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Visual Art 1 Home Project: 1984 iMovie |Printer friendly version .pdf| |Download iMovie training presentation| |Go to website on how to get started using iMovie| Over the summer, I had you read the story 1984 by George Orwell. This story has many meanings and warnings that are probably more relevant today than they were when the story was originally written. Your assignment is to create a short film about the future of Winston’s world in 2004, twenty years past 1984. This will be a team project, developed and presented as a group. Begin by discussing the main plot of the book and some of the main ideas. Then hypothesize how things would change, improve, or stay the same over a twenty-year period. Choose a main character for your story. It can be a character from the book, aged 20 years, or a totally new character, perhaps related to one of the main characters in some way. Next develop the story you want to tell. It might simply be a day in this character’s life, or even just a few minutes of his life (going to work, eating breakfast, etc). Demonstrate at least 3 of the main ideas of the book in your movie, except you have to predict how things are different 20 years later. An example might be dealing with the question of whether or not they are still at war twenty years later. Have things improved? Gotten worse? How? Does Big Brother even look the same? You can deal with these ideas very overtly or very subtly. Creating a film involves four parts, which I call the four P’s: Planning, Production, Post-Production, and Evaluation (with a silent P). Once you’ve got your basic story idea. Begin planning by working out a storyboard. A storyboard is a visual illustration of the shots that will make up the film. This is where you work out composition and sequence of events. Be creative here. Move the viewer around. Click here for an example. Next, start Producing your film. A couple of hints about shooting your film: 1. Use a tripod when possible. Unsteady hands make for bad films. 2. Shoot more footage than you need. 3.You might want to shoot the same event from several different angles so you can cut them together. 4. About sound: Don’t use voices. If you do, then use a mic or do a voice over. Now, once you have all your footage, you will begin Post-production. Basically, this means editing your film and adding any special effects, sound and music that you want. Definitely use background music if you can. I will be giving you basics on how to edit your film. Be conscious of the pacing of the film. Remember, it must be at least 1 minute but keep it under 5 minutes. After you’ve got your first edit, watch it and see if anything can be eliminated. Remember, less is more with movies. Lastly, you will be showing your team’s film and we will be evaluating it as a class. The goal is to give praise and constructive criticism so you can go back and edit it one more time before turning in the final product. Lastly, you will write a summary of what you did as a part of you team and observations about the experience. This will also be a chance to privately praise and critique your team members. We will also be having a Film Festival at Henrico High this year and you will have the chance to show your work there as well!
Approximate Word count = 2034
Approximate Pages = 8.1
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