Search online for “Derek Jarman sketchbooks—in pictures: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/aug/25/derek-jarman-sketchbooks-in-pictures
Search online for “Drawings for a master: storyboards from the films of Alfred Hitchcock” http://oneperfectshotdb.com/news/drawings-for-a-master-storyboards-from-the-films-of-alfred-hitchcock/
Search online for “Todd Haynes Collects Images to Guide the Feel of His Films”
Suggested link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/movies/todd-haynes-collects-images-to-guide-the-feel-of-his-films.html
Search online for “Moleskine Detour: Inside Beloved Creative Icons’ Notebooks”
Suggested link: https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/12/06/moleskine-detour-book/
THE PORTFOLIO PAGES (Keep Reading) form part of the FILM PORTFOLIO (SL 40% HL 25%)
You should submit up to 3 pages of portfolio for each of the three film production roles you wish to submit. So 3×3, NINE…
NINE, count them…1, 2, 3…9? NINE! You should be begging for more than three pages per film role! The answer is ‘NO!’ Three is the limit!
The portfolio pages should include images and text and are a place for you to describe your learning in Film. They must show and explain a clear sense of your…
INQUIRY
ACTION
REFLECTION
THESE WILL BE MINED FROM YOU JOURNAL, THIS IS WHAT THE FILM JOURNAL IS FOR!
All the evidence is there, or should be. All you need to do is:
Choose your three favourite film production roles.
Make sure they are areas where you have lots of evidence to show from your journal.
Start lumping in your three pages all the:
Films you watched and studied - INFLUENCES
Sequences & shorts you analysed - INFLUENCES
Pre production work you did before you went shooting.
Photos of equipment you have been using - SUPPORTING VISUAL EVIDENCE
Screenshots from your edits (Premiere, Audition and perhaps After Effects) - SUPPORTING VISUAL EVIDENCE
Photos of you in action - SUPPORTING VISUAL EVIDENCE
Quotes from your Reflective Journal, especially the really good reflections when you talked about you problems and early struggles with the the technology, film process and craft…
Scripts you wrote
Feedback you received and reflected on.
and of course…
10. Screenshots from your films and experimental work, with some close commentary on the techniques you were using and the degree to which they fulfilled your initial creative intention, or, failing that, the degree to which it helped you learn more fully the significance of these creative film roles.
After that it’s about structure and shape, a sense of journey…
It’s about honestly and openly explaining what you have learnt in film. Try to show learning process, texts explored, essays read (or watched) and show that research leading to experimentation. Early successes and failures (where you learnt a lesson) and then onto the more advanced stuff and the creative freedom you were given. What did you do with it?
You should have to cull material or at least summarise the key learning points in early tasks so you can have more space to describe (using terms), give examples from your work (use images) and analysis of the meaning you intended.
We may have space in the last half term for you to take your own path and perhaps develop and advance even further your skills in your three favourite roles.
This is reel (get the pun). These pages are coursework and are as important as you edit of the reel, so in short… This will be your most pressing independent study task for Film Studies this half term and you should be spending 3 hours per week on it from now on!
For every single one of these tasks you must create a page in your Reflective Journal, which should be appear under the appropriate category.
Each of these pages should be structured under the same three headings:
Inquiry
At least one source (video essay, article, tutorial video, film sequence)
Must include a APA Reference
A Summary (in bullet points)
Your creative intention for the task.
Action
A Photo / Image of equipment you used, or…
… a screenshot of edit
A brief description about what you learnt using the kit / application
If you worked in a group the names of your partners and their roles.
Reflection
A YouTube Video of the finished product
A response to the following questions:
How did you (try to) make meaning or impact for a spectator?
What successes did you have in the project.
What difficulties did you encounter and how will you overcome those next time?
To what extent did you fulfil your creative intention?