Deadline this Wednesday

DEADLINE APPROACHING - WEDNESDAY NOV 30TH 9pm

The deadline for the planning stage is still this Wednesday 30th. You won't be in college, but most of the items are blogged and you should be working on this in your own time in and out of college.
You will need to make sure that the animatic is uploaded before the end of tomorrow (Tues).
The following must ALL be on the blog by 9pm Wednesday:

Evidence of ongoing research into short films which reflect the ongoing process of your planning (embed links to more films the group finds inspiring, with comments)

- short statements (bullet pointed paragraphs) on initial group decisions in each of the areas for assessment in Unit G325: genre/style, narrative, representation, target audience, use of film language (eg ideas for key shots and dominant mise en scene). Remember that you will need to consult members of your audience for feedback later in the process!

- allocation of roles at this stage - see booklet on this, but it includes camera operation, prop research and acquisition, location research and justification, storyboarding, scripting, animatic production, costume, make-up, actor selection and contacting, lighting decisions, sound/foley research etc. All members of the group should take part in the editing process.

- location research (photos taken and uploaded with notes)

- initial props ideas and photos with notes

- lighting notes (on animatic or as separate posting)- use examples from others

- storyboard as animatic (with or without commentary - ONLY WITHOUT IF DRAWING IS VERY DETAILED AND ALL ELEMENTS OF FRAME PLANNING, LENGTH OF SHOT ETC ARE PRESENT)

- outline script (either as part of animatic, or separate posting)

- initial ideas for additional sound (soundtrack, foley/fx, ambient)

- notes, images, links on initial research into short film promotion (advertising, reviews - see my blog side bar)

- some audience feedback on story ideas, proposed characters and scenes (can be gathered and presented through social networking sites), with comments posted

Planning deadline

You need to provide a shot list for every shot in the film, which states shot size, angle, movement and character movement in the scene. Locations should be clear, as should any lighting instructions and any other aspect of mise en scene. Decide on editing transitions and add these in too.
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You do not have to storyboard every shot. However, make sure your storyboard and animatic covers key scenes. Remember you'll need a voice over to explain the content of images, and how they connect.

Deadline on Wednesday 30th November.

Please ensure that you have fulfilled all elements of the criteria.

Some of you have well developed ideas and have already sought permissions, looked at possible locations, uploaded an animatic etc etc.
However, some of you have still do really do anything.

Don't forget to get some audience feedback. The importance of this is that in order to do this, you will need to pitch your film in a couple of sentences and be clear of the story.

Read your comments

Remember that 25% of your final grade is awarded for research and planning.

Please act on the comments that have been made

It is easy to return to and improve your work.

Please take the time to read the comments made!

Use your vocabulary

Your post should be full of media terms, used correctly.

• Don't use terms like sound - be specific and refer to diegetic or non diegetic sound, Parallel sound, on/off screen etc
• Have you remembered to comment on the editing - are there examples of different transitions, examples of acceleration or slow mo, parallel or cross cutting, Montage editing, split screen? What about continuity editing - 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot, Match on action, cutaways, eye line matches etc.

You can always use hyperlinks to definitions of these terms aswell or link to a tutorial on You tube etc.

Experience tells us that camerawork and Mise en scene are well covered.

and don't forget ... lots of still images to illustrate points.

Sign up as a follower

Those of you that I am supervising, please make sure that you have signed up as a follower. This is important as it will indicate to you when i have made comments or posted something on my blog.

Task Three

Your research for your short film

Follow your briefing sheet as to what you need to cover for this. It is also on Moodle. The more research that you do, the more ideas that you will get. Start looking for patterns re narrative structure. I would suggest you do atleast 5 each (so groups of 4 have 20 different films to inform their ideas).

Make sure that the format is blog like. Hyper links, embed video, Images (to accompany textual analysis - this is a must0, ensure that you anchor all images, write text as bullet points with vclear sub titles.

Task Two

Upload your filmed evaluation of your thriller AS Coursework that you completed in June/July. As well as this embedded video, I want to see some brief written analysis of the main weaknesses of your foundation Portfolio work. Present as a number of bullet points.

Task One

You need to upload your group photo

For students being supervise by Andrew 2011-12

Please ensure that you read all posts entered after this date!