Mindmap for Pillow Talk vs Fringe essay

Here's a completed mindmap - what you would do is add examples from the texts to each of the points, When completed, follow the remaining steps as shown below on the essay question sheet.

EDITING ESSAY

This is a BIG piece of work that will give you a diagnostic and detailed mark feedback and will enable us to assess your progress so far.

You need to make sure you take as many detailed notes as possible on the two extracts for your digital storyboards. You must then finish working your way through your mindmaps.

After this you should have lots of detailed examples and ideas relating to the question. SORT these ideas into groups and then into a COHERENT order that forms an argument and answers the question of course!

When you later start to write your essay you will find you have a structure and examples all ready for you - all you have to do is concentrate on writing the points clearly and in full sentences and paragraphs! Simples!

Remember to copy your storyboard docx into your learning gateway area so you can access your work at home - the extracts are both on the blog rather than youtube.

You will all have the same amount of time to do the essay but the deadlines are different because 12E1 have already started as they are one lesson ahead. The deadlines are as follows and are STRICT - no excuses - any problems come and see us BEFORE it's too late!!

12E1 - 1st Dec 2010
12B1 - 8th Dec 2010
12B2 - 8th Dec 2010

Guide for comparing "Pillow Talk' and "Fringe'

comparing editing pillow talk - help sheet

CHECKPOINT

What should be on your blog now:

1. Sherlock Holmes Review

2. The work on showing examples of the different camera movements

3. Upload and link your powerpoint on Secrets and Lies. You need to embed/link to my youtube secrets and lies video (check out youtube account mediamonkeymovies and choose the Secrets and Lies video that has ALL the clips on it so you only have to upload ONE video) It is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKP9GP1eHs - you need to view it get the embed code.

You also need to cut and paste your notes from your powerpoint into Blogger as it won't show your notes on the presentation from Slideshare.

4. You should upload your Horror shot you took (don't worry about your planned shot drawing) and write a short commentary on:
     a. how it differs from what you planned/imagined
     b. what you found from trying to actually shoot the still from a practical point of view
     c. how effective you think your shot is

Plagiarism - Copying other's work

PLAGIARISM

The rules on plagiarism of coursework are quite clear; anyone found guilty of plagiarising anyone else's work will be disqualified from entry to this unit by the school. The exam board will be informed of our decision, and are likely to uphold it.


This ruling relates to all work entered as coursework including research, planning, ideas, notes etc on your blog.


Definition of plagiarism: passing off someone else's work as your own, including work that has been altered to make it look as if it is yours. This could include the work belonging to someone else at West Hatch in your group, class, year group, or another year group. It could also include the work of a student from another school, or a media analyst who publishes their work in any format, including the internet.

This DOES NOT mean you cannot research on the internet and use other people's work where you refer to their work (that is, acknowledge you took their ideas) but the blogs are to show YOUR work and anything you put on your blog that isn't your own work is considered to be cheating (unacknowledged copying = plagiarism).


BE WARNED!!! There will be no 2nd chances when it comes to proven plagiarism. Thanks to N Blackborow for this :-)

Fringe - Extract conversation, S03 E01 Olivia

Pillow Talk Extract

Pillow Talk Vs Fringe - Your Task

Your task is to watch the two conversations for "Pillow Talk" and "Fringe (canted..timmed). You need to watch them through with QuickTime on the macs and every time there is an edit you need to pause it and using CMD, SHIFT and 4 take a picture of the frame. When you have taken the picture, rename it "pillow1' or 2,3,4 in sequence.

You then need to open a word document and paste the pictures into the document down the left hand side, in order and then label them with the details as shown on the storyboard sheet. You need to include: Shot No, Type of shot (framing), the edit (wipe? straight cut? Dissolve? Fade up?) brief dialogue (don't type it all but do the starting line and ending line), Sound, camera movement and the duration of the shot.

Do the same with Fringe. We will then be working on comparing the two. You will be doing the comparison yourselves and you will be given a sheet to help you write it up. this piece will be assessed.

This task is time limited to a maximum of TWO lessons including today (Thurs/Fri).

Editing

There are a few things we need to know for AS about regarding EDITING:

PACE
STYLE
HOW MEANING IS AFFECTED

In relation to pace, we're interested in how often there is a cut. Obviously in a main part of a film, there will be a fairly steady pace of editing, with the exception of conversations where it is quite normal to be cutting between two speakers on a rapid basis. This will involve SHOT-REVERSE SHOT and Over The Shoulder (OTS) shots. Where the action or tension is increasing, there tends to be an increase in the pace of editing - that is there are MORE edits per minute. This is a generalisation obviously but a good rule of thumb.

When filming and cutting a conversation or action sequence, it is important NOT to break the 180 degree rule (i.e. you don't cross the line to film from the other side of the action). This would confuse the audience as objects and people will appear on the 'wrong' side of the screen and audiences use direction and other editing rules to make sense of the action.

You need to stay on one side of the line!

For a classic example of how an increase in pace of editing matches a rise in tension and action, watch the Psycho shower scene:

Count how many edits there are in the first 1mins 38 secs then count how many from there to the end - that should give you an idea of the increase in pace. There is also a very good graphic match in this sequence between the bath plughole and Janet Leigh's eye.

Styles of Edit

There are lots of ways to move from one image to the next - these are often called 'Transitions' and certainly this is what we call them when we are editing.

The main edit styles are:

STRAIGHT CUT
DISSOLVE
FADE TO BLACK
FADE UP
JUMP CUT
WIPE
GRAPHIC MATCH

A straight cut literally cuts form one scene to another. The fade to and up from black do exactly what they say on the tin - the screen either starts or ends completely black with a slow change form the image to the black OR from the black to the image.

A dissolve (which has many different variants when editing) is basically where one scene fades out and another fades in. For much of the time, BOTH images can be seen at the same time.
A good example of this technique being used repeatedly is in Citizen Kane - old but a clear example.

Jumps and Wipes

There are two main edit styles we are concerned with and they don't get used very often.
The Wipe is where one screen is slowly wiped off the screen by the other. The trailer for "Man in the Iron Mask' uses this technique repeatedly and whilst it was often used in the 60s it has been largely neglected until the recent wave of more 'punky' directors such as Tarantino and Ritchie. WATCH THIS EXTRACT - IT'S VERY LOUD!



A jump cut is where an edit goes from one shot to another, in the same scene yet the change is less than 30 degrees - this disorientates the viewer and gives the effect of 'jumping'.