Client Based Project

Assignment: Work collaboratively with Writing for Mass Communications classes, or your own classmates, to create and develop an original video that will have a meaningful impact on your peers dealing with a community based issue.

Due: Take the ideas or research provided and develop a clear message for your specified peer audience, one that you will be able to effectively communicate in a short format from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. You will also need to create copyright free music soundtrack to help persuade your audience, so you don’t limit your impact.

Goal: You will get experience being a producer, working with other students to cultivate their ideas and vision into a memorable campaign. To understand the complexity, detail and communication needed to produce excellent storytelling while working with an idea that you didn’t develop or might not be interested in personally.

Pre- Production Process:

Monday March 2- Introduce project, recap what we learned from our last project and watch through last year’s project to get ideas

Tuesday March 3- Hear directly from the Client we will be working for, exchanging ideas and understanding the topic fully

Wednesday March 4- Discuss ideas in class

Thursday March 5- Develop full class Topic/Pitch/Proposal (s)

Friday March 6- Deliver Pitch/Proposal to Client at the beginning of class- refine proposal together during class

Monday March 9- Work on Script in class with Mass Comm Tuesday

March 10- Work on Script and Storyboard in class with Mass Comm

Wednesday March 11- Script and Storyboard due at the end of class emailed

Thursday March 12- Develop Production Schedule and plan out how you’re going to shoot it with Mass Comm class

Friday March 13- Finish up Pre- Production and possibly meet with the client for Green light

Production Process:

Monday March 16-20 Production Week

Post- Production Process:

Monday March 23- Editing

Tuesday March 24- Rough cut due for teacher critique Wednesday March 25- editing

Thursday March 27- Rough Draft Due for Client critique

Friday March 28- editing

Monday April 6- editing

Tuesday April 7- Final Draft Due to DVD/V drive by end of day

Wednesday April 8- Screen projects- what we learned

Rubric-

Topic/Pitch/Proposal— 25 points

Script and Storyboard-- 50 points

Production Schedule— 25 points

Production work in class— participation 75 points

Rough Cut teacher critique- 25 points

Rough Draft peer critique- 25 points

Final edit due on time-- 100 points

TOTAL PROJECT 300 Points