More on Video Contest…

Documentary Festival Entry Form(Anyone can join): http://www.doxafestival.ca/news/DOXA_2010_entryform.pdf

About the Racism. Stop It! National Video Competition (Teens only):  http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/multiculturalism/march21/contest.asp

About the Racism. Stop It! National Video Competition

The Documentary Project: Quick Intro to Copyright…

What is Copyright?

• Full Copyright is… Copyright Basics Video
  Full Copyright is monitored by the non-profit organization, Copyright Central Center.
  
• How about Canadian Copyright?  Canadian voices on Copyright law.
• Creative Commons – the Free Copyrighted material.

How can I …

• … learn the basic rules for using media in my creation?
  Checkout Henricostaffdev.org Blog on Copyright
• … search for Free materials from Creative Commons Material and Public Domain?
  Use the search engines in the Copy Left? page.
• … search and buy Full Copyrighted material?
  Search on Copyright Clearance Centre.  Check out whether Alpha has the permission.

I want to become a Copyright guru…
… then, check out Lawrence Lessig’s page, the Standford expert and professor on Copyright law. Lessig revolutionized copyright law by founding Creative commons, Creative Science, etc – the less restricted copyright organization.

http://henricostaffdev.org/copyright/

“Will Copyright Laws Stifle Creativity?” Check out Lessig’s talk.

hmm… I don’t like the Canadian Copyright Law…
… then, speak out.

The Documentary Project: Pre-production Plan

Click the link to obtain the DocumentaryPre-production Plan

Click the link to obtain the ProjectManagementPlan.

Digital Media Development 11/12: Presentation

1. Intro
2. Presentation
3. Journal Entry – Based on all the feedback on your video projects, how would you change your video? How would you plan your pre-production (storyboarding, scripting, location searching), production (filming) and postproduction (editing) stages for your next project?

Digital Media Design 11/12: Postproduction (Editing)

1. Introduction to Video Editing
2. (Optional) Introduction to Movie Maker
3. Movie Editing Time

Video Project Rubric to Evaluate Multimedia Projects

Digital Media Development 11/12: The Shooting Stage

Oct 14, 2009 Lesson

1. Intro:  Camera Work Video
2. The Project’s Filming Criteria:
   • Make sure you plan to include all the shots in this worksheet:  Film Project Camera Worksheet.
3. State your filming location.
4. Filming  (Need to be back by 9:50am)
5. Debrief

Digital Media Development 11/12: Preproduction

1. Video about Preproduction and Storyboard
2. The “Preproduction Assignment” assignment
   • Click on “Storyboard” for the required entries:  
   • Click on “shotlist” to get templates.
3. Work time
4. Wrap up + Journal

Digital Media Development: Film Project – Story Development

1. Submit your interview to Ms. Mak
2. Journal Entry: Based on your movie analysis, what are the key elements of a appealing movie/an episode of a series/a commercial?

3. Effective Storytelling:  (Quick Review)

• The Archetypes?  Hollywood Formula?
• The Plot Structure

4. From Scripting to Storyboarding:

• Sample Script: BeautyAndTheBeastScript_Sample vs. the real footage from DVD (Chapter 2 “Belle”):
  • How long is the script?
  • How many different scenes are there?
  • What type of “shots” (Close up, Long Shot, Medium Shot…)?
  • Movement of the characters?
  • How can you visualize the animated frames from script?
• What is Storyboarding?
  • Alternative YouTube Lesson:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yeI83fN6s
  • Example:  Deleted scene, “Prologue from Bedtime Story” from “Finding Nemo”.
  • More Examples:   http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddv6dtgc_114djjmgvhr&interval=10
  5. Work time

• 1)  Brainstorm an idea 2)  write a skeleton plot  3)  design the characters.     (Show it to Ms Mak before you begin the script & the storyboard)
• Write a skeleton script + Storyboarding (Plan for at least 4 scenes and 3 different shots per scene).
• The Video clip should be around 3 – 7 minutes.

Homework:

• Complete the script and the storyboard.

Book References: (Script/Character Design/ Storyboard Examples)

1. Beauty & the Beast Script – Second Draft, Linda Woolverton
2. The Making of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith by J.W. Rinzler
3. Terminator Salvation – The official movie companion by Tara Benett
4. Behind the Mask of Spider-man by Mark Cotta Vaz
5. The Annotated Godfather The Complete Screenplay
6. Batman Begins: The Official Movie Guide.
7. The DaVinci Code: Illustrated Screenplay

Digital Media Development: Film Project Intro

The Shape of Today’s Class

1. Interview Video Presentation (around 20 min)
2. Forming your Production Team (around 5 min)

• Form a 3 – 5 members production team.
• Submit your group member names to Ms. Mak (tcm1@sfu.ca).

3. Research on the Stages of Film Production (around 15 min)

• Research group will meet up and find out about the five stages of film production.

• Each group can add their findings in the corresponding research document below:

• 1. The Story Development Stage
  2. The Preproduction Stage
  3. The Production Stage
  4. The Postproduction Stage
  5. The Distribution Stage

• Research online, through the reference books or the articles listed in the Sept 26, 2009 Class Blog.

4. Report  your research to your Production Team (Around 10 min)

• Summarize the research into a summary report for the whole group (Use the report template or other format approved by Ms. Mak)
• Some of you will need to report to more than one group.

5. Short Film – Intro to Story Development  (Around 10 min)

• Play one of the following short films + Plot analysis exercise (As a class)

1. Fantasia 2000 (One of the symphony)
2. Wallace & Gromit (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave)
3. Finding Nemo (“Knick Knack”)
4. The Incredibles (“Jack Jack Attack” and “Boundin’”)
5. Toy Story 1 & 2 (“Tin Toy”, “Luxo Jr.”)
6. Monster, Inc (“For the Birds”, “Mike’s New Car”, “The Monster Inc. Company Play” and “For the Birds”)

6. Journal Entry: Do you think all of them are necessary for a film production?  Which stages will be sufficient for a low-budget home film production?

Homework:

• Analyze a video clip.  (Pick your personal favorite.  )
• Please email Ms. Mak @ tcm1@sfu.ca for video approval.
• You will be analyzing other aspects of the same clips, make sure you record or save your video clips so that you can watch it again.

Digital Media Project #2

Students, if you haven’t signed up for Project #2 (Interview-Who you are interviewing and who is in your group/roles each person is taking on)…please post a comment to this post or email me before Thursday this week.  Thanks.

Also, if you missed today’s class (Tuesday 9-29), please read The Early Years on the previous post and see me next class for the quiz.