Thursday and Half Term

Today's lesson was focussed on developing your pitches for possible movies that you'd like to make for your coursework.

This coursework as you know is 50% of your overall mark and also should be the most fun you have during the AS course as long as you take it seriously and make sure that you work in a disciplined way.

1. Your first task which must be completed over the half term in your teams is to develop the synopsis of the film and write the script for the first two minutes.
2. Here is a link to a site which makes available published film screenplays.  If you download and use any don't forget to make a clear blogged note of what you did, how you found it useful etc.
3. Also in your development process you should be thinking about genre conventions, directors (who you admire and why - check them out on IMDB) and what detail needs to be in the script and what doesn't.
4. Start thinking about production: Dependent Films have lots of useful stuff for film makers from script templates to production schedules and call sheets (I will explain there uses next half term). Get familiar with what they offer it all adds to your grade!
5. Ash, Kyle, Loren: you all need to post your short synopses to your blogs ASAP for your group to access.
6. All others make sure you check your team 'leader's' blog regularly and if they haven't posted anything put some pressure on them.
7. Ensure that you have made contact and got each other's numbers and contact details. DON'T PUT NUMBERS ETC ON BLOG.

So for Thursday the 4th of November, I want to see each group have uploaded the following.

I will be expect each team to have:
Title of film and refined pitch (25 words)

1. Synopsis of film (250words), target audience.
2. 1st draft of script for opening.
3. Evidence of research into relevant genres: NOT LOTS OF WRITING PLEASE, find different ways.
4. Extension: storyboard, animatics, shot list, location photos, cast lists/photos, production schedule (without dates yet), design drawings, props/costume lists, equipment lists, risk assessment.

IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER.