Brickfilm
Project Required Parameters:
- A Main character
- A Plot
- Something Moving In The Background of at Least 3 scenes. For example:
- A fluttering flag
- An ever-changing water surface, such as a creek
- Clothes dangling from a clothesline,
- Trash blowing across the scene
- NO "Still Life" Scenes Lasting Longer Than 0.5 Seconds
- So during ESTABLISHING SHOTS, have a piece of trash blow across the scene, or the wind blow tree branches
- "But Mr. McGehee, we don't have Lego trees..." Make some, be creative, use non-Lego items...
- And during conversations, move heads or arms slightly, or move something in the background
- So during ESTABLISHING SHOTS, have a piece of trash blow across the scene, or the wind blow tree branches
- This mini-assignment DONE SEPARATELY: A video of a Lego figure walking six inches across a base, demonstrating the "proper" (there are several effective methods) Walk Cycle. That's it.
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Workflow Requirements:
- Tape the lego base to the table
- Color-code your storyboard scenes by set/location (Questions? Simply ask)
- UPLOAD PICTURES DAILY AND INSERT THEM INTO TIMELINE (Ask about GAP clips)
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Hot Tips That You Should Ask Me About:
- Ken Burns quick zoom/pan effect [this will be the link]
- The Langley Forward/Background Scene Extender [this will be the link]
- The Gere No-Camera-Touching Video Technique
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Necessary Preparations:
- Pay attention to this Project Page as I reserve the right to change it on a whim any time. Be on your toes and ready to react.
- Install the free "PlayMemories Mobile" app on your phone. This will be used to take pictures without touching the camera.
Tasks and Assignments: The project will last 35 SCHOOL days.
- Find one example on Youtube of a flawed-but-not-too-bad example of a "brickfilm". Find one example of an awesome, amateur, brick film. (These will be shown to the class.)
- Play the exciting game: "Plot, No Plot" to make sure you know what I mean by "plot"! [15 min]
- Write out your PRE-APPROVED plot. [1-2 classes]
- Write out the main character description(s) [1/2 - 1 class]
- Create a free celtx account. In celtx, create a Group for your production team so everyone in your group can edit the your script. [10 min]
- Write the script in celtx [3-4 classes]
- Create a storyboard [3-4 classes]
- Shoot your well-planned film. UPLOAD PICTURES DAILY AND INSERT THEM INTO TIMELINE [10 classes]
- Do a rough edit. Nothing is perfect here, but it is "complete". [2-3 classes]
- Emergency re-shoots only if needed [?]
- Foley [3-4 classes]
- Final cut [2-3 classes]
- Share to Master File and send to your desktop folder.
We are on day:
28 (November 17)
You have this many school days left:
6 (Deadline: December 1)
By the end of today, you should be :
Last few hundreds of pics of the last scene you are shooting, then sound, sound, sound.
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The Brickfilms Premiere will be Monday, November 28
Resources:
- Character Descriptions
- A good, easy way to do it. Especially look at the "Questionnaire" link at the bottom of that page.
- Storyboard
- Keep it simple--do it like this (See the first example, the second makes no sense to me)
- or this
- Storyboard template (Available in class, but if you need to print one, then you might have to scale it down a little, to 96%, say, in the Print window)