Week 18 - 21st January - What you should be doing now..

So this week things should get interesting. There are TWO strands (as usual) - what you do as a group (GRP) and what you need to do as an individual (IND) - any of these not done will be chased up this week - phone calls home may be made! Please note, this is the bare minimum required, not an exhaustive list.

You should have done the following - they're split into -

1. completed the following
2. started the following
3. be thinking/preparing the following

MAKE SURE you have done ALL you're supposed to - catch up what you haven't

3. THINKING/PREPARING the following

SOUND - start listening to sound tracks on Openings IND - write notes on effects/how atmosphere created  IND - write about some on your blog IND - investigate where you can get copyright free music and loops GRP - decide on some loops/effects in Garageband you might want to use GRP

2. START the following

CREDITS/TITLE SEQUENCES - watch some (you can use the list on TR or youtube) IND - write an analysis of them (what is included? what order? what fonts/colours used and why? Are they genre specific? How do they relate to the film's content and style?) IND - embed some examples on your blog that particularly inspire you IND and some on your GRP blog too please - ask MICHAEL to show you how to use Livetype (to make credits) GRP - think about whether you want to you Photoshop or After Effects to help make your titles GRP

1. COMPLETED the following: (note these should already have been done or started)
 Posts in 'draft' cannot be seen by us and you therefore you won't get any 'credit' for having done them!

INDIVIDUAL
Prelim sequences - embeded, evaluated
Opening sequences - embedded, notes on content, conventions made
Genre - notes on your genre, some examples
Audience - research into potential audience, identify audience for your film, some discussion of findings
Representation - who is being represented in your film? how? what messages are you trying to convey?
Institution - some information about film exhibition and distribution, who might distribute your film - some info about companies and discussion around your choices
Narrative - apply narrative theory to a film
Editing - commentary about continuity editing, including work on Spooks, Lift and Stairs and sequences you analysed (see task list below)
Camera - work on 'The Rock' uploaded
Classwork - Harry Potter - sound exercise - should be uploaded and evaluated, analysis of those three openings should be up too - Apocalypse Now, Jaws and Max Payne. Phantom of the Opera - anything you did in class that's useful
Pitch - your initial idea and repsonse to your idea (including audience response)
Storyboard - your individual idea - this should be up (those of you that did this as asked)

GROUP
Planning work - storyboard, brainstorms, location lists, cast list, props list, location recce shots, risk assessment, organisation of costumes, props etc
Production Meetings - notes on what discussed and decided
STORYBOARD - detailed, final idea

ON BOTH
Filming - a blog entry for each day you filmed with some commentary on progress/the process
Editing - as you start to edit, comments on progress and decisions
There should be TWO of these EACH per week at least AND there should be comments on both your individual blog and group blog - on the group - what you did, decisions made and why, how things are progressing, plans for the next stage etc, on the individual blog - what you personally think about progress, decisions made, how things are coming on etc