Analysing Film Promotional Materials

Objectives:
To learn to analyse the ways in which films are marketed at their target audience

Task 1:

• Follow the links below and examine each of the websites they take you to
• For each website, answer the following questions in your exercise book:

1) What is the target audience of this film (age, gender, interests)?
2) How do the colours of the website appeal to this audience?
3) How doe the images/videos on this website appeal to this audience?
4) How do the fonts used on this website appeal to this audience?
5) Are there any other features of this website which will be particularly attractive for this audience?

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The King's Speech
War Horse
Tintin
Twilight

Task 2:
When you have finished, use MSPublisher to make a movie poster for the short film of "Point Blanc" which you made last week. Think about how you will appeal to your target audience.

Compare the way two poets feel about Britain?

Your task this lesson is to choose the two poems which you will write about in your assessment essay and then pick 3-4 quotations from each which you will write about. Use the videos which you made last week to help you to make your choices:

Poetry Presentations

This lesson, you are going to start work on creating your own video guide to one of the five poems we have studied so far this term:

• Slough
• Jerusalem
• Daffodils
• The British
• Island Man

Here's a video giving you some handy tips on how to do it and what to include:



And here's one some Year 8 students created last year on the poem "Daffodils":



You can download a template for the PowerPoint presentation by clicking on the link below:

PowerPoint Template

Homework due Wednesday 28th

For homework, you should complete your diary entry describing a train journey from the countryside described in William Blake's "Jerusalem" to the town described in John Betjamen's "Slough". You should include details from both poems, description of what you see around you and also explain how you feel as the scenery changes and why. I would like to see at least three quarters of a side of A4 from everybody please.

Analysing Slough

In today's lesson, we are focusing on using PEE to express opinions about the poem "Slough" by John Betjeman. Write at least two PEE chains answering the following question:

What do we learn about life in Slough from the poem?

Post what you have written as a comment below.