DEADLINE APPROACHING!

This Friday, January 14th there is a deadline for completing your initial short film research. The details for this from the booklet appear below:

Pre- Production Research

• This is an essential part of your individual assessment, and contributes to the marks for research and planning
• There are at least 3 ways in which your research work is assessed:
- Through the research and planning marks allocated as part of the portfolio assessment,
- As part of the evaluation of production work as part of the Advanced Portfolio
- As part of the exam for unit G325: Theoretical Evaluation of Production
• You will be required to undertake some individual analyses of existing short films, so that you understand the limitations of the form, the kinds of films made in this form, and the styles and genres used.
• You will need to understand the audiences targeted by the short films you study, and consider how the film uses style and content to do this
• You will also need to develop an understanding of the ways in which short films are accessed by audiences, and why
• At every stage, and for every finding, you will need to relate research material to ideas and decisions for your own product
• You will complete the first of these very early in the process, and record it directly onto your blog (at this stage, an individual blog)

DEADLINE INFORMATION:

Deadline One: Initial Research
Each member of the group must contribute several posts to this:
On your group blog by the date below, with posts tagged with your name:
- initial research on short films
- bullet points using film language terms for camera, mise en scene, editing and sound, with links or embedded examples
-- Comment on aspects of the films you find successful or interesting, and suggest elements of these films that could inspire your group’s work
- comment on narrative structure and build an understanding of the typical short film format in relation to narrative, characterization and themes or issues.
- suggest audience profile for each, commenting on what may be learned by where the film was found (eg youtube? Virgin Media? etc)
Friday January 14th