AP Natural Sound Character Development Project

Lake Forest High School

Telecom- New Media Production

AP Natural Sound Character Development Project

Due: 2-5 minute natural sound based narrative piece which focuses on showing and telling someone’s story through their own words.

Assignment: Find someone in our community that is interesting, mysterious or someone who is passionate about their life. Help everyone else understand through natural sound and their unique story why they feel the way they do.

Goal: To learn how to develop a character primarily through audio and setting. Work beyond music, and other artificial means, to relate someone’s unique story to our school community.

Pre- Production Process:

Tuesday October 5- introduce project through examples

Wednesday October 6- Watch and critique examples, brainstorm ideas

Thursday October 7- Discuss ideas and develop pitch/proposal

Friday October 8- Deliver Topic/Pitch/Proposal and edit it

Tuesday October 12- 15 Studio Production TA work

Monday October 18- Create Script Outline in Digital Portfolio

Tuesday October 19- Work on Script Outline

Wednesday October 20- Create Production Schedule- locations

Thursday October 21- Continue to work on Script Outline

Friday October 22- Finalize Script Outline- production plan

Production Process:

Monday October 25-29 --Production Week

Post- Production Process:

Monday November 1- Post-Production Editing

Tuesday November 2- Post- Production Editing

Wednesday November 3- ROUGH CUT with Mr. Douglass

Monday November 8- Post Production editing

Tuesday November 9- Post Production editing

Wednesday November 10- ROUGH DRAFT peer critique

Thursday November 11- Post- Production Editing

Friday November 12- Post- Production Editing

Monday November 15- Final editing

Tuesday November 16- final editing

Wednesday November 17- FINAL PROJECT due to DMT folder critique in the DMT

Thursday November 18- Critique in class

Friday November 19- FINAL PROJECT due to server and the web, intro next project

Rubric-

Pitch/Proposal- 25 points

Production Schedule 25 points

Scripting 25 points

Pre-Production days in class 100 points

Rough Cut Critique 25 points

Rough Draft peer Critique 25 points

Class Critique in the DMT 25 points

Final Draft to lfhstele.com 100 points

Total 350 points