We first see the hero following the villain down a pathway.
There is then a flashback to what happened moments before.
We see the villain walking down the steps and comes across a dealer.
Dealer: Alright, what you got in the briefcase.
Villain: Don't you worry everything is in there.
In the background we see the hero come in to the shot.
The deal takes place but the dealer isn't happy.
Dealer: Oi i don't think so mate.
Villain: What seems to be the problem here.
A fight scene then happens as the dealer hits the villain around the face knocking him to the ground. the villain then pulls out a weapon and shoots the dealer killing him.
As we see the villain walk off the hero comes in to the shot. It then carry's on back to real life after the flashback and the hero follows the villain. they chase each other the bridge and through an alleyway until they come to a stop.
Villain starts laughing
Hero: Put the fu**ing gun down
Villain carry's on laughing
Villain: Haha likewise.
We then hear a gun shot but we don't know who has been killed.
Friday, 31 January 2014
Original Script For our opening two minutes
The scrpit for our film is as follows:
We first see the hero following the villian down an alleyway. The villian keeps on turning around seeing if the hero is following him and he is. the villian then runs off and we see the flashback of what happened 2 minutes before:
Agent: Alright geezer, what you got in dat briefcase
Villian: Never you mind, cant stop ive got somewhere to be.
Agent puts his arm across to stop villian walking further.
Agent: I dont think so mateee, now hand over the briefcase.
Villian: Dont test my patience otherwise it could look nasty.
Agent: we can do this the easy way or the hard way, your choice i would rather do it the easy way, wouldnt you.
Villian: seriously im late now get out of way you prick
Agent swips his foot at the villian to put him on the deck and starts to beat him up. We then see a close up shot of the villian take out his gun and shoot the agent in the chest. The hero over sees this and calls out.
There is no dialogue for the next 45 seconds. The hero cathces up and holds a gun to the villian.
Hero: Oi stop, I know what you have done and I know whats in your briefcase, now turn around and hand it over.
Villain: No chance
Villian takes out his gun and holds it up aswell.
Hero: You dont need to this now come on drop the weapon.
Villain: No chance
The audience then see a close up of both people slowly pulling the trigger. The screen then goes black and we hear the sound of a gun in the background causing a cliffhanger.
We first see the hero following the villian down an alleyway. The villian keeps on turning around seeing if the hero is following him and he is. the villian then runs off and we see the flashback of what happened 2 minutes before:
Agent: Alright geezer, what you got in dat briefcase
Villian: Never you mind, cant stop ive got somewhere to be.
Agent puts his arm across to stop villian walking further.
Agent: I dont think so mateee, now hand over the briefcase.
Villian: Dont test my patience otherwise it could look nasty.
Agent: we can do this the easy way or the hard way, your choice i would rather do it the easy way, wouldnt you.
Villian: seriously im late now get out of way you prick
Agent swips his foot at the villian to put him on the deck and starts to beat him up. We then see a close up shot of the villian take out his gun and shoot the agent in the chest. The hero over sees this and calls out.
There is no dialogue for the next 45 seconds. The hero cathces up and holds a gun to the villian.
Hero: Oi stop, I know what you have done and I know whats in your briefcase, now turn around and hand it over.
Villain: No chance
Villian takes out his gun and holds it up aswell.
Hero: You dont need to this now come on drop the weapon.
Villain: No chance
The audience then see a close up of both people slowly pulling the trigger. The screen then goes black and we hear the sound of a gun in the background causing a cliffhanger.
Research and planning provisional mark
Name of student: Ed
Harrington
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RESEARCH
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Genre Research and mind-maps
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Yes
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Uploaded YouTube videos of openings - analysed
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Yes
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Opening titles analysed in detail – font researched
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Yes
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Add another post
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Uploaded YouTube videos of similar genre openings analysed
in detail
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Yes
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Add another post and comment on how it influenced your
planning and film idea
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Costume and location research – google earth and pictures
you’ve taken.
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Yes
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Actors and props photos and interviews
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Yes
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Soundtrack research (non-copyright music)
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Yes
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Audience Research and Profiling (typical audience member
and similar films)
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Yes
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Institution research (Paramount etc)
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Yes
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Certificate research
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Yes
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PLANNING
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Own film idea brainstorm
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Yes
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Own film treatment
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Yes
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Add a description of your final idea
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Relevant Online Tutorials and Comment
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Yes
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Upload another tutorial
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Documenting of influences on production
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No
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Upload ASAP
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Shot lists
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No
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Upload ASAP
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Consideration of
representation in your film and stereotyping – use theory from G325.
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No
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Upload ASAP
Use your media language, terminology and analysis skills
from the Exam Unit.
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Questionnaire (and feedback) Get some feedback on your
initial ideas!
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Yes
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Diary of
filming/editing etc with photos and screen grabs
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No
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Upload ASAP
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Mood board
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Yes
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Include pictures symbolising the props, settings, actors
(codes and conventions of the genre)
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Script
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No – where is this as it is ticked off on your checklist?
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Upload ASAP
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Practice titles created and uploaded
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No
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Upload ASAP
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Storyboard – animatic.
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Yes
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Upload animatic – comment on the editing and how it
influenced your filming
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Time Management Schedule
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Research and
planning mark scheme:
Level 2
8–11 marks
Planning and research evidence may be partially incomplete;
There is basic research into similar products and a potential target
audience;
There is basic organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;
There is basic work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or
storyboarding;
There is a basic level of care in the presentation of the research and
planning;
Time management may not be good.
Level 3
12–15 marks
Planning and research evidence will be complete;
There is proficient research into similar products and a potential
target audience;
There is proficient organisation of actors, locations, costumes or
props;
There is proficient work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or
storyboarding;
There is a good level of care in the presentation of the research and
planning;
Time management is good; there is a schedule of filming
There is no
animatic storyboard and/or mood board
Level 4
16–20 marks
Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed;
There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target
audience;
There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;
There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or
storyboarding;
There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research
and planning;
Time management is excellent.
Research and
planning mark 13 /20 Level
3
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Monday, 27 January 2014
Software
The software that we are going to use is Adobe Premiere Elements 11. We chose this out of the range of other movie editing pieces of software because it is the most accessible and simplest there is. The school computers have it and I also have it at allowing us to edit the film at school and at my house. It is very clear and a suitable range of tools that we will be needing.
The sort of things that it will do for us is render the video, reduce the camera shake, allows over lapping of layers of music/ sound, pictures and videos. The main effects that we will be adding to the opening two minutes will be a muzzle flash when Ryan fires the gun and also the sound of the gun and the bullet dropping, we wanted to add this as we wanted to try and make a toy gun look as real as possible.
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Own Film Treatment
The Exploit
Ryan Aaron and myself have created a 2 minute opening scene of an action genre film. We recorded in central Leatherhead along the river which gave the sense of urban and rural at the same time. This area was perfect as it was quiet, and so the deal at the beginning was not being over viewed by anyone else as the gang members would not wanted people listening in. Also having it along the river made it great for capturing a chase scene as there were lots of obstacles and maneuvers that had to take place, so there was a variety of different shots.
We have added a flash back to our opening two minutes to show what had previously happened before the chase scene had actually started.
The first two scenes were a combination of what had happened after the fight scene as this was where Ryan who is the villain and Aaron the Hero started walking away. We then had the last of these two scenes fade out and then the flash back which faded in. Now this is the part and reason of the story. The two Villains, myself and Ryan, are doing a deal with one another. I have a CD which has some files on and he hands over a briefcase which actually has nothing in there. Once I find out that there is nothing in there that's when it all kicks off. I hit Ryan around the head with the case and then punch him. Then he pulls the gun out and shoots me. He picks up the suitcase and now has both that and the CD. While all this was happening Aaron had been watching the whole thing right from the top of the staircase which Ryan had walked down.
Once all of this flashback has happened we then fade in the second scene which was at the begining and carry on in present time. This is where the chase scene starts. Soon Ryan notices that Aaron is following him and then they start running along the bridge in the centre of the town. They run accross the road into an alley and this is then where the river has burst its banks and this is then where the stand off is. Aaron has his gun pulled out and then Ryan pretends to put the bag down and his hands up when acctually he quickly pulls his Gun out. Aaron shouts at him to put his gun down and Ryan chuckles and says like wise.
Now the screen has gone black and all we hear is a gun shot and the bullet dropping. We decided to leave it at a cliff hanger so that the audience had to guess what was going to happen next and if and who somone just got shot.
Ryan Aaron and myself have created a 2 minute opening scene of an action genre film. We recorded in central Leatherhead along the river which gave the sense of urban and rural at the same time. This area was perfect as it was quiet, and so the deal at the beginning was not being over viewed by anyone else as the gang members would not wanted people listening in. Also having it along the river made it great for capturing a chase scene as there were lots of obstacles and maneuvers that had to take place, so there was a variety of different shots.
We have added a flash back to our opening two minutes to show what had previously happened before the chase scene had actually started.
The first two scenes were a combination of what had happened after the fight scene as this was where Ryan who is the villain and Aaron the Hero started walking away. We then had the last of these two scenes fade out and then the flash back which faded in. Now this is the part and reason of the story. The two Villains, myself and Ryan, are doing a deal with one another. I have a CD which has some files on and he hands over a briefcase which actually has nothing in there. Once I find out that there is nothing in there that's when it all kicks off. I hit Ryan around the head with the case and then punch him. Then he pulls the gun out and shoots me. He picks up the suitcase and now has both that and the CD. While all this was happening Aaron had been watching the whole thing right from the top of the staircase which Ryan had walked down.
Once all of this flashback has happened we then fade in the second scene which was at the begining and carry on in present time. This is where the chase scene starts. Soon Ryan notices that Aaron is following him and then they start running along the bridge in the centre of the town. They run accross the road into an alley and this is then where the river has burst its banks and this is then where the stand off is. Aaron has his gun pulled out and then Ryan pretends to put the bag down and his hands up when acctually he quickly pulls his Gun out. Aaron shouts at him to put his gun down and Ryan chuckles and says like wise.
Now the screen has gone black and all we hear is a gun shot and the bullet dropping. We decided to leave it at a cliff hanger so that the audience had to guess what was going to happen next and if and who somone just got shot.
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Focus on completing in the lessons this week: Practise Titles, an Animatic Storyboard and any further Online Tutorials. You can then create a post evaluating your tutorials and experiments on Adobe and comment on whether they were useful or not.
You need to further your comments on the Tutorial Post that you have created so far, explain what was particularly useful etc.
Could you add any more point to your Time Management Post - explain what you filmed on each day, what shots were successful, what had to be refilmed or adjusted etc.
Upload a post a day to ensure that you meet the deadline for research and planning on the 27th January.
You need to further your comments on the Tutorial Post that you have created so far, explain what was particularly useful etc.
Could you add any more point to your Time Management Post - explain what you filmed on each day, what shots were successful, what had to be refilmed or adjusted etc.
Upload a post a day to ensure that you meet the deadline for research and planning on the 27th January.
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Tutorials
We didn't understand why our videos kept lagging and then when we found out we had to render it. This is the tutorial that we followed to render the opening so that it did not lag. We then found out if the video actually did need rendering there would be a red line above the clips. There were red lines and all we had to do was just click on the timeline and hit enter. This then rendered the video for us and stopped the lag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgN3212xuoY
Another thing that we wanted to add to our opening two minutes was a realistic muzzle flash when Ryan fires the gun. We looked over the internet and realized how simple it was, at the time we also added a sound but we knew how to do this already.
Lastly we noticed a considerable amount of camera shake on some of our shots. We look on the internet on how to reduce this camera shake. We found that somone had already asked this question the Adobe forums and luckily somone had answered it. All we had to do was add the Video Stablizier effect to each of the clips that had this shaking in them. Once we had done this and then rendered it which took a couple of hours we realised that this was a complete mitake. The software had just put in black bits on the side of the screen when it did shake. So we straight away undid all the changes amd just had to deal with having a little of shake on the shots which werent that very noticable when only watching the video once.
Another thing that we wanted to add to our opening two minutes was a realistic muzzle flash when Ryan fires the gun. We looked over the internet and realized how simple it was, at the time we also added a sound but we knew how to do this already.
Lastly we noticed a considerable amount of camera shake on some of our shots. We look on the internet on how to reduce this camera shake. We found that somone had already asked this question the Adobe forums and luckily somone had answered it. All we had to do was add the Video Stablizier effect to each of the clips that had this shaking in them. Once we had done this and then rendered it which took a couple of hours we realised that this was a complete mitake. The software had just put in black bits on the side of the screen when it did shake. So we straight away undid all the changes amd just had to deal with having a little of shake on the shots which werent that very noticable when only watching the video once.
Time Management
Our time management for recording the opening two minutes of our film was quite well done as we didnt have any commitments at this time of year which was the end of 2013, as everything had ended, clubs, school etc. The date we did all filming on was 22nd December 2013. Because the light was going quite early we decided to do the filming during mid day as we thought that that would give us plenty of light.
One thing that we were very lucky with was the flooding, we were filming along the river mole and there was already a bit of flooding but we used that too our advantage, but then in the next couple of days there was flooding and would of made filming the first two minutes impossible.
Over all it only took us 2 hours to film everything, this probably would of taken longer if we didnt keep retaking shots but we did this so that we didn't have to go back out and retake them.
Once we had loaded all of the shots onto the computer we did not need to retake any. This was because we perfected each shot at the time as we watched each of them at the time to make sure they were suitable.
Blog Tick List
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RESEARCH
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Genre Research and mind-maps (3 posts)
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Yep you have done all genres needed.
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Uploaded YouTube videos of openings – analysed (10
openings)
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Yep all 10 are there
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Opening titles analysed in detail – font researched
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Not sure if you have done it yet
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Uploaded YouTube videos of similar genre openings analysed
in detail (3 posts)
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Yep all there
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Costume and location research – google earth and pictures
you’ve taken. (At least 2 posts)
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Yes 2 posts done
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Actors and props photos and interviews
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Y
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Yes done
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Soundtrack research (non-copyright music)
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Y
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Yep you’ve done this
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Audience Research and Profiling (typical audience member
and similar films)
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Y
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Yep
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Institution research (Paramount etc)
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All of them are there
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Certificate research
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Yes every age range is listed
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PLANNING
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Own film idea brainstorm
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Yep
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Own film treatment
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In progress
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Relevant Online Tutorials (on filming and editing) and
Comments (At least 2 posts)
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Documenting of influences on production
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??????
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Not sure
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Shot lists
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Don’t think its done yet
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Consideration of representation in your film and
stereotyping – use theory from G325.
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Not sure
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Questionnaire (and feedback) Get some feedback on your
initial ideas!
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Y
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All questions are there and analysed
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Diary of
filming/editing etc with photos and screen grabs (At least 3 posts)
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Needs to be done
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Mood board
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Yes done
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Script
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Yep the plan is there
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Practice titles created and uploaded
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Not sure what this is
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Storyboard – animatic.
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Needs to be done
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Time Management Schedule – what you did& when,
problems you encountered& solved
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Needs to be done
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Codes and Conventions featured in your Opening Two Minutes
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Ensure that all posts have a title, detailed comments and
relevant pictures which are commented on.
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