Timetable for PGD and MA phase

PDG phase

Week 27-28: Continue to read some books, journals and articles that mentioned in bibliography. Continue to watch some director’s film and undertake a comparative study of this director’s film in different period and different movie style. That is including: a Japanese director Iwai Shunji and a Chinese director Yimou Zhang.

Week 29-30: Consider about how to use colour to create one type of atmosphere through post-production phase. Write a script for a short film (about 3-5 minutes). Make a plan for the second short film.

Week 31: Start to learn After Effects, watch tutorials on the internet.

Week 32-33: Draw storyboard for my short film

Week 34: Shoot for the short film

Week 35: Make one part of my short film, and then adjust the colour through after effect to make the images have different effects (about 5-10 types)

Week 36: Show these short part to the audience who are selected members of the cinema going public, get some feedback from them.

Week 37: Interview effect artist in Broadway in order to know what visual effects they usually use in post-production phase. How can they change the final pictures of the film?

Week 38-39: Edit the film and finish it. Start to test the final film.

Week 40: Second phase Assessment

Week 41: Show the short film to some audience, to test what different feeling bring to them. Get some comments from them.

Week 42-43: Continue to learn After Effects, watch tutorials on the internet.

MA phase

Week 44-45: Continue to read some books, journals and articles relate to my project. Search for Tim burton’s work to learn how he creates a scene. See scene design pictures for he’s movies, learn how he design and prepare setting.

Week 46-47: Write a script for the third phase (about 5 minutes). Talk about my script with tutors and staff in school and Broadway to get some comments, and then rewrite or change some details about it.

Week 48: Draw some scenes which were need through the script. Make a plan for shooting my third short film.

Week 49-50: Expo tutorials. Shoot for the film

Week 53-3: Summer break. Editing my short film and finish it.

Week 4: Prepare for the Expo

Week 5-6: Expo

Week 7: MA assessment