Audiovisual Design

STAGES OF SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT

Concept/Treatment/Screenplay

Concept
Describes basic outline of story. Who is the protagonist? (main character who drives the story).
What do they want? What gets in the way? What do they do? (goals+conflict=action). Where does the story take place?(time/location).

Treatment
Scene by scene in present tense of how film unfolds. Basic actions and plot structures. Generally equates to a paragraph for each major dramatic event. Not fully developed scenes with dialogue, precise settings or actions.

Dramatic Event = Narrative Beat
Narrative beat = an event which by actions, decisions or revelations of that moment move the plot forward by intensifynig plot or moving plot in new direction. Treatment sketches in essential events. Feelings not precision.

Non-Dramatic Treatments aka Project Proposals
Contains stylistic, information, content, technical specs, delivery mode, talent, length, schedule.
Written so look, feel, sound of project are important factors. Document is written to be read so project can be made so should be seen as a oppotunity to engage reader.

Screenplay
Written as it unfolds to an audience. A technical document and a literary manuscript. Communicates the 'spirit'of visual approach, tone, rhythm and pov.

Elements
-title
-scene heading
-stage direction
-dialogue
-character cues
-personal direction

Documentary

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2736319599359779313

This is a documentary about children that are born into the red light district of Calcutta. The children are given a camera each to take photographs of their life, showing the difficulties of the living, family and getting an education.

Personal Development Planning

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

Definition - "a set of abilities and skills , to indicate the taking of critical stance, an orientation to problem solving or state of mind." MOON 1999

Reflective Practice is simply creating a habit, structure or routine around examing experience.

"Reflection-in-action"
Donald Schon found that when effective practioneers were faced with a problem in their practice, they work through it instinctively and, drawing on previous similar experiences, they tried and tested out various possible solutions until the resolve the issue.

"Reflecting-on-action"
He proposed that by evaluating this type of event afterwards. Professionals enhanced their learning and added to their 'repertoire' of experiences, from which they could be drawn for future problem situations.

Schon believed that it was the ability to reflect both in, and on, action that identified the effective practioners from the less effective professionals.

The use of learning journals
-to record experience
-to develop learning in ways that enhance other learning
-to deeper quality of learning in the form of critical learning on developing a questioning attitude
-to enable learner to understand own learning process

-to facilitate learning from experience
-to increase attitude involvement in learning and personal ownership of learning
-to increase ability to reflect and improve quality of learning
-to enhance problem solving skills
-as a mean of assessment in formal education
-to enhance professional practice of the professional self in practice

-to explore the self, personal constructs of meaning and understand one's view of the world
-to enhance the personal valuing of the self towards self improvement
-for therapeutic purposes or as a means of supporting behaviour change

-to enhance creativity by making better use of intuitive understanding
-to free up writing and the repretation of learning
-to provide an alternative 'voice' for those not good at expressing themselves
-to faster reflective and creative interaction in a group

Audiovisual Design

SOUND

The audiovisual relationship is not natural but rather a sort of symbolic pact to which the audio spectator agrees to forget that sound is coming from the loud speakers and the picture from the screen. The audio spectator considers the elements of sound and vision.

Acoustic Properties

Loudness
The sound we hear results from vibration in the air. The amplitude, or breadth, of vibrations produces our sense of loudness, or volume AV sound constantly manipulates sound volume.
Loudness is also rated to percieve distance; often the louder the sound the closer it would be.

Pitch
The frenquency of sound vibrations govern pitch, or the percieved 'highness' or 'lowness' of the sound. Most sounds in life are 'complex tones' made up of different frenquencies. Pitch helps us to distingish music and speech from other sounds. Pitch also serves to distingish among objects.
Low pitched sounds such as thumps, can evoke hollow objects, while high pitched sounds suggest smoother or harder surfaces and more dense objects