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Thursday 11 March 2010 (week 2) | email | e-Learning
The Screen Test
We want you to enter the Greater Manchester Schools Film Festival. 2009 will be the first year Trinity C of E High School has ever submitted an entry.
Interested? This is what you need to do:
PHASE ONE: CLOSING DATE FRIDAY 30TH JANUARY:
Write a short film, no more than 5 minutes in length (read it aloud and time yourself) and hand your entry in to the LRB.
This entry can take various forms: it can be a screenplay (script) or a treatment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenplay
“A screenplay or script is a written plan for a film or television program.
Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works such as novels. The major components of a screenplay are action and dialogue, with the "action" being "what we see happening" and "dialogue" being "what we hear" (i.e., what the characters say). The characters, when first introduced in the screenplay, may also be described visually.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_treatment
“A film treatment (or treatment for short) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture. It is generally longer and more detailed than an outline (or one-page synopsis) and shorter and less detailed than a step outline, but it may include details of directorial style that an outline omits. They read like a short story. There are two types: the original draft treatment, created during the writing process, and the presentation treatment, created as presentation material.”
For further definitions of these terms see:
- http://www.imdb.com/Glossary/S#script
- http://www.imdb.com/Glossary/S#screenplay
- http://www.imdb.com/Glossary/T#treatment
For tips and information see:
- http://www.clc-oldham.org.uk/film08/Site/Film%20Festival%202008.html
- http://www.channel4.com/film/shortsandclips/shorts.html
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/ www.imdb.com
- http://www.screenwriting.info/
You can work in groups or alone, but have some people in mind that you’d like to work with. You may need their help…
PRIZES
The best 3 entries will win a £15 HMV voucher. The writers of those films will also go on to the next stage of our competition: with CLC and school equipment and training, they will have what they need to make their idea a reality. The finished films will then be screened to Trinity students and staff, who will vote to decide which film goes forward to the Greater Manchester Schools Film Festival. This film will be screened at the Odeon Cinema in the Printworks.
The Rules
- Your film must be no longer than 5 Minutes. There is no minimum length.
- You can work alone or in groups.
- Your film can be about any subject, a factual documentary or a story. Last year’s winner used a mix of stop-motion animation and live action.
- Your film must be entirely your own work. That means your team must do all the writing, shooting, sound, music, editing, etc. Students who make it through to the second stage of the competition will be taught how to do all these things.
- The closing date for FINISHED entries is Friday 5th June 2009.
Information for Schools
You are invited to submit a film made by pupils for screening within the 2009 Greater Manchester Schools Film Festival.
The screenings will take place at a central Manchester cinema on Sunday 21st June at the Odeon Cinema in The Printworks, Manchester.
The Film Festival 2009 will include prizes awarded in the following categories:
- Best Primary Film
- Best Secondary Fiction Film
- Best Secondary Factual Film (KS3 only)
The category Best Secondary Factual Film will be run as part of the BBC News School Report, through which initiative the BBC are a partner in the Festival (more information at www.bbc.co.uk/school report).
Entries must meet the following criteria:
- Films to be no more than five minutes in length (there is no minimum length).
- The deadline for completion is Friday 5th June 2009.
- Films may be live action, animation, or a combination, and may be on any topic and in any genre.
- All aspects of the process (planning, scripting, shooting, editing, etc) must be entirely the pupils’ own work, though this will not of course be without training and assistance.
- Each submitting school must complete an entry form, signed by the Headteacher, which will include confirmation that the school has parental permission for public screening and publication on DVD and the internet for any pupils whose images appear in the film.
- No commercially published audio may be used in the soundtrack.
- Only one film may be entered from each school into the competition for screening at the Printworks, although all films made will be included in the DVD.
