Warner Bros Tour

Thank you to all those who made the Warner Bros Tour such a pleasure this week. Art, Business, ICT and Media students combined to learn all about Movie Marketing and actually handle the costumes and props used in the film - in a locked room for security!

Enjoy the video:

Blogger of the Week

Well done at A2 to Lizzy, who has posted several excellent ideas about her protagonist's psychographic and demographic profile. And at AS, well done to all for fantastic blogging. |It was a difficult choice, but this week Alainah is the winner, especially for her accurate and clean presentation and lovely blogging style on mise en scene and sound in films.

Blogger of the Week

This week at A2 well done to CP, who at this early stage in the term is already at 31 quality posts, thoroughly reflecting the journey she is taking towards her final short film. And congrats to Kathryn at AS for keeping bang up to date with blogging and uploading an animated storyboard. Blogtastic!

Blogger of the Week

Well done to Lizzy at A2 for developing her idea substantially from last week and really taking on board the target of relating all research and planning to your final portfolio piece.

And congratulations to Grace and Lauren M for winning this week's AS prize for keeping up with the blogs and adding their three key rule explanations for Match on Action, Shot Reverse Shot and the 180 Degree Rule with embedded videos.

Final Blogger of the Week of this Academic Year!

Dear Bloggers

It has been a fantastic year for Media Studies at St Mary's, culminating in Jess's shortlisting for the Media Magazine Production Awards for her film opening. Well done, Jess, and we're off to the Awards tomorrow!

Also well done to Lizzy for achieving the last Blogger of the Week. Not only has she completed her Preliminary Task, but she has also created a separate blog for exam work and written a fab post on Laura Mulvey and the Male Gaze.

Have a great summer, everyone. Watch films and blog prolifically!

Blogger of the Week

Well done to Jess and CP for jointly winning Blogger of the Week, completing scripts and some detailed planning for their A2 short films. #gettingaheadwithcoursework

Moderators, Welcome

Dear Moderators

Welcome to Centre 52235 St Mary's School blog hub. You will see the links to all the AS and A2 candidate blogs in the top two sections of the sidebar to the right of this post.

Candidate 1501 has submitted her AS Foundation Portfolio Film Opening and some of her Evaluation answers separately by DVD, due to her chosen location requesting that footage not be posted on any social media. Her DVD is packaged with the Coursework Cover Sheets sent to OCR.

I hope that you find the work easy to navigate.

Yours sincerely
Helen Williams, Head of Media Studies