License: A Narrative Film Project

In preparing this project, wanted to do something that I felt that the students at my school could do reasonably well with the resources that we have.  This lesson was to build on some of the other lessons that I have written for this class.  So the students would have experience with script writing, composition, lighting, sound, and editing software.  This assignment would be part of the endgame for the project.  One of the biggest problems with amateur films is continuity.  I wanted to focus the assessment on continuity, particularly the 30 degree rule and the 180 degree rule.  The full assignment can be found here.  As an important part of the assessment they are to do some basic pre-production by bracketing the script with shot/coverage.  A copy of mine for this project is found here and here.  For me it was enormously helpful to have that script while shooting.  Knowing myself I would have screwed up a lot more without it.  This is only a short section of the original script as per assignment.
I chose to not have them do a shot list, but in retrospect that would be a good idea.  Imagining the shot/coverage and executing it are two very different things.  That is why I find it imperative that the shots be edited together so we can really see the continuity.   We do have a video production lab at my school with both Premier and FinalCutPro.  The students would have access to this equipment to finish the project.  In the end I think that this would be a great stepping stone to a final project in the class.  Enjoy.