Skyward Update

Hi Gang!
Lots of missing pieces for Walking. 

• If you have no walking video grade, you have everything I need to grade it. I just haven't completed that yet.
• If you have an "I" and half the points, you are probably missing the evaluation or you only completed some of the evaluation.
• The following people are good resources on correctly completing the evaluation:
• Summer
• Kiera
• Angel 
• Jazmine
• If you have a zero, you did not turn in the video and evaluation into the walking turn-in folder.

Don't panic! Everything can still be updated next week, but remember the other 2 videos!!!!!

Career Day Schedule

4th Hour-9:20-10:05
5th is next

Movie Trailers, Music Videos and Stop Motion Filming

Deadlines are updated on the right hand side of the blog and on the assignment calendar. Check them out! 

I will be grading the Walking Videos throughout the week.

Footage for the Horror, Comedy or Action film should be at school and being worked on. If you are not quite there, work on exercise #2. It is due this Friday.

We will writing our scripts for the 3rd film starting Wednesday. The 3rd film is due before the end of the term. Some people will have time for another film or several exercises.




Her Morning Elegance

The Bear and The Hare

Sledgehammer

Thursday and Friday

Things to Do:

• Refine the Horror/Comedy/Action script
• Work on the exercise #2 - visual special effect 
• Start your 2nd film
• Title
• Production Logo
• Credits
• Music selections in the D drive

Walking Wrap-up

Things to Do Today:

1. Render finished film
2. Export finished film
3. Complete the evaluation found on this page 
4. Update script (leave it in its current location)
5. Place the evaluation and video together in the turn-in folder in the google drive

Schedule of Things to Come

• Monday adding Color Correction to Walking film
• Wenesday exporting Walking so far for progress check grade
• Thursday work on Picture in Picture for Walking film
• Friday grading starts on all Horror/Comedy/Action rough draft scripts
• Weekend filming Horror/Comedy/Action
• Tuesday final export of Walking
• Wednesday H/C/A lab time

Where are we at?

• Scripts:
• Finalize Walking script
• Rough draft of genre film
• Videos:
• Walking
• footage
• sound effects (foley)
• production logo
• music
• room noise
• Picture in Picture
• title
• credits
• color correction
• evaluation (Google Drive)
• Exercise #1:
• Production logo designed using a tutorial
• leave as a title to use in other films
• create a short film:
• title
• production logo in action
• credits including the link to the tutorial

What's next?

• capture footage for Horror/Comedy/Action film
• update script
• complete exercise #2
• special effect to use in film
• Assemble film
• footage
• music
• sound effects (foley)
• room noise
• voice overs/actors speaking
• special effect
• title
• production logo
• credits

Walking Editing Continues

As a group we will watching the color correction tutorial and applying this to the Walking video. This should be used on any footage that seems to be dark or discolored.

Use the information from the audio workshop to add the following items to your Walking video:

• Foley
• Music
• Room Tone

Continue editing the Walking film. This week you should also be using the Picture in Picture tutorial on your own to add PIP into the Walking video.

The final grading of the Horror/Comedy/Action rough draft will start on Friday of this week. A complete rough draft is required to earn full credit for the resulting film.

Audio Workshop

Day 1 

• What is foley and why is it important?
• Why are voice overs used?

Day 2

• How to use a microphone
• Voice overs in action

Work on the script for the genre film. Email me if you are filming this weekend. Your script will be graded first.

Horror Comedy Action Scripts

• The new script must be shared with editing rights for Mrs. Rice. You can restrict other people people, if you so chose.
• It must be place in the turn -in folder for Horror Comedy Action Scripts. It will be reviewed for content approval. 
• If you are placing to begin filming this weekend, please email me. I will review those scripts first.

A 2 day audio workshop will take place Thursday and Friday of this week. There will be work time available on both days to continue writing your scripts.

Start thinking about the next project Comedy/Horror/Action.  If you get your script started you can start filming this weekend.  In other words, everyone will be filming outside of class from now on.  Think about the story, where is the location, who are your actors, what time of day, do you need to check out a camera?

Food for thought...


Themes or more specifically GENRES will help you decide the content of your next movie.

Genres in general...

genre 

A genre is a specific type of music, film, or writing. Your favorite literary genre might be science fiction, and your favorite film genre might be horror flicks about cheerleaders. Go figure.

In music, genre refers to musical style such as jazz, salsa or rock. In film or literature, the genre is determined by the subject, setting or plot of the story. When you are wandering around a book store, books are usually arranged by genre. Many genres, such as "mystery" or "fantasy," overlap in film and literature, while others, such as "romantic comedy" in film or "historical fiction" in books, are specific to one or the other.

Our choices...

Action-

Action (Disaster): Stories whose central struggle plays out mainly through a clash of physical forces.

Horror
Horror: Stories whose central struggle focuses on escaping from and eventually defeating a Monster (either human or non-human).

Comedy
Comedy: Stories whose central struggle causes hilarious results.