Planning Notes

Synopsis
-Cover broader variety of films
-Key characters, plot-lines

Screenplay
-Must produce 5-10 pages of script
-Always written in the present tense
-Do not discuss camera shots and angles in the script
-Need to be influenced of genre, director, history of your research

Recce Report
-Write about your location
-Say where it is, who it belongs to
-How the location relates to the film(s) in your study
-How it would help with camera shots and atmosphere - practicalities

Casting considerations
-Be creative with planning
-Why they would/wouldn't suit the role - facial and physical features
-Link it to your storyboard

Treatment
-Detailed description of the scene you want to convey
-Pictures, lighting, what camera shots you'll be using

Layout for your Key Frame
-Location
-Character behaviour
-Camera shots and angles
-Lighting and exposure
-Mise-en-scene
-LINK IT TO YOUR RESEARCH
-Rough shot photo or drawing (optional)

In two weeks time, first 1000 words of your essay completed

Class notes

Write an introduction to your essay's focus (300 words)
-Excellent analysis of primary materials, demonstrate understanding that supports your analysis
Description of key texts, both primary and secondary (200 words)
-Understand what critics are tying to say in their film reviews and theories. Apply theories relevantly to your texts
Aims of the research, details of what you're talking about. About 3 research questions. Formulate your sub-headings (200 words)
-Excellent use of terminology in all the right places
Paragraphs separated into research, question, subheading. 3-4 research questions(600-800 words per sub-heading)
-Excellent presentation skill, use creativity and different methods of writing
At the end of each sub-heading do a mini-conclusion
-Awesome ability to draw conclusions
Bibliography: films you used, research sources you used
-Excellent referencing of source materials, with detailed publishing information

Level 4 Mark Scheme

-Detailed analysis of evidence that backs up the points you'll be making in your analysis
- Well thought-out reasoning of your study using other research us theories and articles
-Understand what critics are tying to say in their film reviews and theories.
-Well-presented research. use bare cool Powerpoints and creative tings
-Make conclusions from your research

Primary Texts about Neurology

-"The first major breakthrough came in 1953, when Aserinsky and Kleitman discovered a physiological state which occurs periodically (in 90 minute cycles) throughout sleep, and occupies approximately 25% of our sleeping hours. This state is characterised, amongst other things, by heightened brain activation, bursts of rapid eye movement (REM), increased breathing and heart rate, genital engorgement and paralysis of bodily movement. It consists, in short, in a paradoxical physiological condition in which one is simultaneously highly aroused and yet fast asleep."

http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/solms4.htm

-"How dreams are generated, and what purpose they might serve, are completely open questions at this point. These results describe for the first time in detail the extent of lesion necessary to produce loss of dreaming in the absence of other neurological deficits. As such, they offer a target for further study of the localization of dreaming," said author Claudio L. Bassetti, M.D., of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital of Zurich in Switzerland.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040913092356.htm

2)  You are Conscious in Dreams

 Dreams represent a sleeping state of consciousness.  Centers that arouse consciousness (sites 1 and 2) become active.  Also, the same centers in the brain that process and perceive much of our waking space are active as well (sites  5, 7, 8). Thus, in our dreams we perceive that we are awake. Foulkes ^{cited in 67} argues that dreams are little more than waking consciousness stripped of most sensory input and freed from the obligation of making coherent connections to the external world.  We are not in quite the same state of consciousness as when awake, but we are consciously viewing and moving around in a dream space, which we believe to be real.  

4)  Your Will is Absent or Diminished

 This inactive logic center of our sleeping brain (site A) is also the seat of our will, plus decisions and actions based on will.  Therefore in our dreams we generally don’t think to control our actions or the storyline of the dream, even though the dream is all created within our own mind.  We tend to exist as just a character in the dream, which is reacting to, subject to, or following the plot of the dream.  The possible exception is lucid dreaming, in which control is possible, but is not always total, and generally lasts for only a short time according to LaBerge.^{cited in 39}  The knowledge that the dream is not subject to the will of the ego is beneficial to dreamworking.  The characters in the dream, which represent feelings, beliefs, disconnected fragments of our personality, threatening emotional memories etc., are free to express their nature in the dream outside the influence of our will.  

http://www.dreamscience.org/idx_science_of_dreaming_section-3.htm




-"According to Freud, dreams always have a manifest and latent content.  The manifest content is what the dream seems to be saying. It is often bizarre and nonsensical.  The latent content is what the dream is really trying to say. Dreams give us a look into our unconscious."

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtheory/freud2.htm

-"Alfred Adler (1870 -1937) believes that dreams are an important tool to mastering control over your waking lives. They are problem-solving devices."

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtheory/

 

Coursework Ideas

Oedipal and Freud's influence on contemporary cinema
-Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, neurologist
-Explores ideas of incest and psychological motives between family relationships
-His theories have an influence on films such as:
-Dogtooth
-We Need To Talk About Kevin
-Womb
-I could possibly talk about how dysfunctional family life become once Oedipus Complex is addressed in certain films and situations
-Foreign films - psychological drama
-Flowers in the Attic, The Cement Garden

Influence of simulacra in contemporary cinema
-Inception
-Eternal Sunshine
-Source Code
-Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland
-The Matrix
-The Truman Show
-Sucker Punch
-Simulacra means simulation.and simulations link to the idea of hyper reality and the subconscious mind
-Ideas of lucid dreaming and the significance of being able to control dreams
- Plato: Simulacrum Theories
- Jean Baudrillard: Simulacrum and simulation
-Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton, Duncan Jones, Michel Gondry

Feminist film theory - 80s to contemporary Hollywood (mainly Mulvey's female gaze)
-The Breakfast Club
-Enough
-What's Love Got To Do With It?
-500 Days of Summer
-The journey of how women have gone from submissive and objectified to strong independent women who have the upper-hand in relationships and control of their own lives
-How the oppression of women has gradually been lifted over the years