UCSC/FILM + DIGITAL MEDIA DEPARTMENT | |
FILM 20P INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE | |
WINTER 2011 | |
Exercise 1: Alien Anthropologist/Show + Tell..............due week 3/Jan 21st.............. 5% | ||
One must die as a sighted person to be born again as a blind person and the opposite is equally true: one must die as a blind person to be born again as a seeing person.
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Exercise 2: Still Images in a Sequence—creating compositions..............due week 4/Jan 28th.............. 15% | ||
1. Working individually, shoot 36 pictures of a PLACE you know well. YOU WILL BE TURNING IN just [6] PHOTOGRAPHS, so try alternate compositions of the same subject.
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Exercise 3: Study of a Space.............. due week 5/Feb 4th .............. 5% | ||
Scout around for a space (either interior or exterior) that interests you, one that is convenient, visually compelling, accessible, empty of people at times, and reasonably well illuminated. Pick a space that is easily identified as a single, whole space. Try to find an environment that is offers a lot of possibilities for texture, contrast, color, and form. Think of production exercises as an opportunity to investigate interesting aspects of the surrounding area that you might otherwise not explore (in other words, please do not film your dorm room!).
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Exercise 4: Writing a Scene.............. due week 6/Feb 11th.............. 10% | ||
Write a 2-3 page TREATMENT for a short fictional film that takes place, at least partly, in the location you described in exercise 3. Use your imagination to invent characters or to invent fictional lives for people who you observed there. Shape your story so that it conforms to the needs of narrative---- conflict, exposition, etc. Re-read the 2 short stories: David Foster Wallace FOREVER OVERHEAD; A.M Holmes CHUNKY IN HEAT and pay attention to how cinematic they are. This is the proper prose style for the treatment. Do not write in a specialized language [screenplay, etc.] Give your story a significant ending. This is a WRITING assignment—drafts should be proofread for spelling and grammar!! Single spaced, no larger than 1" margins. |
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Exercise 5: Performance.............. due week 7/Feb 18th .............. 5% | ||
You will
be working in groups of [3]. Two of you will perform and one of you will
direct The process
is as follows:
A: Well |
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Exercise 6: Portrait/Image and Text ............. due week 8/Feb 25th .............. 10% | ||
Think about the documentary projects you have seen in class. What does it mean to make a portrait of a person? What is the relationship between the portrait-maker and the portrait subject, and how is this relationship manifest in the portrait? Define your stance towards directing your subject – are you trying to spontaneously capture your subject without intervention or are you creating images that are more staged? What can you convey about the essence of a person in just a few images and words?
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Exercise 7: iLife compilation project (picture w/sound).............. due March 10th.............. 25% | ||
With your images constructed and timed in imovie, export the timeline as a quicktime movie (titled, for example as, irene’s 20P project.mov). Remember to export out of imovie as 320x240. You may have built a rough soundtrack in imovie but you will be building another one in Garageband. When you import the quicktime movie (irene’s 20P project.mov) in to garageband, it will appear as a picture or video track.
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Final Exam.............. March 18th, 9am.............. 10% | ||
In class;
closed book; no notes Exam covers pertinent concepts and required readings |
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