CP Studio Green Screen Comedy Project

Lake Forest High School

Telecom- New Media Production

CP Green Screen Comedy Project

Assignment: Create a Comedy project where you write, shoot and direct an appropriately funny short that uses the green screen. You can use a single actor or an improv group to showcase your creative concept in the studio setting.

Due: An under 2 minute piece that will make you laugh while you are editing it together. It can be shot with multiple cameras from a variety of perspectives or just a single camera using Final Cut Pro’s chroma key.

Goal: Learn to work well in the studio, using the lights and audio effectively. Taking a familiar concept or video and having fun with it both in shooting as well as in editing.

Pre- Production Process:

Tuesday October 5- introduce project check out YouTube examples

Wednesday October 6- Watch through examples and critique comedies

Thursday October 7- Discuss ideas and develop pitch/proposal

Friday October 8- Deliver Pitch/Proposal and edit it

Tuesday October 12- 15 Studio Production TA work

Monday October 18- Start Scripting in Zhura

Tuesday October 19- Scripting in Zhura

Wednesday October 20- Scripting in Zhura

Thursday October 21- Create Production Schedule

Friday October 22- Scripting in Zhura

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