Evaluation deadline.

For those that I am supervising, the following met the Evaluation deadline.

Holly, Alex and Meg - all posts completed and all met deadline.

Clare - posted Q1 and Q2 and Q3 does not work.  No Q4.
Kayla - Posted all 4 questions.
Luke - Q2, 3 & Q4 - No Q1.
Alex - nothing posted

Jess - met deadline and all 4 questions completed.
Ailsa - Some questions posted but not very complete.
Francis -  Q1 only.

Luc - all 4 questions completed.
George - Nothing
Keira - Nothing.

Kate - Q1, Q3 and Q4 posted.  No Q2.
Ed - Q1 and Q3 only posted.

Poster research

Of those who I am supervising, the following :- 

Completed the task to deadline.

• Ailsa, Jess, Francis
• Holly and Alex

Partial completion

• Kate N - Two and a Half
• Luc - Two
• Ed - two

Nothing submitted

• Claire, Kayla, Luke. 
• Meg

Poster research deadline

Complete research into 4 film Posters.

• 2 Short films (using the website Shortfilm posters.com)

• 2 Low budget British independent film

Outline the content conventions

Outline the layout conventions

Conduct a MRANG analysis of each

 

Deadline is Wednesday 25th November, Midnight.

Next Deadline - image and sound editing and title sequence.

You should all have your captured your footage and logged this onto the MACs.

Read your booklets carefully here as you must show planning of your editing.

 1.    When you capture your footage, it will be saved by each shot (from start and end point of every shot).  You MUST take the time to label every shot eg.  Andrew laces 1, Andrew laces 2, Café outside 1, Café outside 2, John 1, Reveal shot of gun.  There are procedures to follow for labelling all your footage.    Part of your final grade will be labelling your footage.  You will need to evidence this by taking a screen grab from the FCP interface and recording it onto your blog.

2.    The technicians will register you when you are in attendance in the edit suite.  This is to ensure that all members of the group are involved in the editing.

3.    You must record yourselves making at least one editing decision.  This must involve all group members and this will need to be posted on to your blog.

4.    Ensure that you collect Audience Feedback about editing decisions and document this.

Then you have to consider your sound editing. 

Consider diegetic sound - discuss problems, decisions that you make.  Do you have to create any foleys yourselves - record how and why.  Evidence the process.  Record yourselves making decisions or discussing problems.

Non-Diegetic sound - document the process whereby you find your royalty free music.  What websites do you use.  If you need permissions, again, this must be documented becuase if your markers doubt the authenticity of music being royalty free and you provide no evidence of this, marks would be deducted.

Deadline 3 - Your filming deadline.

Some of you have managaed to film over half term.
If you have not, you need to ensure that you film everything this week.

Dont forget

EVIDENCE , Evidence, Evidence. of you filming.

Record imagery of you preparing for a shot,
of the actual filming taking place (with cameras in sight),
Evaluating the experience - record yourselves discussing your filming experience. What have you learnt?  Be critical.

Deadline Two (this was October 9th)

For some of you, this is still very much work in progress.

You must make sue that you have all of the following - revisit posts if necessary.

Synopsis - update this if it has changed  over the past few weeks
Storyboard and Animatic -  These need to be detailed.

Location Research - images, permissions, risk assessments, how you will light the space.
Prop research - What do you need to organise, buy or borrow, match the character
Costume - dress your character appropriately.  Don't just turn up in ordinary clothes.
Make Up and hair - research and apply
Organsing actors
Sound - how will you record dialogue, do you have a script.
Sound - what music will you use?
Experimenting - those more ambitious shots, create your own videos of how to create those more ambitious effects.
Audience feedback - all the time be asking for feedback and document this.

You also need to apply your key concepts of representation, genre, Narrative and media language to your work.

All this needs to be posted in an exciting, inventive and ambitious  way.

Deadline two

USE YOUR CHECKLIST IN THE BOOKLET TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL THE TASKS FOR THE PLANNING DEADLINE (SUMMARY IN LAST POST). WE'LL BE CHECKING THIS OVER THE WEEKEND, AND RECORDING YOUR INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT ON THIS STAGE ON ETRACKR IN COLLEGE. GOOD LUCK WITH THIS IMPORTANT STAGE! WE'RE ONTO THE FILMING STAGE NEXT WEEK

Deadline One - Initial research.

Well done to those of you who have made this first deadline and also the Summer homework deadline and the AS Evaluation.  This will be transferred onto your E-trackr.

Block 4


Meg - Summer Homework completed, AS Evaluation Completed and 5 short films (you have completed 4 of 5).

Holly - Summer homework completed, As evaluation completed and 5 films completed.

Alex - Summer Homework completed, AS Evaluation completed and 5 films completed.



Luke H - Completed Summer Homework, completed AS Evaluation - NO 5 films

Claire - No Summer work, No AS Evaluation, 1 film only completed.

Alex - AS Evaluation. 2 films of 5 for Summer work, No 5 films

Kayla - Summer work completed, AS Evaluation completed - 1 of 5 films completed for new research



Kate - AS Evaluation complete and 4 new films analysed.  Summer work complete

Ed - AS Evaluation completed, Summer work completed. 5 films completed.



BLOCK 2

Ailsa - all work completed

Jess - all work completed

Francis - al work completed




Luc,  You have caught up on all the work - well done.

Keira - nothing at al posted

George - Summer HW only posted.  The 5 recent films?  AS Evaluation?

Advanced Portfolio 2015-16

Deadline One - Initial research into Short films

ADVACED PORTFOLIO MARKED.

We have allocated marks and grades to your Short film and Poster.


The Short Film is marked out of 40
The Poster out of 10.
We have not marked your REVIEW, but have left comments.


If you find your film on your blog, we have left comments under this on all 3 products.


Recommended actions to improve


You will find comments on how to improve all three products.9placed under your completed film post)
You have two weeks in which to do this. 
The window will then close on your coursework, with no further amendments possible to your film, poster and review.


COMPLETED WORK
All three products need to be placed in the COMPLETION FOLDER on the network.  If you do not do this, the wrong version of your work may be marked or sent off for moderation.

Dradft evaluation deadline 5th January

Of those that I am supervising, the following have submitted something as a draft and received comments.


Ettie,
Rosie


Gemma,
Matt
Olivia (very minimal)


Ella




Nothing submitted


Sophie
Lauren
Jess


Kieren
Charlie


James

Who has / hasn't met the deadlines?

The deadline has passed for initial poster design.

Olivia, Matt and Gemma - nothing posted.
Lauren, Jess and Sophie - nothing posted
Ettie, Rosie and James - One Poster design posted
Ella, Kieren and charlie - One Poster design submitted


Earlier Poster research - deadline has passed

Olivia - no posts
James - No posts
Kieren and Charlie - No posts, Ella (one posted)



Tonight - next deadline for LWL 

Who reads it
Conventions of layout
Conventions of language

Poster deadline Two - Monday 1st December.

Initial drafts of each individual group members poster by tonight.

These should be in Photoshop - don't have to be finished article at all.

This is to provide ideas and will lead to next stage discussions as to how to proceed with final design / s.

Poster deadline ONE - Wednesday November 26th. - Initial research

Each group to upload 12 film posters.


Use checklist in booklet to remind yourselves of what to include in your analysis.


1. The conventions of content
2. The conventions of layout and graphics.
3. Application of MRANG in analysing how the poster communicates.


remember to analyse low budget, British independent films

Short film Poster help

Refer to some of the links below to help you.




What font to use in your Credit block?
http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/5633/what-s-the-font-for-movie-credits


Looking at actual short film posters
http://www.shortfilmposters.com/


How to design your film poster - a self help tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz_IT9y0tEU


Top Ten tips on how to design a film poster
http://www.chrisjonesblog.com/2012/11/how-to-design-a-movie-poster-%E2%80%93-top-ten-tips-to-grab-the-eye-of-a-sales-agent-distributor-or-audience-member.html

The Film Poster – Interim Deadlines

The Film Poster – Interim Deadlines

Deadline 1 – Initial Research
Each student to post at least 3 to 4 analyses of relevant and real posters
to the blog (average 12 per group). See checklist on what to include.

This posted to the blog by MONDAY December 1st.




Deadline 2 – initial planning
Each member of group to create an initial draft for a poster design in Photoshop,
with accompanying analysis of decisions made.  (Cover conventions, layout and MRANG).
Upload any photographic images that are used in your poster design on a separate post
and explain any modifications that are made.


Friday December 5th Midnight




Deadline 3 – planning and final submission
As a group, show at least 3 stages through which your poster(s) have evolved to show process. The expectation is that you will have two posters in development.
Collect Audience feedback during this process.
Justify all your decisions and alterations.
Ensure that there is a post discussing branding (development of logo and titling
and use across both mediums).
Each individual member of the group to post a clearly labeled analysis of conventions, layout and MRANG, as applied to the final poster.
Final Poster clearly posted as final version – upload to blog and into appropriate completed folder on Mac Network.
Audience Feedback on completed Poster.


Friday December 12th midnight

Final Deadline Four: Editing

Final Deadline Four: Editing

Final edit (vision and sound) completed, and filed in correct folder. 

On the group blog by the deadline below:

- Evidence of editing process taking place and all members of the group being involved.

- Evaluative and illustrated discussion of editing (image and sound) decision making.

- Documentation of any image editing effects used and why

- Audience feedback used in editing decision making process.

- Evaluative and illustrated discussion about sound editing – dialogue, foleys and music (techniques used, sources used, reasoning behind decision making).

- Discussion of film titles and credits used (making parallels to real media texts).

- Audience feedback gathered on the completed film – is it successful regarding Narrative, Representation, Genre, Targeting Audience and were the various aspects of Film Language successful in communicating meaning?  This needs to be thorough.

- Finished film uploaded via youtube to the blog

 Friday November 21^st Midnight.

 Make sure you have read these points carefully and covered them all.

 

DON'T FORGET AUDIENCE FEEDBACK! 

Last week before half term.

You have this week and half term in which to film.

Identify considerable blocks of time when everyone is free to film.  This means all periods, One to Five!.  That includes those where you might not normally come into college.  Be as flexible as you can.  Remember you have a responsibility to each other because you are working a s a group.


If you miss this deadline, you are going to seriously begin to jeopardise your final grade because we will be starting both the Film Poster and Film Review after half term.  You will find it difficult to cope with so much to do.  

If you are filming in media lesson time :-

• E mail Marion and myself, in order tat we can register you as present.

• don't miss any other lessons apart from media lessons to film, 
• ensure you complete your risk assessment for your shoot (easiest way is to film yourselves doing a risk assessment).  
• you should have discussed the filming with your supervisor.

Permission to film in lessons.

                    

This is only possible once we are convinced that you have planned sufficiently well.  If you have a double period or the One and a Half Hour period, you may be able to extend this into lunch, break or study periods and thereby make a very lengthy filming session.  

If you intend to do this, you must get permission from  Marion and  Myself- speak to us and send us an e mail explaining where you will be filming with a contact number.  


        You cannot miss other subject lessons to do filming

Deadline Two - Pre-Production Deadline. Friday 10th October

Pre-Production Checklist – tick off tasks as you complete them

Have you created posts on all the following?	Done
Allocate pre-production roles in the group: location scout; prop ‘buyer’; storyboard artist/s; animatics director; sound designer; lighting designer; screenwriter; camera operator/s; costume, hair and make-up designer and ‘buyer’;
Any ideas that were rejected and why.
Group writes synopsis of short film – about 200 words posted to blog
Apply Genre to final idea – single genre? Hybrid? Or resist genre category? Will you use established film styles – eg Social Realism or ‘Noir’?  Decisions to blog with justification and links to similar real texts if possible (these may be feature length films)
Apply Representation to final idea – initial ideas about representation of social groups, places and ideas or issues covered by your story.  Make links to real texts
Apply Audience to final idea– initial ideas about your expected audience – by age, gender and social class. Link to expected viewing platforms for your film (where would it be screened ideally?).  Make links to real texts.
Apply Narrative to final idea – initial ideas about the structure of the story – linear? Non-linear? Circular? Use narrative theory here – Todorov; Levi-Strauss; Vogler etc.  Make links to real texts.
Apply Media Language to final idea – initial ideas about film techniques you’d like to use and examples or suggestions. Make links to real texts.
Script for dialogue
Storyboard Animatic One - CORRECT TIMINGS - should last 5 mins
Storyboard Animatic Two with commentary (any length necessary) - OR group film commentary on key shots or scenes, perhaps as inserts in film - again, this can be any length
Evidence of location research – rejections and final decisions with explanations.
Evidence of location permission (where required)
Health and Safety considerations – locations and roles.
Evidence of research and planning into Costume, Make up, Hair and Props
Organization of actors
Lighting decisions
Sound design – initial ideas about sound – soundtrack, foleys, ambient and dialogue. What needs to be organized and what are the likely issues in locations.
Shooting schedule – plans for the shoot
Evidence of experimenting with any new or complex techniques
Audience feedback – evidence that you have consulted on ideas and taken feedback into consideration.

You can also find GUIDANCE on P9 of your Short Film Guidance booklet.