Monday, May 18, 2015

Film Final 2015

This year, the film final will require all of you to assemble a portfolio and to shoot, edit, and publish a 5-7 minute video essay. The completed portfolio and video essay will count as a major fourth marking period assignment (100 points in total) as well as your grade for the final exam.

Portfolio Requirements:

  • 2 thematic analysis essays
  • 1 film review
  • 2 completed short films (You may submit any short films you participated in creating this year)
  • 1 poster for one of the submitted short films (It can be the poster your group created)
  • 1 music video
  • 1 film production resume
      • Each of the aforementioned components are worth 7 points [70 total]
      • In lieu of any of the aforementioned requirements, you may opt to show a film (or clips from several films) and teach a lesson on the film or concept. If you plan on doing this, you must submit your idea by this Friday, May 22nd.

Video Essay Requirements:

  • If the essay has been, for thousands of years, a means for writers to figure something out on the page, the video essay is that, too, on the screen. These works can be short and song-like--or they can take their time, turning gradually inward. Regardless of runtime, the video essay requires  a story. What are you trying to say? What is it you want to say/share/feel about something in particular? That story may take the form of a narrative, a sequence of events, or it may be a mediation in which "the story" is really the tension generated--by an author working through some mental knot.
  • The image does not exist merely to illustrate the text; the text does not merely illustrate the image. Instead, there is a degree of distance between what is said and what is shown and what is heard, and within that distance, the audience is allowed its own ample share of imaginative space.
This is a digital assignment. You need to share all of the aforementioned components via Google Drive to Mr. Clark, Mr. Hearn, and Mr. Lockwood by Wednesday, June 3rd.

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