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Video/Effects Curriculum

 

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HERE IS WHAT WE WILL BE LEARNING THIS WEEK:

1. VIDEO CAMERA ORIENTATION
2. VIDEO FRAMING
3. RULE OF THIRDS
4. ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS5
5. TRANSITIONS AND EFFECTS
6. AFTER EFFECTS VIDEO
7. AFTER EFFECTS

  

1. VIDEO CAMERA ORIENTATION

These are the cameras the students will be using:

ACD Systems Digital Imaging

HERE ARE THE THINGS STUDENTS WILL LEARN ABOUT THE USE OF THE VIDEO CAMERA:

  • How to put in a battery
  • How to turn the camera on
  • How to put a tape in (CAREFULLY)
  • How the zoom function works (zooming is for amateurs)
  • How the focus works (Autofocus vs. Manual focus)
  • Iris/Exposure
  • White Balance
  • ND/Filters
  • Audio (headphones…audio control…external microphone)
  • How to work camera with (preferred) and without a tripod
  • Discuss depth of field: zooming vs. dollying, panning vs. tracking
  • Introduce the students to “the mistakes amateurs do” such as zooming, panning, not using tripod, not white balancing, etc.
  • All the wrong things amateurs do: zooming, panning, no tripod, etc

 

HERE IS THE GREATEST EXAMPLE OF A BAD VIDEO EVER!

 

 

 

2. VIDEO FRAMING

  • is the various sizes a person can use in their shots (ex. Close-ups, medium shots, wide shots, etc.)
    Click and Watch this video.

 


Click on this link to see examples of video framing.

Video Framing Website

Video is a Close UP MEDIUM!

Students will be taught how to shoot various angles (and not be ashamed to be so close)
Wide angles is the best angle; depth of field
The theory behind different angles (low, high, etc.)

 

3. RULE OF THIRDS

The rule of thirds is a compositional rule of thumb in visual arts such as painting, photography and design. The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.

Click on this link to watch a video that breaks it down: Rule of Thirds Video

CHALLENGE 1:  SHOOT A SEQUENCE OF LS, MS, AND CU, AND TRY TO BUILD A STORY IN-CAMERA. MAKE SURE THERE IS A METHOD TO YOUR SHOOTING…WHAT STORY ARE YOU TELLING? We will play back the footage on a big screen and point out which sequences really work.

 

 


4. ADOBE PREMIERE PRO
Introduction to timeline, tools, shot sequences, trimming, titles, jump cuts, effects and transitions

Tools (selection, zoom, track select, etc.)

Selection tool

Shortcut V

The default tool, used to select clips in the timeline.


Track Select tool

lShortcut M

Select all clips on a track from a given point, or select multiple tracks.


Ripple Edit tool

Shortcut B

Adjust an edit point and move other clips in the timeline to compensate.


Rolling Edit tool

Shortcut N

Adjust an edit point between two clips without affecting the rest of the timeline.


Rate Stretch tool

Shortcut X

Change the duration of a clip while simultaneously changing the speed to compensate.


Razor tool

Shortcut C

Cut a clip (or multiple clips) into two clips.


Slip tool

Shortcut Y

Move a clip's in and out points by the same amount simultaneously, so the rest of the timeline is not affected.


Slide tool

Shortcut U

Move a clip back and forth in the timeline, while simultaneously adjusting adjacent clips to compensate.


Pen tool

Shortcut P

Create control (anchor) points.


Hand tool

Shortcut H

Drag the timeline view left and right.

Zoom tool

Shortcut Z

Click in the timeline to magnify the view, or drag and select a rectangular area to zoom into.

Navigating clips: In points, Out points, Sub Clips, Moving Clips in the timeline
Import multiple clips, select in points and out points, bring the clips into the timeline.
Create subclips: Control/(grab the screen with hand tool, drag into bin window)
Import a group of subclips into the timeline.

 

5. TRANSITION AND EFFECTS

 

How to separate an image from its background using the selection tool in Photoshop:

  • Here are your tool options:
  • magnetic lasso, quick selection tool, magic wand and magic eraser
  • Select the tool you want to use and take your cursor and draw around the area that you wish to select or "crop" out. Copy your selection by right clicking your mouse, and then paste your selection into a new layer in Photoshop.

BUICK FOOTAGE (Getting familiar with Buick footage, show them how to log, point out tracking shots, close-ups,)
Importance of the story
How to animate and layer in Premiere

 

CHALLENGE 2: Who can Select the images first and layer them into Photoshop?
Students will be given 3 things to select (use magic eraser or magic wand)
PD images will be provided. Students will have to lap them together on different layers in Photoshop. Then bring Photoshop layers into Premiere and animate the 3 separate layers.

 

FINAL PROJECT THEME WILL BE INTRODUCED

  • What do you think is the most difficult thing a kid goes through in school?

PREVIEW OF WHAT’S TO COME:  What’s possible with AE, what’s possible with blue screen, what’s possible with titles
Click and watch some examples of what you can do in AE.

6. After Effects Video 1


After Effects Video 2


After Effects Video 3

 

CHALLENGE 3: BUICK CHALLENGE
Instructors will introduce the students to Josh Bodnar’s Buick Car Commercial Footage then put them in groups of 2. Students will then have to create a 30sec. spot using this footage. Students will then watch each other’s spots and give feedback.
FINISH before lunchtime:  PEER REVIEW


7. AFTER EFFECTS:

  • Tools and Keyframes

DOWNLOAD THE BEE:

 

These are the tools

When Bee is dragged into the composition window, you can reposition, rescale, rotate etc. the bee across time.
In the timeline, dial down the Transform box and alter the attributes:
-Anchor Point
-Position
-Scale
-Rotation
-Opacity
It's easier to just drag and the keyframe will adjust to it.

  • Layers

Add a solid behind the bee. Layer/New/Solid.
Also bring in a video file to create three layers
.

  • Masks

Go over the mask tools (ellipse, circle, etc)
Draw on a solid (or on a movie layer)
Choose a shape to draw the mask, or draw your own with the pen tool..
Masks hide stuff!
Dial down and play with the mask paths (mask properties)
You can duplicate the mask (control D)
You can draw as many as 99 masks on one layer!
Adjust the shape of a mask over time.
(Toward Emotional Maturity is a good film for a first mask.)

  • Animating Text

Create a New Composition.
Start with a solid background.
Find the TEXT tool, type some text into the composition window (your name is a good choice) and a new layer will automatically appear.

Over to the right there is a separate button called “Animate”…If you don’t see the “Animate” button, click on the first or second icon at the bottom left of the screen and expand the layer switches panel.

Twirl the “Animate” button down and you’ll be able to choose various properties to animate.
Range selector determines which characters are selected by the particular adjustment.
Offset value: takes the value of the range and shifts it around.
Go to the “Add” menu and you can add additional properties to the original animation.
OR: you can go to the Effects and Presets Panel:

Here's a quicker way to animate text though!
Go to Click on flyout menu (little icon that looks like a bunch of lines) on the right hand side of the Effects and Presets panel:

From that flydown menu,
choose “Browse Presets”

It opens up Adobe Bridge. You can select from a variety of text animations.
Click to Preview; Double click to apply the effect.

 

  • Output Movie

Composition/Make Movie
Dialog box:
Hit RENDER in top right hand corner of timeline

2. Applying Effects

Select Layer/New/Solid (effects are often used with solid layers).

You HAVE to apply effects to a separate layer, so adding a New/Solid layer ensures that you’re not messing anything up.  You can’t apply effect directly to the timeline.

Go to Effects and Presets Panel and type in name of an effect. 

Apply Effects in the Effects & Presets panel and then control the effects in the Effects Panel

There are over 200 effects, so if you don't know the name, you may want to browse through them.
A
ll effects have transparent backgrounds to start with.

In order to SEE them, you need to activate the checkerboard button at the bottom of the frame (or use a wing-tab command).  

It's good to understand all the icons at bottom of screen

  • 100% view
  • Grid/guides/rulers
  • Toggle mask and shape path visibility
  • Camera/snapshot of frame
  • Preview snapshot
  • Region of interest
  • Transparency
  • Active camera
  • Aspect ratio correction (toggle button)
  • Adjust exposure (cool)

First, apply some random effects to a solid layer. 

1.    make rectangle box/change color to black:  Layer/Solid Settings

2.    to select the box, click on checkerboard and then back to box.

3.    Add Fractal Noise Effect

 4. Then add the Colorama Effect

TIP:  Edit/Label = change label color
 If you want to Rename the label: select label, hit “return”

3. Creating Fire (AND OTHER FUN STUFF)

1.    Select New/Solid (solids are often used with effects…just a blank box of pixels…they’re like a dummy layer you can dump a bunch of effects on).  There are two ways to find effects in AE:

  •  You can use pull down effect menu: Effect/X effect
  •  Go to effects panel and type in the name of the effect:  “Turbulent Noise” or “Bubbles” or "Lightning"
  • Double click OR drag and drop (on screen or in layer panel)

2.    Select Turbulent Noise (and try Turbulent Displace on top of Turbulent Noise)

3.    Turbulent Noise and Fractal Noise are good effects b/c they create random patterns.

4.    Edit EFFECT in Control panel to the LEFT of the screen.

5.    Change “Fractal Type” to “Dynamic Twist”

6.    Increase contrast A LOT

7.    Take down the Brightness of the effect

8.    Open up Transform Area:

a.    Uncheck “uniform scaling” (so you can independently move height and width
             b.    Increase height
             c.    Go to “complexity slider” and reduce detail

9.    Finally, click Evolution diameter (make SURE you click the stopwatch!) and drag to the right to bring evolution to life, creating a new key frame and turning the Evolution dial.

10.    PILE another effect on (you can pile one after another):  Colorama

11.    Open output Cycle area

12.Select Use Preset Pallette and select a “fire”

13. Move “evolution parameter: to see fire take shape: every time you spin the evolution it creates a key frame (so pay attn)

TRY THIS Effect: Shatter effect

1.    type in “shatter” in effect box and select effect

2.    go to Shatter Effects control panel, change VIEW from Wireframe to “rendered”

3.    If you open up Camera and “dimension” you’ll see it’s a 3-D effect

 

4. CHROMAKEY

OK GO REMIX PROJECT

Drop the OK Go video in a new composition.  Drag the OK Go footage into the timeline.

Go to Effects & Presets:  Type in "Keylight" in the search bar:

Apply the effect to the video footage (you won't see anything happen yet, but look over to the left side of the screen, you'll see Keylight animation controls to work with).

First, select the EYEDROPPER next to the "Screen Colour" option and, with the eyedropper, select the green color (green screen background) in the OK Go video. 
The Screen Colour icon will switch to :

Now check the VIEW menu towards the top of the Keylight menu:  CHOOSE: "Status"

Not everything is QUITE chromakeyed out! 
Since you're still seeing grey (and grey in this case is bad:  you want everything that's now "black" to be totally keyframed out)...you want to boost the "Clip Black" levels up to about "41"
Likewise, you want to reduce the "Clip White" levels to about "86."
Change the VIEW back to "Final Result" (don't go to source--that won't show you what the effect will look like)

You did it! 

5.NESTING COMPOSITIONS 

Bring the little Hungarian boy figure or the bee composition into the OK Go footage. ADD a MOVIE CLIP to go behind the OK GO footage.

See how creative you can get by nesting layers!


 

FINAL PROJECT REQUIREMENTS: Video/Effects

  1. Must have a title
  2. Must use this photoshop image:
     
  3. must have photoshop images taken from the CREATIVE COMMONS/the New York Public Digital Library (aka: they MUST be copyright FREE)
  4. must have one aspect that is TOTALLY CHALLENGING TO YOU
  5. Must have a background that has an incredible affect applied to it, like FIRE. Library.
  6. MUST have EDITED VIDEO
  7. You must have some Blue screen footage incorporated (it could be at the end)
  8. Must have music
  9. Must have credits.