CHECKLIST

I am about to write your student reviews.
I hope that you are posting accounts of your filming and editing as you go.  
Ideally, you have at least one 'BEFORE AND AFTER FEEDBACK/ REVISION' post, which shows critical awareness of challenges and revisions. 
Ideally, all your posts are analytical, not descriptive. 
Ideally, you state your own role (" I was director on this shoot. I...") 

You should have completed and posted on your blog for marking by the end of this week:

1. Preliminary Exercise (please use only these 2 words in your title to make it simple for the Moderator to locate). Have you checked on an independent computer that it opens?
2. Completed Story board, uploaded to ALL the group members' blogs
3. Completed Call sheets, uploaded to ALL the group members' blogs
4. Completed Shot List, uploaded to ALL the group members' blogs
5. Post on Laura Mulvey and 'the male gaze' (open this link for reminders and guidance) for the group doing the film called Focus.
6. Evaluation q. 2 Representation of social groups in your film. Upload your 'character interviews' with an introduction explaining what you have done, and why you have done it. Upload your presentation about your characters: pictures of your actual characters (a video still?) with captions, next to an image of a similar member of that social group, perhaps from real life, perhaps from a movie. Examples from our centre here . 
7. Further examples of representation of social groups here.
8. Evaluation q. 3 Distribution. For now, you read the class blog post on Distributing Indie Films (Sunday 24 January) and you summarise what you have researched. Present this in Emaze, Calameo, SlideShare or a presentational platform that using visuals. Upload to the 'page'. Later, in class, we look at  two distribution case studies (one high budget, one low budget), which you will offer as well, then after your BFI study day, you will report on Warp and Vertigo.
9. Evaluation q. 4 Leave for now.
10. Evaluation q. 5 Attracting and addressing audiences: first identify your audience. Then upload onto the page an introductory sentence explaining your reasons for using social media and what platforms you have created to attract and address your audience (Twitter, FB, Instagram...). Claim responsibility ('I have created... I know from my research that...') Second paragraph, write an introductory sentence explaining the more conventional ways in which you attract and address your audience, like P & A (prints and advertising). Use this terminology. Post your own film poster (nice and large!). Then post an analytical page where you have your film poster in the centre and you draw attention to your methods of attracting and addressing your audience.
11. Evaluation q. 6 New Technologies. This should have been completed last week. At present, it is just a list with hyperlinks to your own use of new technologies, with explanations about why or how YOU have used them. Anticipate a bit... you may not have completed editing, such as the distribution ident, but if you know that you'll be using iStopMotion (say), then include it now. You can add hyperlinks to own own work later. When it is all completed, next month, we'll be making the New Hive.