Tutorial Three

SCME 3004History of film style

schedule• 2:00-2:15 Roll call - Video Submission

• 2:15-2:30 Production 1 – Reflection: Your skills

• 2:30-2:45 Reflection: Your Reputation

• 2:45-3:00 Learning Outcomes: evaluation

• 2:45–3:00 Essay – aspects of analysis

• 3:00-3:30 Ways of making films change

• 3:30- 4:00 Ideas behind making films change

• 4:00–4:15 Relevance of film history

• 4:15-4:30 How to extend your Film making skills

Video submission- Video is .MPEG4- Sound is .MP3- 16X9 (1280×720)- 2D (not 3D)

- File on SD card. Bring to Tutorial 3 (Nov. ) if you need help converting to this file type

- Fill in cover sheet and hand-in SD card at the basement

- http://www.scs.cuhk.edu.hk/flinders/bca/SCME3004.htm Administration -> Cover sheet

Reflection – Your skills

“You’re only as good as your last job”

Three challenges confront the freelance professional :

1) Establishing one's reputation by consistently producing quality work; 2) Expanding one's skill base by getting more challenging projects3) Developing a network of personal contacts by initiating and maintaining

relationships.

- Did you learn various skills are just stick to what you already knew?

- Can you work with anybody or just with people like you?

- Are you flexible, or do other people have to do change to your way of doing?

Reflection - Your Reputation

“Building a reputation and developing a network evolve simultaneously. A reputation is established by performing quality work involving a variety of

circumstances and people. Each job requires a participant to secure another invitation to do a movie; thus, building and maintaining a reputation are

critical steps”. (C. Jones, 1996 p.65)

- Based on performance on this production who would you invite back to make another movie and who would you not? Why?

- Imagine you are a stranger observing the shoot. Would that stranger invite YOU back to the next job?

Learning Outcomes

LO1: display the ability to analyse and discuss, in oral and written forms, formal components of the cinema

LO2: demonstrate a more detailed understanding of the

possibilities involved in cinematography, staging, editing and sound design

LO3: have a more detailed historical understanding of the cinema

ESSAY - Aspects of analysis

1. Describing component parts and developing

vocabulary

2. How elements relate to each other, how they function together in the film

3. How films, and ideas about how to make them, change--film history

Ways of Making Films change

Colour as an intrinsic tool (1:38 – 2:37)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MdPJqEOU4

Mattes, green-screen & compositing (1:50 – 4:37, 14:36 – 17:15)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8aoUXjSfsI&feature=share

Ideas behind making films changeWhy we watch films: (1:27 – 3:27)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9KywJ9c3X4

Horror: (2:50 – 5:14) (11:45-13:50)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcAfzK4YPSI

Relevance of Film History

The Changing Format of Screenplays (0:21-9:20, 13:20-14:27)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5I3Tq9j29c

ReferencesImage – Peter Greenaway montagehttp://www.culturalclassic.it/html3/dettaglio_news.aspx?iddettaglio=2593&myband=47

Image - Graduate Qualitieshttp://www.tft.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/graduate-film-300-slider.jpg

Image – SD Card http://msy.com.au/default.jsp?category=80

Image - Assessmenthttp://www.rdpusa.com/page/2

Careers in project networks: The case of the film industryC Jones - 1996

Colour as an intrinsic tool / Horror / Mattes, green-screen & compositing / The Changing Format of Screenplays

FilmmakerIQ.com Why we watch filmsPen Densham – Youtube.com