Lake Forest High School
Telecom- New Media Production
Advanced Class Comedy Project
Assignment: Create a Comedy project where everyone works together to write, shoot and direct an appropriately funny short that is understood by the audience. You can take a variety of approaches including ensemble cast based on real characters and experiences taken to a new creative level or utilizing the new Studio green screen for scripted pieces that include multiple different locations/people.
Due: An under 5 minute piece that can be edited by everyone involved. It can be shot with multiple cameras from a variety of perspectives or just a single camera with chroma key. It can be shot in a variety of locations.
Goal: Learn to work together in the studio or on location- defining roles and delivering on those created responsibilities. Each person is responsible for defining their position; creating their own expectations and rubric, which they will be assessed based on.
Pre- Production Process:
Wednesday November 11- Critique previous projects & introduce project Thursday November 12- Watch through examples and critique comedies
Friday November 13- Watch through Community and discuss ideas
Monday November 16- In-class each person pitches 2 different ideas/situations to the group
Tuesday November 17- pick an ideas and work on TPP, defining roles and written responsibilities for each person as part of TPP
Wednesday November 18- typed Topic/Pitch/Proposal and full Pitch to the 1st semester students and the Flip camera
Thursday November 19-- Organizing Production Schedule
Friday November 20- Scripting
Monday and Tuesday November 23-24- Finalizing of all Pre-Production including location pictures
Production Process:
Monday November 30- December 4= Production Week
Post- Production Process:
Monday December 7- Post-Production Editing
Tuesday December 8- Post- Production Editing
Wednesday December 9- ROUGH CUT with Mr. Douglass
Thursday December 10- Post- Production Editing
Friday December 11- Post- Production Editing
Monday December 14- Post Production editing
Tuesday December 15- Final Draft due by the end of the day
Wednesday December 16- ROUGH DRAFT peer critique
Thursday December 17- Post- Production Editing
BREAK
Monday January 4- Thursday January 7- Final editing
Friday January 8- FINAL PROJECT due to server and the web
Rubric-
Comedy Google Sites Critique 25 points
Job description/TPP- 25 points
Production Schedule 25 points
Scripting/Shot list 25 points
Pre-Production days in class 100 points
Rough Cut Critique 25 points
Rough Draft peer Critique 25 points
Final Draft for DVD or the web 100 points
Total 350 points