RESEARCH CHECK LIST

Please ensure that you have completed and posted all these RESEARCH tasks over half term so that you are ready to continue. These titles are hyperlinked to the relevant blog post.

I will start marking them on Saturday 19 October, earliest ones first. Planning = 20 marks (see below).
We will conduct audience research. before moving on to PLANNING, then CONSTRUCTION.

PRELIMINARY EXERCISES

3 x ART OF THE TITLE  

PLANNING: TOPLINE AND BIG QUESTION + COMIC

SCOOP.IT!

RESEARCH: DISTRIBUTION COLLAGE

PRODUCTION PRACTICE: TITLE SEQUENCE "A WHOLE WORLD IN A TABLE TOP" Make a blog post that gives an account of your processes and decisions in this shoot and edit. Explain mistakes and successes using articulate reflection. Add photos. 

ON THE SET

RESEARCH: TITLE SEQUENCE CREDITS

FOUNDATION PRODUCTION: INITIAL DEVELOPMENT

FOUNDATION PRODUCTION: INITIAL DEVELOPMENT

An initial account of your ideas for your Foundation Production.

PITCH YOUR IDEAS
An account of your initial ideas, with a mind map if possible.
Mind maps can be hand drawn or you can use a software tool.
Include lists, sketches or photos of locations.
Add ideas that you have of props, people, themes.
This is a reflective, log-book like post, not formal, with a lot of freedom to explain why you rejected an idea / reformulated an idea / developed an idea.
Title idea?
I should have enough information by the end of the post to understand the treatment that you are pitching me.

RESEARCH: TITLE SEQUENCE CREDITS

PREP Your RESEARCH task: Pick any 2 examples of film title sequences and make a simple list of the credits, as below.

The Pieces I Am (2019, Toni Morrison)

Dark (2019, Baran Bo Odar)

Fight Club (Drama):

• Production Company – fox 2000 pictures & regency enterprises, Linson film production
• Director
• Starring – ACTOR , ACTOR 2, ACTOR 3
• Title 
• Starring – ACTOR 4, ACTOR 5, ACTOR 6, ACTOR 7, ACTOR 8
• Casting 
• Costume designer 
• Special make up effects supervisor 
• Sound designer
• Music 
• Film editor
• Production designer
• Director of photography
• Executive producer
• Based on novel
• Screenplay
• Producer
• Director

Gone Girl (Mystery):

• Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises 
• ACTOR 1 
• ACTOR 2 
• Title
• ACTOR 3 
• ACTOR 4  
• ACTOR 5 
• ACTOR 5 & 6 
• ACTOR 7 & 8
• Casting
• Sound Design
• Music
• Costume design 
• Film Editor
• Production Designer
• Director of Photography
• Executive Producers
• Producers
• Producers
• Based on the Novel 
• Screenplay
• Director 

PRACTICE FILM OPENING

PREP: Write a blog post about what you and your production team have done in this task. It is normal to include comments about the learning process, such as the need to re-shoot, to re-frame, to re-focus. Write about what you tried to achieve and the thinking behind what you did (one paragraph per point below).

1. Brief account of learning to use the cameras and tripods (see here for example)
2. Research before (what you learned from Delicatessen)
3. Explain the brief (tabletop shoot; live action shoot; soundtrack of Emily Barker Nostalgia; titles)
4. Tabletop task: what props you picked and what story they told
5. Filming issues: what went right, wrong, how you dealt with it + photo
6. Editing decisions, such as timing + photo
7. List of the credits and your film title

PRODUCTION PRACTICE: LIVE ACTION FILMING AND EDITING

Filming live action sequence and decisions about your title and credits.

• The live action piece should 'hook' the audience's attention, making them ask : what happens next?
• EDIT with the track's lyrics in mind. 
• Our final piece will be 2 minutes long (like our brief).
• Arrive at your film title after the table-top sequence, ideally with the words " a door that shouldn't be in front of me".
• Your live action piece will in some way tie in with this 'door'. It could be a real door or a metaphor - suggesting a barrier, frontier, challenge, block. We have masses of useful doors on site in Claremont from the Walled Garden to the Mansion to the underpass.

PRODUCTION PRACTICE: TITLE SEQUENCE "A WHOLE WORLD IN A TABLE TOP"

Make a blog post that gives an account of your processes and decisions in this shoot and edit. Explain mistakes and successes using articulate reflection. Add photos. 

• An excellent title sequence is that of To Kill A Mockingbird.
• We view the title sequence of Delicatessen (1991, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) and study how its inventive camerawork tells a story and sets the theme. 
• We then use it as inspiration to create an original title sequence in groups by setting up the mise-en-scène using props from our props collection.
• Our title sequence uses the soundtrack Nostalgia by Emily Barker (the Wallander theme tune).
• Filming table top - Monday
• Filming live action - Tuesday
• Editing of credits, title, sound - Wednesday
• Discussing your own production treatment - Friday

Make a blog post that gives an account of your processes and decisions. Explain mistakes and successes using articulate reflection. Add photos. 

RESEARCH: ART OF THE TITLE

Please write three of these in all.
Pick title sequences that are relevant and inspiring.
Write with articulate reflection.
Use your initiative to explore the title sequence: there may be insight below the video section or you may Google the designer / typography.
It is the design features that make it special that you need to notice as well as how its draws in the audience.