Deadline for Planning Today!

By the end of today, you should have completed all of the tasks on the deadline sheet, including creating the storyboard and uploading it as an animatic. You need to get the go-ahead before filming, but you should seek to get this asap to ensure that you don't waste time. For our comments on storyboards, animatics and other blogged material, keep visiting the comments boxes, and check my blog.

Animatic

Don't forget to allow time to draw each frame of the storyboard (each frame representing the shot) with all of the information required. Consult your notes, film language booklet and the displays on the classroom walls to remind you. Timing notes are essential to plan effectively.

Allow plenty of time to produce the animatic, and notice any frames of the storyboard where you might not have thought about the progression of the shot (remember the storyboard only shows a frame or snapshot of the shot as a whole). Allow time to upload the animatic to youtube and then to the blog.

DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY

Check now that you have completed all of the tasks for the deadline. You are in danger of losing marks for planning if you have not done everything required.

Extended Deadline 2

Due to the extension of the previous deadline, we have had to extend the next deadline for pre-production planning to FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26TH. By that time, you must have completed the following:

Deadline Two
Completed Storyboard and planning for your opening sequence:
-a synopsis for the film opening (about 100 words), and some indication of what the narrative would contain after the opening,
- the storyboard as an animatic (uploaded to blog),
- the script,
- list of roles,
- imagery of locations and decisions about locations,
- prop research,
- health and safety considerations,
- prop and location images and decisions,
- lighting decisions. All this Blogged under heading: “Pre-Production Planning”(clearly label which group member has taken responsibility for each of the various posts). Again, consider format – images, text, screen grabs, embedded video, hyperlinks, animatics.

Extended Deadline

Due to delays in teaching following the snow, we have had to extend your deadline for research to Monday 8th February. Please make sure that you have uploaded 5 ANALYSES OF THRILLER OPENINGS EACH BY THAT TIME. You can access examples of thriller openings through my links to the right of this post, or find your own examples. Try not to repeat analyses in your group - divide them up between you. Use the format given in class for Seven to help you, but remember that the research should be linked to your ideas as much as possible - don't just research in a vacuum - there should be a sense of purpose to your comment. Use terms whenever you can.