RESEARCH AND PLANNING TASKS:
Over the next few lessons and homeworks, you are going to undertake key research into your chosen genre to help you with your production task. For each task, you need to produce your research as a blog post with a video clip, podcast or animatic with a voiceover. Each task must go onto your Production Blog by the given deadline.
TASK 1: HISTORY: Research the history of short films for your chosen genre. Look at at least five from 10 years ago to the present and comment on how the films (and product) have developed.
DEADLINE: 28th May
TASK 2: AWARD-WINNERS: Research two or three award-winning short films for your chosen genre. What ideas do they give you for your own?
DEADLINE: 8th June
TASK 3: PRELIMINARY EXERCISE: Choose a short film and film your own version, matching up the shots.
DEADLINE: 13th June
TASK 4: ESSAY: Part 1 of your examination will be called 'Critical Perspectives' where you will be asked to write about your coursework in the light of the skills you have learned. In preparation, you are going to write an essay on what you have learned about research and planning during your preliminary film-making task. Here's a guide to how to structure the essay:
First, think about your first area, Pre-production. Do a spider diagram or write bullet points answering this:
What research and planning techniques did you use in Pre-production? This could be using YouTube to research short films, deciding on the soundtrack you wanted, storyboarding, shot lists, risk assessment, location planning, timings, using Explain Everything to help plan shots, getting performers, costumes, sourcing props... Write down 3-4 examples.
Next, think about your second area, Production.
What research and planning did you use during the production process? This could be trying out different camera settings, trying out locations, make-up and hair, lighting... Find three examples.
Finally, think about your third area, Post-production.
a) What digital technologies did you use during the post-production and how could this help with your research and planning of your actual coursework task? This could be FinalCut Express, iMovie for importing clips, transitions, linking and unlinking audio, changing the speed of clips... Find 3 examples.
Conclusion: How did the short film remake task help you plan your own?
Deadline: 13th June
TASK 5: CONVENTIONS: Research the key conventions of short films in your chosen genre. You will have to look up narrative techniques and theories such as Propp and Todorov. What ideas do they give you for your own?
DEADLINE: 27th June
TASK 6: COLLAGE: Use found images from the Internet to make a collage of iconic images from short films for your chosen genre. Comment on how these could link to your own.
DEADLINE: 30th June
TASK 7: NINE FRAME ANALYSIS: Produce a detailed analysis of the first nine frames of two short films for your chosen product. One could be the one you chose to remake for your preliminary task. This task can be written up as a blog post or in a word document and attached to your blog. What ideas do they give you for your own work?
DEADLINE: 4th September
TASK 8: AUDIENCE EXPECTATIONS: Interview at least five members of your 'target audience' about what they expect or would like to have included in your short film. What ideas do they give you?
DEADLINE: 7th July
TASK 9: TYPICAL SYNOPSIS: Take four different short films of your chosen genre and write a paragraph summarising each. What ideas do they give you?
DEADLINE: 10th September
TASK 10 NARRATIVE: Look at this link to describe Classical Hollywood Cinema: https://faculty.washington.edu/mlg/courses/definitions/classicalHollywoodcinema.html
Assess in which ways your film will conform or subvert the rules of Classical Hollywood Cinema. If it does not follow the Classical conventions, what conventions and genre have you adopted instead and why?
DEADLINE: 4th November
TASK 11: RISK ASSESSMENT: Just as for AS, you need to do a risk assessment for your filming work. For guidelines on what to consider, click on Staffordshire University's Media Centre.
You need to assess any risks of damage to property or you/your actors, or any passers-by, and ensure you take appropriate measures to avoid potential hazards. Make a Risk Assessment for each different location you will be filming at, and upload it to your blog. A sample template is here:
DEADLINE: before you start your filming
ANCILLARY TASKS: CHOOSE TWO OF TASKS 11, 12 AND TASK 13, DEPENDING ON WHICH YOU CHOOSE FOR YOUR OWN PRODUCTION WORK.
You will make two of the three options:
• a poster for the film; • a radio trailer for the film; • a film magazine review page featuring the film.
TASK 12: FILM POSTER RESEARCH: Take three film posters, ideally linked to your chosen genre, and analyse in detail for use of fonts, colours, layout, language, photography, etc. You will eventually create your own as part of your assessed production portfolio. What ideas do they give you for your own poster?
DEADLINE: 30th September
AND/OR
TASK 13: RADIO TRAILER RESEARCH: Choose two or three band home pages for your chosen genre. Analyse them in detail for: design; content; connotations of images, fonts and colours; atmosphere; the message the page is giving; the image of the band. You will eventually create your own as part of your assessed production portfolio. What ideas do they give you?
DEADLINE: 14th October
AND/OR
TASK 14: MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT FOR A DIGIPAK: Choose two or three magazine advertisements for music albums in your chosen genre. Analyse them in detail for: design; content; connotations of images, fonts and colours; characters portrayed; atmosphere; the message the poster is giving; what will make people buy the album. You will eventually create your own as part of your assessed production portfolio. What ideas do they give you for your own magazine advertisement? You will also need to practise using PhotoShop or a similar software package to make your advertisement.
DEADLINE: 14th October
OR
TASK 15: FILM MAGAZINE REVIEW PAGE: Research film magazine reviews and make a list of the conventions and ingredients you need to include. Present your work in an interesting way (PowerPoint uploaded to SlideShare, Word Cloud, Video, etc).
Over the next few lessons and homeworks, you are going to undertake key research into your chosen genre to help you with your production task. For each task, you need to produce your research as a blog post with a video clip, podcast or animatic with a voiceover. Each task must go onto your Production Blog by the given deadline.
TASK 1: HISTORY: Research the history of short films for your chosen genre. Look at at least five from 10 years ago to the present and comment on how the films (and product) have developed.
DEADLINE: 28th May
TASK 2: AWARD-WINNERS: Research two or three award-winning short films for your chosen genre. What ideas do they give you for your own?
DEADLINE: 8th June
TASK 3: PRELIMINARY EXERCISE: Choose a short film and film your own version, matching up the shots.
DEADLINE: 13th June
TASK 4: ESSAY: Part 1 of your examination will be called 'Critical Perspectives' where you will be asked to write about your coursework in the light of the skills you have learned. In preparation, you are going to write an essay on what you have learned about research and planning during your preliminary film-making task. Here's a guide to how to structure the essay:
First, think about your first area, Pre-production. Do a spider diagram or write bullet points answering this:
What research and planning techniques did you use in Pre-production? This could be using YouTube to research short films, deciding on the soundtrack you wanted, storyboarding, shot lists, risk assessment, location planning, timings, using Explain Everything to help plan shots, getting performers, costumes, sourcing props... Write down 3-4 examples.
Next, think about your second area, Production.
What research and planning did you use during the production process? This could be trying out different camera settings, trying out locations, make-up and hair, lighting... Find three examples.
Finally, think about your third area, Post-production.
a) What digital technologies did you use during the post-production and how could this help with your research and planning of your actual coursework task? This could be FinalCut Express, iMovie for importing clips, transitions, linking and unlinking audio, changing the speed of clips... Find 3 examples.
Conclusion: How did the short film remake task help you plan your own?
Deadline: 13th June
TASK 5: CONVENTIONS: Research the key conventions of short films in your chosen genre. You will have to look up narrative techniques and theories such as Propp and Todorov. What ideas do they give you for your own?
DEADLINE: 27th June
TASK 6: COLLAGE: Use found images from the Internet to make a collage of iconic images from short films for your chosen genre. Comment on how these could link to your own.
DEADLINE: 30th June
TASK 7: NINE FRAME ANALYSIS: Produce a detailed analysis of the first nine frames of two short films for your chosen product. One could be the one you chose to remake for your preliminary task. This task can be written up as a blog post or in a word document and attached to your blog. What ideas do they give you for your own work?
DEADLINE: 4th September
TASK 8: AUDIENCE EXPECTATIONS: Interview at least five members of your 'target audience' about what they expect or would like to have included in your short film. What ideas do they give you?
DEADLINE: 7th July
TASK 9: TYPICAL SYNOPSIS: Take four different short films of your chosen genre and write a paragraph summarising each. What ideas do they give you?
DEADLINE: 10th September
TASK 10 NARRATIVE: Look at this link to describe Classical Hollywood Cinema: https://faculty.washington.edu/mlg/courses/definitions/classicalHollywoodcinema.html
Assess in which ways your film will conform or subvert the rules of Classical Hollywood Cinema. If it does not follow the Classical conventions, what conventions and genre have you adopted instead and why?
DEADLINE: 4th November
TASK 11: RISK ASSESSMENT: Just as for AS, you need to do a risk assessment for your filming work. For guidelines on what to consider, click on Staffordshire University's Media Centre.
You need to assess any risks of damage to property or you/your actors, or any passers-by, and ensure you take appropriate measures to avoid potential hazards. Make a Risk Assessment for each different location you will be filming at, and upload it to your blog. A sample template is here:
DEADLINE: before you start your filming
ANCILLARY TASKS: CHOOSE TWO OF TASKS 11, 12 AND TASK 13, DEPENDING ON WHICH YOU CHOOSE FOR YOUR OWN PRODUCTION WORK.
You will make two of the three options:
• a poster for the film; • a radio trailer for the film; • a film magazine review page featuring the film.
TASK 12: FILM POSTER RESEARCH: Take three film posters, ideally linked to your chosen genre, and analyse in detail for use of fonts, colours, layout, language, photography, etc. You will eventually create your own as part of your assessed production portfolio. What ideas do they give you for your own poster?
DEADLINE: 30th September
AND/OR
TASK 13: RADIO TRAILER RESEARCH: Choose two or three band home pages for your chosen genre. Analyse them in detail for: design; content; connotations of images, fonts and colours; atmosphere; the message the page is giving; the image of the band. You will eventually create your own as part of your assessed production portfolio. What ideas do they give you?
DEADLINE: 14th October
AND/OR
TASK 14: MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT FOR A DIGIPAK: Choose two or three magazine advertisements for music albums in your chosen genre. Analyse them in detail for: design; content; connotations of images, fonts and colours; characters portrayed; atmosphere; the message the poster is giving; what will make people buy the album. You will eventually create your own as part of your assessed production portfolio. What ideas do they give you for your own magazine advertisement? You will also need to practise using PhotoShop or a similar software package to make your advertisement.
DEADLINE: 14th October
OR
TASK 15: FILM MAGAZINE REVIEW PAGE: Research film magazine reviews and make a list of the conventions and ingredients you need to include. Present your work in an interesting way (PowerPoint uploaded to SlideShare, Word Cloud, Video, etc).
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