Deadlines

Just a brief reminder that your evaluation is due to be completed by the end of next week (24th April). All seven of your questions should be uploaded by then. However, during lessons next week you will be presenting your work, which I will video and which you can upload to your blogs. If you want, you could create a separate page for your evaluation.

You also need to make sure that high-quality versions of your final pieces are posted on your blog, clearly labeled as such, and in the same post (entitled "final piece"). You might even want to create a separate page to showcase your work. Again, this needs to be done by the end of next week.

I also need high-quality versions of your work, in digital form - this needs to be rendered and saved into the folder on the media server (finals/yourname). This also needs to be done by the end of the week.

Please make sure that you have rendered your video as a high quality mp4 using the 
following settings:

FORMAT: H.264
PRESET: HD720p 23.976

Rough Cuts

I've reviewed the rough cuts I've seen so far (Elleah, Laura and Toni) and heard from Becca. I still need to see work from Rhiann, Ben and Millie - please let me know if you've had any problems. Thanks!

Out of school (Tusday 9th December)

Well done those of you who have got your title sequence presentations uploaded. I will try to take a look at these on the train tomorrow (I am on a course in London). Those of you who have not managed to finish them, please do so. Your next step is to identify the genre in which you are working and to begin finding title sequences for movies in those genres. You may have to use Art of the Title initially, since you probably (still) don't have access to YouTube. I have posted an example on my blog of a reasonably structured approach, but missing the analysis.



You have just under two weeks to get 5-10 analyses on your blogs...

Interesting (if slightly lacking in analysis)

This is quite a detailed description of a title sequence, but there is very little analysis (of shots, angles, choices, representations, industry standards etc.) The format is good (lots of screengrabs) but the lack of detailed analysis limits its effects. You should aim for something which looks something like this, but contains a lot more depth

Analysis of a opening sequence – kiss kiss bang bang from conner3326

Out of school today (croak)

I am not in school today on account of still not being able to speak...  You should carry on with your research into title sequences. If you have any problems, please email me.

Lots of posts...

I have posted quite a few things today designed to help you set up your projects. Please consider them as you start your planning.

Foundation portfolio - main project