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Research type stuff

·         Key concept analysis (prompts on the blog hub)
·         Industry and Audience investigation (prompts on the blog hub)
·         Case study of a short filmmaker (do some research into someone who has made a short film or two)
·         Textual analysis of a short film (camera, editing, sound, mise en scene)
·         Target audience research
·         Target audience profile
·         Major influences  (collection of feature film extracts/short films/art/TV/visual media with discussion of how they might influence your production work).
·         Short film post analysis x2 (use key concepts)
·         Short film magazine article/review analysis x2

Planning/progress type stuff

·         Pitch (made up of treatment, genre/narrative research, target audience research, major influences and any sketches or drafts of key shots and film style).
·         Treatment (the whole idea written down)
·         Step outline (write down the narrative in shot by shot sections – prep for storyboard)
·         Location recce (photos of each location with notes on how they will be used)
·         Storyboard (digital photography – 20-30 panels)
·         Test shots – edited and colour-corrected to experiment with various looks/styles
·         Costume designs (can be photos/downloads)
·         Production schedule
·         Sound design – investigations into soundtracks and sound effects
·         Production notes and up-dates (if relevant – DON’T pad out your number blog posts by writing things like “we wanted to film today but couldn’t coz it was raining, lol”)
·         Paper edit – evidence of correctly logging and naming each clip.  (There will be NO list of clips which looks like this “Untitled clip 001, Untitled clip 002 etc”)
·         Editor’s journal – like the production up-dates, the editor should take occasion screen-shots of their progress and update the blog (for both in the group)
·         Article script
·         Poster photo-shoot
·         Poster drafts (sketches of what your poster will look like)
·         Article layout drafts (ditto)
·         Poster/Article production & post-production updates – EG screen-shots of your Photoshop and InDesign work.
·         LAST POST BEFORE EVALUATION SHOULD BE SHORT FILM FINAL CUT, FINISHED POSTER & FINISHED ARTICLE.