tackling your evaluation

Deadline: Products - Wednesday at the latest - please see me if this is a problem.
Evaluation with planning redrafts: 19th January

Evaluation help document - link
Exemplar evaluation - link
Evaluation starter table - link

Creative Realisation In Design Template

Save this linked file and use it to construct your creative artefact.

Ask yourself - does my artefact:

1. Have photo's that are carefully composed and lit
2. Contain lots of examples of appropriate film language
3. Offer up a detailed micro analysis of frames
4. Link to my research in obvious ways

Planning Checklist

Please make sure that you submit the following in your red folder:

• Synopsis
• Written script in the right format
• Location recce
• Risk assessment
• Casting considerations
• Storyboard

Treatment

Use the following template to complete your treatment - note the treatment looks suspiciously like the 'Links to textual analysis document'

Key words and concepts to cover in your creative artefact

Mise en Scene

Setting: Time, Place, symbolic objects, colour coding, weather and tone, pathetic fallacy. Performance/Movement: Speech expressions, gestures, posture, behaviour, eye contact, proxemics, Costumes/Props: Dress code, uniform, colour, smart, militaristic, casual, formal, symbols, objects  .
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Lighting

Lighting: hard lighting, soft lighting, high-key lighting, low key lighting, three point lighting, natural, artificial, chiaroscuro, colour, mood, temperature, lighting focal point, back-lighting, narrow lighting, broad, reflections, gels, shadows Colours: colour palette, black and white, binary opposites, filters, mood, tone, style, ambience, temperature, environment.
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Cinematography 

Camera composition and  type of shot, Establishing, long shot, mid shot, POV, close up, extreme close up, cut in, cut away, eye line, character positioning and power, framing, height, fixed, non-fixed, lens style, focus, depth of field, open frame, closed frame, wide angle lens, anamorphic lens. Camera movement: crane, tilt, dolly, track left and right, pan, whip pan, speed of movement, motivated track, steadicam, handheld shot.
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Sound: 

Types of sound: Diegetic, non-diegetic, parallel, contrapuntal, silence, volume, tone, pitch, synchronous, asynchronous, sound motif, timbre, ambient sound track, heightened diegetic sound, wall of noise, crescendo, drone, pad, discordant sound, cacophony, euphony, major key, minor key. Dialogue, including accents, dialect, quantity of speech, hesitations, monologue, voice over, Musical accompaniment or theme: sound motif, theme, tempo, pace, rhythm, mood, emotion
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Editing: 

Transitions types: , Cut, cut to, jump cut, dissolve, wipe, fade, synchronised sound, split edit, parallel cut, eye line match, match cut, continuity, Editing Pace: shot duration, length of time between cuts, frequency of cuts, slow motion, rhythm. Post production effects: washes, desaturation, vignetting, slow motion, ramping, colourisation, black and white, colour balance. Special effects: CGI, matte shot, green screen,
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Scriptwriting basics

DSLR Camera Settings

Use this guide to help you set up the camera to achieve thin depth of field and to experiment with continuous shoot mode. Link

Risk Assessment Pro forma

Use this document to provide evidence for your risk assessments - link

Guardian Tips

Some top tips from the Guardian on how to approach writing

BBC Writers Room Advice

The BBC's writers room has to be one of the best online scriptwriting resources around - make sure that you use it:  Link

Click here for their Toolkit page - lots of interviews and advice on how to write and format your script properly Link

Writing a Synopsis Advice

Click here for some sound advice on how to approach your synopsis with some great templates to use too:

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Planning Documents

The creative realisation planning work should include:

• A synopsis
• Storyboard
• A written script for the non-filmed sequence
• A treatment
• A recce/location report
• Evidence of casting considerations
• A risk assessment

starting points

Use this document to help you construct some linked starting points for your work

Link

Pitches

Produce a 2 minute presentation using the following  slide headers:

Key conclusions (use last year's examples if stuck)

Character

Narrative

Stylistics
Theoretical approaches
Genre driven considerations

This is the start of your synopsis, and will be written up later as a word processed side of A4.