Preliminary Task
· Does your film use continuity editing so that the sequence of events are clear and easily understood by the viewer?
· Have you followed the directions in the brief? (A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character. An exchange of dialogue occurs.)
· Have you used match-on-action?
· Can you explain what a match-on action involves?
· Have you used shot/reverse shot?
· Can you explain what shot/reverse shot involves?
· Did you observe the 180-degree rule?
· Can you explain the 180-degree rule?
· What role did you play in the making of the preliminary task? (e.g. filming, acting, editing, equipment organisation etc.)
· How would you assess your contribution to the group?
· What have you learned from the process of making your preliminary film?
Main task
Research
- Which existing films did you research?
- Why did you choose them?
- How did these films inform your planning?
- Did you analyse the films in terms of camerawork, mise-en-scene, editing and sound?
- Did you analyse the titles of the films?
- Did you consider the conventions of your three films?
- Did you research the role of a film distributor and production companies (institutions)?
- Did you find out which companies distributed your three influential films?
- Have you taken screenshots from the films to illustrate your analysis?
- Have you found out who distributed your films, researched those companies and found out what films they typically distribute?
- Did you use a focus group to give you feedback on your ideas and influential films?
- How did this help you?
- Did you consider the audience for each of your existing films and how they target their audience? (The films’ classifications may also be of use to you.)
- Have you used any other form of audience research, such as questionnaires and interviews?
Planning:
- Did you brainstorm your ideas?
- Did you create a pitch for your potential film?
- Have you stated your target audience and thought about how you will attract them? (A 'typical audience member' profile is a useful way of identifying audience clearly.)
- Have you drawn/photographed storyboards?
- Have you created a shot list?
- Have you created a shot schedule?
- Have you typed a script in the appropriate format?
- Have you planned your titles based on your textual analysis?
- Have you completed a location survey with photographs?
- Have you made an equipment list?
- Have you created a simple call sheet for your actors?
- Did you obtain permission to film in any public areas?
- Did you complete risk assessments for any potentially dangerous activities?
- Did you obtain parental consent for filming young children?
- What other logistical planning did you do? (e.g. budgets, equipment forms, travel etc.)
Construction:
- Are your shots steady? Did you use a tripod?
- Did you frame/compose your shots carefully?
- Have you used a variety of shot distances?
- Was the material you shot appropriate for the brief and the intended style/genre of your film?
- How did you pay attention to mise-en-scene? (e.g. lighting, objects, setting, costumes, performance etc.)
- How did you edit your film so that meaning is apparent to the viewer?
- Did you use any shot transitions other than standard cuts? If so, were they effective?
- Did you use any visual or audio effects? Were they successful?
- Were you happy with your use of sound (including dialogue) in your film?
- What music did you use and where did it come from?
- What titles did you use? How did you create them?
Evaluation:
- In what ways does your film use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of existing films, such as the ones you were influenced by?
- How does your film represent particular social groups?
- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
- Who would be the audience for your film?
- How did you attract/address your audience?
- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this project?
- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main task?
- How did you create the electronic evaluation for your film?
