ADD LITTLE WHITE LIES TO YOUR BLOG ROLL AND LINKS LIST

If you add their blog to your blog roll (add a gadget), then you can just click on your link to save time. You'll also get the updated digest appearing on your front page.

THE DRAFT WORD PROCESSED COPY DEADLINE FOR THE REVIEW IS TONIGHT, MIDNIGHT, JANUARY 30TH. I'LL BE LOOKING AT THESE ASAP AND GIVING YOU FEEDBACK VIA EMAIL (I'LL COPY AND PASTE IT BACK INTO WORD, MAKE COMMENTS AND RETURN IT TO YOU VIA EMAIL). 

ADDING LOGOS FOR FUNDING AND PRODUCTION TO YOUR POSTER

Logos for film funding and competition awards, stars etc....

 Find out as much as you can about short film funding and competitions from the links to the right. You need to know this for your evaluation and in order to make the poster convincing.

Any logos you wish to include in your poster design can be copied from the k drive (under visual arts and media, media studies, a2 media, logos).

APPROACHING DEADLINE FOR REVIEW COPY

Help with the writing of the review

Use the handout that you were given to identify what it is that you need to incorporate into your review.


The target audience is very film literate and youth - students and young adults working. Gender split is about 60%M 40%F.

Above are copies of reviews from Little White Lies - these may help. Click on these to get enlarged, readable version. The more reviews that you read, the more familiar that you will become with the style of the magazine

You are writing the review for this particular magazine (LWL)


You can also go online and read reviews from the magazine at :-

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/the-magazine

ONGOING POSTER WORK AND NEW REVIEW WORK STARTS

The first photoshop draft deadline for the poster was Friday, so this should be posted to the blog unless you have spoken to me to explain why it's not ready.

Any last minute tweaking on the film should be almost done now.

Make sure your blog has entries from all of you to allocate marks (for editing, poster and review stages).

This week, we start introducing the review task, and work should begin on the writing for the draft deadline on January 30th - Monday!

UPLOAD YOUR FINISHED FILM TO THE BLOG VIA OUR CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE

When you have finished the film completely, get it on the blog asap. We'd like you to do this via our channel on youtube - centralsussexhh. Ask Andy or Ollie to help you if you're not sure how.

POSTER DRAFT DEADLINE APPROACHING

YOUR NEXT DRAFT DEADLINE FOR A PHOTOSHOP DRAFT IS MONDAY 23RD JANUARY.

SEE YOUR BOOKLET FOR DETAILS, OR NOTICES AROUND CLASSROOMS.

EDITING DEADLINE IS THIS FRIDAY! ALL VISION, SOUND AND TITLING MUST BE COMPLETED

 VISION EDITING

Many of you have a great deal to do before the Friday deadline! If you miss this deadline, you will lose marks for planning, as very few people would have an acceptable reason for being late. Most people are not doing enough work out of the classroom - this is an A Level, and you are expected to do around the same number of hours outside the classroom as inside.

Make sure that decisions and choices are blogged carefully, with illustrations, and all members are expected to take part.

Your finished film needs to be within about 10 seconds either way of 5 minutes. Under 4 mins 50 secs would risk losing marks. Do not however pad unnecessarily - if more footage is required, it must have purpose and be creative.

SOUND EDITING
What you will need to do:

Foleys - either use Garageband or record your own using our sound recording equipment.

Music soundtrack -

remember no copyright music allowed. You can use Garageband or you could try this new site that Andy (the technician) found http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/.

Go to the royalty free page and browse by mood or genre - couldn't be easier.

TITLING

What you need to do:

•  return to the storyboard where you should have worked out a plan for the design and placement of the titles
• check that the design of title matches its design for the poster - remember it's a brand!
•  carefully edit it in relation to images - it would be unusual to place on a black screen - DO NOT USE TITLING TO 'PAD OUT' YOUR FILM LENGTH! THIS WON'T WORK!

POSTER ANALYSIS AND FIRST DRAFT DEADLINE IS TODAY!

For this deadline you will need to have posted the fOLLOWING

1. Each individual of group to upload an initial poster design. Try to develop this as much as you can - pay attenntion to the conventions and layout!

2. Justify/discuss your decisions about the design. You should be considering how it connects with the target audience, what it tells us about the narrative and clearly indicate genre. In terms of any characters, you need to be thinking about the representation.

3. Individuals MUST also post independent research on posters. Aswell as BRIGHTON ROCK, the expectation is for two other film posters for independnet, low budget, British and of a similar genre to your short film. 

Don't forget to consider format - use screengrabs and subtitles and bullet points - it would be helpful to me and yourselves, if you structured your analysis around the 4 key areas of narrative, genre, audience and representation.

Use the checklist below to remind yourself of what could be included on your poster

START WORKING ON YOUR POSTER

Next week you will have 1 or 2 lessons, starting on MONDAY going through the brief for the POSTER, and exploring poster conventions. As I've said below, you need to do most of this research work yourselves, so start looking at posters for recent UK films (or independent, low budget US films) - these are all found on google images as a starting point. You will get a booklet on this, so READ it carefully! Look at links on the right dealing with film marketing to help you understand contexts.
PLAN AHEAD - YOU NEED HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES FOR POSTERS - GET SOME MORE IMAGES PRODUCED FROM ANY REMAINING FILMING WORK.
YOUR FIRST DRAFT DEADLINE IS NEXT WEDNESDAY, JAN 11TH!

Here's another good example:

GET SOME POSTER IDEAS

We'll do some work in class on this, but you need to research UK film posters yourselves. Notice title design (masthead), recommendations and sources, credit details, colour, layout, font, main images...This is a great example.

WELCOME BACK!

VERY FEW GROUPS HAVE COMPLETED ALL ELEMENTS OF THE DEADLINE AT THE END OF LAST TERM - THIS MUST BE RECTIFIED IMMEDIATELY.
WORK SHOULD HAVE BEGUN ON POSTER RESEARCH


CHECK OTHER ELEMENTS FOR THIS DEADLINE - HAVE YOU COMPLETED THEM ALL? 
HERE'S A REMINDER:




- - Allocation of roles for filming

- blog to be updated daily if possible with all decisions and discussions taking place, 

- discussions of the use of technologies (especially camera) – any new techniques tried, any development of skills learned last year,  any problems or shots you were unable to produce

- for the review and poster, initial decisions about images to use are to be posted, with proposed images, and links to real promotional material and reviews, where possible

- Target audience feedback on raw footage (sample shots or sequences shared through blog), and collated with summary decisions

Final Deadline Four: Editing

Final edit completed, with no further time being allocated

On the group blog by the deadline below:

- frequent posts explaining the editing process, aims, techniques, decisions, choices and any reasonable difficulties experienced with technologies. Use terms wherever appropriate - do not simply describe sessions in the edit suite, but explain carefully what you were trying to do, any changes you made to the storyboard plans, and why, and what continuity (or discontinuity) techniques you used and why. USE SCREENGRABS/PHOTOS/OTHER ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIAL!

- audience feedback on the finished film (use the areas listed for questions in unit G325 to help you focus on questions to your audience) – gathered via the blog, social networking sites and other means, and recorded on the blog

- the finished film uploaded via youtube to the blog

- further research and planning for the 2 Ancillary Tasks 
(see main task booklet and further advice coming soon)

 Friday January 20^th 9pm