Portfolio

Reminder: Upload your American Story Project to youtube, post the youtube link on this spreadsheet today so that all teachers may have access to final movies for viewing/grading.
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Please use Google Sites to create a personal website for yourself. You will have today's class period as well as time next week to complete.

Click here for a tutorial

Your website should have at least:

1. Home page (About you, artist statement, areas of experience or expertise, software skills, other such as hobbies and interests). Could also include any awards or ways that you stand out from the crowd. 
2. Page that showcases work you have created, at least 2 movies (sourced from youtube) and 2 or more images. Images could be photographs, photoshop images, scanned images, artwork, etc.
3. Upload a recent resume to your website.
4. Include a section or area for recommendations (such as on Linkedin) from teachers, coaches, peers you have collaborated with, people you have been on teams with, etc).
5. A few examples of your work uploaded as pdf files, for example, this could be significant writing or analysis, math or other work that demonstrates proficiency at something or enjoyment.

Share a link with me when complete

Thank you.

Portfolio and Individual Goals

It is that time of the year to take stock in your work, this year, last year and also your Freshman year.

Respond to this blogspot with the following ideas:

1. Do you have a resume or bio you could include in a portfolio website?
2. Given that colleges normally look for 10-15 solid pieces of work in a portfolio, what media arts pieces have you created in MAP (or outside) would you feature (Make a list). Note what kind of files they are (are they images, movies, 2d, 3d or stop motion animation, photos, designs/logos/visuals, etc).
3. Write a short 1 paragraph (5-6 sentence) artist statement. An artist statement is a brief description of your goals, interests and achievements as an artist, and normally points to work in progress that support your interests. For example, you could say you are a filmmaker that enjoys working with fictional narrative and write about that. For now, this can be in draft format, and included in the blog.
4. Now that you have some ideas together, open Google drive. Look at the available apps and see 'google sites'. This week you will explore making a portfolio website using Google sites. 
5. Following your portfolio development, you will look at connecting to your portfolio using Linkedin.

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Start to think about your goals moving forward. Next week, when you have completed your portfolio and linked it to Linkedin, you will be given 2 final class weeks for planning your next media arts steps.  This will include making a short video note to next year's MAP teachers, and creating some possible outline ideas for summer media projects of your own ambition, and possible themes for next year's work.

Monday May 12th

Good Morning! Happy Monday.

Please write a blogspot response (in your comments field below, as normal) to the following question (individual response, 1 per person, this is not group response):

Reflect on the American Story project. Use at least 3 of the following reflective topics as a writing prompt:

1. How do you get from conception of an idea to a fully implemented quality movie? What are the steps along the way? What was successful for your? What improvements would you make if you had to do it again?
2. Like this year, this project has yielded extremely successful results in the past. What are the key ingredients in this project that draw student engagement, participation and desire to create a 'keeper' movie?
3. Regarding your project from this year, did you create what you would consider a 'keeper' film, something you would consider for a student portfolio? Why/why not? 
4. Is the American Story a unique story, or is it a shared story among all Americans and the world? As a writer/director of such work, who is your audience? Is it you and your friends? Is it Americans? Is it an age group within American society? Does your project extend interest to citizens of the world?
5. Why do the time honored traditions and industry standard tools such as script, shot sheet, storyboard, call sheet and schedules matter in the film, tv and video industries? What is the relationship between all of them? Why are they used? Are they all used for all productions?
6. Role play that you are directing your American Story project again, but this time, you are being paid by the hour to develop and deliver a product in a 3 week time-frame to air on a broadcast cable network. What are the first steps as a director you would do to prepare? How would you ensure success of the project?
7. If you are a student interested in applying to film school (any university), what have you learned from this American Story production experience that would be relevant to preparing a portfolio piece for application to a film program at a desirable university (this will require you to pinpoint a school, see what the 2013-14 admissions movie requirement was and use that as a starting point).
8. The most successful creative teams achieve what is called "Group Flow". This concept emerges from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's work around individual creative flow (Prof. at Claremont College, studies collaborative and creative behavior). We see group flow within the most highly successful creative environments such as Pixar, Dreamworks, Google and others. Flow is described below. After you read the description of 'flow', do you desire to work in teams in which Flow occurs? Do you desire to create spaces for yourself in which you experience creative flow? How can you create environments and relationships within members of your group to promote healthy group flow and creativity?

A particular state of heightened consciousness. He (Csikzzentmihalyi) discovered that extremely creative people are at their peak when they experience ‘a unified flowing from one moment to the next, in which we feel in control of our actions, and in which there is little distinction between self and environment; between stimulus and response; or between past, present, and future.’”

American Story Film Narrative

Lukas, Shayan, Komdean, Yosh
Parsa, Andrew, Samie
Alec, Saha, Maddy, Teddy, Alex, Addison, Noah
Maddy, Rebecca
Kate, Gonzalo, Maddy, Nate, Reilly (and Ryan who also created story panels for several groups)
Mihir, Sydney, Samir, Kevin
Tony, Trung

Tuesday, April 29th

Blogspot group questions for today:

1. Look at your schedule (Smartsheet or Excel). Are you on schedule or not? (y/n)
2. If you have fallen off schedule, why did that happen, can you get back on task, or not?
3. How complete is your project? (give some detail here through your schedule, what tasks are complete, what still needs to be done). Share an updated schedule with me today.
4. What tasks in the schedule will you prioritize for today and Thursday?
5. How will the members of your group know what they are doing today/Thursday?
6. Does everyone have access to the schedule?

Update Smartsheet or Excel, and reshare with me today for 10 participation points in time/project management.

Production Planning

Due 4/24 (end class) for the following Aeries points:

1. Final Script (most have turned this in, but include revisions, shared with shsmap2013@gmail.com 20pts
2. Shot Sheet 10 pts
3. Project Schedule (Excel or Smartsheets) 10pts
• Planning
• Script
• Shot Sheet
• Storyboard
• etc
• Production
• Casting
• Read through/rehearsals
• Production shoots
• Dailies viewing (view when material is available-do you need to reshoot???)
• Audio, selection of any newsreel or other footage
• Post-Production
• Editing
• Effects compositing
• Audio sweetening
• etc
4. Call Sheet (for extra credit) 10pts

Thursday-Team Preparation

Please take this survey. Thank-you!

Spend the rest of the class period in your groups planning for your project.

Short exit reflection will ask you to jot down concerns or areas you need support.

Thanks!