Fearnley Homework !

For homework Mrs. Fearnley gave us the job of researching several genres of films from the 1910's to the 2000's.

So far I have got to the 1940's and I have been quite suprised at how many films there are so early on in time.

I found in the 1910's:

• Frankenstein - Horror
• The Sheriff's Dilema - Western
• Riders of Vengeance - Action
• The Mask of Love - Crime
• A Trip to Mars - Sci fi
• A Day in the life of a Coal Miner - Documentary
• A Christmas Carol
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Alices Adventures in Wonderland

1920's:

• The Girl in Number 29 - Drama
• The Big Catch - Western
• Caravan of Death - Silent German
• Der Golem - Sci fi
• Moana - Documentary
• Way Down East - Romance
• The Cabinet of Dr Caligan - Horror
• Blood Money - Crime

1930's:

• Member of the Jury - Crime
• Hell's Heroes - Western
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Sci Fi
• An American Tragedy - Romance
• Bride of Frankenstein - Horror
• The Public Enemy - Acton

1940's:

• The Fighting 69th - Action
• The Bandit - Crime
• The Range Busters - Western
• Monster and the Girl - Sci Fi
• Boom Town - Romance
• House of Horrors - Horror

Film Genres

During the same first lesson, we designed a mind map of the different film genres we could think of.

As I cannot do a a mind map on here to show I will list the genres instead.

Film Genres:

• Thriller
• Horror/Slash
• Musical
• Heritage
• Rom-com
• Sci-fi
• Bollywood
• Romance
• Western
• Crime
• Action
• Bio-opics
• Chick Flicks
• Fantasy
• Detective
• War
• Disaster
• Animation
• Film Noire
• "Guy" Films
• Mella Dramas
• Weepys
• Road
• Sports
• Supernatural

*Comedy and Tragedy are film styles rather than genres.

A2 Coursework Briefs..

Our first lesson after finishing AS level media the A2 options for coursework were put across to our class. The learning objectives for this lesson was to:

• develop my knowledge of film genre
• develop my knowledge of coursework briefs for A2

Coursework Brief for A2

1. Short film in its entirety (5 mins) and choose 2 from; a film magazine review DPS of your film; a poster for your film; a radio trailer for your film.
2. Music Promo Video; and a magazine advert for the digipak of a band; a digipak
3. A (new) film trailer; a poster for the film; a film magazine front cover

In the next several weeks, we will decide on which brief we choose to do.