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Below you will find a series of tasks which need completing and blogging under RESEARCH or PLANNING. These can be done as a group, but all members must show active engagement. All except tasks 7 and 8 should be completed before any filming is started.

1. Titles analysis - analyse the opening and closing credits to three short films. You are looking at the production company credits/logos, the job titles included, star billing, fonts, text movement, and if titles are set against a black matte or transparent over particular shots. The aim is to use what you find out about titles in your final production.
2. Analysis of short films - select three different short films from the genre you intend to work in, and analyse. Look at the camerawork, the sound, the mise-en-scene, the characters, and the narrative. You can find some examples of short films by following this link to www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/ or www.youtube.com/user/futureshorts or www.youtube.com/user/BFIfilms. We have also selected a few films from the BBC site which you may find of interest - just click here.
3. Screenplay - you will be taught how to produce a screenplay. When complete this should be uploaded to your blog.
4. Recce shots and report - go and look at the location you wish to use for your film. Take photographs and upload them to your blog, either directly, or better still, through Flickr. You should then write a short post explaining why you are using these locations. You will also use these photographs as backgrounds for your storyboards.
5. Make a company logo and/or ident - use Photoshop, or other paint/photo/draw software as appropraite, to produce a company logo. You could then animate it in Flash or Premiere to produce an ident for your film.
6. Animatic storyboard - produce a storyboard using Pikkipi. Instruction about how to do this can be found here. You should then animate this by importing into Premiere. Your animatic should represent your full film and give an idea of pace and rythm. Make sure that you include both opening and closing credits and record a soundtrack with both dialogue and music.
7. Risk assessment - all filming involves risks. Some locations and activities are riskier than others. It is your responsibility to keep yourself and your team/cast safe by identifying risks and planning how to avoid being harmed by them. Complete a risk assessment form for each shoot and upload to your blog.
8. Shooting schedule - complete a shooting schedule for each time you go out to film. Either complete online or scan a paper version and upload to your blog.
9. Photos on the shoot - keep a record of your filming and blog a short journal of your shoot, or be creative with Flickr.
10. Make some screengrabs whilst you are editing and blog a short editing journal.

You should also blog any thoughts or initial ideas, decisions taken, an outline of your role in the group, and reflections on what you have done.