Tuesday-Nov 19th

Poets-please respond:

1. Describe the visual imagery of your poem? What will unify the look and mood of your poetic representation?
2. What is the most challenging aspect of your production? How will you meet the challenge?
3. Have you recorded the narrative of your poem yet in the way you would like it read, for timing and expressive mood? (if not, make this the first thing you do today, even as a scratch audio track using your iphones if necessary-you may do this quietly outside or in the audio room).
4. Send a message to the student in the other period telling them your plans for the day, and where to find anything they might need access to.

Icons-please respond:

1. What different kind of media are you using?
2. How are you maintaining continuity across all icons?
3. What are you using to introduce and conclude your media project?

Poets/Icons Monday

Class period for productions: 5 Blocks, 2 Mondays, Due Dec 5th, end of class

Poets:

Due the end of this week for credit/10 pts each:

1. Storyboard that details audio/narration, camerawork, duration. Please see here for example of what I am looking for. Your options for visuals are quite simple. You may source photos representing the mood of the shot you would like to create, or you may draw a picture. If you draw, you may use a pen stylus and work in Photoshop to create pictures. Then Save the Photoshop file as a jpg, or simply cut the picture out in Photoshop and paste it in the google drawing file.
2. Shot sheet, please use the template here as a guide. This is the format you should use.

Poet Blogspot response for Monday: please tell me your role in the project and when you plan to have video to edit. Who will be your editor? How many class periods will you reserve for editing a final piece? What about music and appropriate sound effects, what are your plans? Remember, music usage must fall within legal copyright limits (see me if you do not know). 

Icons:
Icon Folder Here

Due the end of this week for credit/10 pts each:

1. Content Folder that includes video, photos, text or snippets from the web screen captured for inclusion, audio. Please see here for link to shared drive-upload here.
2. Planning Guide please use the template here as a guide. This is the format you should use.

Icon Blogspot response for Monday: please tell me your role in the project and when you plan to have video to edit. Who will be your editor? How many class periods will you reserve for editing a final piece? What about music and appropriate sound effects, what are your plans? Remember, music usage must fall within legal copyright limits (see me if you do not know). 

Icon/Poets

Blogspot Question of the day: Read Cinematography: Theory and Practice pg. 38-41 (under production links on right side). When you have read the excerpt, look at this link which is an excerpt from Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. Take any 3 shots (by timecode) and describe the concepts of visual organization, visual weight and visual tension apparent in your selected shots.

 ICONS:

Mozilla has released a new mashup tool called Popcorn Maker. Check it out here

Follow the tutorial here.

Popcorn Ted Talk (2012, Software Preview)

Classroom Assignment:
Please collaborate with others from your Icon groups and experiment with Popcorn as a tool for future projects. Icon groups could use Popcorn as a way to create a mashup that integrates not only multiple videos, but other media content as well including maps, websites, photographs, audio and more.

Icon groups may begin to gather content for your mashup right away.

POETS:

1. Filmmakers on poets projects will continue to look at the visuals capable with After Effects. Please look at the following tutorial and re-create a similar scene using 3D camera view and a simulated effects such as rain. Please check in with Mrs. L. when you have completed the tutorial and have applied that knowledge to a photo.
2. Please access this file on the google drive. This file is a drawing file that can be shared. It is the basis for the construction of a storyboard for your visual interpretation. When you have your poem selected, you will spread the lines, stanzas out over this storyboard and start to create visuals that will help tell the story. Before shooting video or gathering photos, it is important to record your narrative to obtain duration of lines and stanzas. This will allow you to create a storyboard with timecode ins/outs and set durations. 
3. Poets will create a detailed storyboard for their poem to be handed in by the end of the day Monday Nov 18th. Poets should also hand in a production plan that details a shot sheet that details location and schedule of production. Do backwards planning. Determine how much time you will need for the final edit and plan backwards to create a realistic production schedule.

By Friday you will narrow down your media assignment to the poem you will visually interpret. This week you will spend preparing for that visualization by learning more about what After Effects can do and if it might be a useful tool in the art of visualization.

Filmmaking and Animation as Art

When you make movies, shoot photos or create animations, you are engaging in art forms. How do you express art in your filmmaking or animation work?

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Please complete the following self assessment:
Map 2 Music Video Self Assessment

Scripts and Dialog

Please read this short and to the point article about writing dialog.

The author has written a number of well known movie scripts, books, etc.

Taking the information from this short piece, write a short dialog (60 sec) between two characters. Here is your information, now fill in the pieces:

• Ext: High School Exterior, lunch room (or somewhere students eat lunch)
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• Action: 2 friends are having a conversation with each other. 
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• Dialog: you fill in the blanks. 

Please use script format.

After writing, have 2 friends perform the dialog.

Reflect on your work at the end of the class period in today's blogspot comment area. Here are the reflective points:

1. Upon listening to your dialog, how was the flow?
2. Did your dialog lend itself to conversation?
3. What would you do to improve?

Use Rawscripts so that you can share your script with 2 friends and me!

Poets/Icons

 Please see the link here for a project sample from last year.

Credits: Ehrland Hollingsworth, Michael Eschen, Kayla Berlinberg

Please see the link here for an introduction and project guidelines for your second MAP project of the year.

Intro to Screenwriting

Scriptwriting Activity Overview


Blogspot Response (Monday): 
Please listen to the following interview with Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon.
Respond to this blogspot by identifying what they think about formula. Do you think formula is a good thing or a bad thing in scriptwriting?



Assignment for Week of November 3rd:
Read the following article on scriptwriting, the 8 major plot outlines linked here.

Read the linked article, the 8 major plot points in the Lord of The Rings

After the two reading assignments above, find a short TV episode from either Spongebob, Phinneas & Ferb, or Adventure Time. Watch the episode with your scripting group. Identify with you group, using yellow stickies (Mrs. L will provide) placed on the whiteboard the 8 plot points in the episode. Once you all agree that you have the plot points check in with Mrs. L for participation sign off.

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In your scripting group, you will watch this episode of Firefly, a Josh Whedon television program, a little over 10 yrs old, known for its interesting plots, excellent writing, and well developed characters. Please analyze the episode using this attached plot outline template. When complete, upload your plot outline for your group to this google drive folder. Please make sure all names are in the title of your document, (e.g., lee_stark_ingle.pdf) and save as a pdf to upload.