Storyboard Working Session and Crit

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Storyboard Working Session and Crit
Film Production and Appreciation

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Todays Agenda

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 1 Feedback
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 2 Milestone
• In Class Work
• Assignment 2 Milestone 2
• Action Items for Next Time

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Todays Agenda

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 1 Feedback
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 2 Milestone
• In Class Work
• Assignment 2 Milestone 2
• Action Items for Next Time

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Assignment 2 Milestone 1

• Required
• Paragraph with Plot Outline and Paragraph with
  Motivation
• Format txt, MS Word, or html
• Annotated Storyboard
• Format PDF, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, Adobe
  Photoshop, MS Word, or html
• Work and Role Distribution Table
• Format MS Excel (preferred), MS Word, or html
• Paragraph Answering One or More of the Questions
  For Thought
• Format txt, MS Word, or html
• Optional
• Production Plan
• Format txt, MS Word, MS Excel, or html

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Assignment 2 Movie Topics

• We would like you to produce a film that
  functions as a message or interpersonal
  communication in the broadest sense. Here are a
  few examples
• A Day In The Life Of to send home to ones
  parents
• Party Invitation
• Video Greeting Cards (e.g., Birthday or
  Valentines Day greetings)
• Meeting Summary
• Video Resume
• Personal Ad
• Learn processes how to register, how to get into
  a building
• Your final film should have a length between 230
  and 300 minutes. The length must not exceed 300
  minutes.

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Annotated Storyboard

• Small images of each shot
• Accompanied by information about
• Mise-en-scene
• Location, time of day, the set and props, the
  lighting, the staging of the action and actors,
  dialogue, and the narrative function of the shot
• Cinematographic properties
• Camera distance, height, angle, level, and
  possibly motion
• Duration of each shot

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Todays Agenda

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 1 Feedback
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 2 Milestone
• In Class Work
• Assignment 2 Milestone 2
• Action Items for Next Time

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Todays Agenda

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 1 Feedback
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 2 Milestone
• In Class Work
• Assignment 2 Milestone 2
• Action Items for Next Time

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Assignment 2 Milestone 2

• Required
• Rough Edit
• Shots trimmed and edited in order but without
  final soundtrack, special effects, titles, or
  credits
• Format MPEG
• Paragraph Answering One or More of the Questions
  For Thought
• Format txt, MS Word, or html

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Todays Agenda

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 1 Feedback
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 2 Milestone
• In Class Work
• Assignment 2 Milestone 2
• Action Items for Next Time

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Readings for Next Time

• Wednesday 03/05 Theory and History of
  Computation
• Required
• Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Understanding
  Computers and Cognition A New Foundation for
  Design. Ablex Publication Corp., Norword, New
  Jersey, 1986 pp. 83-92.
• Georges Ifrah. The Universal History of
  Computing From the Abacus to the Quantum
  Computer. New York John Wiley, 2001 pp.
  272-295.
• HIGHLY Recommended
• Danny Hillis. The Pattern on the Stone The
  Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Perseus
  Books, New York, 1999 pp. vii-59.