GCSE: Film Trailers - 2009 candidates

This section will expand later in the year to provide more detailed information about this area of study. In the meantime, here is a reminder to current Year 11 students on what they have to prepare for this coursework module.
 

Essay

How are trailers for Bollywood-style films structured to engage and keep the interest of different audiences? (800 words)

You will need to include:

• Purpose of the film trailer
• Techniques used in the Film Trailer
• The way the trailers studied use Media Language
• The way the trailers establish Genre and Audience
• Close reference to and comparison between the trailers you studied in class: Devdas and Bride and Prejudice.

Watch the trailers
You can watch both the trailers on this website as Flash Videos:

• Devdas
• Bride and Prejudice
   

Practical

Using what you have learned about film trailers, create the storyboard for a trailer promoting the Bollywood version of a Hollywood film you know well. You should aim to include 12-20 frames in total.

Read the storyboard outline.

Storyboard exemplar - how yours should look!

Blank storyboard template - Word format*

Framing the image - a handout on shot choices
 
 

Assessment

Read the Section A mark scheme in student-friendly language.

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