TWO WEEKS TO GO UNTIL YOUR COMPLETED TITLES AND OPENING OF A NEW FICTION FILM MUST BE COMPLETE. With only two weeks until this milestone deadline it is important that you utilise your time effectively over the next two weeks both in and outside of lessons, and plan editing time to ensure that you are able to bring your creative visions to life. You will be expected to submit the following by 3.00pm at the latest on Friday 13th February 2009:
1. A completed 'Continuity sequence' preliminary task
2. A completed titles and opening sequence to a new fiction film (no longer than two minutes)
3. A thorough BLOG evidencing all of your research and planning which highlights the detailed development of your film. This MUST INCLUDE:
a. Critical analysis of the work of Saul Bass
b. Evidence of research into similar media texts and analysis of their forms and conventions
c. A logline for your film idea/concept and or a mind-map exploring narrative/character development
d. Draft storyboards and plans
e. A comprehensive set of posts outlining the processes in the development of your film and the decisions and revisions made
f. YOUR CONTINUITY SEQUENCE
THIS SHOULD INCLUDE:
a. Location shots
b. Casting Shots
c. An animatic
d. Second/third draft storyboards
e. music choices discussion and analysis
f. the first cut with analysis
g. Detailed critique of the developmental process with reflective commentary on the decisions and revisions made.
h. Exploration of why opening title sequences are so important to the film industry?
i. Photographs of the shoot - you in action!
j. Shooting schedule
k. Mini-evaluative postings showing reflective thought processes throughout the project
THIS COULD INCLUDE:
a. Thorough audience research exploring the relationship between opening title sequences and spectator responses to film.
b. A detailed audience profile drawing upon sociographic and psychographic profiling techniques.
c. Audience responses to your finished film.
d. Evidence into 'Film Production' processes undertaking a case-study into a specific studio or film and tracking its production, distribution and marketing strategies.
Just to remind you.....here is the film brief as set out in the OCR Media A/S specification:
Video
Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door,
crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then
exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action,
shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.
The presentation of the research, planning and evaluation may take the form of any one, or combination of two or more, of the following:
• a presentation using slideshow software such as Powerpoint;
• a blog or website;
• a podcast;
• a DVD with ‘extras’.
In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:
• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Where candidates have worked in a group, the evidence for assessment may be presented collectively but centres will still assess candidates on an individual basis for their contribution to aspects of the work, from planning, research and production to evaluation.The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation.
YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO GIVE TEAM PRESENTATIONS AFTER HALF-TERM THAT WILL BE CRITICAL AND EVALUATIVE IN NATURE. YOU WILL SHOWCASE YOUR FILM, BLOGS AND CONTINUITY SEQUENCES AND PEER ASSESS EACH OTHERS WORK. THE EXACT DATES FOR THIS WILL BE PUBLISHED LATER THIS WEEK.
Good Luck x
