Sam: Director, Sound Recorder, Sound Mixer & Composer
Tyler: Director, Cinematographer & Vision Editor
Liliana: Director, Cinematographer, Sound Mixer & Composer
Georgia: Director, Sound Recorder, Vision Editor
Harry: Director, Cinematographer, Sound Mixer & Composer
Molly: Director, Sound Recorder, Vision Editor
Levi: Director, Sound Recorder, Sound Mixer & Composer
Luke: Director, Cinematographer, Vision Editor
Let’s judge some films made by last year’s students and rank them in terms of how well they have created meaning through the three main production roles:
You will be given one role to assess and should watch all three videos and put them in rank order in terms of how well you think the students last year fulfilled their production role and used specific techniques to create meaning.
Meet with your peers who also focused on that production role and agree a ranking. Be prepared to justify your decisions with reference to specific examples from the three shorts.
Find some examples yourself…
Please view the production schedule here
Please complete this form to help me organise the production pairs for our shoot on Tuesday 17th November. Please only complete this form once.
You should spend time allowing the scene to play in your mind’s eye. As if you were watching it as a finished film.
You must allow the scene to play in your mind several times through and make notes about the details in your mind.
Use this document to visualise your scene in five stage.
Remember this must play out at The Mirus Battery and that your cast will a maximum of two people that come from within our class.
We will be filming during the day in dark concrete rooms and corridors. We will be using torches and light panels for lighting.
Here is the script to the opening sequence
Notice how economical it is?
Almost a bullet point list of what we can hear and what we can see…
Take a copy of this pre formatted screenplay
The rule of thumb is that each page of a screenplay equates to one minute of screen time.
Write the first page of your script, reveal the location, situation. Possibly introduce the character.
On November 9th at Candie Gardens the Film, Psychology & Sociology departments will be hold the second in our series of Cinema Stories.
The screening will followed by a panel discussion in the issues raised in the film.
Review your video essay about the nature and ‘rules’ of German Expressionism.
Identify 5 Golden Rules of German Expressionism in terms of representation of the monster and visual style.
Your task is to develop a visual / cinematic idea for your opening sequence and write the screenplay for it.
We will be working in groups later and deciding which screenplays will go forward into production. For now this is a solo exercise.
Here is the first page of a good example from a student screenplay.
The first step is developing some ideas for a scene. Here is a slideshow on ideas:
Sketch out the scene for your film use this document:
Today we are considering conventional features of a horror film
Trying to understand how German Expressionist cinematic techniques were the prototype for horror films.
We will watch Suckablood (BC Horror) in class and use this to consider how the cinematography, editing, sound and mise-en-scene are conventional.
Use a copy of this slide show to present your findings, these should be developed in your inquiry page for your horror film.