Notes from our second session - before you had all decided to record and take notes yourselves!

What was exciting about the film trailers we watched?

o Music – exciting, creates atmosphere, goes with the film.
o Special effects – concentrating on a really important object, character or symbol (e.g. sparkling diamond).
o Memorable visual introduction, often of words (e.g. Star Wars)
o Funny / comedy
o Effects to make it look old (Pirates of the Caribbean)
o A motto at the end
o Visually communicating the idea of fun
o Bright and colourful
o Describing what the film is about and encouraging you to watch it
o Like a shortened version of the film – snapshots
o Introduces the main characters
o Musical timing – fits with the events that are shown on screen (e.g. Ice Age)
o Weird noises and sound effects
o Creates anticipation and curiosity about what will happen in the film
o Different music for different characters

What is a BLOG?

o From Web Log – shortened to blog
o An online daily or regularly updated diary or account

Storyboards

o Telling a story – but with pictures
o Similar looking to a comic strip
o Usually the plan for a film
o A sequence of pictures to tell the outline of a story

Team Present – What was good about the packaging of the DVDs we looked at?

o A main character or thing from the story big and detailed in the foreground – often the thing that the film is about
o Showing other things from the film in the background
o Fonts , font effects and logos
o Colours creating atmosphere(e.g. bright or dark)