(REVISED) Deadlines through to half-term...and suggestions for half-term...

4 deadlines were given:
1) By lunchtime Weds, have recorded an intro to your AS production
2) By period 3 (13D)/P5 (13A) Friday 16th have recorded details of 30-40 SFs/TTs you’ve analysed
3) By the end of Tuesday 20th have blogged your acting / music / costume / prop requirements
4) By Friday 23rd have completed initial pre-production tasks

As discussed, the viewing of enough TTs/SFs to enable you to confidently outline the codes and conventions of the format - and get well into observing genre conventions - has been rolled over to Monday, when your blog should be fully up to date. This means your initial idea/s, animatic and audience feedback, revised individual or group proposal, details of SFs/TTs viewed (each with a clickable link so it can be viewed directly, or details of DVD; year of release [which may be in the future], director's name and main production company/s), and a follow-up post where you outline your conclusions about the codes and conventions of your format - backed up with some wider reaqding, not just viewings.
In addition to this, there are a number of other posts, as outlined on the guide documents in earlier posts (which are still being revised on an ongoing basis), which should have been completed, and a start made on others (eg Software, the various exam topics related to coursework)..

Most of you have recorded intros to your AS productions, which I'm told were very well received on the Gifted and Talented evening yesterday. There have been sound/tape gremlins with three of these, and some students off, so the following need to (re-)record their intros: Saskia; Lucy/Kristie; Megan/Lorna/Bethan; Sophie G/Laura/Emily. The intention is to put these onto a compilation DVD of all your AS coursework productions, complete with some footage from the film festival, and maybe some of the June/July This Is Yorkshires etc time/space permitting, which then may (as you have suggested) be sold at the screening event planned as part of the Creative Arts Evening in December.

I would like a teaser poster (with the intention of creating at least one more as work progresses) from each production, for enlarging, guillotining and displaying by the end of next week, but will not insist on all pre-production tasks being finished by then. A revised set of deadlines then:

1. Evidence of 30-40 SFs/TTs having been critically viewed, with a clickable link (or DVD details) for each, plus director, year, main production company/s details and some key points for each (might be just 2 or 3 brief bullet points for many) for Monday 19th
   
2. Tie this up with a separate posting on the codes and conventions of SFs/TTs, which needs to include reference to some written material (preferrably a mix of web and book/magazine material). Consider providing a bullet pointed list, then using each a 2nd time as sub-heading and listing some examples (or additional details) of where you've seen this done for Monday 19th. The institutional context of SF/TTs production/exhibition/distribution is part of this!!! It may be a good idea to treat this as a separate posting - there is a Word doc on the blog to help with this, which you'll have if you've been using the blog as suggested... Some themes: user-generated content; web 2.0/new media and new patterns of production and consumption; limited space for SFs in mainstream media (any slots on C4, BBC2, in cinema, on digital channels - look up Propeller TV, a Leeds company; micro-budgets; SFs as 'calling cards'; SFs as art; Oscars def of short film; influential companies; audience; studios targeting selected fans with TTs, and viral marketing...
   
3. Everyone to have posted as a comment a useful article or book they've read, with a link where relevant, and some DETAIL!!! If you have already posted a simple link, please re-do with some information on what we might find there, and why you recommend it - for Monday 19th
4. Everyone to be signed up as followers of the main A2 blog and the A2 coursework blog, plus at least one fellow student's blog (if you're in a group, make sure you follow each other). This means you see details of new posts in your blogger Dashboard. Also look out for modified post headings - eg, I've added to the Define a Teaser Trailer post, and signified this by adding 'extended Oct 16th' (for Monday 19th)
5. By the end of Wednesday 21st have blogged on, but also emailed me (look out for a Word template on the blog) details of costume/props/make-up/SFX/actor/music requirements that your colleagues across the Creative Arts may be interested in helping out with
6. By the end of Thursday 22nd have emailed me a jpg (not a .psd Photoshop file) of a teaser poster [see earlier post on this]
7. Have made significant progress on pre-production by the start of Friday 23rd. You may still have parts of this outstanding, which is fine, but we do want to be commencing production quite soon after we return.

You could be using the week off to shoot a wide range of material (it needs to be thoroughly planned, and well linked to existing media texts - remember the Evaluation questions - including detail of relevant viewing of scenes from feature films and TV, plus extensive reading on genre. Indeed, your week off could revolve around a range of viewings - consider getting together with other groups, including from the other class (part of the thinking of getting teaser posters is to open up lines of communication between you all), who might be looking at (and own!) similar fare to you.
Or, of course, watching a boxset of a unique series such as Twin Peaks, with its great narrative enigma (who killed Laura Palmer) and legendarily oddball (typical of David Lynch) style, source, in case you were wondering, of all the images in this post, starting with 'the lady with the log'...