Home learning set Monday 1.11.10 due in Thursday 11.11.10

My Treatment for a Thriller Opening Sequence + Moodboard

(Each student to pitch their treatment in next week’s triple (11/11) to your group – you must post this work on your individual blog BUT BRING A HARD COPY TO THURSDAY’S LESSON)
Describe / Explain the following:
1. The action: identify the event your idea is based around; what actually happens (discovery of a body, an illicit meeting, a witness seeing a crime, someone waiting for someone else, a criminal act taking place, a telephone call, a chase, a short journey…) KEEP IT SIMPLE BUT NOT CLICHÉ; remember what was said at the conference – Avoid the ‘hooded boy following girl in woods’.
2. The theme(s): what should it make the audience think or feel, what “issues” will it raise (revenge, sexuality, voyeurism, obsession, fear, escape…)
3. The narrative: how is it structured: real time? Different time zones? Flashback/forward etc… Crisis? Mid-way through action? Result of an action? Will there be dialogue (as a rule, try an d avoid it or keep it to a minimum)? What about diegetic / non-diegetic sound?
4. The character(s): Who are they? Identify their roles; what are their characteristics, including gender, type, etc… Do they represent a type of person in particular? Can you think of similar characters in films / TV drama? (add pictures / screengrabs)
5. The setting and choice of location: where is it set? Add screengrabs or your own pictures of possible locations
6. The mise-en-scene: identify colours, type of lighting, dress codes, overall visual look. A screengrab from a similar product could help.
7. The camerawork: the style you are aiming for; again, citing some film / documentary / TV Drama examples would be a plus.
8. The editing: edited as a continuous sequence, use of cross-cutting, use of montage or combination or several?
9. Audience research: who would be your target audience? Your secondary audience? How do you know? You need to show you have tested your ideas on audience members. DO NOT WAIT TILL THE DAY BEFORE THE LESSON!!! Use Web 2.0 and your blog to get feedback / audience research.
10.Design a moodboard to illustrate your treatment

NOTE: How you present your work is up to you, however, can I urge you to look again at the criteria in your Assessment booklet?

Avoid another Scribd-embedded document. Opt instead for a PowerPoint embedded through Slideshare (register first then same process; copy and paste the Embed code in the HTML tab of a new post). Even better write directly on your blog or design a Prezi (it’s easy after you get the hang of it). See www.prezi.com
Insert tools into your blog to conduct audience feedback on your ideas or to find out who your audience is. Even better, design a questionnaire first to get a rough idea of what subject matter would appeal to which audience. You could film yourself presenting your ideas then upload to YouTube and direct friends to it. Get the feedback. Use Twitter to lead them there etc.

Whatever you do, make sure it’s creative and well-illustrated. YOU CANNOT LEAVE THIS TASK TILL THE NIGHT BEFORE.