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.

Writing your evaluation and help avaiable.

Remember worth 20 marks overall

Write your draft for this in blog style over half term.

Meet the draft deadline - 20th Feb, and you will get Feedback.

Failure to meet deadline results in NO feedback

Final deadline for evaluation will be 2nd March

Help available

Use the handout you received in class

The slides from the lesson are available on Moodle (as is the handout) under the Media A2 - Advanced Portfolio 2012 section

The making of LWL

If you haven't yet seen this, a great little film taken at Church of London - the Publishers being LWL.

What a great place to work!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9AAfGgJuU (see in column to right)