Portrait of place Brief

SILENT MOVING IMAGE PROJECT – PORTRAIT OF PLACE

BRIEF

For this project you will be working in pairs.

The theme for your first project is the production of a ‘PORTRAIT OF PLACE'.

Your project will be shot during one day on an external study visit in Week 13.

Think about the various areas you might explore, and methods you might consider to achieve an interesting portrayal of a place. You can also think about individuals and characters within a place, their personality, world-view, inner thoughts and activities.

APPROACH

Design and shoot a 3-minute SILENT MOVING IMAGE portrait of place

Your portrait could be:

* an exploration of a physical place

* an exploration of a person/people within a place

* a fictional place or characters you have developed,

* a self-portrait within a place

You can use any style or approach to express the idea:

            *  Documentary

            *  Drama / Narrative

            *  Experimental / Poetic

Think carefully about the structure and content of your work. Keep your ideas focused and think about how much information you can realistically impart within the timeframe.

Shots and edits should be meaningful and given a considered visual treatment appropriate to the place or character(s) you are portraying, think about your audience, how will they interpret your ideas? Minimise your use of titles within the piece, however if you must include some titles/text please ensure that there is a strong creative rationale for doing so. Text should not be used as an easy replacement for sound.

The images should speak for themselves.

Think about the ‘mise-en-scene’ of your piece. How will you compose each frame of your film? What will you include in the frame?

PROJECT ITINERARY

Week 12 – Set Project Brief / Students to research, develop and plan ideas and research location using blog.

Week 13 – One day project shoot – Please ensure you bring planning documentation inc. storyboards, shot lists etc

Week 14 – Edit review and feedback – you should have a first edit of your project completed for tutor to give you feedback / Update Blog and receive feedback on this / Fill in self-mark sheet

Week 15 – Presentation and submission of completed Project, Self Assessment Mark Sheet, Research Blog URL

LOCATION

You will be shooting your projects in week 13 during a trip to the Peak District. You will need to:

• Meet at the train station at 9.45
• We will be travelling by train to Edale
• The train leaves at 10.14am
• Bring with you £7.50  to cover train fare
• Bring a packed lunch including a bottle of water
• Make sure you wear suitable clothing and footwear for walking and cold/wet weather
• Camera care is your responsibility you must look after and protect the camera and tripod you will be using as a pair at all times
• Refer to the Health & Safety information sheet

RESEARCH BLOG- SUBMIT WEEK 15

Throughout this semester you should have been keeping an Individual Research Blog.

Your research blog should include:

• reflection on your practice
• project and ideas development
• project planning e.g treatments, storyboards, shot-lists, camera and sound logs, edit planning and timelines, call sheets, schedules etc.
• analysis of films and sound works shown/played in class as well as in self directed time
• links and uploads of external sources and influences e.g. imagery, audio/moving image clips, exhibition information, uploaded post-production screen-grabs, analysis of materials on the reading list etc.
• any other materials, found or self-generated such as electronic copies of sketches, storyboards, own photography and audio/moving image clips, snippets of transcribed dialogue etc.

 

SELF ASSESSMENT MARK SHEET - SUBMIT WEEK 15

PRESENTATION – SUBMIT WEEK 15

Each pair of students will give a 2-minute critical presentation of their work.

You will be expected to introduce and present your finished work to your tutors in front of your group. We will expect you to give an explanation of what you aspired to achieve within the work, and critically analyse if this was achieved successfully. You should be able to look at your work and assess its strengths and weaknesses, highlight the creative and cultural influences that have influenced or inspired the work and pinpoint lessons learnt and technical skills acquired through making the work. To assist in this you should be aware of the importance that your research book has in this process and how it will contribute to easing your public explanation.

It is important that you can clearly describe your individual contribution to the finished work.

FORMAT

In Week 15 you will need to submit:

– x1 playable DVD (made in DVD Studio Pro or similar), PLUS

–       – x1 DVD with High Quality Quicktime file of finished project

Detailed information about the way you should format your work for presentation is available to download from the module Blackboard site along with technical notes.

SUBMISSION – SUBMIT WEEK 15

On the day you must bring along:–

Your Self Portrait Project DVD

Your Research Blog URL

Self Assessment Marksheet

ASSESSMENT – presented for assessment in Week 15  

Your tutors will assess your work and give you verbal feedback after your presentation.

Your peers will give you feedback on your project work.

Following the presentations, your project DVD of your presentation and your self-assessment mark sheet will be taken away for review by all the tutors teaching on the module, your tutor will then set up a feedback tutorial with you where they will give you verbal and written feedback on your work.

The marking criteria and assessment mark sheet for this project is available to download from the module Blackboard site.