Month: October 2016

Narrative. What does it mean? Narrative is simply a device in fiction, it’s an outlet for storytelling.
Someone or something has to tell the story, and that person, or thing is Narrative. What is this assignment?

3-5 Minute GROUP short film. YOU WILL STAY IN YOUR CFGS FOR THIS PROJECT.
Must have some kind of narrative structure – Voiceover, dialogue, flashback, dream sequence, etc.
CHOOSE ONE OF THE THEMES BELOW FOR YOUR STORY.
Choose one of these themes as the subject of your video.

Surveillance
Retribution
Vengence
Concillatory
Plague
Election
Forgiveness
Lies
Betrayal
Deceipt
Failure
Success
Friendship
Graduation
Patience
Film Noir
Mystery
Romance
Suspenseful
Phantasmagoric
Must have a coherent, beginning, middle and end.
Remember the structure of our first movies,conflict throughout, climax and resolution.
Must have a SCRIPT that you will turn in separately.
Three pages is about one minute of film = 9-15 pages of SCRIPT.

So let’s kick it off:

STEP ONE: EACH PERSON RESPONDS WITH TWO DIFFERENT IDEAS, LIST THE NAME OF THE THEME AND A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE OF THAT THEME, POSTED AS A COMMENT BELOW.

Give me One idea that pops into your head that would make a good project.
After each person gives their idea, people will “sign on” to that group according to how exciting their
idea is.

Make sure the idea is a complete story.

Example: Two male students figure out they are brothers, separated at birth, they both suspect it, but it takes them being put in the same detention space for a Saturday afternoon to figure that out. In the end they move on as one, ready to face the truth and their parents.

Remember, keep it school appropriate. We are here to tell a story, not to make a dumbed down video.

FINAL PROJECTS DUE INTO ME BY 11/11
WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE IN YOUR VIDEO:

Three seconds of black video at the start and end of your video.
Stick to the time constraints, don’t turn in a two minute movie, it’s 3-5.
Use only copyright cleared music and video.
Fade in at the beginning, fade out at the end.
Have a credit roll
With Actors Names.
Writers/Sound/
Have me as Executive Director.
must use copyright cleared music, use freeplaymusic.

1. Strong talks about Studio behavior/hallway behavior.
2. Continue shooting your  Documentary project, following the worksheet plan 
3. If you have shot your interview already? What new shots of B-Roll will you need to get the coverage you need?
4. Pay attention to the List of B-Roll shots you will need.
5. Video is due on Thursday.
6. Export your video & upload to Youtube.

1. Strong talks about Studio behavior/hallway behavior.
2. Start working on your Documentary project, following the worksheet plan you made earlier this week.
3. If you have shot your interview already? What new shots of B-Roll will you need to get the coverage you need?
4. Pay attention to the List of B-Roll shots you will need.

1. Start working on your Documentary project, following the worksheet plan you made earlier this week.
2. If you have shot your interview already? What new shots of B-Roll will you need to get the coverage you need?
3. Pay attention to the List of B-Roll shots you will need.

1. Start working on your Documentary project, following the worksheet plan you made earlier this week.

1. Start working on your Documentary project, following the plan you made yesterday.
2. Double check that you turned in your  Multiple Camera Angles Assignment correctly a few of you turned in the proj file instead of an exported mp4 file.

1. View & Respond to Documentary Example #2
2. Complete the Documentary Worksheet with your CFGs.
3. Turn it in as a Google Doc into Google Classroom. Each person turns in their group’s worksheet.
4. Start working on your Documentary project, following the plan you made yesterday.
5. Double check that you turned in your  Multiple Camera Angles Assignment correctly a few of you turned in the proj file instead of an exported mp4 file.

Get together in your CFGs and answer these questions in a word document. Turn this in before the end of the period today.

Title of Documentary:

Summary: What is the 30 second elevator conversation about this documentary? What exactly is this documentary about. Example: We will be interviewing Rodney, a refugee from Somalia. Rodney will be interviewed about the steps of how he became an american citizen.

B-Roll: What will the b-roll consist of? Example: Rodney’s path to citizenship will include close ups of his passport, his green card. Documents Rodney had to collect before becoming an american citizen. Close ups of the Somali Flag, and shots of Rodney cooking a dinner with his family.

Include the names of the people in your group. And the resources you will need.

Example: Three days of videoing Rodney in the studio. Two days of shooting b-roll.

1. Complete the Documentary Worksheet with your CFGs.
2. Turn it in as a Google Doc into Google Classroom. Each person turns in their group’s worksheet.
3. Double check that you turned in your  Multiple Camera Angles Assignment correctly a few of you turned in the proj file instead of an exported mp4 file.