An overview in class of the requirements of the specification for the Foundation Portfolio (your production blog, film opening and critical reflections).
YOUR CREATIVE REFLECTION START THIS BATCH OF WORK IN YOUR OWN TIME
POST THE WORK ON YOUR CRITICAL REFLECTION PAGE UNDER THE RED HEADINGS BELOW
FIRST TASK
1. PINTEREST presentation of the SOCIAL GROUPS (such as teenagers, young business men, silicon valley start-ups company types, Max Tegmark, Elon Musk, techie types, robots, mothers, police, crime scene investigators). In your Pinterest, use the comment box space below each image to analyse / 'creatively reflect' what you have pinned.
ISSUES: create a Pinterest of issues (Artificial Intelligence, robots, relevant books and news articles; teenage depression; issues relating to grieving for parental loss; crimes associated with emotional trauma).
In your Pinterest, use the comment box space below each image to analyse / 'creatively reflect' what you have pinned.
SECOND TASK
- Decide jointly on your distributor. You have already done the spadework on distribution.
- Create a Twitter feed for your production
- Create an Instagram account for your production
- Create a pretend website for your production in Photoshop
- Create a real FB for your production
- Create a 10 second teaser trailer for your production
THIRD TASK
- Going back to your work on the preliminary exercise, start writing about each stage of your skills development. Describe what you did in filming and editing the prelim.
FOURTH TASK
- Start making a list of all the technologies that you employed during your research, planning, construction and evaluation. You need a screenshot to illustrate and (eventually) to link or embed the actual evidence.
Hot seating your characters (like this) can help you develop how you represent them.
It also gets everyone on board by delving into the backstory of the character.
Pick a realistic interview situation and write the script outline.
Video your interview (make it brief) and post it on your blog together with the following information (in your own words).
PLANNING: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
For my character in my film opening entitled *********, we decided to
interview our protagonist in order to develop his character further.
We were inspired by an article written by Charlie Sierra about building
the back story to film characters in which he quoted from Riding the Alligator, a book written by Pen Densham, an Academy Award nominated
filmmaker.
In one of the chapters in
the book, he provides a check list of questions every writer and director
should ask of themselves when they are developing their characters. The purpose
of this is to outline a deep understanding of your characters for both the
actors and director, and for motivating a character’s choices or actions.
My Character Interview
(Example) As my film opening features only one character in a world without anyone
else, we decided that rather than a questionnaire interview, we would use a
video diary of our character asking himself and answering the questions as if
he is communicating through the camera to anyone who might find it, which is a
creative way to handle the questionnaire whilst still keeping with the solitary
theme of the opening...(video interview + script follows)
(Example) One of my central characters is a young girl, we have decided to compose a series of exchanges that she made using What's App
with her friend in which she confides her worries about her sister. Her
friend asks her a series of questions about her state of mind...
(screenshots of What's App exchanges follow)
(Example) Our
protagonist is a senior police officer who is struggling with his job
(meeting targets; pleasing a critical boss) and his family (his daughter
challenges him and he questions his ability to relate to her). He is
interviewed by a police psychiatrist after the incident when he knocks
down a teenager on his bike.
