Film Festival

Genrethon

 

I came up with an idea for our work expectance classes at college to create a two day movie marathon for the whole college on our enrichment week which is a week where we learn certain skills that will aid us in our futures as media minded people and so we came up with the genrethon. where we are to screen 8 films spread over two days getting my classmates to prepare three minute explanations of what the genre for the film is and why they are around today; what is their purpose so to speak, why do we watch and enjoy them.

so I came up with a list with my peers deciding which genres we thought we should cover and then also tried to decide which films should be used and why we managed to come up with one days worth of films however class moral was fairly low and so I took it upon myself to organise a time table for the next day taking into consideration the classes comments from the sessions we had discussing this issue.

we also decided what roles everyone would take making the decision on who would speak for what film and why and also who was going to be taking part in creating the posters for putting around the college for advertising the event.

 

the timetable is as follows:

Wednesday
9.00 - start 
9.15 - introduction
- expose the nature of genre (what is genre)
9.18 - Life of Brian screening (94mins)
10.52 - ten minute break back for 11 start
11.00 - Hugo (126 mins) (11.05 screening after intro)
1.05pm - break 25 mins
1.30 - sherlock (1.35 screening)
3.40 - Calamity Jane (101mins/ 1 hour 40)
520 - finish.

Thursday
9.00 -Dracula - horror 128 mins
11.05- Elf- Christmas 97 mins
12.45 - lunch 30 mins
1.15-  Xmen -action thriller 100 mins
3.00- Time travellers wife-  romance 107 mins
4.50-finish

see below for the IMDB links to all of the films for more information on them:
Life Of Brian- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/
Hugo- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Sherlock Holmes- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Calamity Jane- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045591/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Dracula- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Elf- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319343/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
X-Men- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120903/?ref_=nv_sr_4
The Time Travellers Wife- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452694/?ref_=nv_sr_1


profiling

making a profile for yourself can help you get jobs. especially if you are a freelancer trying to get your name out there and your services known so that you can make a living.
a good way of doing this is to sign up to websites such as Coroflot which is a profiling website that you can advertise yourself on.
http://www.coroflot.com/

are these cvs appropriate?

In the creative Industry you have to make yourself know being creative on how you do so, such as these ten cvs that were very creative for example a designer for a milk company sent his cv in to a new job on the side of a milk carton have a look !!.
http://www.bubble-jobs.co.uk/blog/cv-tips/10-of-the-coolest-cvs-youve-ever-seen/

Work related CV

week one we started by looking at different cv formats and how to set out a cv. finding job roles that we eventually want to aim for as a career goal and then made up a cv on that job.
so I want to go into directing of live shows such as the news or a programme like strictly come dancing.
link to a few of the directing jobs that are out there now:
http://www.productionbase.co.uk/film-tv-jobs/director
http://www.thestage.co.uk/recruitment/category.php/producing_directing_writing
http://cv.monster.co.uk/?WT.mc_n=olm_sk_srch_ggl_gen_uk&k_clickid=61b379d0-9e50-42c9-d2e2-000030978140&k_trackingid=53x441129