3. Preparing Minds
What is:
Action match?
Shot/ reverse shot?
180 degree rule?
Blog?
Why are they important?
4. Success Criteria
We will
Note down key information about final task
Answer and ask questions, where relevant
Plan a basic research/ development schedule
5. What you need to do
Blog including detailed research/ planning (20 marks)
Titles and opening of new fiction film - 2 mins (60 marks)
Continuity features:
Action match
Shot/ reverse shot
180 degree rule
Other features
Titles (essential)
Genre-specific features (e.g. mise-en-scene/ music)
Range of shots/ camera movement (essential)
Range of edits/ effects (if appropriate)
Evaluation (20 marks)
6. Examples
I will email you a dropbox link allowing you to
access these.
8. Weekly Tasks
Maintain blog (at least 3 entries a week – OCR
suggest one a day)
Include images/ video clips supporting work
(planning + work in progress)
Consider all aspects of production process,
including institutions, audience and
representation
Include as much detail as you can, justifying
choices made
Link to your work in progress
Thorough outline of production process
9. Planning – Lvl 4
Planning and research evidence complete and detailed
Excellent research into similar products and potential
target audience
Excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or
props
Excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or
storyboarding
Excellent level of care in the presentation of research and
planning
Time management is excellent
10. Production work should demo
Material appropriate for target audience and task
Titles used appropriately according to institutional
conventions
Sound, images and editing used appropriately
Material shot appropriate to task set, including:
controlled use of camera
attention to framing
variety of shot distance
close attention to mise-en-scene
Editing so that meaning apparent to viewer and with
selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and
other effects
11. Demonstrate
Steadiness of shots where appropriate
Framing shots, including/ excluding elements
Variety of shots/ distances
Shooting appropriate material
Selecting mise-en-scene
Colour/ lighting/ objects/ setting
Editing for meaning using appropriate effects
Accurate use of sound/ image
Appropriate use of titles
12. Production Checklist
Places
Rehearsal
Setting
Production Base
Transport
Post-Production
People
Call sheets
Actors
Technical
Camera
Continuity
Support
Things
Props
Costumes
Technical
Script
Cameras
Media
Log sheets
Storyboards
Schedule
FX/ SFX
13. What do you need to know?
Pre Production
Research
Scripting
Storyboarding
Location scouting
Production schedule
Call sheets
Shooting
Logging shots
Continuity
14. Evaluation
Evaluate / reflect upon creative process/ experience
Evaluate electronically, guided by key questions
Should not be solely textual; combination of text/
image/ presentation/ video/ audio etc.
Examples of suitable formats for the evaluation:
A podcast
DVD extras
Detailed blog entries
PowerPoint/ Prezi
Director’s commentary
“Making of” documentary
15. Evaluation Questions
Following questions must be answered:
How does product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products? - Must research these
How does product represent particular social groups? -
Must aim to include a social group
What kind of media institution might distribute product and why?
- Research studios and distribution
Who would be audience for product? – Research audience
How did you attract/address your audience? – Evidence from
planning/ final product
What have you learnt about technologies from process of
constructing product? – Evidence from blog (shooting/ editing)
Looking back at preliminary task, what have you learnt in
progression to full product?
16. Evaluation – Forms/ Conventions
Need to be able to identify conventions
Will come from research into openings
Should be explicit in the first stages of your blog
to revisit in evaluation
Includes media language, representation, use
of titles, use of music, mise-en-scene etc
(effectively, macro and micro features
Could be done as a video including
comparisons of your work and your research
17. Evaluation – Social Groups
Product must include a social group.
For example:
Teenagers
Ethnic groups
Social demographics
Consider work on representation and apply
this when researching and planning
May affect genre/ form of final piece
18. Evaluation – institutions
Need to know which kind of companies make
and distribute movies of genre/ style you are
making
Mainstream or niche?
Conglomerate or indie?
Info fromWikipedia/ IMDB/ Box-office mojo
Demonstrated through research and choice
of distributor/ studio for final piece
19. Evaluations - audience
Need to know who watches your genre of
film – demographics/ psychographics
Can do primary/ secondary research
Should find data from the web (e.g. box-
office figures) as well as market information,
if available
Might consider primary and secondary
audiences (e.g. “Lego Movie”, Pixar films etc.
20. Evaluation – attracting aud
How was final piece designed to meet
audience needs?
Evidence from your piece compared to existing
pieces
Interviews/ vox pops with target audience
reflecting on film
Detailed deconstruction of what you did/ why you
did it – could be in Prezi form, for example,
including stills/ clips
21. Evaluation - technology
Need to regularly blog about engagement
with tech (cameras/ editing)
Identify problems and solutions
Take photos/ screengrabs
Record clearly what you did at the time
Will effectively be a reflexive post
Can take into account development from start of
course
Should be incisive and clear – the more primary
evidence the better
22. Evaluation - comparison
Compare your preliminary project(s) with
your final piece
What did you do better?
How did you improve?
Consider both planning and production as well as
editing
Where is the evidence
For example, a comparison of shots/ edits from your
final piece; a reflection on planning exemplified
from early stages of blog
23. Timeframe – Dec 2015
By Fri 27th November
Decision made about genre/ form of final video
Research begins into opening sequences, institutions and audiences.
Social group to be represented identified
By Friday 18th December
Research into existing opening sequences completed (min five)
each example analysed in detail with regard to questions to be posed in
the evaluation, notes made on how example might be of value to projects
At least one blog entry dedicated to each of institutions (e.g. distribution
companies, studios), audiences (some evidence) and representation
(reasons)
Planning begins in earnest
25. Timeframe – Jan/Feb 2016
5th January
All pre-production planning (including storyboards, production
schedules, call sheets etc.) completed/ posted to blog in digital form.
Might also include test footage and mood boards
1st February
All material required for project shot, converted and uploaded onto
media servers
During the period 06/01-30/01, you are invited to periodically upload brief
examples of work to blog for peer and staff review
12th February
Rough edit completed and uploaded to blog for peer/ staff review
22nd February (including half-term “holiday”)
Final cut begun
26. Timeframe – Mar/Apr 2016
7th March
Final edit completed and uploaded to blog and media server in order
to gather audience response and feedback
9th March
15 min presentations of work, including initial evaluations and
outlines of audience response
11th April (including Easter “holiday”)
Detailed blog entries answering the evaluation questions uploaded,
coupled with a video commentary
27. Next Steps
You will have three weeks to complete planning
This gives you:
21 days
9 lessons + non-contact periods
You need:
Minimum 5 films in detail (screengrabs, clips, analysis)
Audience data (primary/ secondary)
Representation issues
Institutional information
How are you going to organise your time?
28. First thing to do…
Look at some examples of successful blogs:
Elleah Stanton
Antonia Hendry
Zoe Crick
Kathryn Dowson
Katie Boal
James Corker
29. Plenary
Questions?
Task one
Complete a blog entry explaining the institutional
conventions of film titles
Use the “Art of theTitle” website to help you