Exam Board Marking Criteria

Here's the info you ought to be constantly referring to when producing your film opening...

The 2nd page has all the info regarding the CONSTRUCTION side of things..

It would be worth putting this on to your own blog: click on menu then share to get the embed code.

G321 Marking Criteria

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Mac 2 - Prelim Exercise

Mac 4 - Prelim Exercise

Love the feet shot!!

Mac 1 - Preliminary Exercise

I think the BBC would be proud - and if ever they need two new Slaters..!



Reminder to all groups:

Mac 2 - Wed
Mac 4 - Thur
Mac 3 - Fri

meet me in media room at about 12ish and MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF SCRIPT TO WORK FROM!!! Don't just show up going, 'what do we do?' - it doesn't have to be anything meaningful, just the people involved in acting out need to know what each other's going to say!!

Mac 3

Your flip vid from yesterday:

Friday's Lesson

Of those of you that I saw on Monday, I can't believe you've still not updated your blogs... get it done asap.

The rest of you, I'll sort your blogs this Monday. For this lesson, I'd really like all the groups to have practised/experimented with some shooting and uploaded it to imovie so you can have a play around with the software. If you're utterly unsure, ask Joely's group to show you their little film 'continuity walking' that they Flip'd and then uploaded. I want to see something similar from all the groups by Monday.

Here's an imovie 09 tutorial that shows you the basics of editing your film.

There are literally hundreds of tutorials like this on imovie so if you're after a particular effect, just search in Youtube.

Remember, your PROJECT is your actual film that you're making, and the EVENTS are simply every time you upload filming/clips. You can have as many events as you like - name them by the day and date you've filmed to keep it simple but you can only have the one project and you must NEVER rename anything once uploaded to imovie or clips won't match. I'll bring my macbook in on Monday and show you what I mean on the smartboard.

Of course you can call your project something else once you're done and want to upload it to Youtube but don't rename it whilst still in imovie.

Monday's lesson

Sorting out individual blogs.

I want to go through all your blogs one by one as I'm still getting asked for word verifications on some!!

Group Pitches from Friday..

Here're all your brilliant proposals - we all agreed on green-lighting everyone's projects, you've all got your equipment - have fun trying out your 'ankle shots'..

Just be aware that the cameras MUST BE GIVEN BACK ON MON 15 NOV - the A2 lot need them then. However, if you desperately need to do some reshooting, once you've started editing, and you realise you're missing a crucial shot, the A2 groups are handing them back in on Mon 17 Jan 11 and you can have them for a week at a time after that date.

Film Articles from Friday's Guardian

Here's a great article about the state of the British film industry:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/oct/07/film-season-uk-film-council-xan-brooks


And another about the top 10 bright young things in British films:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2010/oct/07/british-film-hot-10

Promised openings - feel like a criminal..

Can't quite believe have done this, but here you go..

Let The Right One In (squeal like a pig!) - just noticed, sorry, had to move my cat at 1:31..

The Hole

I need you in Friday's lesson!!!!

I believe that you're all invited to listen to Nick de Bois talk on Fri afternoon?

The problem is, I really really really REALLY need you in our lesson as I want to give the equipment out...

Therefore can you please attend our lesson instead of the talk??

When you read this, can you leave a comment on this post to say you know want you all in the lesson - also, can you pass this message on to people - but let me know in your comment who you've told..

Sent from my iPad

Questions you need to answer in your proposal..

Here you go:

1. Is your idea PRACTICALLY possible to film? (no speeding trains, sea battles etc)

2. Will it show off the strengths of EVERY member of your group?

3. Can it be storyboarded okay?

4. Is it something you can reasonably shoot and edit in the time available?

5. Can you get access/permission to shoot in the chosen location at the chosen times?

6. Would lighting/sound be an issue on location?

7. Are you going to include dialogue? If so, can you do it on location or will you need to add it later?

8. Who will be cast as your characters on screen? Are they reliable? Will continuity be an issue?

9. Have you thought about style of credits and soundtrack?