UCSC/FILM + DIGITAL MEDIA DEPARTMENT | |
FILM 170B• FUNDAMENTALS OF PRODUCTION | |
SPRING 2010 | |
ASSIGNMENT #1: CAMERA TEST: object, action, obstacle [groups of 4] | ||
5% [due Wed 4.7.10] | ||
This assignment is designed to:
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ASSIGNMENT #2: LONG TAKE [3:00 min. minimum; 5:00 min. maximum] | ||
20% [due Mon 4.19.10] | ||
Make a video that is one long shot. A shot begins when you start recording and ends when you stop. Think visually. Be expressive with your framing and camera movements. Make sure that your camera movements are motivated. Think about color and light and the space of the story, objects and/or people in the frame. Create a transformation/s over the duration of the shot, e.g. start in a dark space and end in a bright space, interior to exterior, CU to WS, one genre to another, one character to another, etc. How do the character's change over the course of the shot? Is there a conceptual shift or transformation. How does the shot begin and end? |
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ASSIGNMENT #3: BASED ON A TRUE STORY (NARRATIVE) [5:00 min. maximum] | ||
30% [due Mon 5.10.10] | ||
Script, shoot, and edit a short narrative piece that is based on a true story (yours or someone close to you). We will spend one day in class workshopping a piece of prose writing drawn from an actual memory that will inform and inspire your script. Remember that the more specific visual and aural detail you provide about characters, places, textures, sensations, light, objects, gestures, and sounds the more evocative and compelling your piece will be.
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1 PAGE TREATMENT FOR ASSIGNMENT #4 | ||
5% [due Mon 5.24.10] | ||
This piece of writing should include: a working title; a general description of the main themes and concepts; a description of story or events and character/s; a description and discussion of the visual style [discuss your reasons for your stylistic choices]; a description and discussion of the audio track, observational or personal? | ||
ASSIGNMENT #4: DOCUMENTARY; PORTRAIT, PROCESS, OR PLACE [5:00 min. maximum] | ||
30% [6.08.10] | ||
Shoot and edit a short nonfiction piece.
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