Project! Project!
My Christian Humanism IV classes will be having a major project. They are tasked to create a 20 minute short film on
Virtue and Filipino values. I have asked each class to have four groups each (with a maximum of 10 members). The schedule deadlines are as follows
1st Quarter: Groupings, Staff: Producer, Director, Scriptwriter; Conceptualisation
2nd Quarter: Finance, Script, Pre-production Storyboard
3rd Quarter: Shooting, Trailer Production (1 minute max)
4th Quarter: Post Production & Movie Premiere Marketing
To aid the class in the movie making process, I suggest the following sites:
- Wordplayer Screen Writing Website From the writer of the animated feature "Shrek" comes this fascinating web resource on writing for film. It's kinda difficult to navigate through the site, so you might want to go to the site map first. Many people are having difficulty accessing the site but their table of contents seems ok.
- Movie Making Manual Basic Basics (Wikibooks) A section from an online textbook that introduces the basic concepts in filmmaking. This e-book will help initiate the novice filmmaker into the meanings of the following stages in filmmaking: conceptualisation, pre-production, production, and post-production. The MMM e-book itself seems incomplete though.
- The EEJIT Complete Guide to Filmmaking Some tips on each stage of filmmaking. I recommend you take a look at the pre-production links, most especially the storyboarding section.
- Guerilla Filmmaking A step-by-step description of the filmmaking process.
- FilmUnderground's Introduction to Fiction Production I initally thought it was a useless site that merely advertised a CD ROM of Filmmaking. However after perusing the articles section, I found a good number of interesting online articles about filmmaking.
- The Independent Filmmaking Network British site on independent filmmaking. Again, quite a number of paid advertisements (watch out for those double underlines) but a good collection of articles. Don't forget the article on writing dialogue.
- Free Film School A website that seems to make money out of books that are advertised on the site. Sometimes the ads take more than half of the page! But, breathe slowly, for there are number of good articles that you can reach via the tabs.
- Filmhelp.com's Filmaking Primer Film site by indie filmmaker Greg Pak. The site is schizophrenically in transition and may also be accessed through Pakbuzz.com.