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STAGES OF PRODUCTION

Pre-Production

Production

Post Production

CREW ROLES

FILM CODES AND CONVENTIONS

What are they?

Describe how they are constructed.

The elements

PRACTICAL demonstration

Give them nerdist analysis and exemplars

Finish each with an example analysis they do!

SHOT SIZE

Inside Out

CAMERA ANGLE

CAMERA MOVEMENT

Fincher stealing your eyes

Camera activity (draw a camera movement from the hat - go and utilise this movement with dramatic purpose).

On return look at what they achieved then show them extreame examples below.

Children of Men

Gravity

The Revenant

Birdman

ART DIRECTION (mis en scene)

Grand Budapest Hotel

SOUND DESIGN

Foley 

Spielberg bomb

The Hurt Locker

Nolan shepherd tone

EDITING

Pacing?

Edgar Wright how to construct a scene.

Do some example scenes analysis

Analyse Gold segment from Buster Scruggs

Write your first memory. Focus in on your memory of senses. What can you see? Hear? Feel? Smell? Taste?

What emotions did you feel?

Write a short descriptive story about the most emotional thing that has happened to you?

It can be real or embellished!

You will share with the person next to you and they have to try and guess if you are telling the truth.

Sadness, Anger, Happiness, Suffering, Fear, Anxiety, Depression, Stress, Excitement, Loss, Elation, Humility, Pride, Envy,

  • Images: How gestures and facial expressions help the audience understand what is happening.

  • Music/Sound: What type of mood the music seems to set when it starts and stops. 

  • Words: What types of things people say and whether what they say helps further the story.

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