NEXT DEADLINE - PLANNING

This fabulous thriller is just out on dvd - watch it!

The details of the next deadline appear below and in your booklet.

STUDY IT CAREFULLY TO MAKE SURE YOUR GROUP HAS DONE EVERYTHING BY THE 10TH OF FEBRUARY!

Deadline Two – Pre-Production Planning

A completed storyboard for the entire opening (preferably having used ‘post it’s), including initial ideas about title placing. 

This needs to be made into an animatic of approximately the same length as the final film will be (shots to be timed carefully) with a voice-over explanation and embedded onto the blog.

Also: 

- a synopsis for the whole film narrative from which this will be the opening (about 100 words),

- the script for any dialogue,

- list of roles (see pre-production planning advice)

- images of locations and decisions about locations,                                    

- prop research and justification in terms of character and story

- health and safety, including risk assessments for filming and use of equipment.

- lighting decisions. 

Blog Heading “Pre-Production Planning”(clearly label which group member has taken responsibility for each of the various posts). 

Again, consider blog format – images, text, screen grabs, embedded video, hyperlinks, etc

If you want to film over half term, this needs to be handed in earlier in order that we can check it through and grant permission.

Deadline - Friday 10^th February

THE NEXT STAGE

Here's an example of a thriller just out in cinemas. See as many as you can over the next 2 weeks, new and classic, in order to gain inspiration and gain a better understanding of the genre. Don't forget to record any thoughts and analysis, using film language terms on your blog.

Your research deadline ended at midnight on Friday, so I'll be making comments and recording initial assessments of your work. I'll be keeping a tracking grid of your progress as individuals and as groups, and time management is one of the criteria you're assessed on. See the booklet for the others.

As you start planning (see below), continue to research thrillers (see above), and now make your analysis of existing thriller techniques RELEVANT to your plans. For example, specify techniques you have observed that you wish to use in your own thriller opening, and say why.

Next task: in one to two lessons this week, we'll be introducing key theory and terms you need to know on film narrative. We'll be asking you to return to your thriller opening analyses to explain how the narrative is organised in the examples you've analysed.


In other lessons, you can get on with planning (see advice in the booklet and deadline requirements). The DEADLINE FOR PLANNING IS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10TH - 2 WEEKS.

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH INTO THRILLER OPENINGS SHOULD HAVE STARTED

YOUR DEADLINE FOR AT LEAST 5 THRILLER OPENINGS ANALYSED ON THE BLOG IS FRIDAY JANUARY 27TH (1 WEEK TOMORROW). USE CLASSWORK AS A GUIDE, AND BE PREPARED TO ADD MORE ANALYSIS IF I ADVISE IT. LAZY WORK COSTS MARKS!!

LIGHTING HOMEWORK - DUE IN NEXT WEEK

You all have a practical lighting homework to do in your production groups before the end of next week (you were given a deadline by the teacher introducing the task). Make sure you have read the task very carefully on moodle, and complete it fully. Each of you must post an aspect of the results to the group blog - images, bullet point explanations, and/or hyperlinks to relevant websites.

USE LINKS TO THE RIGHT TO START RESEARCHING THRILLER FILMS

As a starting point for your research into thriller film conventions, click on the links to the right. You'll need to watch and find out about this genre yourselves  - so the sooner you start, the better. Find out what's on at the moment that is sold as a thriller, and go and see it!

TODAY IS THE FINAL PRELIMINARY DEADLINE!

 By the end of today, you need to have your film uploaded to your blog (via our channel centralsussexhh on youtube preferably). You also need to provide a post heading: 'Feedback on our Preliminary', so that we can post comments on your work, and you can add evaluative comments once your work has been screened in a lesson this week.

Here is a poster for a great thriller out now, directed by a master of thriller cinema, David Fincher -  go and see it!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! YOUR EDITING DEADLINE IS FAST APPROACHING!!

EDITING DEADLINE :

DEADLINE THREE: FRIDAY 13^th January

This will be your last lesson allocated to editing.

Any further editing will need to be completed in your own time and completed by the final deadline below at the very latest.

Your group’s blog must be updated to discuss the editing process.

This means detailed discussion in bullet point or short text form, that you all contribute to (perhaps take one area of the task each, plus a 4^th person evaluate process and success in the edit suite overall).

Discuss the process used to ensure that you met the brief, and include screen grabs of connected shots to illustrate. Illustrations of camera set ups and 180 degree line diagrams etc applied to your set up would also improve the posts.