**Production Assignment** - Self-selected three-person project - Available Apr 12 - Due on Apr 19 at 9:55 am - Submit one MP4 on Glow for your team. This file should be about 720 x 360 (2:1) to match the aspect ratio of the source material and be smaller than 20 MB (the _original_ film clip is 10 MB!) - Submit an one [self evaluation](selfevaluation.md.html) per person on paper in class      For this assignment, we are asking you to reproduce a sequence of four consecutive shots from Lily Ana Amirpour's _A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night_, an indie hit at Sundance in 2014. Stills of the shots are shown above. The entire sequence runs 6:16 -- 6:41 in [this excerpt](a-girl-excerpt.mp4). We included some extra scenes in the excerpt so that you can appreciate the context for the sequence that you're working with. This is a three-person project, in which team members will rotate roles for each shot: 1. camera 2. lights 3. direction (blocking + set) and post (compositing and editing) Working out team assignments is part of the project, but be sure to tell us who had which role for which shot. You won't be able to reproduce the shots we've assigned precisely. Instead, we're looking for your ability to solve problems through imagination and improvisation. How close can you come to Amirpour, both technically (framing, blocking and composition, perspective, depth of field, frame rate, shutter time, field of view, tone, expressive composition, etc.) and in terms of feel (does your sequence basically convey the emotional content of the scene?). Don't worry too much about casting; it's fine, for example, if the gender and age of your actors departs from that in the film. You may lift the audio from our clip or supply your own. Because your camera is almost certainly in color, you will have to post-process the film to achieve a monochrome look. We _highly_ recommend using the OIT video studio and lights (purchased specially for this course) for this project. You can (sign up)[http://oit.williams.edu/help/glow/how-to-sign-up/] to reserve the studio on Glow, and Tamra will assist you in using the equipment. She's provided an online [guide and rules](Studio275-rules.pdf) for the studio. For filming, you can either use the in-studio camera with a SD card from OIT or check out a separate camera from OIT. Either way, you should reserve the camera at the same time as your studio session. Be sure to plan ahead! You'll need several hours, and want to have thought about your shots before you get into the studio. We provide lights and several props: tables, chairs, and fake eggs. To ensure that you satisfy the file size constraints, plan to export your movie several times while experimenting with quality settings. Because there is not a lot of motion or music, you can probably use very low quality on both video and audio...but keep the compression time slow, so that the software can give the best possible result under those settings. Look at the quality and size of your result and then iterate. This process usually takes me about an hour but runs mostly unattended. Below are the settings that I recommend for Premiere and for iMovie.