Final Exam Meeting Time Changed at 10 AM !

Our meet time for the final exam day is not one hour later, but 2 hours ahead this year!

Please note the time difference and come to class with notebooks to turn in and committee work to share!

Final exam meeting: Dec. 4 at 10 am

And don't forget...

Final films are due DEC. 9
Submission of final films must follow the Equipment room specs and procedure. Failure to do so will result in a grade deduction. Don't forget to check the rubric for final films on WebCourses to remind yourselves what that grade is based on.

Final Film Delivery Specs

Video on Screener Delivery

Picture Lock Deadlines/Audience Survey

Hi All! Just to follow up on what's due next week and beyond -

EVERYONE must turn in a picture-locked cut of their video next week, November 20th. We will be using the entire class time to screen all 25 films, so please BE ON TIME.

Films must be delivered on DVD or by a video link (Vimeo, YouTube) emailed to me BEFORE class begins. Anyone not adhering to this submission format will have a letter grade deducted from their picture lock grade.

ALSO DUE: AUDIENCE SURVEY
Please bring a paper survey to be filled out by your classmates that addresses specific feedback you want on your cut. I suggest keeping your questions for feedback focused on audience reactions and outcomes, since major changes cannot be made after this due date.

Students are free to create the most fitting survey for their work, but the following is required of all audience surveys:

1. Surveys must contain 3-5 questions for feedback, one of those questions must concern actor performance.

2. All surveys must have an established scale for responses (1-5, 1-10, etc.), allowing you to gauge answers more precisely. No "yes or no" questions or scales less than 1-5. You may include a comments section, it is not required.

3. Students must provide a copy of their survey to the entire class (24) as well as the instructor and 2 graduate students. That's 27 copies - bring 28 to be safe!

PICTURE LOCK DEADLINE:
After discussing the matter with Zach, I've decided to grant the more-than-reasonable request of allowing small cut changes, should your survey feedback warrant it.

If any student needs to make a small change to their picture after turning in their initial pic lock cut, I WILL ACCEPT PICTURE LOCKED CUTS UNTIL 11:30AM, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST. Should you need to utilize this extension, please bring new cuts to my office or send links by email. I will not accept any cuts after this deadline. Any student who makes changes to their picture following this deadline will be have their final film grade penalized.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I am available anytime to view cuts and give feedback, up until the pic lock deadline. Don't hesitate to email me cuts or bring them to my office hours!

Required Film List

GROUP E: Please bring a DVD OR live VIMEO link to class next week. NO HARD DRIVES.

Here is the list of films that was required way-back-when. The idea was that you had to see all of these films either in class or on your own throughout your 3 years in film school. There used to be a test and everything, but they stopped doing it in 2005. Anyway, it's a neat reference to see where you are at in terms of film literacy:

UCF FILM DEPARTMENT

REQUIRED SCREENING LIST 2004

Film Majors are required to have completed screening these films prior to their Film B.F.A. Graduation.

8 1/2

2001: A Space Odyssey

400 Blows, The

Allures

Altered States

Annie Hall

Apocalypse Now Redux

Battle of San Pietro, The

Belle de Jour

Bicycle Thief, The

Blair Witch Project, The

Blue Velvet

Bonnie and Clyde

Breathless

Broken Blossoms

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The

Casablanca

Chinatown

Citizen Kane

Civil War, The

Closet Land

Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover, The

Conformist, The

Daisies

Das Boot

Daughters of the Dust

Day for Night

Dog Star Man

Dr. Strangelove

Duck Amuck

Duck Soup

Easy Rider

Eraserhead

Faces

Fantasia

Flaming Creatures

Godfather Trilogy, The

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Rush, The

Gone with the Wind

Graduate, The

Great Train Robbery, The

Harlan County, U.S.A.

High Noon

Hiroshima Mon Amour

His Girl Friday

La Hora De Los Hornos

Hospital

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Jazz Singer, The

Le Jette

JFK

Last Laugh, The

Last Tango in Paris

Last Year at Marienbad

Lumiere Early Film Reel

Man With a Movie Camera, The

Marriage of Maria Braun, The

Medium Cool

Melies Early Film Reel

Meshes in the Afternoon

Metropolis

Midnight Cowboy

Nanook of the North

Network

New York Stories

Night and Fog

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

O Lucky Man!

Passion of Joan of Arc, The

Persona

Pillow Book, The

Player, The

Playtime

Potemkin

Psycho

Pulp Fiction

Purple Rose of Cairo, The

Raise the Red Lantern

Rashomon

Rear Window

Red Desert

Reservoir Dogs

Seventh Seal, The

Sex, lies, and videotape

She’s Gotta Have It

Stagecoach

Star Wars

Stranger Than Paradise

Streetcar Named Desire, A

Sunrise

Sunset Boulevard

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song

Trip to the Moon, A

Triumph of the Will

Un Chien Andalou

Warhol Shorts (Eat, Sleep, Empire State, etc.)

Wavelength

Wind from the East

Window Water Baby Moving

Wizard of Oz, The

WR: Mysteries of the organism

Zelig

Zorn’s Lemma

Film Screener Specs

I know it's a month away, but here are links to instructions on how to submit your final film to Bowen. I'm sharing this with you now so you can get an idea of where sound levels should be and how much time you should set aside for final export and turn-in. Since this is how D1s were submitted last year, I'm hoping(?) you are all familiar with this process.

When we get closer to final film turn-in (DEC. 2nd), I will repost this info.

Instructional Outlines/workflow for final film turn-in

Instructional Videos for final film turn-in

Halloween Week for Directing 2!

I hope Group E, cast and crew, had a successful weekend of shooting! Best of luck to anyone still shooting tonight!

THIS WEEK we will hear from the productions that went out this past weekend. Directors, please try to be in class to tell us how your shoot went!

We will also be screening dailies or cuts from Group C!

GROUP C - Please remember to send a vimeo link of your video to me before class OR bring a playble DVD to class. Sadly, I am still without a laptop, so if anyone could volunteer theirs for the screenings, I would greatly appreciate it. If not, I can work something out with the Equipment Room.

Tim and I are canceling the casting activity we had planned this week, so class will end early.

On that note, I'd like to remind everyone that attendance is part of your grade in this course. I have been taking attendance and keeping track of late arrivals all semester, and some of you are taking a lot of days off from class. Your grade suffers because of this, and your classmates suffer from the absence of your intellectual contribution. We are in the stage of Post when people need to hear from you. If you expect feedback on your own work from your classmates, you are responsible for returning the favor to them by being in class for screenings.

That being said, I know you are all worn out. Take care of yourselves and each other. D2 productions are almost over! Enjoy your week!

D2 Screener Committees (Yes, It's That Time!)

This week, it was great to see some of Group A's footage! I'm pumped to see your films coming together, and most importantly, the performances were excellent.

Good luck to Christine, Matt, John, Tu, Nathaniel S., and everyone else working on their sets this weekend!

To those of you working every week on a shoot: remember to SLEEP, drink water, and don't just eat carbs!! You can't do your best work if your brain/body are suffering. :)

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This week we also discussed the D2 Screener, which will be on February 7, 2014!

As a class, you unanimously agreed to elect Lacie Ratliff and Chelsea Holler to co-produce the D2 Screener. As co-producers, their job is to act as liaisons between committee leaders, myself, and Jon Bowen. They are also in charge of coordinating any necessary meetings with committee leaders and keeping all committees on schedule.

Lacie and Chelsea have also talked about taking on food donations and extra partnerships that will boost attendance and raise the event's profile.

Below are the committees. All students may participate in other committees as they wish, but must prioritize the duties of their assigned committee FIRST.

All committees will need to agree on a leader to represent them. This person must coordinate/officiate all of their own committee's meetings as well as attend meetings between other committee leaders.

I will provide opportunities for in-class committee meetings as time allows. I will also be providing each group with a specific list of tasks and deadlines, as soon as possible.

D2 SCREENER COMMITTEES:

Bumper Production/Post:
Sean Osorio
Matt Crews
Justin Lance
Christine Penxa*
Jessica Keller

Event Promotion/Poster Design:
Nick Inman
Marcos Oliva-Huaman*
Jacob Sadowsky
Mike Mangione
Nathaniel Stephenson

Screener Curation/Program Info:
Nathan Graves
Jason Jack Underwood*
Kade Dalton
Steven Simone
Caitlin Trost

Event Set-Up:
Justin Ward*
Colton Kruse
Nick Izvernari
Kai Ettrick
Hayden Greiwe

Event Take-Down:
Josh Stone*
John Marello
Tu Do

*Committee leaders

If anyone would like to pitch an idea for the screener bumpers, please be prepared to do so next class meeting!

Course Updates: Week 8

We had a great session last week with Marco and the actors from Truthful Acting Studios. Many of you have expressed the value of these sessions, and I've made sure to pass on the thanks to them. I am also going to do whatever I can to recommend further collaboration with Truthful, hopefully to ensure future courses on directing are a valuable experience for students.

Good luck to Nathan, Jason, Justin Lance, Nick Izvernari and everyone working on their sets this weekend! Let's hope this streak of (mostly) good productions continues!

Happy rehearsals and locking down last minute details to Group D!

Group E - I look forward to seeing more completed notebooks from you all! Don't forget, I won't approve your equipment check-out unless all forms are fully filled out! Keep me posted if anything has changed on your productions, for better or worse.

NEXT WEEK:
Group A will be screening work! Everyone in Group A is required to show something as part of your grade. This can be a rough cut of your film or a longer scene. If you are not that far along, cut together all the dailies from a major scene in your film.

DELIVERY OF FOOTAGE:
The preferred delivery method is a private vimeo link that I can pull up in class. This wastes less materials and takes less time. If you upload to vimeo, please proof-watch your upload and email me the link and password by 9am on Wednesday. If you wish to bring a DVD to class, you may do so. DVDs will be due at class time, Noon.

No footage will be accepted late. "But it's just burning now! I'll have it in a few more minutes" - nope, I won't accept it.

As a class we will be providing feedback, so attendance is important for everyone (aside from being part of your grade)! The opportunity to give and receive feedback is one of the most valuable resources you have as a film student, so take it seriously and support your classmates' work.

For the next month, class time will be devoted to production updates and footage screenings. Though there will be no formal lectures or assignments, attendance is still required and recorded. Screening footage will be required for each group, as noted on the calendar. All group screenings are part of your overall grade.