Saturday 16 March 2013

Rooney Mara in Side Effects
GROUPS WHERE URGENT BLOG WORK IS NEEDED BEFORE THE DEADLINE ON FRIDAY 22ND:
DAN, DAN, GEORGE, GEORGE
TOBY, DAN, SAM, NIALL
LEAH, LUCY, ABBIE
EMILY, ELLA, RUBY
RYAN, JAKE MM, TOM

In some cases the whole group needs to work harder on the blog, and in others, some individuals within the group need to have a bigger presence on the blog. Read my comments and act on them!
See good level 4 blogs here and here and here

PS IF ANYONE FANCIES EDITING ON THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 23RDAND THINKS THEY COULD BE SELF SUFFICIENT (NO TECHNICIANS), ASK US ABOUT COMING IN ON THE CAMPUS OPEN DAY!* ANDREW MANN AND MYSELF WILL BE THERE CHATTING TO VISITORS AND SHOWING OUR DEPT, AND WE'D LOVE SOME STUDENTS TO BE EDITING TO ILLUSTRATE THE EXCELLENT WORK YOU DO! Anyone deciding to do this will automatically earn their group an extension on the deadline above to Monday March 25th.
*You must let us know first though in case there are too many people!


I'm getting concerned about some of your blogs, which are missing vital material, variety, effort and detail. This is not the case with all groups, but some of you are not giving enough attention to this, and very few of you are spending the 3 HOURS PER WEEK OF YOUR OWN TIME that EACH of you are expected to spend on the production work. As editing work should be done together, most of those 3 hours should be spent on your posts on the blog. Remember, this is the EVIDENCE of your own work, but it is also a product in its own right, so it needs to be creative, varied, colourful, interesting and intelligent to gain level 4.
LOOK AT MY COMMENTS ON YOUR OWN BLOG TO FIND OUT WHETHER I THINK YOU'RE UNDERACHIEVING ON THIS.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK: NOW'S THE TIME TO GET AUDIENCE FEEDBACK ON YOUR ROUGH CUT AND AS SOON AS  POSSIBLE ON YOUR FINAL CUT AFTER FRIDAY. WHY NOT CREATE A VLOG TO ADD TO YOUR BLOG IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY? YOU SHOULD CERTAINLY CREATE A TWITTER FEED TO THE BLOG AND LINK TO FACEBOOK. FEEDBACK MUST BE FROM YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE SO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE DEFINED THIS AS A GROUP, AND THAT YOUR INVITATION TO MAKE COMMENTS GETS TO THIS AUDIENCE. POST EVIDENCE TO THE BLOG AS YOU GET IT. Audience feedback and how you used it  is assessed via the EVALUATION and you will soon be doing this!

Wednesday 13 March 2013

YOUR EDITING DEADLINE IS APPROACHING


Deadline Four - Final Product

Film and sound editing to be completed and saved to the network.

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 22nd March, 4.10 
Between now and then, make sure that you are recording all of your editing decisions on the blog with illustrations from the mac screens. Discuss different transitions, explaining the reasons for them; use terms for editing; discuss problems and issues editing sound and vision together; discuss and explain any alterations to the storyboard; continue to post your own explanations and evidence of involvement with your name at the head of the post, to ensure you get the marks for your own work; continue to make comparisons between your work and real thriller film openings; go to see as many thrillers as you can.
Once you have done the lesson on titling, or as soon as you're ready, do your own individual research on titles in real thriller openings (name, design, interaction between main film shots and title etc) and explain what you have learned, and how you intend to use that learning.
Begin to design your own titles asap.