As part of your DEADLINE FOR PLANNING ON OCTOBER 14th, you need to complete 2 ANIMATICS of your storyboard. These are basic animatics. You need to do the following:
·STORYBOARD your plot using Post It
Notes.
·Present the Storyboard as Two
Animatics.
o1. One of all your shots in order, WITH EACH SHOT LASTING EXACTLY THE TIME IN SECONDS PLANNED
o2. One with a commentary that will
give more detail for KEY GROUPS OF SHOTS. (We expect to hear reference to camera shot size, angle, movement;
lighting directions; character movement;; dialogue; foley
sound; editing transitions; mise en scene)
Sophie will be giving further advice on best practice for this via her blog (see my blog list).
Deadline Two: Ongoing Research and Pre-Production
Planning (refer to
pages 7-8 of booklet)
- Ongoing Research into other short films following same structure as in
deadline one.
- Pre Production Planning - Use the checklist on Page 8 and the advice on Page 7 of your booklet to
document all aspects of this:- Roles, ideas rejected, application of MRANG,
synopsis of story, detail of plot on animatics, script, written permissions,
location research, Health and safety, Costume, Hair, makeup and props for
characterization, organization of actors, lighting, sound, experimentation.
- audience feedbackon story ideas, proposed characters and scenes (can be
gathered and presented through social networking sites), with comments posted
Your deadline for researching short films (5-7) independently and individually is FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23rd @Midnight.
Use the ADVANCED PORTFOLIO BOOKLET and LESSON NOTES (see Moodle for copies of both) as guidance. Make sure you have addressed all of the elements of the task to achieve the highest grades possible. The extract below is from the last page of the booklet above, but detail is on the earlier pages looked at in lessons.
Deadline One: Initial Research (refer
to pages 4-6 of booklet)
- Your first homework research on short films and
improved following teacher comments.
- Each group member to post research into a further 5
– 7 short films.Remember to apply at least 3 MRANG concepts to each film.See page 5-6 of booklet for guidance.
- Comment on aspects of the films you find successful
or interesting, and suggest elements of these films that could inspire your
group’s work.
- Complete a separate posting on title – analyzing the
word/s for meaning and effect/s and its presentation/design. Compare for similarities
and differences here and describe any initial ideas that you have for your own
film.
- Suggest an audience profile for each, commenting on
what may be learned by where the film was found (eg Youtube? Virgin Media? etc)
- Always aim to make best use of IT-appropriate blog structure, format
(multi-media) and variety of posts
- Clearly label each post with your Name, a title of
“Initial research into Short Films” and then follow the advice at the bottom of
page 4.
'DIG' - short film selection for the Sundance Film Festival 2014.
WELCOME TO MY ADVANCED PORTFOLIO BLOG!
Here you will find information, advice, deadline reminders, and useful links and exemplar work.
*FOLLOW MY BLOG FOR EMAIL ALERTS!
YOUR CURRENT DEADLINE:
You should be setting up your new blog and have completed this by the beginning of week commencing Sept 12th.
1 As soon as this is set up, you must EACH upload your EVALUATION FILM OF AS SKILLS that you completed as part of the Transition work in June/July. DEADLINE FOR BOTH GROUPS IS MONDAY SEPT 12TH.
2 In addition, your analysis of REPRESENTATIONS OF AGE AND SOCIAL CLASS IN THE SHORT FILM 'ABOUT A GIRL', which you wrote last terms in Andrew's lessons must also be uploaded. *If for some reason you did not complete this task, it is essential that you do it now to avoid losing marks for research and planning. DEADLINE MONDAY SEPT 12TH.
3 If you completed an analysis of representations of GENDER in 'Never Forget', you should also upload this to gain marks for it. This was extension work in July, and if you didn't do it then, you can always do it now.
All short films used in lessons last term are on moodle (A2 Media Studies>Advanced Portfolio>Transition.
The following people I supervise completed the evaluation fully and on time, and are congratulated for this:
ZOE CAMERON-WALLER
JOE BLISSET
AMY SHARP
The following people I supervise partially completed: STEPHEN GRIFFIN NIGEL FURMINGER (3 ANSWERS, BUT FILM FOR QN 2 NOT UPLOADED)
SOFIA JONES (3 COMPLETED)
GREG BICKNALL (1 COMPLETED)
NAOMI FOLD (1 COMPLETED)
The following people posted NO WORK. We are currently discussing action to take in response to this situation. However, time management marks will be lost as a certainty, and an etrackr CAUSE FOR CONCERN note will be posted. OVERALL MARK FOR THE PORTFOLIO MAY BE CONSIDERABLY LOWER IF THIS FOLLOWS A PATTERN OF NON-COMPLETION OF WORK TO DEADLINE. Ella Syrett Josh Henderson Callum Horncastle Ben Mongardini All of you will need to have a 1:1 with me tomorrow in Tutorial to explain this situation.
MIDNIGHT TOMORROW, Friday, IS THE FINAL DEADLINE.
THIS IS A NON-NEGOTIABLE DEADLINE, AND YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO ADD MATERIAL AFTER THIS TIME.
TODAY AND TOMORROW - MAKE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT THE FOLLOWING ARE DONE:
GOOD QUALITY VERSIONS OF THE PRODUCTS ON THE BLOG, LABELLED CLEARLY AND NO FURTHER BACK THAN YOUR EVALUATIONS
HIGH RES AND *FINAL* VERSIONS OF YOUR PRODUCTS IN THE COMPLETED FOLDER ON THE MAC NETWORK (THESE ARE THE ONES WE WILL MARK, SO IT'S VITAL THAT YOU CHECK THE VERSION OF THE FILM YOU PLACE THERE, AND THE SAME WITH THE POSTER/S
YOUR EVALUATION IS POSTED FULLY - ALL 4 QUESTIONS - LABELLED AND HEADED WITH YOUR NAME
ALL REQUIRED BLOG POSTS, THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE PROCESS ARE PRESENT (SEE CHECKLISTS, AND INTERIM DEADLINE INFORMATION)
YOU ARE REPRESENTED AS FULLY AS POSSIBLE AS AN INDIVIDUAL ON THE BLOG (CHECK QUALITY OF YOUR POSTS, AND CHECK LABELLING)
CHECK ALL POSTS FOR OPTIMUM USE OF THE BLOG FORMAT
Please keep referring to the booklet (on moodle) and class notes to make sure you know how to approach each question, and the areas you need to cover in each. Take another look at level 4 examples on my blog or Andrew's (check that they are not from this year by looking at the archive last posting information or the actual blog dates).
Remember that you don't have to follow our suggestions exactly for format for each question - you can mix and match them, or choose another (better or good as) format if you want. The key thing is that you are using the blog possibilities to the full to gain marks for presentation, use of IT and effective communication.
Following the draft deadline, I'll be making comments on how to improve on the blog itself.
Good luck with this final stage!
Next week in lessons we'll be beginning the new topic - Media and Collective Identity (representations of gender in Film and Magazines).
