Whilst our blog is a way of sharing ideas and resources with you. You also need to record your exploration of film, your experiences of being a creative film maker and reflections on your learning.
This individual and personal record is called, ‘The Reflective Journal’.
This journal will be your course folder and you must spend approximately 2-3 hours every week maintaining it. Mr Gregson will be regularly checking (using the journal league) to make sure that it is being maintained and that you are completing posts on the following:
Production Roles (Practical Tasks)
- Research into techniques and production roles.
- Identifying your creative intentions.
- Uploading planning documents, drafts and completed exercises / films sequences.
- Reflecting on what you have learnt and how you wish to move forward
Exploring Film (Analysis Tasks)
- Uploading your analysis of the micro and macro aspects of films.
- The explorations of the contexts which surround the films you watch.
- Reflections on your work and how you wish to develop your understanding.
The platform you are going to use to record and publish your Reflective Journal is going to be Google Sites. Here is an example. Initially we would like you to follow this template, but as you progress through the course you may wish to personalise and restructure it.
Task 1:
Create a Google Site with the following main pages:
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Editor
- Sound Designer
- Screenwriter
- Exploring Film
For each task you will create a sub-page under one of these headings.
Task 2:
On the page of the five film roles please define what you think this role entails. You may do some basic (wiki) research, but the words must be your own. Do not copy and paste. At this stage I am more interested in what you think the role entails. I hope that this definition changes as your understanding and skills develop.
Task 3:
Create a new page under exploring film > film elements
- Embed your slide show on your favourite film and consider what macro features can be used to explain your pleasure of the film.
- Insert the image of your genre poster and explain which of the repertoire of elements feature in your design.
