There are five lessons till the end of this half-term - that's 7 and half hours
Your challenge is to re-create the opening credits to the popular UK TV Drama Misfits - here's the original. You can find the first five minutes or so on this blog post here.
It has to be at least 60 seconds long.
Must have the correct credits - see the list below.
Use the same music - which we will provide.
You must produce you're own final product but may ask for assistance from others in the class.
You must provide evidence, which must be posted on the blog, for every stage of the process:
RESEARCH-PLANNING-CONSTRUCTION-EVALUATION
The rest is up to you. He's your chance be creative, use all you've learned in Photoshop, Final Cut, film-making to create a dynamic and entertaining opening sequence - that could be all animation, all titles, a mix of live action and titles.
Research
About Misfits (http://www.e4.com/misfits/), which characters you're introducing, what techniques you could use (live action, Photoshop), other credits sequence for influence and inspiration.
Planning
How will you approach the construction, how will you use your time, what resources do you need.
Construction
Chart your progress through the process - reflect at key stage.
Evaluation
1) Using screen grabs of your final product (and even the original opening if useful) explain the following:
Your ideas behind your approach, inspirations and what you were aiming to do.
How you incorporated the visuals with the music provided.
How your product captures the spirit of the Misfits the series and could be seen as an appropriate opening. Or not.
2) Using screen grabs of your Photoshop (if used) and Final Cut documents, explain the key techniques and processes you used to create certain effects. Have you learned anything new? If so what?
3) Show your opening to at least 3 people (fellow students, parents, friends, siblings) get them to feedback in terms of how appropriate your product is, how professional looking it seems, its impact on viewer. Write up their responses and reflect on them - are they fair? Have you learned from them and could they help if you were to do the project again?
4) Look back on the process- how do you think the project went? What were the problems/successes? How do you feel about your final product?
Once you have finished upload your final product to Vimeo. If Vimeo is playing up, use these conversion settings to make a smaller more user friendly version.
File > Export > Using Quicktime Conversion > Options
Video Settings: Compression Type H.264; Quality: Medium
Size: Dimensions 320 x 240 QVGA
Sound Settings: Format: AAC; Quality: Better
Ensure that Prepare for Internet Streaming is clicked.
Embed onto your blog.
If you still have time left - look at your planning and research - how could it be more thorough how could it be improved?
DEADLINE: 4.10 pm, Friday 10th February.
TITLES
IWAN RHEON
ROBERT SHEEHAN LAUREN SOCHA NATHAN STEWART-JARRETT ANTONIA THOMAS MISFITS WRITTEN AND CREATED BY HOWARD OVERMAN PRODUCED BY KATE CROWE DIRECTED BY TOM GREEN