By the lesson on WEDNESDAY 7 February, please post the first draft of your response to question 4 of your Creative Critical Reflection. This is what you do:
- Write down in a list the 4 headings that represent the flow of work: RESEARCH, PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION, EVALUATION
- Under each heading, write down the technologies that you used. Add a screenshot of your own work AND the hyperllnk to where it appears on your blog.
Below is an example of a previous finished response, plus a link to last year's examples. However, the way that the question is put s slightly different this year, with the emphasis on integrate not just 'use' technology.
By Monday, all you need to do is gather together the raw material, not complete the layout.
As I learned this week that some of you will be away from school in NY, it is particularly important for those people to manage their work efficiently in order to meet the deadline of March 1st.
The West Wing (Season 1, Episode 1) is set at The White House, Washington DC. Leo McGarry (John Spencer) heads the staff whose professional and personal lives collide as they scramble to serve President Josian Bartlet (Martin Sheen). A Presidential bicycle mishap provides nothing more than a minor dustup. A Terrorist attack provides nothing less than a global crisis. The US endures because of - even in spite of - what happens in the White House offices called The West Wing. (Look below the picture for the media language that we will be drawing attention to.)
We continue this work on Tuesday next week.(Post Script: as some of you are out at an Art & Photography trip on Monday and others miss the last two days of the week for the New York trip, we will postpone the continuation of this until after half term.)
In class, we noted the following points:
- The use of tracking shots as Leo musters his staff and gathers information, trouble-shooting as he walks through a series of offices. The effect is to emphasise how he is at the centre of all decisions and is very hands-on. He is briefed by many people and deals with each with easy authority. He is represented as fiercely confident. Secondly, the continuous tracking reflects how pressured and unrelenting the environment is at the centre of power.
- The use of mid shots such as the way that Josh is framed asleep on his desk draws attention to the fact that working in the West Wing is a demanding job that can never be nine to five. The exhaustion on his sleeping face reflects his unquestioning dedication.
- Establishing shots such as the opening shot...
- Two shots such as....
- The mise-en-scene includes many interiors of a variety of crowded, busy offices such as...
- Sound is important in this extract as the dialogue builds characters and delivers the narrative, such as dialogue in the form of conversation between....
I have been inspired by films such as Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (2011) because of its use of framing.
In the video tutorial Every Frame A Painting, on Drive -The Quadrant System, I learned how narrative complexity is achieved through using the creative use of positioning characters in different quadrants. Here, for instance, attention is focused on Ryan Gosling in the upper top left quadrant but also on Carey Mulligan and her boyfriend whom he is gazing at, in the lower right hand quadrant. We are invited to visually compare the two men and see the long shadow one casts toward the other.
The two sides of the frame tell different stories, which enriches the filmwork.
In my own work, I intend to pay careful attention to composing the frame in the scene.....
(We also learned from F is For Fake today)
The deadline for your Production module is Thursday 1st March.
Checklist to remind you is below.
If you want to see what last year's cohort did (and the previous five years) look at good candidates from our school here HERE
PLANNING POSTS:
Be sure to have completed your SHOT LIST
Your STORYBOARD
Evidence of LOCATION RECCES (if you did them)
Collages of PROPS, COSTUMES
Pinterest, ScoopIt or other collage / board on which you collected 'character types' or 'stereotypes'
Sketches
collages of visuals such as practice shoots
Making of props
Accounts of filmwork that has inspired you and that you plan to use yourself (with visual illustration)
CONSTRUCTION:
Your accounts of filming and editing with visual illustration. Aim to be analytical, not descriptive. These are not letters home.
YOU MUST WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU YOURSELF DID: "I took responsibility for being director / I was the cameraman during this scene."
You get no marks for acting itself (but may well comment on how you directed the scene in which you also appeared).
- How is meaning made by camerawork (camera angle, camera movement, shot types), by sound, by editing and by mise-en-scène? (mise-en-scène includes location, costume, props, lighting)
- What production skills did you develop during this shoot and edit? Were there challenges (such as relating to sound)?
- What technologies did you use?
- How are your production companyTwitter, FB posts?
- Is your IDENT finished?
- Have you written a post that lists the FILM CREDITS that you plan to use, such as the actors' names, film title etc?
- Have you ready the black screen with white script that gives your centre number, your names and numbers? Look at last year's cohort (the link is above).
YOUR BLOG:
- Have you put your candidate number on your blog next to your name?
- Is your blog easy to read and do all the technologies open easily for the moderator? Spell checked? Used colour to make key terms pop? Exam work, that is not relevant to the moderator) is on a 'page' at the top, not on the main blogroll?
- Have you always used RESEARCH, PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION to indicate the flow of production?
CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION:
You need to use time out of class to complete the above as we need February to devote to the four-part CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION which I will start with you in class.
Ensure that you have ready and with you your call sheet for your shoots so that each group member knows the location, contact details and equipment. As usual, do not put identifying information on the public blog; keep those details for your group's eyes alone.
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Analyse how representation is created through camerawork, sound, editing and mise-en-scene in Bones Season 2, Episode 1
