Sunday, November 29, 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Final Project: Narrative Option - Continuity Story
Narrative Option - Continuity Story
Option A involves one person with a clear task to accomplish. Your character needs to move through space to accomplish this task but obstacles get in the way and they try to overcome these complications. They either succeed or fail. The task, the environment, and the action should reveal character.
Option B involves creating a story, or a mystery, which involves one person chasing (or following) another. The dramatic/ narrative purpose of the chase needs to become clear at some point.
Whichever option you chose, your piece should be a complete dramatic unit with a simple but clear beginning (set up), middle (development) and end (resolution). You will be expected to maintain cinematic continuity. Emphasis is on moving character(s) through space, so you’ll need multiple locations. Take time to create interesting and appropriate frames for the action. You MUST utilize at least ONE looking/ POV/ reaction sequence.
*DUE Mon, Nov. 23rd - Pre-production deliverables for this option: brief description of your story, a list of locations, a list of characters/actors, and detailed storyboards.
Look at slides from Lecture 10 which will be helpful.
Pre-Production
Storyboards: p.107
- images follow the linear story of how your film will tell the story
- one panel = one shot
- indicate the scene/shot #, scale (LS, MS, etc), character and action in shot
- note key dialogue
- note how actor moves into/out of frame, or camera move within frame
Shooting Script (Lined Script): p. 101
-shows coverage needed in each scene
-camera angles, shot size, camera moves
-next step is to organize the order in which shots will be filmed, as well as the scenes
1- Mark each scene with a number
2- Mark the script, “lined script”
3- Length of vertical lines indicates the duration of the take
4- Some actions will be covered multiple times, called “ACTION OVERLAPPING”, shot in various shot sizes or moves. You can choose how to use it in editing.
5-Each new shot begins with a letter (a) (b), etc
Overhead diagrams: p. 104
-includes camera set-ups in order of shoot
-blocking for actors
-direction of actors’ movement
Shot List: Organize what you’re shooting by shooting day, location, set ups: p. 115
-YOU DON’T SHOOT IN SEQUENCE OF YOUR STORYBOARD (there are exceptions to the
rule, but 99.99% of the time, this is true!) -Organize your shots by priority 1) Location: time of day, exterior vs. interior 2) Shot size: shoot wide first to CU
Option A involves one person with a clear task to accomplish. Your character needs to move through space to accomplish this task but obstacles get in the way and they try to overcome these complications. They either succeed or fail. The task, the environment, and the action should reveal character.
Option B involves creating a story, or a mystery, which involves one person chasing (or following) another. The dramatic/ narrative purpose of the chase needs to become clear at some point.
Whichever option you chose, your piece should be a complete dramatic unit with a simple but clear beginning (set up), middle (development) and end (resolution). You will be expected to maintain cinematic continuity. Emphasis is on moving character(s) through space, so you’ll need multiple locations. Take time to create interesting and appropriate frames for the action. You MUST utilize at least ONE looking/ POV/ reaction sequence.
*DUE Mon, Nov. 23rd - Pre-production deliverables for this option: brief description of your story, a list of locations, a list of characters/actors, and detailed storyboards.
Look at slides from Lecture 10 which will be helpful.
Pre-Production
Storyboards: p.107
- images follow the linear story of how your film will tell the story
- one panel = one shot
- indicate the scene/shot #, scale (LS, MS, etc), character and action in shot
- note key dialogue
- note how actor moves into/out of frame, or camera move within frame
Shooting Script (Lined Script): p. 101
-shows coverage needed in each scene
-camera angles, shot size, camera moves
-next step is to organize the order in which shots will be filmed, as well as the scenes
1- Mark each scene with a number
2- Mark the script, “lined script”
3- Length of vertical lines indicates the duration of the take
4- Some actions will be covered multiple times, called “ACTION OVERLAPPING”, shot in various shot sizes or moves. You can choose how to use it in editing.
5-Each new shot begins with a letter (a) (b), etc
Overhead diagrams: p. 104
-includes camera set-ups in order of shoot
-blocking for actors
-direction of actors’ movement
Shot List: Organize what you’re shooting by shooting day, location, set ups: p. 115
-YOU DON’T SHOOT IN SEQUENCE OF YOUR STORYBOARD (there are exceptions to the
rule, but 99.99% of the time, this is true!) -Organize your shots by priority 1) Location: time of day, exterior vs. interior 2) Shot size: shoot wide first to CU
Final Project: Mini-Documentary Option
Hunter College, with its tens of thousands of students and thousands of staff members, is as big as a small town, and there are myriad activities that go into making it what it is. Pick an individual, group, faculty member, student or staff person who you think has something of interest to offer and create a documentary “portrait” of them. Your piece must involve at least one interview as well as other visual material that helps tell the story.
You should pre-interview, as we did with our audio profiles, and restrict yourself to 5 to 10 minutes of raw interview material. You will be working with our zoom recorders, with limited capabilities, so you will have to get close and pick a quiet location. Remember that visuals are more than just “B-roll,” and they should help tell the story on their own.
While not required, you can add additional info through narration or text cards. (No on-camera hosts please!) You will also need to create a main title, as well as “lower thirds” identifying the people you interview.
*DUE Mon, Nov. 23rd -Preproduction deliverables for this option: a one-page treatment, a list of interview questions and a shot list of the visuals you hope to film.
Look at slides from Lecture 10 which will be helpful.
Pre-Production
Tools - Treatment
Includes only what the viewer will see and hear as they watch the film (no background on the issue, camera angles, etc.)
Example from the sample film:
The film opens with an unusual angle of a ballet dancer as she moves her arms into second position, then third. The camera is at her waist level, and it moves with her. We see the concentration on her feet and feel the fluidity of her movements. Next, over a few shots of the same dancer putting on her toe shoes and fixing her hair, we hear her introduce herself. “My name Soltari Gomez and I’ m a professional contemporary Ballet dancer ...”

Tools: Shot list
Interview
Shots of Soltari dancing
LS, MS, CU
Shot from perspective of her body
Shots of Soltari getting dressed - various
Visuals from studio: books, out the window, boombox, signs on wall, other details.
LS Soltari walking down hallway after practice (from front and behind)
Shots of neighborhood where her studio is

Sync vs. Non-Sync Sound
Do not use camera microphone for dialogue! Must use zoom recorder and sync in editing
(will review next week)
Think creatively about how to minimize sync sound

Key Concepts
Documentary - definition Documentary elements
Visual Evidence
Observational Footage
Narration: first person, third person Sync vs. Non-sync Sound Treatment
Shot list
You should pre-interview, as we did with our audio profiles, and restrict yourself to 5 to 10 minutes of raw interview material. You will be working with our zoom recorders, with limited capabilities, so you will have to get close and pick a quiet location. Remember that visuals are more than just “B-roll,” and they should help tell the story on their own.
While not required, you can add additional info through narration or text cards. (No on-camera hosts please!) You will also need to create a main title, as well as “lower thirds” identifying the people you interview.
*DUE Mon, Nov. 23rd -Preproduction deliverables for this option: a one-page treatment, a list of interview questions and a shot list of the visuals you hope to film.
Look at slides from Lecture 10 which will be helpful.
Pre-Production
Tools - Treatment
Includes only what the viewer will see and hear as they watch the film (no background on the issue, camera angles, etc.)
Example from the sample film:
The film opens with an unusual angle of a ballet dancer as she moves her arms into second position, then third. The camera is at her waist level, and it moves with her. We see the concentration on her feet and feel the fluidity of her movements. Next, over a few shots of the same dancer putting on her toe shoes and fixing her hair, we hear her introduce herself. “My name Soltari Gomez and I’ m a professional contemporary Ballet dancer ...”

Tools: Shot list
Interview
Shots of Soltari dancing
LS, MS, CU
Shot from perspective of her body
Shots of Soltari getting dressed - various
Visuals from studio: books, out the window, boombox, signs on wall, other details.
LS Soltari walking down hallway after practice (from front and behind)
Shots of neighborhood where her studio is

Sync vs. Non-Sync Sound
Do not use camera microphone for dialogue! Must use zoom recorder and sync in editing
(will review next week)
Think creatively about how to minimize sync sound

Key Concepts
Documentary - definition Documentary elements
Visual Evidence
Observational Footage
Narration: first person, third person Sync vs. Non-sync Sound Treatment
Shot list
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Blog #4: Field Trip / Museum of the Moving Image
Fall 2015 – Nov. 25 Visit and Blogging Assignment
The Museum of the Moving Image is in Queens, on 35th Avenue at the corner of 36th Street in Astoria. See www.movingimage.us for more information.
There will be no lecture that day. Instead we will be going to the museum as a class. We will meet at the museum at 11:15 AM, and we have booked for a 60 minute tour with museum guides.
You are welcome to stay afterwards. Please give your lab instructors $6.50 cash ahead of time.
From Hunter, you take the 6 train to 59th Street(or walk down). Then take the M or R train to Steinway Street (do NOT take the N train). Use the 34th Avenue exit near the back end of train. Walk south along Steinway Street; turn right on 35 Avenue. Proceed three blocks to the Museum entrance just past 37th Street. Check www.movingimage.us for other options.
At the museum you will find exhibits and demonstrations relating to many aspects of media production. Your assignment is to go to the museum and, with your group, experience at least one of those demos, and report on your blog about that participation. In this blog you should make an effort to explain what you discovered about a specific aspect of media production, what you learned that you didn’t know before, in a way that might communicate to the non-initiated. How have the changes in moving image technology changed the way moving images are created, how they look, and how we experience them?
This blog is 250 words in length. NOTE: Attendance is required.
Given that this is the day before Thanksgiving, we realize some of you might not be able to attend. Please let you lab instructor know as we have already paid the museum for your ticket and we need to change the number of students attending so we don’t lose the money. If you can’t attend with the lcass, you will have to visit the museum on your own. You will not, however, get either a tour or a discount.
Blog is due in Lab 13.
The Museum of the Moving Image is in Queens, on 35th Avenue at the corner of 36th Street in Astoria. See www.movingimage.us for more information.
There will be no lecture that day. Instead we will be going to the museum as a class. We will meet at the museum at 11:15 AM, and we have booked for a 60 minute tour with museum guides.
You are welcome to stay afterwards. Please give your lab instructors $6.50 cash ahead of time.
From Hunter, you take the 6 train to 59th Street(or walk down). Then take the M or R train to Steinway Street (do NOT take the N train). Use the 34th Avenue exit near the back end of train. Walk south along Steinway Street; turn right on 35 Avenue. Proceed three blocks to the Museum entrance just past 37th Street. Check www.movingimage.us for other options.
At the museum you will find exhibits and demonstrations relating to many aspects of media production. Your assignment is to go to the museum and, with your group, experience at least one of those demos, and report on your blog about that participation. In this blog you should make an effort to explain what you discovered about a specific aspect of media production, what you learned that you didn’t know before, in a way that might communicate to the non-initiated. How have the changes in moving image technology changed the way moving images are created, how they look, and how we experience them?
This blog is 250 words in length. NOTE: Attendance is required.
Given that this is the day before Thanksgiving, we realize some of you might not be able to attend. Please let you lab instructor know as we have already paid the museum for your ticket and we need to change the number of students attending so we don’t lose the money. If you can’t attend with the lcass, you will have to visit the museum on your own. You will not, however, get either a tour or a discount.
Blog is due in Lab 13.
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Project 3: Continuity Storytelling / Mini-Documentary
PROJECT 3: CONTINUITY STORYTELLING / MINI-DOCUMENTARY
You have the option of doing either a MINI-DOCUMENTARY or a CONTINUITY STORY for your final project. You will work in groups of two and create one project together. Your film may not be longer than 3 minutes.
This is an assignment that includes video and audio, so if you will have to sync sound (dialogue or interview) you will have to use double system sound (we will go over this in lecture and lab). You may also use ambience recorded at your location, music, sound effects or narration.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Preproduction documents are due in Lab 11!
Final Project due in Lab 14 (or when your lab instructors tell you)
You will shoot during class time, but you should expect to do some editing on this project OUTSIDE of class time.
NARRATIVE OPTION: Choose A or B
Option A involves one person with a clear task to accomplish. Your character needs to move through space to accomplish this task but obstacles get in the way and they try to overcome these complications. They either succeed or fail. The task, the environment, and the action should reveal character.
Option B involves creating a story, or a mystery, which involves one person chasing (or following) another. The dramatic/ narrative purpose of the chase needs to become clear at some point.
Whichever option you chose, your piece should be a complete dramatic unit with a simple but clear beginning (set up), middle (development) and end (resolution). You will be expected to maintain cinematic continuity. Emphasis is on moving character(s) through space, so you’ll need multiple locations. Take time to create interesting and appropriate frames for the action. You MUST utilize at least ONE looking/ POV/ reaction sequence.
*Pre-production deliverables for this option: brief description of your story, a list of locations, a list of characters/actors, and detailed storyboards.
DOCUMENTARY OPTION
Hunter College, with its tens of thousands of students and thousands of staff members, is as big as a small town, and there are myriad activities that go into making it what it is. Pick an individual, group, faculty member, student or staff person who you think has something of interest to offer and create a documentary “portrait” of them. Your piece must involve at least one interview as well as other visual material that helps tell the story.
You have the option of doing either a MINI-DOCUMENTARY or a CONTINUITY STORY for your final project. You will work in groups of two and create one project together. Your film may not be longer than 3 minutes.
This is an assignment that includes video and audio, so if you will have to sync sound (dialogue or interview) you will have to use double system sound (we will go over this in lecture and lab). You may also use ambience recorded at your location, music, sound effects or narration.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Preproduction documents are due in Lab 11!
Final Project due in Lab 14 (or when your lab instructors tell you)
You will shoot during class time, but you should expect to do some editing on this project OUTSIDE of class time.
NARRATIVE OPTION: Choose A or B
Option A involves one person with a clear task to accomplish. Your character needs to move through space to accomplish this task but obstacles get in the way and they try to overcome these complications. They either succeed or fail. The task, the environment, and the action should reveal character.
Option B involves creating a story, or a mystery, which involves one person chasing (or following) another. The dramatic/ narrative purpose of the chase needs to become clear at some point.
Whichever option you chose, your piece should be a complete dramatic unit with a simple but clear beginning (set up), middle (development) and end (resolution). You will be expected to maintain cinematic continuity. Emphasis is on moving character(s) through space, so you’ll need multiple locations. Take time to create interesting and appropriate frames for the action. You MUST utilize at least ONE looking/ POV/ reaction sequence.
*Pre-production deliverables for this option: brief description of your story, a list of locations, a list of characters/actors, and detailed storyboards.
DOCUMENTARY OPTION
Hunter College, with its tens of thousands of students and thousands of staff members, is as big as a small town, and there are myriad activities that go into making it what it is. Pick an individual, group, faculty member, student or staff person who you think has something of interest to offer and create a documentary “portrait” of them. Your piece must involve at least one interview as well as other visual material that helps tell the story.
You should pre-interview, as we did with our audio profiles, and restrict yourself to 5 to 10
minutes of raw interview material. You will be working with our zoom recorders, with limited
capabilities, so you will have to get close and pick a quiet location. Remember that visuals are
more than just “B-roll,” and they should help tell the story on their own.
While not required, you can add additional info through narration or text cards. (No on-camera hosts please!) You will also need to create a main title, as well as “lower thirds” identifying the people you interview.
*Preproduction deliverables for this option: a one-page treatment, a list of interview questions and a shot list of the visuals you hope to film.
While not required, you can add additional info through narration or text cards. (No on-camera hosts please!) You will also need to create a main title, as well as “lower thirds” identifying the people you interview.
*Preproduction deliverables for this option: a one-page treatment, a list of interview questions and a shot list of the visuals you hope to film.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
BLOG POST #3: Relationships Between Shots
For this assignment, you will pick a section of linear media (any genre) and examine the way it is constructed. Pick an example where you think the editing has made a significant contribution to the storytelling and the feel of the piece. What is the relationship of the sounds to the images? Of the images to one another? How are the shots organized in terms of their content, composition, color, movement, etc.? What determines how long the shots are and what order they are placed in? It there a “right” place to cut or not to cut? Are the cuts seamless or obvious? Why?
You should choose a short piece of media (2-3 minutes) you can watch several times, so preferably it will be available online or on DVD. Providing a link within your blog to the media, or embedding a clip (if you are able to – analyzing a piece of media allows you to reproduce it under the Fair Use aspects of Copyright Law) would be great but is not required.
250 Words Due in Lab #10
(Should be posted on your blog by Monday, November 16th)
You should choose a short piece of media (2-3 minutes) you can watch several times, so preferably it will be available online or on DVD. Providing a link within your blog to the media, or embedding a clip (if you are able to – analyzing a piece of media allows you to reproduce it under the Fair Use aspects of Copyright Law) would be great but is not required.
250 Words Due in Lab #10
(Should be posted on your blog by Monday, November 16th)
Sunday, November 1, 2015
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