poster work

Well done, some really impressive first drafts.  Really like some of the titles as well.  Personally, i think landscaping is far less of a challenge to Portrait.  Remember, the poster task is a very good example of the 80/20 rule.  you can get it 80% Ok relatively quickly, but the final 20% for perfection will take alot of time!

FEEDBACK ON POSTER RESEARCH AND INITIAL DRAFT

The majority of you have uploaded your own poster research around the 5 themes and some of you have also uploaded your poster ideas.  I will comment on these over the next couple of days.  Well done if you made the deadline - more congestion and back log for those of you who are behind.

For the first poster deadline - this Friday?

1. Complete your textual analysis of 8 posters (for groups as a whole) - remember use the conventions to consider what the poster tells you about Narrative, Genre, Audience and Representation.  Structure annotations clearly.  

Try to refer to British, low budget, independent films of a similar genre - so those of you with a Christmas theme should be looking at how this is achieved.


2. Your individual ideas - post to the blog your initial drafts for the poster.  Comment on these, again around what you are telling your audience about Narrative, Genre, Representation and who the Audience is.

3. Use the poster below as a checklist to help you in your design

British Independent films - look at the posters that accompany these films.

POSTER TASK

POSTER TASK
We'll be introducing this task in lessons this week. Have a look at the brief on moodle and the deadlines. The first (THIS FRIDAY) is very soon! Search for posters for short films like the one above to do your research (try 'oscar nominated short films').

Deadline extension

As college closed today (FRIDAY), and some people were banking on that time, the deadline for editing will be extended to Wednesday 23rd January.

Deadline this Friday, 18th January

Many groups need to work really hard now to try to meet that deadline. Study the list of required elements for the deadline below and make sure these (AND ALL PREVIOUS DEADLINE ITEMS)  are on the blog by this date. You will need to contact me and explain if you are unable to make this deadline, otherwise marks will be deducted for organisation and planning under the mark descriptors.
Many groups are STILL NOT DOING ENOUGH ON THE BLOG! This is a crucial part of your INDIVIDUAL MARK and if you leave the blog as it is, many of you WILL NOT ACHIEVE MORE THAN LEVEL 2! Use my suggestions of exemplar blogs, and also comments I've made.

THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER SHORT FILM EDITING LESSONS AFTER THIS FRIDAY. 

Evidencing editing

Editing has always tended to be poorly bloged in the past.

To consider :-

Communicate editing decisions that you have taken -

maybe you had a part of the film where you could not decide as a group how to edit it - present the different choices that you had to choose between - maybe 2, 3 or 4 versions.  Import all of these into the blog and discuss which you finally chose and why.

Discuss and illustarte the technical skills that you have learnt -

if you have used filters or effects etc in Final cut, try to illustrate these through taking screen grabs of final cut - CMD,SHIFT and 3 or 4 allows you to screen grab from the Mac onto dexsktop - then import into blog

Demonstrating your understanding of editing -

you are aware of all the terms associated with editing - sound bridge, match on action, 180, Shot reverse shot, eyeline match, cutaway, graphic match, parallel and cross cutting, etc etc as well as all the different transitions and how editing manipulates Time and Space.  Illustrate some of these through your film - best done through screen grabs.

For all of this be inventive - use screengrabs, clips etc.

WHAT DOES A HIGH LEVEL 4 BLOG LOOK LIKE AT THIS STAGE?

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Take a look at the excellent work on Laura, Mark, Megan and James's blog here

 

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New Term.

You are going to be under extreme presure this term. 

Filming should now be completed.  Many of you are still doing this which i am a fraid is going to really pile on the presure.  Editing deadline is next week.  Your ability to meet your interim deadlines is evidence of your ability to plan and thus does influence your final Planing and research mark.

BLOGS

You need to continue to work on these - i really recommend that you look at James, meg, Mark and Laura's blog for inspiration.  It is an outstanding example of blog practice see it at http://advancedportfolio201279.blogspot.co.uk/

I haven't seen much evidence of audience feedback to date - you need to be thinking about this.

Filming experience - make sure that you blogged about your filming experience.  Think about how you do this - not just some photos - be reflective.

Editing experience - again, make this reflective.  Discuss some of the techniques that you have used to imprve work and screen grab to show the process.

Posters - we will be moving onto this this week - start to look at film posters and consider the convention and issues around Layout.  You really need to think about the image (s) that you will use.

TAKE A STILLS CAMERA WITH YOU ON YOUR SHOOT

Take a camera with you to get some high res images that you can use in your poster, and you can also use to illustrate your filming processIt makes sense to do this while you have your actors with you. Get plenty so that you have a choice, and consider your target audience. Here's a good example of a poster for Sally Potter's film Ginger and Rosa (screened at the recent COSMAT conference some of you attended). Find out more about Sally Potter's filming processes at her website here