Tuesday, 9 September 2014

New year at Creative Film & Moving Image Production @CCAD

Welcome to our brand new Level 4 students and our returning Level 5 and  Level 6 students!

We hope you have a fantastic year and do really well with developing your own blog sites to help you research for the modules and evidence all your findings!

Out with the old; Production Folders are being discontinued this year (Loud cheers from Levels 5 & 6), and in with the new! All production work will be submitted online via your Blog, the VLE or "Turnitin"depending on the module requirements.  Even your films will now be submitted digitally so no more burning DVD's and Blue-rays at the last minute to try and hit the deadline! Phew!

We are hoping for a really great year with some changes as above and with a couple of new cool toys which will be unveiled soon, it will hopefully be a great year for the course!

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Welcome to 2013 introductory professional studies

Hi All level 4

Welcome to Introductory professional studies.
It is important to start to research and develop your blogs.
This is how you will submit your reports for assessment and the supporting research. There is no folder work so any physical work must be scanned into your blogs.


The information that you upload to your weblog should include referenced primary and secondary research including weblinks where appropriate. You should also evaluate your research choices.

 
Your weblog can include:


§  Own photographs/scans of samples, products, designs from brochures etc.

§  Own photographs/films taken during research, trade shows, exhibition visits, etc.

§  Own photographs/scans of appropriate newspaper and journal articles

§  Weblinks to the work of appropriate practitioners and organisations

§  Images/content legally downloaded from appropriate weblogs and websites

§  Your own written posts evaluating your research

§  Production log

 
All downloaded, scanned and photographed material (visual and text based) MUST be legally sourced and referenced on your weblog.

Remember it is in your interest to get good at blogging as you must submit your work this way!

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Hi all Professional Studies students!
Welcome to your introduction or reminder to the blog sessions for this year!
Today we will be looking at me, Mike Boyle, Your NLP forms, and using or creating a blog site!

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Hello
I've refound this blog site and will start to use it again. This is essentially a tale of the FDA degree course and what our students get up to on the course!

Our first year students are currently working on their 16mm film projects, shooting their "Sense of..." dramas. The student productions are centred around a bank heist, A biker bar, a haunted house and a man who loses his mind!

The students have shot a B/W test shoot and they are now deep into production on their colour projects. This year we are doing a test of Kodak 250D stock versus Fuji 250D across the four films to see which give us the richer colours and saturation.It should be fun to see the footage when we have it returned from processing over the Xmas period.

As well as the 16mm films the first year (stage 5) students are working on their Location doc/drama digital project which are also due in January.  Busy time for the first years.

Our 2nd years (Stage 5) are getting ready to present their findings from their creative producion module where they test research and test new ways of developing thier film making skills and finishing off their shoots for their live clients, who have been found by the students themselves and gives the students an understanding of finding and working for a real client. Results in January for how they did!

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Multicam finished!

Hi all


Just to say well done to all the FDA TV & Film production students for getting their live Multi-camera production on air, as it were, live, bang on at 4pm yesterday. The show was the most ambitious ever conceived in my seven years teaching this module and the students are to be congratulated for even attempting such a difficult task which included no less than 14 actors playing 16 roles. While I can't talk about individual performances of the crew, it has to be said that the days up to and including the broadcast were a great team effort despite some serious difficulties and setbacks along the way. To all of you well done! I'd also like to thank the actors for their time, effort and of course their abilities, especially James Harris given the size of his script and the fact he took it on with very little time to learn such a large part. To all of you a huge thank you! Your copies of the performance will be with you in a few weeks time! On Monday we shall be reviewing the recording to see what worked, what did not and what it looked like in the final outcome. More nerves for the students I think!



Many regards

Mike Boyle