Lab: (Until 8:00)
This morning, please turn in your homework notes (see the previous post).
Work on your film projects. The script needs to be done first. If you are the director/producer, talk to one another about where the project is: what needs to be completed next? Make a list, organize yourself and your cast/crew. Decide on dates to shoot your film. If you are the editor, start uploading and working on your credits--you don't need your film script done for some of this. Once you have the details about who will do what role, put it up in the film. You can also select music, sound effects, or stock footage. Actors ready to complete a scene? Shoot what you can right now! Get on with it!
View the video hints for film projects:
You can use an online converter to convert YouTube videos into MP3s. Here's a typical one. Since you will want to "borrow" clips from the 3 films you have watched, using this tool will be helpful.
This morning, please turn in your homework notes (see the previous post).
Work on your film projects. The script needs to be done first. If you are the director/producer, talk to one another about where the project is: what needs to be completed next? Make a list, organize yourself and your cast/crew. Decide on dates to shoot your film. If you are the editor, start uploading and working on your credits--you don't need your film script done for some of this. Once you have the details about who will do what role, put it up in the film. You can also select music, sound effects, or stock footage. Actors ready to complete a scene? Shoot what you can right now! Get on with it!
View the video hints for film projects:
- Crash Course: The Director
- Director: How to Direct
- Director/Producer: How to Schedule a Film
- Director/Producer: How to Plan a Movie (pre-production)
- Director/Cinematographer: How to Shoot a Short Film
- Cinematographer: Shooting Tips
- Cinematographer: Tips for Cinematography
- Cinematographer: Tips for Angles & Locations
- The Editor: Crash Course
- Editors & Cinematographer: Continuity Editing
- Writers: Story Telling Tips
- Actors: Acting in Film with Chris Mack
- Producers: get with your director and discuss time and schedule for the film project. The film project is due at the end of the course. Set up a schedule that works within this boundary. Realize that editing takes time. Producers! It is your job to see that the project is completed by the deadline.
- Directors: work with your actors, editor, technicians, cinematographer, etc. Find out people's schedules. When can you shoot the scenes you need to? Make a schedule and hand this to your crew. You may use class time to plan, shoot, edit, or troubleshoot with your crew.
- Actors: get a copy of the script you are working on and read it. Prepare your scenes by reading and reading and reading the script. Memorize, if possible. Work with your director on scheduling scenes you are in, run lines with other actors, ask questions of the director for anything unclear in the script or with your character. Help out the crew or the director where needed.
- Writers: You are the first step in the process, but you may not need to be completed before you hand your script to your director or producer. If you haven't completed your short script (remember a short script is like a short story--start close to the climax of the "film"!) After writing, be available to the director to change anything needing changing in the script. Yes, you may want your site locations to blow-up at the end of the film, but is this possible? (the answer is no, by the way.) As the writer, help out your editor and director by preparing a cast and crew list. You may also easily double as an actor, cinematographer, producer, director, crew, or editor. Complete jobs where needed.
- Cinematographer: Your job is to plan HOW the script is shot. Will you use a long shot or close up? Will you use high-key lighting or low-key? Will you shoot a scene with an oblique angle or a high angle or low angle? Go through the script and make some decisions. Create storyboards to help you visualize a scene. Take into account the writer's wishes, but feel free to change anything that will make your film project more visually interesting.
- Editor: Start working on the credits. You will need both opening and closing credits. You can do this even if you haven't started shooting your film yet. Use iMovie to create opening and closing credits. You can also help out by finding sound cues or stock footage. Prepare all sound cues as needed. If an actor has a VO (voice-over) sequence, use class time to record the voice over (even if you haven't finished shooting the scene it is attached to). Once you have film shot, you may begin editing. I suggest the editor is NOT the director, although this may be unavoidable.
- Crew: Help out. If something needs to be completed, help your team get the film done on time. Like actors, be available to fill in and help where needed at any time. If the editor needs help, help. If the writer needs help, help. If the director needs help, help. You get the idea.
If you have selected the documentary project, research your director and write your voice over script. Once you have a script, record yourself reading this so you know how long or how much you need to show in still photos or movie clips. You may also consider using music or sound effects where appropriate. You can use any of the Crash Course Films as a suggestion for your documentary.
You can use an online converter to convert YouTube videos into MP3s. Here's a typical one. Since you will want to "borrow" clips from the 3 films you have watched, using this tool will be helpful.
Period 2: We will conclude our viewing of Shadow of a Doubt.
HOMEWORK: Continue to work on your film projects!
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