Final Poetry Film Project
Your chief directions come from Raszler's assignment This is intended as a supplementary guide to help your filmmaking.
Elements of design and how they function in film. This is the deeper study of what a director is trying to illicet from an audience
Contrast -- the juxtaposition of unrelated or surprising elements
Repetition -- the use of repeated images or sound to evoke emphasis, echo
Alignment -- thinking about the invisible lines that create relationship between items in a composition, or members in repeating shots
Proximity -- implied relationship between items in a composition
Fundamentals of Cinematography - Keep these in mind as you develop and storyboard your ideas
Composition: rule of thirds
Close-ups
Camera Angles
Cutting
Continuity
List of Filmmaking Ideas and Technigues
Silhouette / mask -- a la earth's Tyger, Tyger
Overlay
Nice shots (effects)
Music video style
Literal imagery - Followed lyrics visually
Repeated imagery
Camera angles
In and out of focus - blur to focus/focus to blur
Good music
Lens flair and transitions within transition
Use blend modes with stock effects and video
Panning
Warp stabilizers - post editing in Pr
Tripod, steady camera, or slider
For nature shots, makes a sense of calmness
Feet and legs - contextual, helps to establish poem
Wide angle lens
Interesting upside down shot
Upbeat jazz music
Use adjustment layers gives unified look to work
Can help give an old timey shots
Split Effect
Literal/Metaphorical Rep.
Locations and studio shots
Stock Footage
Rubberband trick
Warm/Cool Coloring
Adjustment Layer
Low Camera Angles
Subject Comes into Composition/Frame
Costume vs. Environment
To Music or Not?
Black and White Choice
Stock Effects/Blend Mode
Importance of Voice
Carefully Choreographer Shots
Use of Multiple Lenses
Shutter Speed
Use of 50mm Lens
Use or Lack of Music
Repeating Images
Relationship to the Words
Pacing
Shot Composition
Literal/Metaphorical Interpretation
Appreciation of Environment
Consciousness of Frame-rate
Using what the Shot Gives You
Evident/Clear Tone
Unique Voicing
Path shut - Split / continuation (rep)
Clear Footage → long shot
TO music or not to _____
Shots:literal or Metaphorical
OR suggestion
F-stop: low
“Arty” shots - serve purpose?
IN-AND-OUT-FOCUS
To stock or not…?
Controlling elements
Composition
Elements of design and how they function in film. This is the deeper study of what a director is trying to illicet from an audience
Contrast -- the juxtaposition of unrelated or surprising elements
Repetition -- the use of repeated images or sound to evoke emphasis, echo
Alignment -- thinking about the invisible lines that create relationship between items in a composition, or members in repeating shots
Proximity -- implied relationship between items in a composition
Fundamentals of Cinematography - Keep these in mind as you develop and storyboard your ideas
Composition: rule of thirds
Close-ups
Camera Angles
Cutting
Continuity
List of Filmmaking Ideas and Technigues
Silhouette / mask -- a la earth's Tyger, Tyger
Overlay
Nice shots (effects)
Music video style
Literal imagery - Followed lyrics visually
Repeated imagery
Camera angles
In and out of focus - blur to focus/focus to blur
Good music
Lens flair and transitions within transition
Use blend modes with stock effects and video
Panning
Warp stabilizers - post editing in Pr
Tripod, steady camera, or slider
For nature shots, makes a sense of calmness
Feet and legs - contextual, helps to establish poem
Wide angle lens
Interesting upside down shot
Upbeat jazz music
Use adjustment layers gives unified look to work
Can help give an old timey shots
Split Effect
Literal/Metaphorical Rep.
Locations and studio shots
Stock Footage
Rubberband trick
Warm/Cool Coloring
Adjustment Layer
Low Camera Angles
Subject Comes into Composition/Frame
Costume vs. Environment
To Music or Not?
Black and White Choice
Stock Effects/Blend Mode
Importance of Voice
Carefully Choreographer Shots
Use of Multiple Lenses
Shutter Speed
Use of 50mm Lens
Use or Lack of Music
Repeating Images
Relationship to the Words
Pacing
Shot Composition
Literal/Metaphorical Interpretation
Appreciation of Environment
Consciousness of Frame-rate
Using what the Shot Gives You
Evident/Clear Tone
Unique Voicing
Path shut - Split / continuation (rep)
Clear Footage → long shot
TO music or not to _____
Shots:literal or Metaphorical
OR suggestion
F-stop: low
“Arty” shots - serve purpose?
IN-AND-OUT-FOCUS
To stock or not…?
Controlling elements
Composition
After Effects Project #4: Animated Lesson of History
Your group's goal is to create a animation that presents a lesson of U.S. history in a highly entertaining way.
You are going to take a minor historical event and create a short (2 minute) video that teaches a lesson (NOT merely illustrating the event).
What do we learn or not learn from this event?
What is your claim about the importance of this event, and its effect on United States History?
To do this your group will create the following:
A script:
Engage your audience with the subject (why is it important, what should we know about it?), explain the details of the subject,
make an apt / interesting comparison or metaphor for your subject, create a fun way of understanding it.
This must be completed and approved before you begin to shoot. The best scripts are efficient, conversational, provides context,
makes occasional observations. Your script will include full narration and dialog, stage direction for characters, objects and backgrounds;
and sound cues. It will be typed.
A storyboard: a visual plan of how your script will be shown on screen: This will include how action will
be depicted (including camera angles), how text and graphics will interact with action, inclusion of sound
effects and music, animation and newsreel.
Leader: Keeps track of all group progress, communicates with teacher, executes storyboard
Animator: Collects design ideas, creates idea board and creates the initial assets for the group to share in Photoshop or Illustrator
Writer Researcher: writes script on shared Google doc
Requirements: Narrator(s) who appear on-screen or provide voice-over (v/o), occasional text on screen, interaction with pictures and video
Hints that will make your 2 minute video more entertainingand more educational:
Multiple camera angles and camera depth
Sound effects which enhance on screen action
Graphics
A logical progression of facts
Good illustrations which help with understanding
You are going to take a minor historical event and create a short (2 minute) video that teaches a lesson (NOT merely illustrating the event).
What do we learn or not learn from this event?
What is your claim about the importance of this event, and its effect on United States History?
To do this your group will create the following:
A script:
Engage your audience with the subject (why is it important, what should we know about it?), explain the details of the subject,
make an apt / interesting comparison or metaphor for your subject, create a fun way of understanding it.
This must be completed and approved before you begin to shoot. The best scripts are efficient, conversational, provides context,
makes occasional observations. Your script will include full narration and dialog, stage direction for characters, objects and backgrounds;
and sound cues. It will be typed.
A storyboard: a visual plan of how your script will be shown on screen: This will include how action will
be depicted (including camera angles), how text and graphics will interact with action, inclusion of sound
effects and music, animation and newsreel.
Leader: Keeps track of all group progress, communicates with teacher, executes storyboard
Animator: Collects design ideas, creates idea board and creates the initial assets for the group to share in Photoshop or Illustrator
Writer Researcher: writes script on shared Google doc
Requirements: Narrator(s) who appear on-screen or provide voice-over (v/o), occasional text on screen, interaction with pictures and video
Hints that will make your 2 minute video more entertainingand more educational:
Multiple camera angles and camera depth
Sound effects which enhance on screen action
Graphics
A logical progression of facts
Good illustrations which help with understanding
After Effects Project #3: Kinetic Typography
Animating a famous phrase, with voice and music
Here is the essential tutorial we'll be following
Prep: Find a famous phrase that you would like to animate (check it with Mr K)
Find some instrumental music on an .mp3 file that you can bring
Goal: to create a short piece of kinetic typography that uses a famous or important quote.
It will feature your voice (or someone else's) as a voice over, and have background music
It will exercise the principle of alignment, and intermediate animation techniques. It should use a null (parent) layer at least once.
Use good complimentary colors
This will be about a three day assignment (from Feb 6/7 - Feb 13/14)
Phase 1:
Storyboard how you would like your kinetic typography to work in your sketch area
Record your quote, once it has been approved. Have your quote read deliberately (it will help with the animation)
Compose each word on a separate layer. Move your Anchor Point to the desired location.
Decide on best font (You can use secondary fonts, but too many fonts make the animation look amateurish)
Move your words into position, into relationship with each other
Phase 2:
Some of your words should be linked together via a null (or parent layer). It will add a nice "order" to your animation
Individual words and syllables should be animated so that they appear with "punch" -- some examples:
o suddenly growing to position.
o moving in from another position
o appearing where the previous word was
o using a preset or effect as it comes in
Here are some additional tutorials here and here
Hints:
Limited use of repetition could enhance your animation. But be careful.
Don't use too many colors or fonts
Phase 3:
Export your animations from AfterEffects -- File>Export>Add to Render Queue
In Render Queue, change output module to H.264, and change Output To to correct destination. HIT THE RENDER BUTTON
Import the movie file of your animation, and the sound files of your voice and background music into Premier Pro.
Include in your edits:
o 2-3 seconds of lead and tail music (with fade in and fade out)
o Make sure the music does not interfere wth your voice. Use keyframing the volume line with the pen tool.
o If it feels too brief, consider repeating your animation in one movie.
File>Export>Media
Change Format to H.264, Preset to HD 1080p 29.97, and change output name to Quote.Class.Name (choose correct destination)
Hit Export button to create your .mp4 movie, which you will turn in.
Prep: Find a famous phrase that you would like to animate (check it with Mr K)
Find some instrumental music on an .mp3 file that you can bring
Goal: to create a short piece of kinetic typography that uses a famous or important quote.
It will feature your voice (or someone else's) as a voice over, and have background music
It will exercise the principle of alignment, and intermediate animation techniques. It should use a null (parent) layer at least once.
Use good complimentary colors
This will be about a three day assignment (from Feb 6/7 - Feb 13/14)
Phase 1:
Storyboard how you would like your kinetic typography to work in your sketch area
Record your quote, once it has been approved. Have your quote read deliberately (it will help with the animation)
Compose each word on a separate layer. Move your Anchor Point to the desired location.
Decide on best font (You can use secondary fonts, but too many fonts make the animation look amateurish)
Move your words into position, into relationship with each other
Phase 2:
Some of your words should be linked together via a null (or parent layer). It will add a nice "order" to your animation
Individual words and syllables should be animated so that they appear with "punch" -- some examples:
o suddenly growing to position.
o moving in from another position
o appearing where the previous word was
o using a preset or effect as it comes in
Here are some additional tutorials here and here
Hints:
Limited use of repetition could enhance your animation. But be careful.
Don't use too many colors or fonts
Phase 3:
Export your animations from AfterEffects -- File>Export>Add to Render Queue
In Render Queue, change output module to H.264, and change Output To to correct destination. HIT THE RENDER BUTTON
Import the movie file of your animation, and the sound files of your voice and background music into Premier Pro.
Include in your edits:
o 2-3 seconds of lead and tail music (with fade in and fade out)
o Make sure the music does not interfere wth your voice. Use keyframing the volume line with the pen tool.
o If it feels too brief, consider repeating your animation in one movie.
File>Export>Media
Change Format to H.264, Preset to HD 1080p 29.97, and change output name to Quote.Class.Name (choose correct destination)
Hit Export button to create your .mp4 movie, which you will turn in.
The second part of this tutorial. The key part here is to understand how a shape layer becomes a masking track matte.
After Effects Project #2B:
Goal: to animate a logo with several animated parts to give it a cool look
Part one:
Part one:
- Import the logo into Photoshop
- Make separate layers from the different colors. Use the Magic Wand tool to select the color. Understand "contiguous" (option bar) to determine how much of a color you want to select.
- Make sure your layers are labeled.
- Save as a PS doc with layers
- Import PS document into After Effects (File > Import > File)
- Select your PS file. In dialog box, import as composition.
- In secondary import box, choose Import Kind: Composition, Layer Options: Merge Layer Styles into Footage
- In broswer, double-click on your PS Composition
After Effects Project #1
After Effects Project #1: 30-Second Name Animation
An original 30-second animation sequence in After Effects, which can feature...
o Your Name, several times
o Images of You
o Images of your interests or things important to you
o Random animation
Your 30 seconds can be on one timeline, and exported as an .mp4 OR you can export multiple AE projects and assemble in Premier Pro, and export as .mp4 there
Export your .mp4 as AE1.class.name
An original 30-second animation sequence in After Effects, which can feature...
o Your Name, several times
o Images of You
o Images of your interests or things important to you
o Random animation
Your 30 seconds can be on one timeline, and exported as an .mp4 OR you can export multiple AE projects and assemble in Premier Pro, and export as .mp4 there
Export your .mp4 as AE1.class.name
Project #3 - Event / Business advertisement
Project #2 - Images of Me, a Photoshop project
Images of Me: a photoshop project
1) Write a list of 9 different words or phrases that describe you or things that you do.
2) On a piece of paper, sketch out how a picture of you might be used to depict that word
3) On a 8x10 photoshop document, make 9 copies of yourself and set them on a 3 by 3 grid.
4) Begin to photoshop each layer with a word about yourself in mind. Ask around if you have an idea for an effect you don't know how to make.
5) Use props, cutout effects, color overlays, filters.
6) A successful project will reveal your personalities and proclivities
1) Write a list of 9 different words or phrases that describe you or things that you do.
2) On a piece of paper, sketch out how a picture of you might be used to depict that word
3) On a 8x10 photoshop document, make 9 copies of yourself and set them on a 3 by 3 grid.
4) Begin to photoshop each layer with a word about yourself in mind. Ask around if you have an idea for an effect you don't know how to make.
5) Use props, cutout effects, color overlays, filters.
6) A successful project will reveal your personalities and proclivities
Project #1 - A little writing about Multimedia, the present and the future
Homework: getting started with answering the question, "Why is multimedia important in 2017?"
Begin drafting a two page essay which will highlight one reason why & how multimedia is important in 2017, and one direction multimedia will go in the next five years. Please report facts and also give some intelligent analysis of them. Your target should be about 500 words. Please come up with two primary reference sources for your essay. The first draft will be due on Sept 14/15.
Here are some articles on interesting topics of multimedia
Virtual reality in sports
Apple Watch
Begin drafting a two page essay which will highlight one reason why & how multimedia is important in 2017, and one direction multimedia will go in the next five years. Please report facts and also give some intelligent analysis of them. Your target should be about 500 words. Please come up with two primary reference sources for your essay. The first draft will be due on Sept 14/15.
Here are some articles on interesting topics of multimedia
Virtual reality in sports
Apple Watch