AS cwk: setting out Opening Analysis posts

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Your Media coursework requires not just strong practical skills but also evidence of Research + Planning (20%) plus analysis and reflection within the Evaluation. How you organise and present your blog is important, for example by adding links lists to make it easy to see what work you've done on the major assessment criteria.
The following is an example of how a student, at an early stage of blogging, has presented analysis on the use of sound in a film; below this I've set out how (using the student's text) you should set out and present this.

This was how Conal initially presented his analysis...

My example below follows the (very!) detailed principles set out in this post, and also in past coursework guides (I should hopefully have a shorter, updated version of both ready for you soon). Like many key posts, you can find it by searching or by looking in the top links list where I've gathered some of the most useful posts:

There are many more links lists on this blog!

The post title would be: SoundEG4: Bride of Chucky
- brevity is good
- only use spaces where needed
- this makes it easy (for blog viewers, not just you!) to find linked posts (and add to relevnat links lists)

At the top of your post would be: 

Bride of Chucky [Child's Play IV]
Ronny Yu, 2000 (slasher, BBFC18)
Produced by: Universal Pictures.
Distributed by: Metrodome Distribution (UK, all media)
Budget: $25m; Box Office: $50.7m world, £526k UK.
Total Opening Length:  :min
Trailer; Wiki; RottenTomatoes.com (42%).

Here's the main title soundtrack:

[We start the post with key info laid out attractively, + incorporating basic multimedia: hyperlinks
You needn't include all of this every time, BUT you should always include at least the film title, director, year, genre, age rating
You'll discover you need to answer an Evaluation Q on which company would distribute YOUR film, so including this will be helpful info/evidence for that
Most of the hyperlinks are from the IMDB entry
Its up to you whether you want to note all the production co's or what you think is the main producer; with distribution its most useful to note the UK distributor - if there is none, that implies it never got a UK cinematic release. Look out too for multiple distributors
Finally, I looked on YouTube and spotted the audio which I've embedded here; be careful with embedding 18-rated material; trailers are generally okay, but some clips may be unsuitable]

The bride if Chucky (Yu, 2008) starts with non diagetic music over the idents that creates an audio bridge between both idents and the opening shot, this music is strings. The strings play slow, drawn out notes and in the background there Is a drum, playing slow beats. The beat then builds I to a faster beat after briefly stopping. This creases the tension and connotes footsteps or a heart beat (it is polysemic until we have further signifiers and therefore anchorage) the music here has been specificly designed to create tension. There is an increase in the pitch and a change to sharp and flat notes all this combined with the fast drum drastically increases the tension. When we do a commutation test we find that this music has been very specifically designed for creating tension and making the audience feel nervous. The long and slow notes combined with the percussion has an interesting effect on the audience, the long notes make yon hold your breath but the percussion makes your heart beat faster. Non diegetic and diegetic sound are combined and the non diegetic sound is exaggerated (an example of this is the phone, which rings as if it were on speaker phone) the young and naive voice creates an impression on the audience. The music gos away for the drips. This makes us focus on the action and then when the radio activates we are shocked by the loud noise of it starting happening in the quiet. The music the returns, making the audience feel safe. It then stops just before the person dies then returns at a faster pace as the dialogue is spoken.