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

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.