Monday Dec. 2

FINAL PROJECT DUE NEXT MONDAY: your final film should be burned to a playable DVD.

Mon Oct 21 Pre-Production Schedule

PRE-PRODUCTION:

due Wed. 10/23:

• Casting Plan (see blog)
• Scene Breakdown (example & on Google Drive)
• Locations list (example)
• Crew list (on Google drive)

due Mon. 10/28:

• Storyboards
• Shot list
• Schedule

due 2 days before you begin shooting each film:

• Cast list
• Talent Release(s) (Film office admin.)
• Location Agreements (Film office admin.)

Wed 10/9

The next draft of the script you have chosen to produce this semester is due Monday 10/14. Please bring 4 hard copies to class, for workshopping with your colleagues. You may email me a copy before, and I will try to give feedback, if there is enough time.

The final "locked" shooting script will be due next Wednesday, as your mid-term exam and grade.

Wed 10/2

Assignment: read Chapter 13 in text.
4 story concepts or "treatments" due on Monday 10/7
bring stills you shot in 3 point lighting experience for review and discussion in class.

Monday 9/30

Assignment (due next Monday 10/7) write 4 treatments for short film ideas, using your character.

Wednesday we will be working with lighting in one of the studios. Please bring your camera, your GLOVES (!) and dress appropriately--shoes and pants to protect feet and body parts.

Wed 9/25

From the starting point of your newly created fictional character, use script writing software* to write your first draft of the short film you will ultimately produce for the class.  This script should be around 5 pages. (And it will have a beginning, middle, end, character(s), conflict(s), setting(s) and resolution.)

*suggested software is Adobe Story or Celtx which is available on all Film School computers.

Mon 9/23

assignment: write all the FACTS you know from observing your "character." This does not need to be narrative descriptive, but listing only what you have observed... "the facts, nothing but the facts."

We will begin to expand, develop and shape these facts into your fictional character in class on Wednesday.

Wed 9/18

complete your final edited version of "Getting From Here to There" due Monday 9/23. Bring the finished edit to class as a Quicktime file, or you may upload to an internet venue (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.). If uploaded, make sure you have sent me the link, so we can access it for viewing in class.

Read Chapter 4 in text.

Do more observation of your anonymous "character," we will start development of this character and your first story ideas next week.

Monday 9/16

with your team, shoot "From Here to There" exercise (page posted to the right.) Each team member must capture their own footage, for the editing aspect of the assignment.

On Wednesday, bring your footage (camera & connecting cables) to Lab 1, WITH YOUR HARD DRIVE. We will begin editing the project then, and view all projects next Monday 9/23

Shots & Angles

Read Chapter 3 in Voice & Vision.

working in teams, but EACH PERSON completes the following shot list:

(ELS) extreme long shot

(LS) long shot

(MLS) medium long shot

(MS) medium shot

(MCU) medium close-up

(CU) close-up

(ECU) extreme close-up

2 shot, group shot (3 or more subjects)

Over the shoulder shot

P.O.V. shot

*in the list above, also

•remember the rule of thirds

•use framing that is balanced and unbalanced

•use high angles and low angles, and

•at least one “Dutch” angle

•at least one “deep frame” and one “flat frame” 

On Monday, bring your camera and these still images to class on your SD card for viewing.

This blog

This blog will be the place where information is shared, assignments are posted, and questions can be asked, and answered. This will also be the place where the class can post links to work, or to cool things you have discovered.

Please book mark this page.

Production Explorations Section 1, welcome