AS Media Studies 2012-13 Film Opening Production: 2014

Thursday 11 December 2014

2.6.2&3 Colour grading & motion tracking - test footage or animatic

Objective: to demonstrate proficient or excellent research and planning in the organisation of actors, locations, the shoot and drafting the production (colour grading, sound and titles)

Basic - To know how to use 3 way colour corrector, layered video and blending to colour grade your film
Advanced - To know how to motion track titles
By commenting and posting videos on your blog

2. To create an edit of your Test Footage or Animatic that demonstrates
integration of titles
colour grading
Use of foley and score
By completing the task and uploading to your blog

3. To assess your blog portfolio against the marking criteria and identify improvement with peers
By auditing and marking each other's blog

How to colour grade
http://youtu.be/c0Fdyf2tbA8

How to motion track
http://leighmediaas12.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/as-monday-production-class.html
&
http://leighmediaas12.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/incorporating-titles-into-your-diegesis.html

Deadline Friday 19th 4pm research and planning

Marking criteria module 2 report - Where are you?
http://leighmediaas12.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/end-ofd.html

Thursday 4 December 2014

Test footage next week 11th Dec & the rest by 19th

21. STORYBOARD: http://mediaasgroup.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/storyboard
se www.generator.acmi.net.au/storyboard/build-your-own

Animatic - see Alex's excellent example:

http://mediaasgroup.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/animatic-storyboard.html

30-40 shots that need storyboarding.

jack

Charlie & Caitlin

Tanaka

Mitchell

daisy

22. Test Shoot - all crew this weekend using storyboard

23. Production Schedule with Shot Lists (in order and day of filming)

25. Assets List

26. Test Shots Casting - using http://www.starnow.co.uk/ & Auditions (video with commentary/skype/youtube etc)
Example: http://youtu.be/diphb0kUa30

28. Costume Designs

Georgina

Elis

Bruce

29. Risk Assessments

30. Location Recce (video selfie evaluating suitability of location)
Example: http://youtu.be/t_KgORz_Vcw

31. Back up site Recce

Leah

Caitlin

Kieran

Will

Charlie

35. Sound design: http://mediaasgroup.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/music-sound-effects.html

Wednesday 26 November 2014

Set work for today

Hi Kevin

Could you please set my classes up for today, I am out til 1pm

Thanks

SESSION 1

Work is on the blog - analyse representation of age the Monarch of the Glen clip using the mind map we did last lesson

Comment on the construction of

ADULTS

ELDERLY

YOUTH

link to the characteristics we identified and the TERMINOLOGY we wrote out for CAM MES EDIT & SOUND

SESSION 2

Coursework

Complete the activities from last week - audience expectations, production company, pitch.

If you have finished begin next round on the post we used last week

STORYBOARD

DRAFT TITLE SEQUENCE

Sound design for your titles

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK IS TO CAST ACTOR & video Reece your location for next Thursday. You have 3 weeks left to deadline and we start shooting

Good luck

then write up your notes into a mock exam timed 45 minute essay

Sent from my iPad

Thursday 20 November 2014

3.3.2 TV Drama - Age & Pre-Reading for week 4

Terminology Wheel Of Fortune - Starter

3.5 Rep of Age Starter

3.5 Lesson Plan Representation of Age Session 1

3.5 Harry Brown analysis

3.5 Homework Age

Pre-Reading Next Week:

1. What are the stereotypes of diability?

2. What would you expect from (predict):

MES- costume, location, props, casting of actors, lighting
CAMERA - Composition and angles, movement
EDIT - shot rev shot, pace, prominance - match on action?
SOUND - music and dialogue

2.3.1 Coursework Session

Starter:

What is your Prod Company name - where will your film be shown?

Create Meaning Examples:
http://youtu.be/24nQdBL8M3w

http://youtu.be/_vc6TBeQiLo

Objective: To develop planning folder to meet deadline in 3 weeks.

By the end of the lesson:

New Info:

Create Meaning: Make your presentation

Apply to demonstrate: Annotate showing how your research has informed what you have made/plan to make

Assessment:
http://leighmediaas12.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/what-is-thriller-recap-quiz-28-questions.html

Next Week's presentation:
Homework Parity Remake: Storyboard for H/W Parity ...(BBFC video & audience targeted & Parity Motion Tracking)
Motion Tracking - Incorporating Titles into your D...
Iconic Directors Guidance (Group Presentation)

Monday 17 November 2014

Pitch

Dear All

Please can you send me your group blogs you have set up for your production work that you have completed today in the 3 hours of lesson time.

I will be timetabling 'Back on Track' sessions (basically P16 detention each week til you catch up) for any groups that have not used the time productively and are unprepared to pitch their group film ideas next week.

Your homework is to have the elements below ready for Monday - as a group - to record and edit a video pitch for lesson on Monday P4, similar to what you see here with the A2 students:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5qe88kPW8Fs

This will be a presentation of each member of your group working through the comments and editing the cut aways to examples of:

Your 2nd Mood Board for your final film

What type of sub genre it is (i.e. Psychological Thriller, Crime Thriller)

Locations you have found that are suitable

What your opening scene/sequence will be (Trailers of films you are referencing (min of 3 SPOILER REVIEWS!)

Images of props, costume, and 'character-types' you will be using

Evidence of your target audience research into 10 Thrillers Audience & BBFC research Guidance & examples & how you will appeal to the age and gender

Footage or images of the type of font (look at dafont) and style you will be using (again what suitable Films or TV shows you are referencing - min of 3 ICONIC DIRECTORS/TITLES SAUL BASS etc...)

We will be doing this in class so you will have 1 hour on Monday to make it so make sure you have the content ready to build it. Seems a lot, but remember this is actually between 3 of you.

Your next Production Task is to complete the remake of Parity

Parity Remake

To be completed by 26th November

Wednesday 12 November 2014

Set work P1 13th Nov due 11am

Work due today 13th nov by 11am

To be posted to your blog
1. Your individual idea for your Thriller Opening with a Titles including images of at least 3 films that have influenced this
2. Your research into 10 Thrillers on imdb.com - user ratings - with breakdown of target audience (gender and age)
3. Your final idea for your 2 min film opening as a mind map with mes iconography of the conventions of genre
4. Treatment of your final idea for your 2 min opening including embedded clips of at least 3 thrillers you are referencing
5. Mood board of your final idea including fonts for text and how titles will look

You will pitch your idea at 11am this morning

Thursday 6 November 2014

2.1 Resources for Exam Prep using Grids and Framework

To consolidate ‘gendering’ the technical areas and using terminology to prepare for the examination

Justify the construction of power, conflict and purpose (challenge/re-enforce)

Analyse the construction of gender stereotypes through all 4 technical areas

Examine characteristics of gender in MES and Camera with terminology

Starter:

Primeval questions:

http://leighmediaas12tvdrama.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/g321-exam-prep.html

EDITING TERMS

_________________________ is a film technique wherein one character is shown looking (often off-screen) at another character, and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character.

An _________________ is a popular editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that the audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing. The ________________-begins with a character looking at something off-screen, there will then be a cut to the object or person at which he is looking. For example, a man is looking off-screen to his left, and then the film cuts to a television that he is watching.

______________________ Two successive shots joined so as to create a strong similarity of compositional elements (e.g., color, shape). Used in trasparent continuity styles to smooth the transition between two shots.

A ___________________ is a cut in film editing where the middle section of a continuous shot is removed, and the beginning and end of the shot are then joined together. The technique breaks continuity in time and produces a startling effect. Any moving objects in the shot will appear to jump to a new position.

____________________ is an editing technique used in films to establish continuity. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to another action. Because the shots occur one after another, ________________ is used to suggest simultaneity of action. However, it can also be used to link significant actions that do not occur simultaneously. Suspense is built by using _______________. It is built through the expectations that it creates and in the hopes that it will be explained with time. ________________ also forms parallels; it illustrates a narrative action that happens in several places at approximately the same time.

In film, a ____________________ is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually, although not always, followed by a cutback to the first shot. ________________ usually do not contribute any dramatic content of their own, but help the editor assemble a longer sequence. For this reason, editors choose cutaways related to the main action, such as another action or object in the same location.[1] For example, if the main shot is of a man walking down an alley, possible cutaways may include a shot of a cat on a nearby dumpster or a shot of a woman watching from a window overhead.

In film, an _________________ is a shot of part of a scene as filmed from a different angle and/or focal length from the master shot. Inserts cover action already covered in the master shot, but emphasize a different aspect of that action due to the different framing. An insert is different from a cutaway in that the cutaway is of action not covered in the master shot.

action match,

crosscutting, parallel editing,

cutaway;

eyeline match,

graphic match,

insert.

jump cut,

shot/reverse shot,

New Info

http://leighmediaas12tvdrama.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/g321-exam-prep.html

- what are Units of drama

Divide the sequence up into Units by team.

Create Meaning (build the grids)

Terminology that will come up – shortlist

http://leighmediaas12tvdrama.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/terminology-wheel-of-fortune-starter.html

‘Predicting the exam’ grids – connect these to gender (list)

MES

SOUND

CAMERA

EDITING

Task:

Create Meaning

Stage 1: Terminology, identify Stereotypes and Infer 'gendered meaning' (columns 1 and 2)

Masculine or Feminine?

• Pan

• Composition

• Diegetic

• Close Up

• High Angle

• Low Angle

• Match On Action

• Prominence

• Long Shot

• Cross cutting

• Proxemic Codes

• Shot Rev Shot

• Tilt

• Two Shot

• Whip Pan

• Handheld camera

• Wipe

• Location

• Props

• Costume

Apply to demonstrate

Fill in Columns 1 and 2 on the grids for each piece of terminology

MES Grid
CAM Grid
EDIT Grid

SOUND Grid

New Info:

Framework for analysis - how to structure your responses

http://leighmediaas12tvdrama.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/stereotype-roles-framework-step-1.html

Apply to demonstrate

Write your Primeval analysis – attempt units of drama as each paragraph, characters Framework for analysis

Framework for Analysis (How to structure your paragraphs)

http://leighmediaas12tvdrama.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/gender-framework-for-analysis.html

Thursday 16 October 2014

Pre-reading for 2.2.1

1. Familiarise yourself with the Planning group tasks. Click on each task or look at Danny, Grace and Rosie's group blog.

The following group task are due to be submitted by the 21st November - the pitches will be seen in class

1. Iconic Directors Guidance (Group Presentation)
2. Audience & BBFC research Guidance & examples
3. Audience expectations vox pops
4. Individual Treatment
5. Final Film Brainstorm

6. Influences on Final Film Ideas/Mood Board

7. Group Pitch - (this year, you will produce an edited video or yourselves pitching your idea, with cut aways to your audience research, mood board, video clip references to Thriller films you have incorporated into your idea, and images of locations you are thinking about filming and characters you are going to have in it, as well as how you ail incorporate the 18 Titles slates)

8. Scene walkthrough map/Script

9. Production Company Logo / Ident

To be completed by the w/c 21st Nov

TV DRAMA EXAM PREP - 17th November

Task 1.

Task 2: Know and identify the 4 stereotypes of sexuality
Write a Conclusion (1 paragraph) - how does Sexuality overlap with characteristics of Gender?
HOMEWORK Representation of Sexuality and how is it...
Check your learning:
Response to Sherlock clips 2
Response to Sherlock Clips 1

Read over next week's session to prepare

3.1 Lesson Plan - Sexuality

Monday 6 October 2014

End of Module Assessment: Preliminary Task & Director's Commentary Evaluation

Catch up Workshop

Read over the following posts ahead of our final assessment next week
Preliminary Task
Interrogation - Preliminary Task
Evaluation Video (director's commentary) example of previous students

Success of the framing of shots, use of Rule of 3rds
Success of steadiness of camera, brightness, focus and image quality
Success of continuity: Match on action, 180 degree rule, shot rev shot on dialogue
Success of using the Narrative technique: Omniscient (Suspense), Restricted (Surprise/shock)
How could you have improved any of the above?
How have you improved since the start of the course?

Thursday 2 October 2014

Homework for Next Practical Lesson 7.10.14

1. Write up your analysis of the Street answering the questions under the 4 Technical Areas (MES, CAM, EDIT & SOUND), I will be marking these so ensure you have them for your Module Reports.
Please identify which you are struggling with (some we've not done yet).

2.Revise over how we GENDER the camera - we will be redoing the Quiz and comparing your scores from last week. Here are the Gender Traits to return to if you didn't quite get there.

Think how we would apply this to our Task on Tuesday Theory Lesson

3. Update your blogs and improve the way you have presented your work (see list of site you can use)

Research List of Tasks

Level 4 (A grade) example

Complete your group's edit & evaluation of your 'Paranoia' video - use the evaluation points on this post - could you present this as a Youtube annotated video?

Complete your Falling Down sound score - apply the 6 sound terms to your different sounds you have used in your score and comment on what you have learned about the use of sound in Thriller - you could embed examples of scenes from some well known Thrillers from Youtube?

Module 1 R&P list

Hi Y'all

By now you should have created your blog, uploading your projects and commented on what you have learned.

So far we have been learning about the opening Thrillers and we have already begun to build the portfolio.

Important: Make sure you comment on what you have learned from these tasks - all posts must be annotated

The following is a list of Research that must be completed before you start the Planning stage by the end of Module 1. Group activities and should be uploaded to your blog page with your commentary of your contribution

Individual tasks go on your Individual Blog, group tasks go on your group blog.
All videos made/practical activities

Click on the links to see an example of what is expected from the task for a L4

Summer Assignment Individual: Napoleon Dynamite Remake
Individual Mind Map: Conventions of the Genre (Characters, Story & Mood/Atmosphere from mind map last lesson)
Individual Collage of Iconography (props, costumes, locations, lighting) associated with the genre
Summer Assignment Individual 9 frame Title Sequence Design Analysis
Summer Assignment Individual: Titles Timeline Map (see below)

Individual "Se7en" Titles remake edit (individual comment)
Individual 9 frame spoiler review of a Thriller (x 3 each)
Individual "Dexter"/Opening Titles Remake (with your individual comments showing Understanding camera shots/angles/movement)
Individual "Falling Down" Foley/Score (with your individual comments on your blog about...'Iconic sounds connected with the genre')
Individual: Using the marks scheme to grade 3 x student's films from last year (an A, B & C from Youtube)
'Paranoia' video Continuity & Composition evaulation
'Match on Action' video and evaluation
Individual Thriller Location Recee (video selfie on location you have found & discussing why it is suitable)

Group Sub-genres & Narrative for a thriller
Group Iconic Thriller directors – case studies
Group Film production company research
Group Production Company Logo
Group Certificate ratings – BBFC research
Group www.imdb.com Thriller Audience Research of 3 contemporary Thriller films
Group Audience expectations from thriller Video Vox Pops
Group 180 deg rule, Match on Action, Shot Rev Shot - (presentation including your match on action example)
Preliminary Task Planning, Production & Evaluation

Monday 29 September 2014

Pre-learning for Thursday (next practical lesson)

http://leighmediaas.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/sound-foley.html

Be able to define & use sound terminology

To know what sounds are suitable to create mood and atmosphere for a thriller