The PB-2 brief is up online to review.

You will need to individually do a case study of a k-film, log some of the Carrying Home rushes and make a small working k-film.

i. Case Study

Chose a k-film from the Korsakow showcase web page.

In your G-doc diary create and entry titled ‘PB2 K-film Case Study – ‘[name of k-film]’ and create a bookmark link that you can add to your assessment doc.

Cut and paste these questions into your case study entry and provide responses up to a minimum of 1000 words.

a. Who made this k-film and when? Provide a full Harvard reference of the work with a link to it in the reference.

b. What is this k-film about? How much context has been provided by the producer? What additional web pages or sites have been used to provide this context?

c. How has the opening web page/interface been designed? In relation to the concept of ‘spatial montage’ how has the producer worked with preview windows and the main viewing window within the space of the browser window? Do you think it works successfully form the POV of the user?

d. The separate video granules in this work – how have they been designed? What duration are they (on average)? What is the content of these granules (is it interview material, live action shots, animation…single shots, edited sequences etc)? What is your understanding of the concept of ‘granularity’?

e. How have the video granules been recorded (static shots, tracking, hand-held etc? What type of camera was used?

f. What type of post-production has been used to make each video granule? Are they simply or elaborately post-produced?

g. Are the video granules similar in terms of consistency? How do they work/function as a ‘collection’?

h. What type of multilinear narrative/nonarrative do you think this work is presenting? (i.e. categorical, rhetorical, associative…)

i. In relation to the idea of an “open structure” in a narrative/non-narrative how difficult is it to understand the narrative/non-narrative that is being presented to the viewer? Does the viewer have to do a lot of work to make connections between shots/sequences? Are the multiple connections to random and you lose interest?

j. Can you identify the themes that the producer has embedded into the work through the multiple connections made between shots/sequences? Idf you had to work out the keywords used to make the k-film – what do you think they would be?

k. What other techniques have been used to help you understand the multilinear structure (or the multiple connections between shots/sequences? Have they used text descriptions? How have they been used?

ii. Logging the rushes. You will be given a designated section of rushes to log and pointed to a collective studio logging (g-doc). Following the instructions in this logging (g-doc) you will have to complete the log of rushes and submit as part of the assessment of this project brief.

iii. Make a k-film. Working with the shots in the section of rushes you have logged. Select and create around 10 clips of video to use to make a small working k-film. (A tip is to organise yourself extremely well and document and take note of the workflow you use to do this from Premiere through to working in Korsakow – this will be come useful later and can be added to your diary reflections).

(Refer to the Korsakow tips on the technical blog page sources for help)