Film Terminology for OCR Media Studies

Producer
Film producers fill a variety of roles depending upon the type of producer. Either employed by a production company or independent, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting script, coordinating writing, directing and editing, and arranging financing. During the "discovery stage", the producer has to find and acknowledge promising material.Then, unless the film is supposed to be based on an original script, the producer has to find an appropriate screenwriter.

Director
A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design, and the creative aspects of filmmaking. Under European Union law, the director is viewed as the author of the film.

The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized, or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay in the boundaries of the film's budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect, and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners. Some directors edit or appear in their films, or compose the music score for their films.

Magazine Front Cover Conventions

• A masthead for the magazine.
• A headline, which is about the main feature in the magazine.
• A strapline, talking about the headline's article.
• Coverlines, which give the audience an idea of what is in this issue.
• Pug/Starbust, something that stands out to the audience so that they are more likely to read it.
• A main image. Usually about the article the headline talks about.
• Date if issue.
• A variety of font sizes (masthead will have large font, headline large font, streamline and cover line smaller).
• Price.

Magazine Contents Page Conventions

Contents pages exist to tell you what is in a magazine. They provide the page numbers of where different articles are located in the magazine.

They are based on a grid structure and rulers are used to line them up correctly.

They are made of 1 or 2 columns, and these will have subheadings for each column.

Numbers are used to locate where different things in the magazine are located, these are the page numbers.

There may also be photos of content with captions which are used to engage the audience more. If the photo is large, the more important it is to the issue of the magazine.

Articles and features use larger, bolder text. 

Underneath each article or feature name is a blurb which gives a small amount of information on what the article or feature is about.

There may also be an editors letter or a section with information on the magazine subscription.

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