The Rock extract

We have been working on tracking and panning - now you are going to learn how to write analyses of moving image texts, using The Rock as a starting point and focusing for the most part on camera movement. The materials are available in school rather than online (copyright restrictions) and the worksheets are there too.

Go to: Teaching Resources/Students/Media Studies/AS/Foundation Theory/Camera Movement - the camera movement and effects cards are in that folder and the Moving Image extracts are in the subfolder  'The rock extract work'.

You will work in pairs - open the WORD document (in said folder) 'The Rock Cam Move sequence analysis worksheet.docx;'. In the blue bar at the top of the table on the first page, type in your names and the date. Follow the details below and given to you in class but you will type your response into the blank space on the right of the image (which is the beginning image of each mini sequence).

Where to save....

SAVE this in the MEDIA drive (CGSSTORE1) in Media/aaaYr12 AS/The rock assessments - remembering to RENAME the file including your own first names and also unclick hide extension so the document saves with .docx on the end (otherwise the PC server will mangle it overnight!).

Use the camera movement cards (blue) to help you organise what is happening in each sequence - you can copy and paste from the word docs in the TR file.
Use the camera movement EFFECTS cards (yellow) to help you get started working on the effect/meaning of the camera movement. Of course you can add more than these ideas - they are starters to help you.

It (almost) goes without saying that we EXPECT you to write about the sequence in your own words (albeit together) and to add and expand on what you have been given on the cards. You must both take part in writing the sections and you will therefore collaborate on what the wording should be for each section, even if one of you is a better typist :)

The whole sequence...