared and delivered, and even include a link to your own presentation (use the web progamme called 'Slideshare' to do this)
• Research into the genre that you are hoping to use for your project. As set up in the ELT task for the half term break, find a successful example of a film opening within that genre and write about what makes it so successful. Include some screengrabs too if you can
• Copies of any planning notes as you generate initial ideas for your own film opening.

2. Carry out some audience research and post details of this on your blog too. This should include:

• A questionnaire to find out what audiences like about / expect from film openings. This should aim to gather data that you can then use in preparing your own film opening, in order to make it as successful as possible. Include questions that are specific to your chosen genre as well as more general questions about the broader appeal of film openings overall. Use your questionnaire with a number of members of your target audience - about 20 should be enough. Use social networking to get responses if you want, especially if you can't access people directly. Post a copy of your questionnaire on your blog, as well as a table of data showing the responses, together with an analysis of the results
• A pen portrait of a sample member of the target audience for your film. This can be a real person (get their permission first if you are going to be providing any of their details on your blog!) or a fictional person, but it should give an account of the sorts of things that may be of relevance to their appreciation of the sorts of films that your opening is similar to. Include things like: their name, age and gender; hobbies and interests; likes and dislikes; favourite films; a quote about their views on your chosen genre etc. Keep it brief and focussed - use bullet points if you like. Aim for it to be like a 'fact-file' of information about them. Add a photo. Make it as relevant as possible to your chosen genre.

That's enough to keep you going over the next week or so. Of course, if you want to include anything else, then please feel free. Use images as well as text. Add photos, scan things, use different technologies (links to youtube, screengrabs from other sources, web programmes etc) to spice your blog up (don't forget to acknowledge other sources if they are not your own work though!)


Really make it interesting for others to enjoy - remember, it's your blog, so make it stand out from the crowd, and above all else, have some fun with it!





All the best,

Mr Bunce.