This week you will be working in groups of 3. You will not be assessed on how good, bad or ugly the montage is, rather how you reflect and evaluate the process and the results.
You will have chosen a brief that will consist of either a proverb/word pair or a combination of the two as your source of inspiration to create a montage lasting no more than 40 – 60 seconds – that will convey the ideas, issues, themes, moods, emotions that are suggested within the brief.
Using your allocated Proverb/Word Pairs, you will create a storyboard. However, you decide to do this, you will have at least 20 shots for 40 seconds of film. Include:
- an image – stick people will do
- type of shot – LS, CU, Tilt, Pan etc
- description of facial expressions/action/object
POST IT NOTES – allow you to move shots around without re-drawing everything.
Additional Information:
- Remember to remind your actors of any specific costumes they might need and you and your partner need to organise props, locations around the school etc.
FILMING TIPS
Also here are some top tips about filming technique
- Use a Tripod.
- Film everything at least twice.
- Start the camera before the actors perform and don’t stop before they finish – 3,2,1 Action.
- Ensure the actors do not break continuity although with a montage a few rules can be broken.
- Experiment with movement (pan, tilt etc) but make sure you have the money static shots.
- Move the Camera and re-frame so take the shot from various different angles, distances to create visual interest and variety.
- Think about depth of field, rule of thirds and lead space (in front of where the actor is looking / walking).
- Remember the 180o rule although in a montage this is less important.
- Don’t forget your close-ups – reactions, important objects and significant events
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
It’s also a good opportunity to look at the assessment criteria relating to filming and ensure that you take those into account during your planning and filming. They are:
1. Holding a shot steady
2. Framing a shot
3. (Shooting a) variety of shot distances
You should do the following in the post:
- Outline the task and what you are learning (use the success criteria in red above)
- Embed the video
- Embed and link the storyboard as a pdf (scanned from Photocopier)
- x 3 bullet points of strengths
- x 3 bullet points of weaknesses
- Summarise what you have learnt about montage editing in preparation for your music video production. How could this approach to ‘narrative’ help with your own music video?