Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor & Lecturer
Karen Pearlman
Contact via karen.pearlman@mq.edu.au
Y3A-189H
Tuesdays 1:15pm by appointment
intensive lecturer
Iqbal Barkat
Contact via email
Y3A
technical director/professional staff
Marcus Eckermann
Contact via email
Y3A
by appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
15cp at 100 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit extends and consolidates previous studies and production skills related to visual style, cinematography and editing in the moving image. It introduces students to the fundamentals of fiction directing, production design and film sound recording techniques. This unit provides students with the opportunity to consolidate their creative, conceptual, and technical abilities through creative exercises, research and development, and the collaborative production of screen projects.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Late Submissions - Guidelines
Tasks 10% or less. No extensions will be granted. Students who have not submitted the task prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task, except for cases in which an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Tasks above 10%. No extensions will be granted. Students who submit late work without an extension will receive a 10% per day penalty. This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Communicating Screen Ideas | 10% | No | Week 1, 04 August, Midnight |
Creative Collaboration Site | 40% | No | wks 4, 6 & end of break |
Major Screen Production | 40% | No | 07 November, 2017 |
Intensive Week Participation | 10% | No | 19, 20, 21, 22 Sept, 2017 |
Due: Week 1, 04 August, Midnight
Weighting: 10%
TASK 1. Communicating Screen Ideas
Come up with an idea for a short (up to 5 minute) fictional, poetic or hybrid film. Convey your idea through text, image and sound organised into a powerpoint presentation with at least the following slides, plus any others you consider necessary (maximum 15)
1. Title, Form (short fiction or hybrid or web-series) Genre & Theme
2. Synopsis, including Central Problem, Issue, Conflict or Circumstance that will give rise to onscreen events, action or drama**
3. One or Two key characters, who they are, where they stand in relation to the central problem
4. A couple of key plot points– what will occur in this story?
5. Visual Style – what might the film look like in terms of tone, period, colours, textures, light, angles or other visual aspects? Do some research and use reference images to give indications of the look you are aiming for
6. Aural Style - what might the film sound like in terms of tone, period, perspective, textures, or other aural aspects? Do some research and use reference sounds to give indications of the sound world (not just music!) you are aiming for
7. Time – what is the pace or temporal dynamic of the film? Do things move quickly? slowly? dreamily? suddenly? some other way? Is there a time structure? (eg. Flashbacks or a deadline)
8. Reflection on where you need collaborative input to develop and realise this idea
9. What fascinates you about it - why you care, why we should
You can, and should, embed brief clips, or images and/or sounds into your slides – make the presentation look and feel appropriate to convey the visual/aural impression you would like the production to create.
**If you did reasonably well in MAS 202 you are warmly encouraged to submit the screen idea you developed in that unit, plus your first draft script for this task. Synopses developed in that unit can be used verbatim for slide number two!
Submission: Post this powerpoint to ilearn as a pdf with links to clips, if any. It will be reviewed by lecturers before class in week 2. If selected to pitch in week 2 you must bring the powerpoint with you and use it to pitch in-class. (no 'pages' or 'keynote' submissions please)
Assessment Criteria:
Feedback: General comment, rubric and in-text comments attached to assignments marked in GradeMark.
Late Submissions: No extensions will be granted. Students who have not submitted the task prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task, except for cases in which an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Due: wks 4, 6 & end of break
Weighting: 40%
CREATIVE COLLABORATION SITE
Individually you will make a series of contributions to a shared a Creative Collaboration Site for your major project. The contributions are:
1. Creative Role Research Video Essay
Make a 4-minute (maximum) video essay consolidating and communicating your independent research into your crew role this semester. Use images, sounds, quotes and clips to describe the key creative actions of your role. Include expert insights drawn from your research into the creative responsibilities and opportunities of the role. The video must be no more than 4 minutes long and must:
Due on creative collaboration site on Sunday at the end of week 4
Curate a collection of at least 5 images, sounds, juxtaposition, quotes and/or video sequences that could inform the cinematic execution of the idea you are working on with your team. Annotate your collection with the following information:
Due on Creative Collaboration Site on Sunday at the end of week 6
An onscreen draft is a no budget version of your whole production shot on your phone or whatever camera you have handy and cut on your editor’s laptop with whatever software they like. Crew or friends perform as cast, locations are irrelevant, it is best done 'script in hand'. The point is to put the whole draft of the script onscreen and then to grapple with the questions and problems it raises by writing another draft of the script and revising your production plans. Here is a video with more explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02JF19lJ29M
Also due with onscreen draft are the following production documents:
Due on Creative Collaboration Site on Sunday at the end the mid-semester break
Submission: For submission of these tasks, PRODUCERS will create a wordpress site for their projects, and email a link to those sites to the lecturer (Karen.Pearlman@mq.edu.au) by the end of week 2. Upload your video essay, your curated references collection and your production documents labelled with your name and date of submission to the wordpress site. Look at each other’s work and comment on it. You are the teachers here, use your research productively to develop a team with a common understanding of your roles and production.
Assessment Criteria:
Feedback: General comment & rubric - marked in GradeMark.
Late Submissions: No extensions will be granted. Students who submit late work without an extension will receive a 10% per day penalty. This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Due: 07 November, 2017
Weighting: 40%
MAJOR SCREEN PRODUCTION
From the 'pitch' presentations completed in Week 2, a number of projects will be selected to go into production. A student whose pitch was selected will be designated as ‘director’. Students will then choose from the following crew roles: Producer, Development Producer/1st AD, Director of Photography, Sound Recordist/Designer, Editor, and Production Designer. Once teams have been selected, students will collaborate on the development of their screen works during the pre-production phase in readiness for going into production. Students independently organise regular production meetings and also schedule two production meetings with their lecturer - one before the intensive and one during the intensive.
Over the course of the semester you will work collaboratively and individually to research, develop, plan, execute and present to the world a short (up to 5 minute) film or web-series of, for example 3 x 2 minute episodes. Your work on this production will be experiential learning, problem solving and application of theory to practice, and you will be individually assessed for your contribution. Everyone in all roles will be expected to help identify the themes, ideas and perspective on the work and come up with ideas and examples for how these can be communicated in a short media production. You will use your research and analyses of techniques and devices in screen media to support the process of making decisions about your contribution and executing those decisions effectively. Your collaboration skills will be developed through this process, in particular your effective communication with others, your reliable, timely and thorough execution of tasks you are allocated, and your creative contribution to enhancing, supporting and realising the intentions of the project originators. As you work on this project you will be expected to draw on knowledge from MAS212, MAS202 and if you have taken it, MAS205, and to synthesise concepts into your practice, your communications with others, and your reflections on your own work.
Each team is responsible for providing a full set of production documents including, for example; schedules, call sheets, location agreements, music release forms and performer release forms. All release forms must also be scanned and sent to the unit convenor.
Each student involved in the production group will receive an individual mark for their work in the role they performed in the overall finished production.
Submission:
Submit your final screen production by working with the technical director, Mr Marcus Eckermann to finalise and output the media
Producers: Scan and submit release forms directly to the lecturer: Karen.Pearlman@mq.edu.au
Assessment Criteria:
Your work-in-progress screen productions will be viewed in workshops in weeks 10 and 11. Full attendance is expected for feedback and development of the productions.
Feedback: Comments from the unit convenor in the forum discussions and unit activities, Interactions with peers in workshops, production meetings and processes, and formal comments and rubric will be used in final assessment process.
Late Submissions: No extensions will be granted. Students who submit late work without an extension will receive a 10% per day penalty. This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for Disruption to Studies is made and approved.
Due: 19, 20, 21, 22 Sept, 2017
Weighting: 10%
The intensive week is designed to emulate the intensity and focus required in professional production processes. The strength of your own energy, curiosity, commitment, willingness to try new things and support for others who are trying new things will directly contribute to your achievement of the learning outcomes.
Submission:
Your attendance and participation in each day of the Intensive will be noted and assessed individually against the criteria listed below.
Assessment Criteria:
Active participation is assessed by a student’s engagement in activities such as: discussions facilitated by the lecturer/tutor, contributions to online discussion forums, or general questions asked during lectures or tutorials and involvement in set activities. Participation is expected to be well considered and relevant to the unit of study.
MAS 213 will be delivered through:
Practical Tutorials
Online Lectures & Exercises
Intensive Week
Creative Production
Resources on iLearn https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/
Recommended Readings
Affron, C. & Affron, M.J., 1995. Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film Narrative, Rutgers University Press
Block, B.A., 2008. The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media, Taylor & Francis.
Brophy, P. ed., 2000. Cinesonic: Cinema and the Sound of Music, Australian Film Television & Radio School.
Eisenstein, S., 1949. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, Harcourt, Brace.
Irving, D.K. & Rea, P.W., 2013. Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, CRC Press.
McPherson, K., 2006. Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen, Taylor & Francis.
Millard, K., 2014. Screenwriting in a Digital Era, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Olson, R.L., 1999. Art Direction for Film and Video, Focal Press.
Pearlman, K., 2013. Editing and the Vulcan Mind Meld. Lumina, 1(11).
Pearlman, K., 2015. Editing Thinking and Onscreen Drafting. Cutting Rhythms, Intuitive Film Editing. Focal Press.
Proferes, N., 2012. Film Directing Fundamentals: See Your Film Before Shooting, Taylor & Francis.
Rabiger, M., 2006. Developing Story Ideas, Volume 10, Focal Press.
Sijll, J. Van, 2005. Cinematic Storytelling, Michael Wiese Productions.
Spiegel, E., 2002. The Innocence of the Eye: A Filmmaker’s Guide, Silman-James Press.
Weston, J., 1996. Directing Actors, Michael Wiese Productions.
All the above texts are available at the Macquarie University Library.
Students are expected to login in to ilearn every week for updates, online lectures, resources and additional information on assignments.
WEEK |
Topics & Activities visit ilearn every week for updates, online lectures, resources and additional information on assignments. |
Resources See iLearn for week by week online resources |
Week 1 |
INTRODUCTION - Introduction to the unit. PITCHING EFFECTIVELY IDEAS & THEMES - in short screen productions
POWER POINT PITCH DUE AT END OF WEEK ONE (Friday Midnight) Independently organised production meetings |
Recommended Readings for: IDEAS/THEMES/PITCHING Rabiger, Michael, Developing Story Ideas, Focal Press, Boston, 2000 McPherson, K., 2006. Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen, Taylor & Francis. Online http://www.slideshare.net/LAMP_AFTRS/the-art-of-the-pitch-jackie-turnure-presentation
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Week 2 |
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATION CURATING CREATIVE REFERENCES Selected pitches to the whole class using power point presentations, voting and crewing, outline of production process, intro to wordpress site task Creative Collaboration Site: WordPress site Site set up due Sunday Midnight Independently organised production meetings |
Recommended readings - these are available electronically through the MQ library or through the links provided Task guide: http://learn.wordpress.com/ Pearlman, K., 2013. Editing and the Vulcan Mind Meld. Lumina, 1(11) http://www.aftrs.edu.au/media/books/lumina/lumina11c-ch6-1/index.html Millard, K. (2014). Screenwriting in a Digital Era (p. 248). Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. CH 9, Writing the Possible |
Week 3 |
No practicals this week. Independent research and production of Creative Role Research Video Essay
Independently organised production meetings |
Recommended Reading, available in the MQ library: Proferes, N. (2012). Film Directing Fundamentals: See Your Film Before Shooting (p. 296). Taylor & Francis. Ch2 Introduction to the Dramatic Elements Embedded in a Screenplay Weston, J. (1996). Directing Actors (p. 300). Michael Wiese Productions. Ch1: Result Direction and Quick Fixes Irving, D.K. & Rea, P.W., 2013. Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, CRC Press. |
Week 4 |
No practicals this week. Independent research and production of Creative Role Research Video Essay Creative Role Research Video Essay due on Creative Collaboration Site on Sunday at Midnight
Independently organised production meetings |
Online Video Lectures TONE & MOVEMENT – EDITING & SOUND STYLES - these will be found on ilearn Examples of readings on specific roles in screen production. These are in the MQ library along with many others that will be useful for your video essay independent research Brophy, P. ed., 2000. Cinesonic: Cinema and the Sound of Music, Australian Film Television & Radio School. Pearlman, K., 2009. Cutting Rhythms, Shaping the Film Edit 1st ed., Focal Press. Spiegel, E. (2002). The Innocence of the Eye: A Filmmaker’s Guide (Vol. 2002, p. 179). Silman-James Press. pp33-61
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Week 5 |
No practicals this week. Independent research and production of Curated References Collection
Independently organised production meetings |
Online Lecture: STORYWORLDS & DESIGN - these will be found on ilearn Recommended readings, these can be found in the MQ library: Affron, C. & Affron, M.J., 1995. Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film Narrative, Rutgers University Press. Olson, R.L., 1999. Art Direction for Film and Video, Focal Press.
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Week 6 |
No practicals this week. Independent research and production of Curated References Collection Curated References Collection due on Creative Collaborations site on Sunday at Midnight Independently organised production meetings |
Online lecture - Intro to Mise en Scene & Juxtaposition - these will be found on ilearn
Recommended Readings, these can be found in the MQ library Block, B. A. (2008). The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media (p. 297). Taylor & Francis. Ch1 The Visual Compnents; Ch 2 Contrast & Affinity Sijll, J. Van, 2005. Cinematic Storytelling, Michael Wiese Productions. Available at: http://books.google.com/books?id=J1pw5vIH8T0C&pgis=1 [Accessed June 2, 2014].
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Week 7 |
No practicals this week. Independent preparation and production of onscreen drafts and assigned production documents. Independently organised production meetings
Week One of Mid Semester Break is INTENSIVE WEEK. Workshops take place from 10 to 5 Tuesday through Friday. Week Two of the mid semester break is the last week of pre-production and your onscreen drafts and production documents are due at the end of the week. |
Video Lecture: Onscreen drafting - these will be found on ilearn Required Reading: Pearlman, K. (2015) Cutting Rhythms, Intuitive Film Editing, Chapter 12: Editing Thinking and Onscreen Drafting This required reading on 'onscreen drafting' is available electronically through the MQ library
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Week 8 |
Screen Production Shoot |
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Week 9 |
Screen Production, Shoot & Assemble
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Week 10 |
ROUGH CUT SCREENING WORKSHOP come prepared to screen a rough cut, assembly or key rushes from your shoot and discuss. TASKS: Editing & Sound Project Distribution Plans & Kit Project publicity website creation |
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Week 11 |
FINE-CUT SCREENING WORKSHOP come prepared to screen a fine cut of your film and discuss. TASKS: Editing & Sound Project Distribution Plans & Kits Project publicity website creation |
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Week 12 |
Lock off of edits, sound design, mixing and grading
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Week 13 |
Output High Resolution master for delivery Screening of Major Productions FRI 11 November, T1-Y3A
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Final Output Cuts Due |
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assessment tasks revised
Date | Description |
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07/07/2017 | Dates of the Intensive have been revised to reflect the actual schedule for 2017 |