Along with the SOF/COF, a 3-paragraph film proposal is also due.
The 3-paragraph film proposal must describe the plot and the preproduction needed for your 1-2 minute short film, due at the end of the marking period.
The format for the SOF/COF is here.
This is due from all 10th, 11th and 12th grade students.
On October 12th the TV/Film Department will be having a Lab Hour Night from 3pm to 8pm. Students will be working together to create a short film during that time. It is open to all grades, but especially freshmen. This is a great opportunity to get all your mandatory lab hours in one session.
There will be at least one Lab Hour Night per marking period during the school year. Please see Mr. Roehm or Mr. Warren for more details.
This event is for TV/Film and Animation students only. Students from other departments must receive permission or be invited in advance.
On Friday, June 3, 2011, the film department at chARTer~TECH High School will present their 7th Annual Film festival at the Frank Theatres Towne Stadium 16
at 6733 Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Twp.
The festival begins at 7pm.
Tickets are $7 for adults, $5. for students with I.D. and can be purchased at the door or in advance at chARTer~TECH.
In the past the Festival has been held at a variety of venues. This is the first time it will be held at a local movie theater.
The festival will include a collection of short films written, directed and produced by students. The themes of the films include comedy, drama and mystery. Don’t miss this Premiere event!
By Kelly Marie Jenkins
On Tuesday, March 22nd, Mr. Roehm and Mr. Warren took ten TV/Film students, myself included, to the American Museum of Moving Image and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Half of the group, freshmen and sophomores went to the museum with Mr. Roehm and the other half, juniors and seniors, went to the college with Mr. Warren. Instead of going to the museum like the other Sophomores, I went to see the School of Visual Arts, my dream college.
Well we didn’t just go to the college…
The SVA group had planned to go on a tour of NBC, which we ended up not being able to for time reasons. So instead we walked around Manhattan to SVA. For our first stop we visited was the Kinokuniyia Bookstore in Manhattan which had quite a section on Japanesse Film Studies. And Miriam was in heaven.
After that we decided to find a food place on foot. Eventually we stopped at this Automat and ate, which wasn’t far from the school. Then from there we continued to SVA on foot. When we reached there it was only five minutes before our tour.
Our tour guide showed us around the Graphic Arts and Film sections. The school had rooms filled with full equipt and updated Macs for film editing and graphic arts. Their sound rooms even had the news version of Pro Tools and were soundproof. The Equipment room was huge and had different cameras that we had never heard of before. But best of all, the had a room full of Macs running Avid Media Composer.
Overall, this school was pretty awesome.
Then our tour guide told us about the six hour long classes…
Monday March 7th from 3pm-8pm 2011
By Kelly Marie Jenkins
It’s what we’ve all been waiting for, Mr. Roehm and Mr. Warren couldn’t agree on how to go about our Short Film Project for this Marking Period and decided to split TV into two teams to attempt to prove the other’s way wrong.
Last Thursday the Department had it’s second Departmental Meeting during Intermission, during which we discussed a number of issues within the department. Then Mr. Roehm and Mr. Warren announced that their department would be holding a competition (call me a psychic but I distinctly remember mentioning how we should have one…), and that the two had split the department up into Team Roehm, Team Warren, Team Yearbook, Team Neutral, and Team Independent. Of course the latter three are not actually competing per-say.
This has become the “first annual” Roehm Vs. Warren Film Challenge. As stated Team Roehm and Team Warren will be creating three films, one for each block, in two weeks. Said films will be aired on the TV News and the entirety of the school will be voting for their favorites. The team with the most films picked will then have a pizza party (should’ve been an ice cream party) that “may or may not be” bought for by the losing team. The other teams, Team Neutral will moving back and forth offering help to both teams, Team Independant will be creating a short animated film, and Team Yearbook will be working on the yearbook.
For the week following the announcement Team Roehm and Team Warren have been busy plotting their films and ways to trip up the other team. We are almost halfway through the competition so far, and both teams should be close to the filming stage by now. Everyone should look forward to watching the finished films on the news within the next few weeks, and should more importantly, wish good luck to all teams…
Of course coming from me that seems ironic and downright insulting since I’m on Team Warren…but eh, who cares.
By Rebekah Smith
Hello! My name’s Rebekah and I’m a freshman in the TV/Film Department. Anyway, a week or two ago, eleven students, including me, went on a field trip to NYC with Mr. Warren and Mr. Roehm. Mr. Warren took the four students (three seniors and a junior) to tour the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and Mr. Roehm took the remaining seven students (all freshmen) to the American Museum of Moving Image.
Our trip started off with a pit stop at Wawa. After that we were headed for NYC. It took three hours to get there, but fortunately traffic wasn’t so bad. Plus, the time just sort of flew by with sleeping and talking. The conversations we had ranged in everything from doughnuts to how cool it’d be if zebras could baa like sheep.
Once we were actually in the city, we dropped off Mr. Warren and his four students near SVA and Mr. Roehm and the seven of us took a quick drive through Times Square and then to AMMI.
AMMI was a whole lot of fun. We first looked at old optical illusion toys, like the bird in the cage toy, and then passed by a line of vintage cameras. We also made a flipbook. Basically, what we had to do was five seconds of any kind of movement in front of a camera and a computer would divide the movement into still frames. At the end of the tour we’d get the flipbook to take home. So we decided as a group that we’d be true New Jerseyeans and fist pumped for our flipbook. We also did voice recording for a scene of Babe, played a really old version of Pong, looked at masks, costumes, television sets, and special effects models, like Yoda and Linda Blair. By the time our tour was over, it was getting late, so we had to skip lunch, leave AMMI, and find Mr. Warren and his students so we could beat traffic and get home.
The ride home was a lot quieter than ride to NYC. Everybody was sleeping, eating, or just too tired to talk. Luckily, we were ahead of traffic so we reached ChARTer TECH by 6:40 p.m. And as I stepped into my mom’s car I prepared myself for the question I knew I was too tired to really answer, “So Bekah, what’d you do in New York?” Well, she’d get the full report the next day in the bits and pieces that I’d suddenly remember throughout the day about that unforgettable trip. For some weird reason, I was somewhat hesitant about going on the first trip to NYC, but I’m really glad I went when I did—I would’ve missed out on a ton of laughing, learning, and fun.
2011 Oscars
The class reviewed the nominations for the 2011 Oscars.
Soon, each student will be receiving a (sample) ballot including the 20+ nominations in multiple categories to fill out and return. The day after the Oscars, the ballots will be counted, and the top three closest students will each receive a prize.
Final Exam (All Grades)
Students will create a film (in a group) and write an essay (individually) about the experience.
Each group will be given 1 novelty gag (invisible ink, hand buzzer, sneezing powder etc.) to be used in their film. Along with that, they will have to use the line “It’s time to pay the price” either verbally or visually in the film.
And finally the group will roll a 6-sided die. To determine the genre of film they have to make.
The Regular Categories are:
1. Comedy
2. Romance
3. Drama
4. Scifi/Fantasy
5. Horror/Suspense
6. Foreign (a film made to look like it was created in another country)
If the group does not want what they got in the regular category , they can roll once in the Wildcard Category.
The Wildcard Category is a group of very specific films. Note: if a team decides to roll for a wildcard, they have to stick with whatever they roll.
The Wildcard Categories are:
1. Film de Fem (a film with a strong female lead)
2. Spy Movie (classic or modern)
3. National Holiday (the film must take place during a major American holiday)
4. Phobia Film (a film with a character(s) having a phobia)
5. Detective Story (classic or modern)
6. Home Movie (a film made to look homemade)
Good luck to all the groups!
January 6th 2011
Ice Cream Champions Directed by Julia Marrone
Black Death Directed by Desiree Gray
Bacon Directed by Nick Risley
Bury Directed by Gregg Kearn
Eros Esprit Directed by Elizabeth Erickson
Hot Chocolate Directed by Zyteeshia Rogers
Iz it Christmas? Directed by Keith Gordon
Are you a bully? Directed by Kelsey Wade
Test Directed by Jules Bliss
LIFE Directed by Turquoise F. Frazier
Clockface Directed by Gregg Kearns
The Whispering Directed by Zach Langford
Lock Her Heart Directed by Brandon Allen
Can Someone Help Me? Directed by Halee Johnson
The Sad Life of a Zombie Directed by Caylie Karstens
Missing Socks Directed by Desiree Gray
Stone of Dreaming Directed by Matt Torres
The Loser Directed by Luke Culleny
Sir Sirloin’s Hostage Directed by Maddy McKay
My Pencil Directed by Matt Torres
Trapped
Wrap-Around) Directed by Zach Langford
(RYAN) Directed by Matt Torres
(MIKE) Directed by Gregg Kearns
(JESS) Directed by Kelly Marie Jenkins
Pluto Directed by Matt Torres
Revenge of the Loser Directed by Luke Culleny
The Trash Portal Directed by Ryan Carr and Matt McLeish
