T351 Week 8 - Spring 2008

Agenda:

• Reality Check
• Art Videos
• Midterm

Reality Check:

• The MultiVisions Showcase submission deadline is 5 pm, Wednesday March 5.
• Finish Interview/Feature stories this week in lab. We'll look at them starting around 10:30 or so. Remember that they need to fit exactly into a 2 or 3-minute window. Also, a short interview/feature story is no place for long title sequences or rolling credits. Work minimal titles into your project tastefully and appropriately.
• Turn in Art Video proposal and treatment this week. Next week (you need to submit your script or storyboard). You also need to submit a storyboard or script for these by next week at the latest. You can start working on these next week- as soon as you turn in your completed pre-production materials. Our lab time next week is for you to work on your Art Videos. We want to loo at these the week after we return from Spring Break.
• Storytelling pieces. Everyone needs to submit a proposal and treatment at next week's lab. Once you decide on a project, you only need to submit one completed, polished script. Both of you will share a grade on this- so be sure it ROCKS! The script (and any revised proposals or preproduction materials) are due the week you return from Spring Break.
• Final Projects - Final Project proposals are due during next week's lab. (Proposal and treatment) A number of you have already locked into Final Projects. This is great. Don't wait until the last minute to lock in on an idea. The more time you have to plan, the better your idea will be. You must submit a clear Program Proposal and Treatment for your Final Project before you leave for Spring Break.

Remember what the characteristics of a strong treatment:

• Describe action and dialog
• Only include what can be seen or heard
• Every scene should be addressed in your treatment. Every scene should serve a purpose.
  • Scenes are the building blocks of film and video. They can be thought of as mini-stories in that they have a beginning, middle and end. Scenes should push either the story or character along. (If a scene doesn't do either cut it out!)

Scripting Art Videos

Either a storyboard or a 2-column scripts work. Be sure to include the music/lyrics in the audio. Beats can be represented with dots in a 2-column script.

What can you do with your class projects?

• Submit to CATS, Across Indiana
• Aired on WTIU
• Aired on IUSTV
• Entered in local and national competitions. (Locally we have the Ideas Festival and the Multivisions Showcase.)
• Get a job

What makes a first-rate video?

• Every shot and sound is there for a reason.
• The message and storyline is clear
• All of the audio and visual elements are top notch.
• There is no fixing it in the edit. What you shoot is what you have to work with. Do it thoroughly and right the first time. Make sure your audio is clean, your video is well lit, and framed. Make sure every single edit is motivated and that your video has a consistent look and feel.
• You have everything it takes to make a great video.

Analyzing Art & Music Videos

What are they?
Why are they made? (objective)
Who watches them? (target audience)
What content do they contain? (visual, audio, FX, graphics..)
Why do we find them appealing or not?
What are some identifiable genres?

Keep in mind an underlying theory which applies to the montage:

"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts"

One can juxtapose two separate shots together and get a much more intense whole.

[Look at examples]

More in lab-

Review/Take Midterm

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