Blog reflection
Blog Reflection 1 - date
Planning Task List
This week commencing 17th November is planning week.
In your lap charts you have a series of tasks that need to be completed by your group and/or delegated to a member in your group. Make sure these are uploaded onto your blog. Create a calendar of frees, evenings and weekends you are all free to film.
1) Initial film idea to your group
2) Photograph/Video evidence of group planning
3) Moodboard of initial ideas including inspirational shots and titles from real film
4) Synopsis planning - this is when you take each of your ideas for the film opening and break them down with what you need in terms of location, props, actors etc.
5) Evidence of how planned opening is going to fit with codes and conventions of genre.
6) storyboard - drawn, filmed, edited and voiceover added (see below)
7) titles research
8) group pitch
9) class feedback and peer assessment on pitch and amendments planned
10) timeline of titles with rough shots, locations and plannned timings
11) script
12) location and recce shots
13) shot list
14) rpt sorry! so I've replaced this with blog reflection (see blog link)
15) fonts for titles research
16) props research and list
17) shooting schedules (see template )
18) risk assessment forms
19) music/sound research ideas/foley re-recordings
20) Changes made along the way including re-shoots, edit changes, sound difficulties, slight changes in script.
21) Production Diary - dates and individual responsibilities and tasks
22) Marketing campaign - look at a film that influences yours and follow prezi below in terms of research then design a poster, and discuss how you would market your film with websites, social media etc
23) Audience research - who are you targeting, who is most likely to see your film? Who is your primary and secondary audience?
24) Institution - information on your film production company and who will produce and distribute your film...
25) Representation - who, what and where are being represented in your film opening? What does it say about them?
https://prezi.com/gppkd8tgbo8k/shaun-of-the-dead-target-audience-research/#share_embed
In your lap charts you have a series of tasks that need to be completed by your group and/or delegated to a member in your group. Make sure these are uploaded onto your blog. Create a calendar of frees, evenings and weekends you are all free to film.
1) Initial film idea to your group
2) Photograph/Video evidence of group planning
3) Moodboard of initial ideas including inspirational shots and titles from real film
4) Synopsis planning - this is when you take each of your ideas for the film opening and break them down with what you need in terms of location, props, actors etc.
5) Evidence of how planned opening is going to fit with codes and conventions of genre.
6) storyboard - drawn, filmed, edited and voiceover added (see below)
7) titles research
8) group pitch
9) class feedback and peer assessment on pitch and amendments planned
10) timeline of titles with rough shots, locations and plannned timings
11) script
12) location and recce shots
13) shot list
14) rpt sorry! so I've replaced this with blog reflection (see blog link)
15) fonts for titles research
16) props research and list
17) shooting schedules (see template )
18) risk assessment forms
19) music/sound research ideas/foley re-recordings
20) Changes made along the way including re-shoots, edit changes, sound difficulties, slight changes in script.
21) Production Diary - dates and individual responsibilities and tasks
22) Marketing campaign - look at a film that influences yours and follow prezi below in terms of research then design a poster, and discuss how you would market your film with websites, social media etc
23) Audience research - who are you targeting, who is most likely to see your film? Who is your primary and secondary audience?
24) Institution - information on your film production company and who will produce and distribute your film...
25) Representation - who, what and where are being represented in your film opening? What does it say about them?
https://prezi.com/gppkd8tgbo8k/shaun-of-the-dead-target-audience-research/#share_embed
Titles tasks
www.artofthetitle.com is an amazing website dedicated to titles.
Watch this and be inspired by some of the best title designs of all time:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/news/a-brief-history-of-title-design-announced/
http://www.artofthetitle.com/feature/the-title-design-of-saul-bass/
Be inspired. Then listen to Richard Morrison's interview and advice and write three points he makes which may be relevant to your own production.
http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00193-Richard_Morrison_interview
Choose three title sequences from films in www.artofthetitle.com
Screengrab each title in order, write down the jobs titles and seconds from the start so that you can and the length of each title. Write a summary discussing the various titles, fonts, colours, sound, effects and any meaning that may link them to the genre or narrative. Titles are numbered T1, T2 etc
Here are some examples:
http://dannywhitebreadmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/panic-room-title-sequence-time-line.html
http://christiehibbert.wordpress.com/title-sequence-analysis/
https://prezi.com/umiyz1jy55vr/title-sequence-timeline-of-the-roommate/
www.timetoast.com/timelines/se7en-title-sequence
Research and Planning
You must blog everything - all ideas, inspirations. You must never stop
(until Jan) researching opening sequences for your particular genre and
uploading them. Your blog is the remaining 40 marks so absolutely crucial. Very
importantly you must set up a whatsapp or facebook group so that you're
constantly in communication which each other and know where everyone is and what
they're responsible for. Also, from now on every member of the group must have a
target/task/objective that they are completing for the opening. So if the film
pitch is still not up to scratch, who's doing which part of it.
We've given you a lot of advice on what to avoid. Keeping it simple is most everyone's hardest challenge, pace and enigma crucial. Beautiful shots that establish character, genre and setting. In those shots extremely well thought out mise en scene. It all has to be really well planned and a group effort. Also, keep in mind that there will be bits that don't work and may need to be re-shot. Have a plan B schedule.
When we've greenlit your ideas and you're good to go Mr Amato and I can start sending you links to anything which may be useful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWv9CkLW_4 This got 52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzefKbMKMF0 This got 56
So film pitch, titles tasks, planning ideas, inspirations, shooting schedules, risk assessments, moodboards, props and costumes list, music research, storyboarding this week and next (list in LAP chart)
Filming and Editing - following two weeks - you must find time you can all work together. Alongside this will be your film posters and how you will market the film etc
We've given you a lot of advice on what to avoid. Keeping it simple is most everyone's hardest challenge, pace and enigma crucial. Beautiful shots that establish character, genre and setting. In those shots extremely well thought out mise en scene. It all has to be really well planned and a group effort. Also, keep in mind that there will be bits that don't work and may need to be re-shot. Have a plan B schedule.
When we've greenlit your ideas and you're good to go Mr Amato and I can start sending you links to anything which may be useful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWv9CkLW_4 This got 52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzefKbMKMF0 This got 56
So film pitch, titles tasks, planning ideas, inspirations, shooting schedules, risk assessments, moodboards, props and costumes list, music research, storyboarding this week and next (list in LAP chart)
Filming and Editing - following two weeks - you must find time you can all work together. Alongside this will be your film posters and how you will market the film etc
week commencing November 10th
- from now on your blogging will have the label planning
- any film ideas, titles that inspire you make sure you upload
- read through the elements of an opening sequence and make sure you have thought about all these elements for your film opening
- Any group discussions should be blogged about as a production diary so 10th November - today we presented our film idea to the rest of the class...
- upload and analyse presentation feedback
- photos of group meeting
- moodboard of real films/titles
- timeline of opening - timings of footage, titles and sound. Try the programme www.timetoast.com
Elements of an opening sequence
After you've decided on your film, make sure you discuss and blog about how you're going to include all the elements of an opening sequence.
Typically, an opening sequence will contain:
The purpose of an opening title sequence to a film is to establish the visual style of the film and to introduce the viewer to all or some of the following:
- Characters
- Location
- Narrative/Plot
- Genre
- Themes
- Details of cast and crew.
- The film's title.
- An introduction to character or character type.
- Indication of place.
- Indication of historical period.
- Information regarding mood and tone.
- Introduction to signature theme tune.
- Information about genre.
- Questions that the viewer finds intriguing.
- Patterns and types of editing that will be echoed in the remainder of the film.
- Mise en scene and cinematography that will be echoed or elaborated upon later in the film.
Helpful Links
Opening titles
A fantastic website with lots of recent titles too - a site you must refer to throughout.
http://www.artofthetitle.com/
Some of the youtube links don't work but if you search in youtube they will come up.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/19/30-unforgettable-movie-title-sequences/
These you have to look for yourselves:
http://www.imdb.com/list/2mdHt8unYqs/
A fantastic website with lots of recent titles too - a site you must refer to throughout.
http://www.artofthetitle.com/
Some of the youtube links don't work but if you search in youtube they will come up.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/19/30-unforgettable-movie-title-sequences/
These you have to look for yourselves:
http://www.imdb.com/list/2mdHt8unYqs/
Media Meister October 2014
Congratulations to Issy this half term's media meister your certificate is ready
w/c 3rd November
- One post discussing student videos you watched in class and marking criteria
- One post finding your own three student videos and using the marking criteria what
- Film pitch for your group due Thursday see next post
Student film openings
Find
three student productions of your choice and upload onto blog (post title
student film openings) - one to present to the class that you found interesting
and two others to mark using the criteria below. What went well, Even better if
and give them a grade. It would be fab if you emailed any students' work with
queries on their productions or their marks and got a reply. Upload the film
you liked and why.
Youtube - Latymer film openings, Hurtwood House film openings, G321, AS Film openings
Level 1 0–23 marks The work for the main task is possibly incomplete. There is minimal evidence in the work of the creative use of any relevant technical skills such as:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
Level 2 24–35 marks There is evidence of a basic level of ability in the creative use of some of the following technical skills:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set;, including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
Level 3 36–47 marks There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:
• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
Level 4 48–60 marksThere is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
• material appropriate for the target audience and task;
• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;
• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
• shooting material appropriate to the task set;including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;
• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuboFoQeI7kjz0HNOzjotGVWFrxg2GPMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-gSPqOgs_8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_P5ZEHuHS2aXqPX1Rz1ra7H6h86VghZ7
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