January 2012
21 posts
Class Work - 27th Jan
Today we will look at the budget and researching how much it would cost to hier equipment and profesional to create our ad.
Again there is a template for this document of the department website. http://filmandmedia.weebly.com
Ensure you include your sources from your research at the bottom on the document.
Copyright Law
Here is a link to the full Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents
Here is a very useful summary of the act:
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law
Link to booking form for equipment →
Home Learning
Ensure you are in a position to start filming next week. This will entail completed preproduction, organising crew and actors and booking of equipment.
Due: 3rd Feb
http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk/homeworks/35688
Class Work - 24th Jan
Focus 1.
Create a ‘Tracking my progress’ page on your website
Ensure this page is hidden
Place a link to this page on your Home page
This page will allow you easy access and show whats needed to make progression, next steps and interim assessments
Focus 2.
Call Sheets - Production information for each day of a shoot. What information would you include?
Date/ Timings
Location/...
Home Learning
Ensure any work missing from the weebly is scanned and uploaded. Think about the presentation of your weebly how its best to display work either files downloads, issuu, slideshare, images, etc.
http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk/homeworks/35002
Due: 23rd Jan 12
Class Work - 20th Jan
Focus 1:
Create your own overhead diagram for each location you will be filming in.
Focus 2:
Scan and upload overhead diagram to your weebly.
Focus 3:
Ensure any work missing from the weebly is scanned and uploaded.
Home Learning
Complete anything outstanding from your location recce and upload on to your weebly pre production unit assessment page.
If this is already complete you can work on your overhead diagram.
Due: 20th Jan
http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk/homeworks/32727
Class Work - 13th Jan
Task 1:
Download the images you collected for your location recce.
Task 2:
Create your own location recce annotating images with possible problems/ hazards, camera, crew and equipment locations and shot information
http://filmandmedia.weebly.com/preproduction-templates.html
Task3:
Create your own overhead diagram, trying to use standard symbols and ensure its as clear as possible by using a...
Home Learning
http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk/homeworks/32470
1. Ensure Storyboard is scanned and uploaded online.
2. Finish off any outstanding work on gantt chart, requirements, script, shooting script and shot list.
Due: 20th Jan 12
Shooting Script
A shooting script contains both the shot list and script information. A breakdown of screen action and camera/shot information for each sequence in your ad.
This can be done by annotating the script with camera information or in our case copying and pasting the shot list data into the script breaking the script up shop by shot.
If you feel it would make the document easier to digest It may help...
Preproduction to be completed for project
Story Board
Proposal
Script
Shot List
Shooting Script
Risk Assessment
Location Recce
Over Head Diagram
Call Sheet
Budget
Requirements
Release Agreement
Location Release
Footage Log
Asset Log
EDL
Home Learning Task
Go to the location you plan to shoot your ad. Take photos of the general area, where you will place cameras and anything you feel you need to take into consideration.
Due: 13th Jan
http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk/homeworks/31684
Class Work - 6th Jan
Task 1:
Goto the Film and Media website and download the gantt chart and requirements template.
Task 2:
Create your own gantt chart ensuring all tasks are completed.
Task 3:
Create your own requirements doc, replacing the title bar with your production company logo.
Home Learning
Today I introduced a new tool for setting home learning tasks. On the right you will find a page ‘Home learning’ This will take you to page where you will be able to filter by teacher and class to find the homework set and it’s due date.
www.showmyhomework.co.uk/thomastallis
December 2011
1 post
Presentation
History of product/brand/company
Primary + Secondary research
Analysis of previous ads
Advertising strategies
Legislation
SWOT analysis
Target audience
Summary of Initial Ideas
Break down of proposed advert
Feasibility Study of your idea
Budget for your production
Story Board for your idea.
(this could be hard copy but should be scanned once complete)
November 2011
4 posts
Home Learning Task
Ensure that your popplet has the following and is embedded into your weebly.
Initial Ideas (at least 5)
Feasibility study (on at least 3)
Developed Idea(s)
A narrative for your chosen idea ensuring that it meets the brief.
Next lesson everyone needs to be in a position to story board their idea.
Remember these ideas are constantly evolving and changing so don’t worry if your not 100%...
Brief - Television Ad
With your chosen product create an advert suitable for television broadcast.
Establish what techniques you are using to sell the product.
Complete the appropriate pre production planning and paperwork. Including a production diary.
minimum of 1:30 minutes
maximum of 3:00 minutes
Class Work - 18th Nov
The first stage of meeting the brief will entail completing a proposal that the client will accept. This Proposal will contain the following:
Research/Background info on the company and brand
Initial Ideas
Developed Ideas
Break down on the proposed Idea (summary/walk through)
Storyboard of the proposed Idea
legal, ethical, regulatory issues
Your requirements
Viability + Constraints
Roles...
Class Work - 15th Nov
Feasibility Study:
Is my idea achievable, realistic, doable within the restrictions I have?
Here are the points you generated on the board:
Time
Budget
Skills
Equipment
Locations
Actors
Crew
Legal/ethical
Task:
Create a Poplet and generate 5 ideas for a ad based on your chosen product. Take 3 of these ideas and complete a feasibility study by asking yourself the above question.
October 2011
9 posts
Idea Generation
http://www.tdbspecialprojects.com/
Class work - 11th Oct
Creative Advertising carousel
6 stations set up with a different product and an advertising strategy card at each station.
Students move around the carousel in groups completing the following tasks Storyboard, concept sketches, jingle, series of taglines, character to market product, event to allow the expression of the advertising strategies on each card.
Class Work - 7th Oct
Looking back over your filming and subsequent editing how could you have organised yourselves better?
A storyborad is a standard way or organising and planning for any moving image, animation, motion graphic and interactive media.
Class Work - 30th Sept
Last lesson I introduced In/out points and different types of edits insert/overwrite. Using these continue your rough cut of your video then using the blade tool and dragging the ends of clips refine your edits.
Once this is done you can look at applying effects and transitions. I briefly covered chroma keying and this video will prompt your memory on how to do it. skip to...
Class work - 27th Sept
Today we will start to learn Final Cut Pro 7 the areas I hope to cover are:
Capturing (and formats DV - Anamorphic)
Importing
UI (user interface)
play controls
different types of edits (overwrite, insert, superimpose, replace)
3 point editing
Text
Mattes
Transitions
Effects (mainly chroma keying)
Here are some links that may assist you in finding out more about Final Cut Pro 7
...
Class Work - 23rd Sept
Today we will be filming your spoof news show that we started planning last lesson.
This short video should include on location filming and studio filming using blue screen.
I will be looking at use of camera techniques and shot types but not acting or narrative.
September 2011
7 posts
Class Work - 16th Sept
Task 1:
Complete a risk assessment for a studio and on location shoot using the Risk Grid to work out the appropriate risk level.
Task 2:
Putting together and using an A1E
Task 3:
Plan for a spoof news show using on location an studio filming involving and green/blue screen.
Class work - 15th Sept
Task: Production company logo
Using photoshop we will create a logo for our production company this will be used on all our paper work as a profesional header.
We will be looking at:
Composition
Colour Pallet
Laying
General tools
Effects
Masking
Blending modes
Layer effects
Class Work - 9th Sept
Hi All,
Welcome to the BTEC Media course and apologies for not being there on your first lesson.
Task 1:
Throughout the year we will be using blogs to document work and publishing final unit work on a website which will hold your complete portfolio of work to be assessed.
Tumblr is a free online blogging tool which allows you to create a simple blog and submit a variety of different posts from...