WED/THU: Documentary Festival & Featurette Planning Week

No Computers

Warm-up: Featurette Exemplars

Learning Target(s)

• I can independently produce an 'engaging' short film

Announcements 

• Featurettes are DUE June 6th
• Click here for Deadlines & Guiding Principals
• Featurette Storyboards are DUE FRIDAY, May 18th, for credit! 
• [click here to print your own]
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY

REVISED 5-16-18
Featurette Work Outline & Deadlines
MON	MAY	14	Featurette Ideas & Examples
TU-TH	MAY	15-18	Documentary Film Festival
FRI	MAY	18	Featurette Storyboards DUE [check-in]
SAT/SUN	MAY	19-20	FEATURETTE FILMING BEGINS
MON	MAY	21	FEATURETTE EDITING BEGINS
SPECIAL SCHEDULES for Portfolio Begin Tuesday May 22nd
WED	MAY	23	Gritty City Field Trip: NO 1st Period LAB* 1st period students get preference on after school computer time AND get TWO slots
WED-FRI	MAY	23-25	After school lab time: You get ONE total slot - sign up with John
FRI	MAY	25	UPLOAD Version 1 - Rough Cut
SAT/SUN/MON	MAY	26-27-28	Filming continues
TUE-FRI	MAY	29-June 1	PORTFOLIO WEEK = SHORTENED CLASSES
TUE	MAY	29	After school lab time: You get ONE total slot - sign up with John
WED/THU	MAY	30-31	John @ Grad Night - SUB for Independent lab time during class.
SPECIAL SCHEDULES for Portfolio END HERE
FRI	JUNE	1	John is Back - NO 1st Period this day UPLOAD Version 2 - Almost finished 1st period may turn it in during after school lab
SAT/SUN	JUNE	2-3	FINAL Filming
MON/TUE	JUNE	4-5	FINAL TOUCH-UP EDITING
WED/THU	JUNE	6-7	Upload FINAL version (NO Extensions)

Portfolio Presentations –WEEK 1: EARLY BIRDS WEEK

Monday 5/21	Tuesday 5/22	Wednesday 5/23	Thursday 5/24	Friday 5/25 Version 1 DUE
Regular Schedule P 1-5	THURSDAY Schedule P 3,4, 5	BP/CSP EARLY BIRDS: Regular Schedule P 1 , 2	BP/CSP EARLY BIRDS: Special Schedule & Minimum Day (85 min periods) P 3,4,5	Portfolios: Special Schedule & Minimum Day (85 min periods) P 1 , 2
		After School Slots	After School Slots	After School Slots

Portfolio Presentations: WEEK 2

Monday 5/28	Tuesday 5/29	Wednesday 5/30 John @ Disneyland	Thursday 5/31 John @ Disneyland	Friday 6/1 Version 2 DUE
Memorial Day No School. Classes not in session.	Portfolios: Special Schedule & Minimum Day (85 min periods) P 1, 2	Portfolios: Special Schedule & Minimum Day (85 min periods) P 3,4,5 SUB	Portfolios: Special Schedule & Minimum Day (85 min periods) P 1, 2 SUB	Portfolios: Special Schedule & Minimum Day (85 min periods) P 3,4,5 P1 turn in allowed
	After School Slots			After School Slots

Agenda [100]

• Featurette Exemplars [40]
• Watching the Documentaries [60]
• Partial rubric for watching
• Story & other positives ( ➕➕➕ )
• The "Research Grade"
• Topic research is plainly evident in the film
• Interviews/Opinions are used to illustrate research & serve to deepen understanding
• Viewer learns something new about the topic, person, or place that is the subject 
• The "Technical Grade"
• Editing pays attention to rules and serves to move the story along, provide interest
• Voiceover is clear
• Voiceover delivery is fluid
• Where possible, footage is framed, steadied, and lit appropriately for the setting and purpose
• B-roll effectively used to move narrative along
• Keynote is appropriately utilized to further understanding of the documentary topic
• The "Artistic Grade"
• Has beginning, middle, end
• Writing is fluid and appropriate for the medium of film
• does not sound like you are reading a school paper
• Interviews, if any, are integrated into the flow of the story/argument instead of being segregated together (unless masterfully done on purpose to artistically further the narrative)
• Music, if any, furthered the narrative
• Balanced
• Interviews v. Voiceover v. silence/music
• Spoken v. Visual information
• Documentary was Entertaining / Moving / Inspiring
• Areas for improvement (⚠️⚠️⚠️ )
• Lighting Problems
• backlit
• too dark (grainy?)
• too light (blown out)
• Sound problems
• cutting off words
• music over words
• unintelligible words
• wide swings in volume
• too much background noise
• Filming/Framing problems
• no "rule of 3" (unless clearly intended)
• distracting background
• Jittery camerawork
• repetitive angles for b-roll (or any footage)
• Inappropriate B-Roll
• Doesn't match subject or soundtrack
• clearly added to "pad" the time
• ridiculous, offensive, or careless 
• Script problems
• No script evident - voiceover was freestyled
• Interviews inappropriate, repetitive, 
• Editing problems
• clips too long - not enough b-roll
• too much 'borrowed' footage
• Footage out of order (confuses "point")
• poor choice of titles 
• distracting 
• 'wrong' for the information conveyed 
• poor choice of adjustments:
• filters & effects
• speeds
• Careless Problems
• spelling errors
• thumbs not cropped out
• "title text here"