Planning Homework

Hi team

This coming Tues 2nd April, all your PT 2 Planning will be due up on your blog. Please use the checklist below to make sure you have everything you need.

• All work in Blogtools format
• Treatment
• Initial brainstorm 
• Storyboard/ Script/ Lighting Plan / Costume, Location and Prop plan / call sheet / film schedule and shot list (whatever you were personally responsible for. Include a paragraph on how you found your role in planning and what you learnt in the process 
• Photos and mood-board pictures included in your treatment for the film opening

This planning needs to be a step up from your PT 1 planning, showing a really thorough demonstration of your understanding of the thriller genre and your chosen sub-genre. Remember, your brief was to increase tension and suspense, show us in detail how you plan to make that happen.

All the best! 

T-Bianca

Hi

We are straight into Prelim Task 2 - exciting!

1. We're being more intentional about the creation of suspense / tension through use of specific filming techniques and conventions.

2. It's a good idea to get them to choose a specific thriller sub-genre you want to try to reproduce. You can reference your recent blog assignments on that to decide which conventions you want to use.  PT#2's mark will also take into account how good a job you did at making an accurate representation of this sub-genre.

3. We're switching up roles! Whatever job you had for PT #1

Second filming task brief-

• Two characters
• Both walk to a meeting place (together or separately is fine)
• An object is given to or taken from one of the characters
• Short chase sequence - resolved one way or the other!
• Two lines of dialogue
• A "discovery" or "revelation" moment
• 1 - 2 mins maximum length

Technical elements required:

• Use at least one extreme-wide / establishing shot, one close-up (CU) andone extreme close-up (ECU).
• Use 180-degree rule
• Use shot-reverse-shot
• Use match on action
• Use Thriller conventions

• Consider the Critical Reflection questions as you prepare for the main task!
• After Effects! Explore this technology to decide what you will add into your version of the edit..

All the best! Remember to plan thoroughly, record all your decisions and changes. Work with the end in mind. Lastly, get creative!

T-Bianca

Representation Codes and Conventions

Hi,


Your new blog assignment is as follows; 

This will need to be completed on your blogs by Tuesday 2nd April


Representation codes & conventions-

List the seven core Representation topics.  Give examples of how the 4 TECHNICAL ELEMENTS (not storyline / plot!) communicate these social groups / issues in a meaningful way.  The easiest way to do this is:

• Choose a Representation topic
• Find a screenshot / clip of a TV drama that best exemplifies what you're discussing (embed it into the blog entry)
• Observe the effects of the combined technical elements being used
• Reflect on the message that these effects ultimately send to the wider viewing public
• Rinse and repeat 

Remember - the conventions can either support or subvert generally accepted interpretations of a given area of representation.  Think about how shows you have watched (in your own time or, for example, Vertigo) have conformed to some representation codes and undermined / swapped others.  What were the messages available for viewer decoding?

Any questions, ask away!


- T. Bianca

CCR Homework

Hi guys

This homework is due Tues 19th March.

Your focus for this week is very much the Preliminary Task #1 which should have a COMPLETED rough edit as soon as possible.  I'm projecting that this will be late this week or early next week.   Editing can be done in breaks and study periods, but prioritise homework or studying for tests.

We will begin designing our responses to the CCR questions during the wrap-up phase of editing, but RIGHT NOW you should write down things that went wrong or you had to change or things you've already noticed or learned.  Keep a notepad next to you while you edit; you'll keep noticing and changing things!  Log it all.  It's fantastic for your CCR's.

Remember to start using blog tools to make your blogs more visually interesting!

Question 1
How does your product USE or CHALLENGE conventions?
(Think sound, lighting, narrative structure, editing, camera work, symbolism and iconography)

Question 2
How does your product engage with audiences?
(What effect does it have on audiences? What emotions do you evoke in audience members?)

Question 3
How have your PRODUCTION skills developed throughout the project? (pre-production, production and post-production. What have you learnt to do?

Question 4
How did you integrate technologies into this project?
(Software, hardware and online)

Have fun.

T-Bianca