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Animatics

Your aim by the end of the week should be to finish your animatic. When you have edited it in time to the music you should then upload it to Youtube. You will have to sign up to it and follow the instructions.

When your animatic is uploaded you can then create a link in the normal way back to your own blog. Please email me via mac.com so I can have a look. You can visit each others and ask for audience feedback, you may even get some feedback from the youtube site.

When we come back in September you will then be reflecting on the effectiveness of this animatic and deciding which elements you are going to keep and which you may change for your actual footage.

If you have access to a video camera it would be a really good idea to film your footage over the summer when you have plenty of time and your 'talent' will not have so many demands on their time.

We will also be studying horror and sci- fi films as part of the film genre unit so if you are getting any DVDs out, choose one from those genres.

Work on going

Here is a list of things to do by Monday. We will be setting the cameras up on Monday for you to film your storyboard and create an animatic so a blank page will not do!

1. You must have at least 3 video textual analysis. Use the points on the sheet I gave you on Monday to help with this and link it to Goodwin's theory (6 points, link of lyrics/music to visuals, voyeurism, record company influence etc).

2. Download and annotate your lyrics. Pick out themes that you intend to use in your video, are you going to illustrate, amplify or contradict?

3. Sketch your storyboard. It doesnt have to be perfect, it may even change, it is simply to get an idea of your timings and the amount of footage you will eventually have to capture.

Pulp Videos

Have a look at these Pulp videos. They are quite 'post modern' in their approach in the way they draw attention to their form. The use of clapperboards and descriptions of edits, particularly in Babies ( the last one) are a way of revealing their techniques. They are also very simple and although the colours and lighting has obviously been saturated in the editing process, probably in After Effects, the actual shot types and narratives are very simple and something you could apsire to emulate ( copy, copy, copy!).

Use these blogs as part of your planning and research. They must be updated after every lesson. Check out the links.