DEADLINE APPROACHING!

THE DEADLINE FOR ALL VISION AND SOUND EDITING, PLUS TITLING, IS THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd.

YOU MUST ALL PROVIDE TITLE ANALYSIS AS SET IN YOUR TITLING LESSON BY THIS DATE ALSO. CURRENTLY, VERY FEW PEOPLE HAVE COMPLETED THIS WORK, AND YET IT IS AN ASSESSED PART OF YOUR RESEARCH AND PLANNING, AND SHOULD BE FEEDING IN TO YOUR TITLE DESIGNS.

All groups must meet this deadline or risk losing marks for time management. 

In addition, EVALUATION writing begins next week, and you can only do this if you have finished your film.

AFTER THIS WEEK, THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER LESSONS ON COURSEWORK. YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK ON THE EVALUATION AND BLOG IN YOUR OWN TIME.

ADDING TITLING - DESIGNING YOUR TITLE AND ADDING CREDITS

You will have 1 lesson this week to learn about the different possibilities for titling. Use this to plan for titling, which must be completed by the editing deadline next Friday (along with all vision and sound editing).

You will be set a research task for this:


On your blog, you should now post a discussion of 3 title sequences of your own choice - try to use thrillers from either TV Drama or Film. Ensure that you consider how the film title, graphics, music, and placement, all work in the overall construction of the sequence. Do they contribute anything to the meaning about character, mood, atmosphere or any aspect of narrative.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/A very useful site for looking at title and credit ideas, also linked to the right in my links.
A useful short YOUTUBE interview with title designers another useful link

Do NOT simply reproduce an analysis of those that we have covered in class.

NOT LONG UNTIL THE EDITING DEADLINE!

You should now have started editing your opening. Note the deadline below - it's not long!
Don't forget that you should be blogging about the filming and editing processes, and that EACH OF YOU must be represented in this with individual posts. Discuss as a group how best to divide this up, but you need to discuss techniques, choices, decisions and illustrate this with screen grabs from the mac or links to other sites for examples.

In one lesson this week, we'll be teaching Titles/Credits design. These should have been integrated with your storyboard and animatic, and now need to be integrated with the film as you edit. 'The Killing' (DANISH VERSION - which is much better!) is an example of interesting titling.

Deadline Four - Final Product

Film and sound editing to be completed and saved to the network in the finished folder. Check with Andy or Ollie that it's in the correct place, as this will be the version we mark! 

Create a back-up of your work – eg a dvd version, or upload to youtube on our channel: centralsussexhh.

Again editing processes, decisions, choices, the experience itself, all to be recorded on the group blog.

Friday 23^rd March

FILMING CONTINUES UNTIL MARCH 9TH

 Here's a terrific TV drama thriller on now. Catch it soon and notice techniques used, as well as types of representation - gender, age, ethnicity especially.

You should all be in the middle of filming now.

Don't forget the following good practice:

• get multiple takes of each shot
• be prepared to adjust your plans if it seems a good idea when you're at your location - blog any change
• get multiple angles on each shot to allow for possible changed decisions later
• be extremely well prepared before you go, so that you can make the most of the time
• keep re-doing the white balance after any change
• remember to enable continuity - match on action, continuity of mise en scene
• remember to allow for light changes on separate days (set up lighting carefully)
• think of your audience all the time and decide WHO THIS FILM WILL TARGET
• RECORD ALL DECISIONS AND CHOICES ON THE BLOG WITH FREQUENT ILLUSTRATIONS, LINKS AND VARIED FORMATS