Collaboration
For Dan’s class on Monday
Dan is going to be new to your project and ideas so put together a sheet(s) that help explain it/them fully. Make sure it includes your starting title (e.g. world’s worst), a complete list of your ideas, performance ideas (see below), and any other information you think Dan may need to know about your project. Think, if you knew nothing about your project, what would you need to know about it to get on board quickly?
Three (or more) Performance ideas (visually defined so that Dan can work on performance with you.)
Dan will be helping you with physical performance so please make sure you have considered your ideas 'visually' beyond an initial idea. A good way to start is to try to define your skit using a ‘three panel comic’ technique (above). You can write notes above, below, or on you panels to help you describe the perceived actions in your skit. If you have, multiple ideas for a skit draw and write these out too. The more ideas you have the more options you will have on the day. Above all don’t turn up to the class with nothing, this is a class where you need to have 50% of an idea to work on.
After the class.
Take what you have learnt about your project from Dan’s class an start making ‘video animatics' of your skits featuring yourselves (or a collaborator) - Yes, acting or posing things out to a camera. This is going to be your first attempt at defining performance and editing for comedy. You can use images, video, cut-outs, animation, text, or any other media you need to convey your ideas. For example, if you need a pair of flippers on your feet whilst filming, two bits of card and some rubber bands will do. Keep your work roughly made but clear and concise in what your intending to convey.
For your OGR.
For you OGR I would like you to include the following components in one post on your studio blog (repeating the post on your own blog). You can use a PDF format and embedded video to submit your work. Include a graphically designed cover and make sure your post is correctly labeled.
- 1) How you have allocated job roles: Director, Producer, etc.
- 2) Your title: E.g world’s worst.
- 3) Your starting ideas: What have you discussed, rejected, kept.
- 4) You final ideas list: This is the final list or a statement explaining the ideas you want to take forward.
- 5) Three visual/ fleshed out skit ideas: Drawn as a three panel comic or similar (see ‘For Dan’s class’ above)
- 6) Three animatic versions of your skits: See ‘After the class’ above.
- 7) Ideas on what the overall structure of your film might be: For example, will you use title cards to join your skits together? Which idea is your best / worst? Which one will go first and which one will go last in your sequence. Is there a ‘natural structure’ that will hold your film together. For example, if you have ‘outtakes from films’ you could spoof a ‘Youtube top 10 list’ (like Watchmojo for example). Or, if you have a Victorian Gentleman swimmer as a character then you might use ‘early silent cinema’ as a style. If your film is about repeatedly learning to drive and failing then it might framed using the passage of time - days of the week, ‘day one, two, and so on’ or months ‘January, February, etc’.
- 8) Set / Background Ideas: This is linked to the structure ideas above. What would you need in terms of sets or backgrounds to make your skit work. For example, if you have ‘world’s worst spy’ you might replicate the ‘essence’ of a 1960’s James Bond style set (designed by Ken Adams) for the background. This could be achieved quickly and easily with simple props - It doesn’t need to be complicated but it does need to be well observed. This is early days so I don't expect these to be designed yet, just considered.
- 9) Basecamp, Studio Blog, and Personal Blogs: Evidence that; You have branded your studio blogs and been posting regularly. That you have been using Basecamp to discuss and organise your work. That you have kept your personal blog up to date with your contribution. You only need to have done this, you do not need to include evidence as part of your OGR post.
Finally, any questions please ask me.
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