Lesson 12 preparation session 3
- 1. BIG PICTURE The Task - Preparation KEYWORDS The Proposal LEARNING OBJECTIVES This is a holistic unit and the different LOs are covered together in all of the activities. SUCCESS CRITERIA Content overview – cinematic technique – Contributors / Locations / Assets / Equipment – Legal and Ethical – Technical considerations – Scheduling and Planning Take your seat. Bag under your desk. Have your equipment and planner out. Topic – Unit 8 – Responding to a Commission • You have ten hours of supervised preparation time to research, draft, generate ideas and plan and prepare – 5 hours left.
- 2. TELL ME STUFF! TAKE ME THROUGH IT… LET ME HAVE A GO… DO I GET IT? 1 2 3 4 5 6 SETTING THE SCENE JOINING UP LEARNING LINKS TO LAST TIME PASSING ON KNOWLEDGE GUIDED PRACTICE & MODELLING INDEPENDENT PRACTICE – APPLYING THE SKILLS TO NEW SITUATIONS ASSESSMENT & FEEDBACK PULL IT TOGETHER JOINING UP LEARNING LINKS TO NEXT TIME
- 3. The Proposal – Content Overview and Cinematic Technique • A scene by scene summary of your entire short film... • … including information about your uses of cinematic technique • Cinematography • Editing • Sound • Mise en Scene • Break it down in a way that makes sense to you BUT this doesn't need to be a shot by shot summary • You don't need to hunt around to include big ideas about every technique just for the sake of it – far better to identify one or two that you really focus on and talk briefly about the others • Example – in the 'split screen' student example you've worked on I think cinematography is the big idea, and other things work around that.
- 4. The Proposal – Contributors, Locations, Assets, Equipment • Contributors – who is involved in front of the camera and behind the camera – why them? • Locations - • Requirements • Recce • Risk Assessment • Final plans • Assets – what are you bringing in to the project to use • SFX • Music • Equipment – what are you going to use • Use your equipment lists from Unit 10, adapted as necessary • You need to show you are organised, and that you are very deliberately and thoughtfully making these decisions in order to fulfill the brief in the best but also the most practical and straightforward way • This is part of you saying 'I can do this on time and on budget because I'm very organised'.
- 5. The Proposal – Legal and Ethical Issues Copyright – negotiating fees for copyright protected music. It won't be cheap - £2000 for 30 seconds of a recent popular single for a non-profit project It might be crucial - the right music can be exactly what draws your target audience in If you are employing children, or featuring animals, there will be other specific legal issues Ethical issues might cover representations – age-appropriate material - fairness... • The crucial point here is that you identify legal and ethical issues that are relevant to your project and explain how they won't present difficulties to you.
- 6. The Proposal – Technical Considerations Specialist equipment – smoke machine? Specialist settings – a gym? In a car driving down the road? Visual and special effects? Voice-over Graphics and onscreen text You might not have anything specific to include here. • This is about the specific special skills or equipment that might be needed • Again, it's important that what you write her is directly relevant to your plans • This might include...
- 7. The Proposal – Planning and Scheduling A budget Use your knowledge of budgeting from Unit 10 Use the costs list on the blog Don't forget fees for music copyright licensing Show, in all of this planning, that you can do this task on time and on budget • A week by week production plan • You need to include time for pre production and planning • You need to be finished in very good time before the launch date • Week by week planning is good enough for this task
- 8. The Task 1. The Rationale 2. The Pitch 3. The Proposal 4. The Treatment • 10 hours general preparation – 4 sessions of 2½ hours each. This is session 3. • 2 hours writing up final notes • 6 hours writing final assessment, with use of final notes
- 9. BIG PICTURE MY LEARNING How did this lesson fit into your other lessons? What is my top take- away from the lesson? Have you contributed to the lesson? Will you be able to improve next lesson? Do you know what you need to go away and do? o Are you keeping up? Everything we've done is on the blog – lesson by lesson. o Keep looking back through the blog, especially at the examples of note taking. You are preparing your longer notes on the real brief o Look back at your work from Unit 10 LA B. A lot of what you have to do in Activity 3 and 4 in Unit 8 is very very similar to that work.