Due Thursday, September 16 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st (! yay ! Extended Deadline ! yay !)
You will direct a 2-minute VISUAL portrait of a place, person or event and edit your piece for screening on Thursday, Sept. 17 in class. Rely on aesthetics, craft, vision, and technical skill to tell your story... no dialog, no interviews, absolutely no talking heads!
This piece can be any fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any style.
Rules:
- You will DIRECT one, 2-minute visual portrait
- You will be DP/Camera Operator for one 2-minute piece for someone in your production group
- NO dialog (talking heads) in your piece, but voice-over, production sound, sound effects, and music are permissible
- Your final edit must include titles crediting the Director and the D.P.
Please post your piece as embedded video on your blog before class on Thurs. 9/16 TUESDAY, SEPT 21 (!), TCF has vimeo account you may use to Vimeo... 5GB/week limit. You must also submit QUICKTIME file on DVD to Dr. R!
RESERVE YOUR EQ at least 48 HOURS IN ADVANCE! Email your eq reserves.
Your email should include the following:
TCF 312
Your Name
Pickup Date:
Return Date:
EQ desired (BE SPECIFIC!)
Examples:
Please note: We will watch some of these examples in class, but I encourage you to watch as many as you're able. When you watch consider WHAT is the story or stories being told (what do you think is the filmmaker's message, or what do you take from his/her piece?), and HOW is the story told visually. What are the levels of filmmaking - technical skill, aesthetics/style, color, camera work, etc... being deployed to work in service of the media message?
The Professional (we watched this for visual storytelling example)
Opening sequence of Dexter
Opening sequence of City of God (chasing the chicken opening sequence)
D-Nice's "Experiencing the Dream"
Brian B+ Cross "KEEPINTOKYO" and "TEEBS"
Noisemaker Media's "Spanish Harlem Hop Park Jam" and "True School Park Jam Series 2010 Trailer"
pouringdown.tv - "of all the things that can happen" and "the skies uptown"
and here's an example from student work last year:
Director: Cody Abbott, DP: Marcus Tortoricci
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