Pop Culture: Movie Trailer by Design Production Week!

This is it folks!  Trailers are due on Thursday and Friday!  We'll be having screenings in a location TBD.  (Hopefully it won't be Room F215 . . . )

Here's the rubric that is also in your Pop Culture OUT Google Drive folder in the Movie Trailers by Design subfolder.

Pop Culture Fall 2016: Trailers by Design Single Point Rubric

How might we design movie trailers that make audiences want to see the whole movie?

Creative Constraints:  

• Your prototype trailer must be for a film that has not been made
• Your prototype trailer may be an adaptation of an intellectual property that exists, but it cannot be an IP that has been made into a film before
• Your prototype trailer must have a run length of :30 to 2:00.  
• You must submit a written or recorded explanation of the intentions behind your prototype trailer.
• You must submit an Intention Map for your prototype trailer

Criteria	Evidence of Exceeding the Standard (clever, insightful, unique, powerful, creative, meaningful, professional)	What Meeting the Standard Looks Like	Evidence of Needs for Improvement (gaps, missing pieces or evidence, incomplete thoughts)
Movie Trailer Prototype (MEDIA)		I like how your trailer presents an effective solution to the identified problem.  I like how every aspect of your trailer seems purposeful. I like how your trailer seems to appeal to your users. I like how I only have to ask minimal questions to understand your solutions.
Design Process Documentation (MEDIA)		I like how your design documentation shows that you have identified a problem, considered the users needs, explored several solutions, and worked up a prototype. I like how you organized your photos/video/notes/sketches in a way that it is easy to see your thinking.
Written Explanations (WRITING) (OPTION A)		I like how your details are specific and make it clear to me what you intended with your prototype.  I like how well organized your writing appears and how it seems to show your voice.  I like how I get a strong sense of how your prototype will solve the problem.
Vocal Explanations (SPEAKING) (OPTION B)		I like how articulate your explanations come across because your details are specific and you make it clear to me what you intended with your prototype.  I like clearly you speak with a deliberate pace. I like how I get a strong sense of how your prototype will solve the problem.
Mechanics, Usage, Grammar, Spelling (MUGS)		I like how your work is nearly error free in terms of MUGS.  There may be one or two minor errors but you generally show control of your writing.
Timeliness (HABITS of WORK)		The final product is turned in within 24 hours of the agreed upon due date.

In addition to the written/recorded explanation of design and intention, you must complete this Intention map -- also in your Google Drive Pop Culture OUT folder.  This connects the dots between all of the empathy work you've done and the prototype trailer you create.

INTENTION MAP

Identify Three Key Pieces of Empathy Evidence that Helped You to Meet Your Users’ Needs

Empathy Evidence (Survey/ Interview Data screenshot, pic, or text)	Design Feature (pic, vid or description)	How did your empathy evidence inform your design feature and help you meet your users’ needs?	What changes might you make to this feature in a future iteration?

Your blog post for this week asks you to document your trailer design process.   Photos, screenshots, drawings, doodles, maps, plans, anything and everything.  Consider it a behind-the-scenes DVD/Blu-Ray extra feature.

SHOW YOUR WORK.

BLOG.  Document Your Movie Trailer by Design Process.  Photos, screenshots, drawings, doodles, maps, plans, anything and everything that shows the story of creating your trailer.  Explain your process as you document. You may prefer to post an audio or video recording of your explanation.

DUE. Friday. 12.2.16

DESIGN. MOVIE TRAILER BY DESIGN.  Complete your movie trailer.  Remember to check the rubric for expectations and creative constraints.  Remember to complete the written/recorded explanation of intentions as well as the intention map.  (See above in this post.  Graphic organizers and rubrics in your Pop Culture OUT folder on Google Drive.)

DUE. Thursday.12.1.16/Friday.12.2.16

 

Pop Culture: 10 Minutes to Film Festival & Making Movie Magic Happen Storyboards

10 MINUTES TO FILM FESTIVAL.

1. On the scrap paper you are given, you have 1 minute to make a list of things you enjoy.

2. Then you have 1 minute to make a list of causes  you care about (i.e. animal shelters, cancer research, volunteer firefighting, etc.)

3. Take 1 minute to make connections between the items in your list of things you enjoy and the list of causes you care about.

4. You then have 7 minutes to choose three films you would show in a film festival based on a theme of your choice based on your two lists above.

What's a film festival?  Take a look at any of these these examples:

http://www.sundance.org/pdf/film-guide/SFF14-FilmGuide.pdf

http://fantasticfest.com/

http://www.miff.org/

http://allsportslafilmfest.com/

http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.html

MAKING MOVIE MAGIC HAPPEN.

After recreating that scene to develop a sense of how it all “works” in a finished product, use your skills to tell the following story. Create a storyboard through still photography and turn it into a slideshow to place in your Pop Culture IN folders and share on your blogs.

Choose and recreate the camera angles to the best of your abilities from the following sources:

http://www.empireonline.com/features/film-studies-101-camera-shots-styles/p1

Great tool because it shows you examples from actual films

http://www.thestoryboardartist.com/Site/Film.html

Several great examples of storyboarding at work

OUT OF CLASS WORK.

BLOG Post 1: Top 100 Film Scene Recreation.

Post your scene recreation on your blog.

Compose a written, audio or video explanation of your scene recreation in which you discuss:

* The original scene and why you chose it

* Challenges you encountered and how you overcame them and/or how you failed to overcome them

* What you learned about the challenges of filmmaking through this creative exercise

BLOG Post 2: Making Movie Magic Happen.

Post the storyboard/film on your blog.

Compose a written, audio or video explanation of your storyboard in which you discuss:

*Your intentions behind each shot in your storyboard -- even if they are are not as successful as you would have liked them to be

* Challenges you encountered and how you overcame them and/or how you failed to overcome them

* What you learned about the challenges of filmmaking through this creative exercise

Pop Culture: Movie Mash Ups & Movie Magic

Last week . . . and then again today with the other crew . . . we Movie Mashed Up to start the day

1.  Take an index card.  Number 1 - 6 down the left edge.  Number 1 - 6 down the right edge.

2. Write down 12 movies you have seen.  Collaborate with people at your table if you are having trouble coming up with twelve.

3. Look to the projector wall.  I'll be using an online dice roller to help determine the mash up pairs.  The first roll is the title on the left edge, the second roll the title on the right edge, and those two must be mashed up to create a new film.  I'll roll for three pairs.

4. Use the rest of the space on the index card to doodle, sketchnote and work out the mash up title and a two sentence plot line for that mashed up film.

5.  Check your email for a link to the form to submit your mash up title and plot, as well as the two film titles that inspired it.

After the mash ups, you had time to work on your AFI Top 100 scene recreations.   Some folks used this time to turn in last minute/late/thank you for being so kind Mr. Ryder as to let us turn in work after the end of the quarter deadline was upon us work.   

Next class you will be filming/storyboarding a scene based on a shot sequence provided to you.  

This week.  Two blog posts.

OUT OF CLASS WORK.

BLOG Post 1: Top 100 Film Scene Recreation.

Post your scene recreation on your blog.

Compose a written, audio or video explanation of your scene recreation in which you discuss:

* The original scene and why you chose it

* Challenges you encountered and how you overcame them and/or how you failed to overcome them

* What you learned about the challenges of filmmaking through this creative exercise

BLOG Post 2: Making Movie Magic Happen.

Post the storyboard/film on your blog.

Compose a written, audio or video explanation of your storyboard in which you discuss:

*Your intentions behind each shot in your storyboard -- even if they are are not as successful as you would have liked them to be

* Challenges you encountered and how you overcame them and/or how you failed to overcome them

* What you learned about the challenges of filmmaking through this creative exercise

Pop Culture: Debates & Making Movie Magic Happen (Sorta)

This week in Pop Culture . . .

We'll start with our Rated R debates and a quick review of effective listening and speaking as well as note taking.

Remember that you must make two meaningful contributions to the discussion to meet the standard as well as demonstrate effective listening skills through notetaking/sketchnotes.   You may also backchannel https://todaysmeet.com/PopCultureRatedRDebate16  (Wow, I messed up that formatting.  Bah.  Who cares?  The link works.  USE IT.)



After we discuss the debate briefly,  we'll dive into the rest of our work for the week  (due on Friday & Monday -- respectively)

Making the Movie Magic Happen. (Sorta.)

Stage 1. After watching a couple of clips under Mr. Ryder’s tutelage, try your hand at storyboarding, directing and cinematography.

1. In groups of one, two or three, choose a film from the  AFI Top 100 - 10th Anniversary list that you have seen or at least sorta kinda “know.” (This list is due for an update in 2017.  I’m curious to see what happens  . . .)
2. Find a clip of a well-known scene from that film online.  They are out there.
3. Using either people or LEGO minifigs and either digital photography or sketching, recreate that scene shot-by-shot, angle-by-angle
4. As you are producing that recreation, think about the placement of the camera, the framing, the movement.  Do your best to create as honest a reproduction as possible.  The point?  To see if you can see filmmaking from a creator’s point of view and become more aware of how the filmmaker’s convince their audiences to see and think about the subject matter in a particular way.

Which takes us to Stage 2.

After recreating that scene to develop a sense of how it all “works” in a finished product, use your skills to tell the following story.

Choose and recreate the camera angles to the best of your abilities from the following sources:

http://www.empireonline.com/features/film-studies-101-camera-shots-styles/p1

Great tool because it shows you examples from actual films

http://www.lssc.edu/faculty/matthew_w_kennedy/Shared%20Documents/ENC%201101/Film%20Terms.pdf

Fantastic explanation of camera angles

http://www.thestoryboardartist.com/Site/Film.html

Several great examples of storyboarding at work

Stage 3. #ShowYourWork by Creating a Google Presentation, Prezi, or other slide deck to show how your team did.   

Due at the midpoint of next class for sharing and feedback. (I know we are doing a lot of slides lately -- it is because I want you to become supremely confident you can make engaging, effective visuals before you leave this class. It's my way of making the world a better place.) Embed your slide deck on your blog. Place the link or slideshow in your IN folder. Be sure to include all group members.

SHOW YOUR WORK.

BLOG. 2 Posts.
Making Movie Magic Happen Part I.
Making Movie Magic Happen I.
See Above.
DUE. Friday/Monday 11.4/11.7

ALL WORK FOR QUARTER 1.
DUE ASAP. LIKE. PRONTO. POST HASTE.
Send me emails when you update your folder/blog tracker.

Pop Culture: Making Movie Magic Happen (Sorta)

Pop Culture: Making Movie Magic Happen (Sorta.)

Making the Movie Magic Happen. (Sorta.)

Stage 1. After watching a couple of clips under Mr. Ryder’s tutelage, try your hand at storyboarding, directing and cinematography.

1. In groups of one, two or three, choose a film from the  AFI Top 100 - 10th Anniversary list that you have seen or at least sorta kinda “know.” (This list is due for an update in 2017.  I’m curious to see what happens  . . .)
2. Find a clip of a well-known scene from that film online.  They are out there.
3. Using either people or LEGO minifigs and either digital photography or sketching, recreate that scene shot-by-shot, angle-by-angle
4. As you are producing that recreation, think about the placement of the camera, the framing, the movement.  Do your best to create as honest a reproduction as possible.  The point?  To see if you can see filmmaking from a creator’s point of view and become more aware of how the filmmaker’s convince their audiences to see and think about the subject matter in a particular way.

Which takes us to Stage 2.

After recreating that scene to develop a sense of how it all “works” in a finished product, use your skills to tell the following story.

Choose and recreate the camera angles to the best of your abilities from the following sources:

http://www.empireonline.com/features/film-studies-101-camera-shots-styles/p1

Great tool because it shows you examples from actual films

http://www.lssc.edu/faculty/matthew_w_kennedy/Shared%20Documents/ENC%201101/Film%20Terms.pdf

Fantastic explanation of camera angles

http://www.thestoryboardartist.com/Site/Film.html

Several great examples of storyboarding at work

Stage 3. #ShowYourWork by Creating a Google Presentation, Prezi, or other slideshow to show how your team did.   

Due at the midpoint of next class for sharing and feedback. Place the link or slideshow in your IN folder. Be sure to include all group members.

SHOW YOUR WORK.

BLOG. Content Post #4.

Due. Next Class. May 12.2016

CREATING MOVIE MAGIC.

Due. Next Class. May 12.2016

Pop Culture: Pitching Trailers

Today, we hear from two pitch teams.

Each will do its best to convince me that they have the best idea for a film for which we should produce a trailer between now and next Thursday.

I shall raise my eyebrows.

As soon as I pick, we will dive into our DEEP design process.  It will be powerful fierce.

ASSESSMENTS.

Blog. 3+ Posts.
Curate.  2+ Pins.
Be Certain to Put Links to Your Blog Posts and Curations in the Proper Weeks on the Q4 Blog Tracker.  Also make sure you check the rubric for curation.  
Req'd Blog Post.  Discovery Phase for the Trailer.  Brainstorm.  Sketchnote. Storyboard  Get your ideas up there.   Show your work.
Due. Friday, May 22.

Music Culture Project.
Due. ASAP.

Social Media Project. (To Demo Understanding -- Even Though from Last Quarter)

Due. ASAP.