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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.
3. Make a company logo and ident - use Photoshop to produce a company logo. Then animate it in Flash to produce an ident for your film.
4. Animatic storyboard - produce a storyboard and scan the individual "boards" as JPG files. You should then animate these by importing them into Premiere and placing them on the time line. 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.
5. Recce shots and report - go and look at the location you wish to use for your film. Take photographs and upload them to the blog. You should then write a short post explaining why you are using these locations.
6. Shooting schedule - complete a shooting schedule for each time you go out to film (this are available from your teacher). Either complete online or scan a paper version and upload to your blog.
7. Photos on the shoot - keep a record of your filming and blog a short journal of your shoot.
8. 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.