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Class instructions will be posted below. Click on the link to find assignments and projects.

UNIT 1: Live Music Performance Recording and Video Podcast Production

5X5 Video - Due Fri. Feb. 3rd

Audio Theory Reading - Due Fri. Feb. 17th

Camera Movements Review Video- Due Fri. Mar. 2

The Session -

Rough Cut Due Mon. Mar. 5

Final Cut Due Thurs. Mar. 8

UNIT 2: Script to Storyboard to Screen Filmmaking - March 20-April 13

Pre-Production

Plot Points- Due Thursday March 22

Script (For Presentation)- Due Monday March 26

Script (Final)- Due Wednesday March 28

Storyboards- Friday March 30

Production

Shooting footage- Monday April 2 - Friday April 6

Post-Production

Rough Cut- ~~Due Wednesday April 11~~ Deadline Extension Due Friday April 13

Final Cut- ~~Due Friday April 13~~ Deadline Extension Due Tuesday April 17

UNIT 3: Documentary - April 28-May 18

Initial Paperwork- Monday, April 30

Full Paperwork and Research- Wednesday, May 2

Documentary Rough Cut Screening- Monday, May 14

Documentary Final Cut Screening- Friday, May 18

UNIT 4: Independent Research / Journal

Article 1- Fri. Feb 17

Article 2- Fri. Mar. 2

Article 3- Fri. Mar. 23

Article 4- Thurs. Apr. 5

Article 5- Fri. Apr. 19

Article 6- Fri. May 4

Article 7- Fri. May 17

Article 8- Fri. June 1

Monday, April 30, 2012

All paperwork will be reviewed and approved today. All research and planning must be complete before you will be approved to shoot your documentary. To be on schedule, you should have this work done by Wednesday May 2nd. Remember research is the most important part of constructing an engaging and well crafted documentary.

Extra copies of the paperwork can be found in the handout folder.

Your documentary must include 4 of 6 different documentary techniques used purposefully to convey your message and meaning.

Interview

Reenactment

Fly-on-the-wall

Voiceover

Montage

Timelapse/Compressed Time

Your documentary must include 7 of 9 different camera composition techniques used purposefully to convey your message and meaning.

Direction of Movement

Framing

Viewpoint

Contrast

Simplicity

Rule of Thirds

Diagonals

Formal Balance

Informal Balance

Your final documentary must use 5 different well executed camera moves used purposefully to convey your message and meaning.

Dolly

Crane

Truck

Follow

Pan/Tilt

Remember these important dates...

UNIT 3: Documentary - April 28-May 18

Initial Paperwork- Monday, April 30

Full Paperwork and Research- Wednesday, May 2

Documentary Rough Cut Screening- Monday, May 14

Documentary Final Cut Screening- Friday, May 18

SHSM / Grade 12 Communications Technology Field Trip

Get your forms and Money in to confirm your spot!!!

Date: Monday, May 7, 2012

Destination: Metalworks Institute Recording Studio (Mississauga) and CBC Broadcast Centre (Toronto) for a taping of George Stromboulopoulous Tonight

Transportation: School Bus

Departure from Sir Winston Churchill S.S.: 10:00 AM

Returning to Sir Winston Churchill: 8:00 PM

Cost: $10 (+$5 for a pizza lunch- 2 slices and a pop)

Please bring snacks and something that you can eat on the go for supper. We will be inside the CBC studio from 3:30 to 6:30 and unable to have until just before we get on the bus to drive home.

For more information please contact Mrs. Pomeroy, Mr. Glantz or Mr. Perron.

Monday, April 16, 2012

The end of this week is the submission day for the Film Festival!!! Get your films ready. If you would like feedback on any of the work that you are submitting, please let me know.

If you are done your final cut, today is a catch up day and a day to get your work polished and ready for the film festival. I will also be meeting with all of you to discuss your marks and what you have not handed in yet.

Wednesday April 11

Assignment Extension--- rough cuts due for screening Friday!!!

Remember that all films for the SWC Film Festival Festival must be completed by next Friday!!!

Tuesday April 10

Rough cuts due for screening tomorrow!!!

Remember that all films for the SWC Film Festival Festival must be completed by next Friday!!!

Tuesday March 27

In groups of 4, read all the scripts aloud.

As a group answer the following questions...

1. Does the story convey the theme?

2. Do the characters seem 'authentic'?

3. Does the story deliver the plot points discussed in class?

4. How would you change the script if you were rewriting it?

5. How does the demonstrate the concept of 'Show it. Don't tell it'?

Monday March 26

Rough drafts of script due today.

Tuesday March 20

Before you start...

Identify your Theme, Character & Setting.

Stay away from identifying a genre at this point.

Screenwriting Plot Points

For Thursday, identify the following key plot points in your story.

1- Opening/Closing Imagery

-symbolic of the theme or events about to unfold

2- Inciting Incident

-The main event that changes the course of the main character

3- First Act

-all set-up happens here

-all key characters have been established

-goal and obstacles are evident

4- Mid-Point

-The point at which success seems possible

5- All is lost

-Character is the farthest he can possibly be from his goal and seems impossible to accomplish.

6- Climax

-Character overcomes all personal obstacles and all lessons learned pay off

7- Resolution

-All is well for the character and he/she/ the community is better off than before

Monday, March 19

Unit 2: Script to Storyboard to Screen Filmmaking

Watch the following AFI (American Film Institute) video chapters on pre-production

and production.

Also, read the AFI Screen Education Basic Tool Kit & Resource Guide for Young Filmmakers

and familiarize yourself with its contents.

Monday, February 27, 2012

There is a Buy-in today during period 2. If you are here, continue with your two ongoing assignments

Camera Movements Review is due on Friday, March 2nd at the start of the class!!!

The rough cut of your Podcast must be screened on Monday, March 5th

The final cut of your Podcast must be uploaded and screened on Thursday March 8th!!

We will be starting a new unit when we come back from the holiday. (Make sure that you are up to date with everything before you leave.)

February 21, 2012

Camera Movements Review

Tracking Shots

Cutting on Motion & Object Wipes

In groups of 2, you are going to create a 30 second, design, shoot and edit a creative, well composed video to incorporate as many of these techniques as you can in the 30 second time limit.

You will be marked on both quantity and quality of integration and technique. We will screen these on Friday and there will be a viewers choice prize for the most successful 30 seconds.

February 8, 2012