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

filming deadline approaches

This friday - you need to have your filming complete.

Blog update

I have had a look at all your Blogs.  please read the posts - they are meant to be read AND acted upon! A number of video have not uploaded properly - sort this please.  You all need to ensure that somewhere you have a full account of the story.  Where you have done this through a full commentary accompanying the animatic, it works really well.  So, if you have an animatic, please do have a full commentary explaining everything.

Advanced Portfolio 2012-13

You should have met your first deadline on research by now.
I will comment on these shortly.

Lessons should now be dedicated to the meeting of your next deadline - The Pre Production

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

 

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’; posting synopsis and shot list to blog.	Done
Group writes synopsis – about 200 words posted to blog
5 Key Concepts: Genre and style decisions – 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)
5 Key Concepts: representation – initial ideas about representation of social groups, places and ideas or issues covered by your story, posted to blog
5 Key Concepts: audience – 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?). Post to blog.
5 Key Concepts: narrative – initial ideas about the structure of the story – linear? Non-linear? Circular? Use narrative theory here – Todorov; Levi-Strauss; Vogler..Post to blog.
5 Key Concepts: media language – initial ideas about film techniques you’d like to use and examples or suggestions posted to blog
Location decisions and photos of selected and rejected locations
Written permission granted for privately owned locations
Storyboard  for all shots, carefully timed to ensure that film lasts 5 mins
Animatic with voice-over commentary
Acting decisions
Health and Safety considerations – recorded and posted to blog
Sound design – initial ideas about sound – soundtrack, foleys, ambient etc and likely issues in locations.
Shooting schedule – plans for the shoot

Final deadline this Friday - 2nd march

FRIDAY MARCH 2ND IS YOUR FINAL DEADLINE!

THE FOLLOWING MUST BE COMPLETED BY THEN AND ON THE BLOG BY 9PM:
YOUR BLOG, INCLUDING INDIVIDUAL EVALUATION
YOUR FILM
YOUR POSTER
YOUR REVIEW

IT MUST BE POSSIBLE TO READ YOUR REVIEW AND POSTER ON THE BLOG.

THIS DEADLINE IS NON-NEGOTIABLE.