New Blog.

Here is my new blog link.

http://jlmilliganba.wordpress.com

Tutorial.

This morning we were divided into our sub groups of the specialist project I was put in to the film/narrative group with a few classmates and we discussed our ideas. My plan is still to produce a taster for my script, at the moment I’ve decided to concentrate on just filming the first scene of the film which involves three characters and a staffroom location. Hopefully by next week I will have the core actors sorted with also the location. The script itself is still a work in progress, yesterday I began a slight reworking of it changing the structure slightly to give it a more drive and character development. I want to just create a piece that is strong enough to get people wanting to see more of the characters following on from this scene. Storyboards are something that I need to

Second Day.

I’ve decided to give my script a complete overhaul. I liked it before and it’s still keeping to the same theme it just that I feel the need to refresh it from the beginning. Below is a link to the first draft. It’s only half complete but at nearly 30 pages I’ve decided to just take a step back and refine certain elements to it and add tweaks. But basically the narrative of the film is based around idea of when I was younger if you opened your packet of crisps upside down the first person you looked at you fancied. And that’s the theme that will carry on throughout and is what I’m writing in more in this newer version. But give the first draft a read anyway.

Savoury Things

First Day.

Yesterday we started our third year of DMP and it seems like an exciting period of study time. To begin we’ll be doing the specialist project where we incorporate our own skills from the previous years. For this 10 week project I’ve decided to film first 10 minutes of a film I’ve been writing called Savoury Things (working title) Obviously it’s a big undertaking but I’m going to really put all my energy into creating this. It’ll link with my dissertation in regards that the film is a teen comedy which British cinema doesn’t often create so it will be interesting to research into teen comedies. Throughout this project I’ll be producing and directing the piece and most likely editing. I’ll be writing more on this shortly. So stayed tuned!

Specialist Project.

Specialist Project
Title: Specialist Project

Ref:
Level: 6
Credit Points 30
Weighting: 2.0
Study Time: 300 hours

Commencement Date: 4th October 2010

Hand in Date and Final Crit: 6th December 2010

Description:
The specialist project allows you to further develop your conception of digital media production. The intention is for you create adventurous forward looking body of work that shows the industry or audience your vision of a future for some aspect of digital media.

You are encouraged to take concept driven approach to learning rather than resource led practice and to build from themes explored in the Investigative Study unit.

Through research this project will be critically and theoretically informed and culturally engaged. You will evidence a depth of critical, contextual and theoretical understanding both through the work itself and through a learning journal/weblog.

Your work is negotiated through and defined by a Learning Agreement.

Learning Agreement Template
Learning Agreement Guide

Outline Syllabus:
(An indicative guide to the content covered by this unit.)

The programme of study will vary according to the academic needs and interests of individual students, and will be defined in a Learning Agreement.

Method of Delivery:
Practical studies, productions, independent learning and research, tutorials, viewings and critiques.

Aims
A1 To confirm and develop your systematic understanding of key aspects of digital media, previously acquired in Level 5.
A2 To encourage the acquisition of detailed knowledge, some of which is at or informed by the forefront of developments within the subject including aspects of current research, or equivalent scholarship.

A3 To develop your critical awareness and understanding of historical, contemporary and personal practice within the broad context of the field.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this unit you will be able to demonstrate:

LO1 that you have transferred your systematic understanding of key aspects of digital media, previously acquired in Level 5.

LO2 the acquisition of detailed knowledge, some of which is at or informed by the forefront of developments within the subject including aspects of current research, or equivalent scholarship.

LO3 Through written work demonstrate that you developed your critical awareness and understanding of historical, contemporary and personal practice within the broad context of the field.

Assessment Requirements:
A prototype design as defined in your Learning Agreement.

Finished Design 75% (Tutor Assessed)

A written report for one of the projects (Maximum 1500 words) supporting the conceptual, contextual and production issues involved in the completion of practical work. 25% (Tutor Assessed)

Assessment Criteria (specific criteria related to the learning outcomes and linked to the statement of generic assessment criteria matrix):

Evidence of knowledge of key contextual and theoretical issues – Knowledge concerned with contemporary practice acquired from Level 5 and applied and developed to a higher level (LO1)

Evidence of critical concepts represented in the breadth and depth of subject knowledge – The contexts of production (LO2, LO3)

Evidence of realisation through the application of technical knowledge and skills – Documentation of the project, its planning and execution (LO1)

Evidence of understanding through critical evaluation and reflection – Relevance of research and relationship of theory to practice (LO3)

Reference Material:

This will vary according to the needs of individual students. You will define Reference Material through negotiation with your tutor(s) and list it in your Learning Agreement.

Assignment Brief

In this unit, you will produce a piece of work that will help consolidate, refine and extend the previous knowledge you have acquired to this point. It is an opportunity to create a finished project to professional standards, in an area that suits your skills and interests.

Preferably, but not essentially, this project will form part of a structured exploration of your chosen area that will complement your Investigative Study and form a research basis for your Final Major Project.

The final deliverable should aim to be innovative yet intuitive and easily understandable, and to develop on themes in the area under investigation.

The project submission will be of a standard that, if appropriate, it can be exhibited or submitted to national or international competitions.

All project submissions will comprise of a fully working prototype; i.e. a usable piece of work that an uninitiated user can explore and interact with in full, a weblog that documents your process of development, and a 1,500 essay that analyses the strengths, weaknesses and achievements of the project.

You will need to use a concept driven approach to the project development, rather than technology driven – focus on the idea, and solving the problems that the idea brings up, rather than finding a new or augmented use for an existing system or product.

The exact framework of your project will be detailed in a Learning Agreement that will be negotiated with the teaching team.

A key part of the project deliverables is a 1500 word essay that describes in detail the creative processes you have undergone to arrive at the final piece. Use it to justify your design strategy and explain your research procedures and methods, sources and references. It should also include an evaluation of your project, and how it resolved the issues that arose during its development.

Scheme of Work

This is an approximate guide to the content of a session, be aware this is subject to change in response to external influences and your own pace of development.

TBC

Interactive Films.

Here is a link to a Chris Milk directed music video using the latest single from Arcade Fire. It requires that you type in your post code and using Google Map images, creates a interactive video with multiple screens of a faceless character running through your road.

The Wilderness Downtown.

Though the top down visuals look a little bit flat and unflattering it does promise much for the film of cinema with interactivity. Reading an article on Little White Lies’ website, which is a great source of information, illuminates just how cinema is getting closer to offering interactive films. Because from an advertising point of view its a brilliant way of demonstrating your latest product.

Below is a youtube video of the entire music video, obviously the street view stuff is just a generic but still it shows what it’s all about.

Also ‘A Hunter Shoots a Bear’

http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience?v=4ba1BqJ4S2M&feature=pyv&ad=5880449489&kw=bear

You’ll have to watch it on youtube but its an advertisement for tippex in which the Hunter in the video tippexs out the Shoots part of the title and allows the viewer to add whatever word they want to create a new scenario. It has about 50 different possibilities and is totally brilliant.

The New Twitter

The Hundred in the Hands – Pigeons

Dancing Pigeons – Ritalin

Everything Everything – My Kz, Ur BF