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Tuesday 27 November 2018
Extra help for Bladerunner question
Ridley Scott Homework
Exam question (just FYI): Compare how far your chosen films reflect the auteur signature features of their filmmakers. [40]
The exam question will ask you to take into account Ridley Scott's Bladerunner.
Watch the youtube clip above and - more importantly - read THIS essay. Make notes using this grid as a guide.
Quizlet cards HERE
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Generating Story Ideas - Independent Learning
A Creative Box.
Creating the spark that enables creating a story requires inspiration; creating a box of possible inspirations can help in developing the basis of an idea or story.
Completing this task provides a framework for the collection of a range of objects and materials that could provide that creative inspiration.
This can then be used in two ways; either by collecting all objects and ideas from a group to produce one larger box that anyone can select any ideas from. The second method is to create one smaller box per person that each individual can use as and when they need.
The objects and materials are:
• Two famous paintings that you like or admire.
• A local news story.
• A national news story.
• An international news story.
• A story about someone in your family from either the past or present.
• A dramatic story from you when you were younger.
• Lyrics from a favourite song.
• A strange object you’ve found or a photo of a strange object that someone else has found.
Of course, the possibilities here are endless and it’s encouraged to think of many other possible objects and materials.
With your ideas, mind-map some ideas. Explore and develop key ideas. Mix ideas up. When making notes, consider vital aspects of the film idea such as location, characters, conflicts and key moments.
You should return to class with your collection of objects and at least one developed idea for a possible story.
Use the 5W's to help develop your ideas fully.
Independent learning task. Deadline: Tuesday 4th of Dec
Monday 19 November 2018
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Story / Screenplay / Cinematography
Story - is what the director is trying to tell the audience. It is the plot. Well, almost. It is like saying "I was on way home from the office today and met a cop on the way. As we were talking, someone shot him. Being scared that they would kill the witness too, I shot off from the place instantly, and panicked my way home." (the plot could be, whether the guys who killed the cop, manage to catch the witness, or whatever.)
Screenplay - is how the director wants to tell the story, to the audience. It is how the story plays out - the scenes, their order and their style. What is revealed, and when? He can first show the guy panicking at his own doorstep, looking around, hiding, trembling as he slowly crawls his way inside. Then it gets into a flashback, and shows the shooting, and the guys chasing him, and how he manages to reach home safe, or otherwise.
Cinematography - is how the director wants to show the screenplay. It is about how the scenes play out - their shots, their lightings and their movements. It is about how the guy crawls, it is about how he looks around... it is every shot that is included that brings to the audience the emotion that is needed in that *moment* from that scene.
(note that I say the director wants because it is his ship at the end of the day. whatever the cinematographer brings to the table, is null and void if the director brushes it off.)
Let's take Memento.
Story - how a man, who has a certain memory issue, kills the man who killed his wife.
Screenplay - Let the man's present condition be shown, and then show what he had done, before coming here. And then before. And then before that. And so on.
Cinematography - Apart from just the camera, the lens, the angles used in every scene, the Black and White treatment here is an additional way to visually tell the story (this may have been the director's vision, but how this is executed, or brought into reality, into 'shots', is the cinematographer's imagination.)
Screenplay task - Legend
Watch the short scene from the beginning of Legend. Write (and the type) a minute and a half of the screenplay using the correct conventions.
Next, read the original screenplay and see how close yours is.
Elements of a screenplay.
The first formatting element is the scene heading – also dubbed the slug line. Screenplays written in the master scene format are broken into scenes not cuts. The scene headings are written in all caps, as well as INT or EXT for Interior or exterior. This is followed by the name of the location and a designation of day or night.
The next element is action. This should describe action that can be seen or heard. Sounds Effects that are important to the story but are heard off screen need to be in ALL-CAPS.
Next we have Character name. This has it’s own line in ALL caps. A character who is off screen or speaking in voiceover should be designated by O.S. or V.O.
Parentheticals provide context or instruction for the dialogue delivery. These should be used sparingly so as not to reduce the readability of the script.
Next, dialogue blocks are offset from everything else and centered on the page. Parallel dialogue (overlapping dialogue) is written in side-by-side blocks.
The final element is the scene transition. These should be used sparingly as well. Readability is key!
Tuesday 6 November 2018
Independent Study - Short Film Analysis
Now that you have watched all of the required short films, it is time to look back and recap over a few key points about their construction and reception.
Over the next 3 weeks during independent study time, you will complete a detailed analysis of each of the 5 films.
Use the SHORT FILM ANALYSIS helpsheet to allow you to structure your responses. Answer the 'Core questions' and 'Focus On Narrative' parts for each film.
Use at least 1 page for each film. Create a neat title and include still(s) from the film. Feel free to create these digitally, but more than anything, a deep analysis is what is required.
Deadline: Start of the lesson, Tuesday 27th Nov.
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