Thursday, March 28, 2013

First Assignment : Movie Teaser

Here are a few example of movie teaser poster.
Genre for a movie :

Action, Adventure, Animation, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Film-Noir, Game-Show, History, Horror, Music, Musical, Mystery, News, Reality-TV, Romance, Sci-Fi, Sport, Talk-Show, Thriller, War, Western

Introduction > Climax > Falling Action > End

Description and requirements
Produce an A3 size print for a Movie Teaser Poster.
The film should be a fictional (non-existing) Intellectual Property. A detailed proposal for the movie teaser poster should include the movie’s genre, the plot, the design hook, and the visual concept. The design technique and method could be based on photography key art or it could be a combination of photography and digital graphic imagery. All design development must be supported by in-depth research and informed rationalization.
You are encouraged to be as original as possible in your design and idea conceptualization.

My idea 1 :
I'm planning to make a horror genre movie.
The story should be happening at a university.
The reason why I chose university as a background because my target audience are college/university students.
The beginning of the story is where the new students first enter university and start their life as a university's students. And then there is night where they stay back to study and realize there is something not right about the place.
And they stay in a  group to see if they can solve this problem because nobody believe what they said.


My idea 2 :
An idea of making a Action, War, Sci-Fi genre movie.
The invasion of alien attacking our earth and this time Malaysia is one of the places involved.
Soldiers are sent to defend our country and there was a mass destruction of the cities due to the alien's firing power.
Reasons why I chose Malaysia as the background because I was wondering what will happen if the invasion happen in Malaysia.

Introduction : Few main actor including male and female are having their one day trip at one of the places in Malaysia where the alien suddenly start their invasion to earth.

Climax : While they are running away from the alien to save themselves, they have to take the gun that were left and fight their way to the gathering point.

Falling action : The human army win the war, the aliens decided to retreat.

End : A lot of buildings were destroyed and collapsed, where it takes time for all the countries to fix their country.

What is a Reflective Journal?


WHAT IS A REFLECTIVE JOURNAL?
A reflective journal is a way of thinking in a critical and analytical way about your work in progress. It shows how different aspects of your work interconnect.
The journal can record:
• where your inspiration comes from
• how you make use of your ideas to develop your work
• your awareness of the cultural context (setting) in which you work

This context includes: other artists’ work and their ideas; the ideas of critics and theorists; social, political, aesthetic and ideological contexts.
The journal could include:
• research notes
• personal comments on your own work
• notes/images from gallery visits
• quotes
• extracts from lectures, tutorials, books, journals
• photos/sketches

Critical and analytical writing
Critical writing involves many of the same processes as when reading. So what is Critical reading?
To read critically is to make judgements about how a text is written and argued. This is a highly reflective skill requiring you to ‘stand back’ from the text you are reading. You might have to read a text through once to get a basic grasp of content before you launch into an intensive critical reading.
These are the keys:
• don’t read only for information (surface approach)
• do read for clues about views and opinions (deep approach)
This means:
• comparing the same issue from different points of view
• identifying an argument (analysis of ideas/opinions) in the text
• identifying conclusions and spotting how different people arrive at different conclusions
• deciding what you think, based on the evidence available

Then, in your own writing:
• look at the subject from different viewpoints
• show a clear line of reasoning
• present evidence to support your reasoning
• be clear what your conclusions are

Reflective Writing
What is reflective writing?
Reflective writing is evidence of looking back at an event, idea, object, experience, process, etc
It involves:
• analysing and commenting on the object, process, etc from different points of view using contemporary ideas and theories
• exploring and explaining the importance or relevance of the object, process, etc
• considering things that went wrong as well as successes
• saying what the object, process, etc means to you
• saying how your learning will influence the way you work

Why is it Important?
• Reflective practice allows you to stand back and assess your work in a more detached light.
• Examining both your positive and negative experiences can help you
understand why you tend to approach things in certain ways and avoid others.
• Solving problems can become easier if you regularly reflect upon your practice.
• Reflective writing allows your tutors to see how you have developed your practice and ideas.
• Reflection is an essential skill for your future working life.

Topics for Reflection
• the process of research
• the process of a design you've been working on
• how you developed a new skill
• your work experience
• what you've learnt from a particular essay, theorist, lecture, designer, artist or from other students
• your influences
• your motivations
• how you work in a group / on your own
• how you feel / behave in crits
• things other people have said about your work

Here are some ways to help you read critically:
• read beginning and end of text to get an overview
• colour code different viewpoints
• underline key words, phrases, or sentences
• write comments in the margins (use stickers if it’s not your book)
• bracket important sections of the text
• show links with lines or arrows
• number related points in sequence

How to structure reflective writing
Description (don’t make this too long)
What is it? What happened? Why am I talking about it?
Interpretation
What is important, relevant, interesting, useful?
How is it similar to or different from others?
How can it be explored, explained using contemporary theories?

• What happened? This is a description of events, experiences, or a process you have been through
• What did I find inspiring in doing this project?
• What "critical incidents" should I focus on? (Critical incidents are experiences that stand out as having had a big impact on your approach / thinking)
• How do I feel about what happened?
• What was good about this experience?
• What did I learn from this experience? What new techniques, skills, abilities have I acquired?
• What was bad about it?
• What would I like to change and why?
• How can I explain this situation?
• What action could I have realistically taken to change the situation?
• What else could I do / have done?
• If I attempted something different, did the revised approach work?
• If so, is there a general principle here I could use again?
• If not, what could I try next, and why?

Outcome
• What have I learned from this?
• How will it influence my future work?