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Checklist(s)

Why? Why did I make this page? Never mind the Dictionary! How long will it take to compose this Checklist?

Did you see the "Ten Commandments" for film director?

This checklist is endless, kids. In fact, there are several of them (look at the Editing, for example). I think I will die before I can finish it. I do not want to die doing it.

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1. Checklist on Continuety

Editor:

1. The Film Editor watches the footage (takes)

2. The Film Editor completes an editing script including title and credits.

3. The Film Editor creates a rough cut in a recongnizable manner following the editing script.

4. The Film Editor creates a final cut clearly following the editing script and showing mastery of the editing process.

Props

[not posted yet]

Color, Art design continuety:

2. Checklist on Plot

Dramatic Composition

see script.vtheatre.net

3. Character(s) Checklist

5 Ws --Who, Where, Why, When, What

act.vtheatre.net

1-2-3 Dramatic Composition (Exposition, Climax, Resolution)

Tasks (Objectives) and Obstacles

Super-Objective and Through-Line

Type and relations to to rest of the cast

Genre (comedy, drama and etc.)

4. Images and Themes

Image must reappear at least three times. Visualization.

Symbols

5. Sound and Music

Main themes.

Sound design choices

6. Style

film.vtheatre.net

7. Tempo

See Editing and Edit pages.

Mise-en-Scene

Mise-en-Scene: What is put in the scene: The theatrics of space as that space is created for the camera. The staging of the shots.
All properties independent of: camera position, camera movement, and editing(for its own sake). Includes: lighting, costume, acting style, sets. (editing for the effect of the scene NOT for the edit itself)

Setting and sets: reality, documentary, fabricated

Costumes

Lighting

Quality of acting

Balance of character to scene or space

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Questions for analyzing mise-en-scene:

Do the objects and props in the setting, whether natural or created have special significance that relates to the characters or the story?

Does the arrangement of objects, props, and characters within the setting have some significance? Do inanimate objects seem to have life?

How do the events relate to the spaces in which they occur? (E.g. Does a catastrophe only occur in the city scenes?) Relate this to the overall effect not just to those specific scenes.

[ movies in class ]

[ to be updated in the Spring 2004 ]

PS

see shows.vtheatre.net

Learn by evaluating your own films!

Homework

see STUDENTS page!

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