Note: the schedule is subject to change and I will notify you as far in advance as possible!
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1/18 - week 1: Introduction Class Introductions and Overview
time { history
Research:
Explore links below
Sign up to check out mics for week 2 from equipment cage:http://www.tcnj.edu/~dadt/art/
How will you record sound for next week?
Make a plan and email me before the weekend : what equipment you'll use and the make model # (example: phone (iphone g4) videocamera (sony xlr22) etc) and if you know the file format it records.
Studio:
- Using any equipment you have access to record a 10 second audio clip, that features a voice, to bring in next week.
- Also, create your blog account. Blogger or wordpress are the standards.
Blogger does not require a domain name so if you don't currently pay to server to host your website I recommend Blogger. Wordpress has a lot more flexibility but you must have a domain name purchased in order to publish the blog. Your first blog entry should reflect on the links below. As a reminder, here's the guideline for responses:
LINKS
1. Listen to This American Life, Notes on Camp (select play episode to listen)
2. Research Janet Cardiff, audio sound walks and Dreams: Telephone Series also read this description by Monica Biagioli
3. Robert Ashley, She was a visitor
4. John Cage, excerpt from Silence
5. Orson Wells, The War of the Worlds
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1/25 - week 2: Introduction to sound recording and sound editing
Bring your basic sound recording to class
Demonstration/studio tests using mics
Introduction to Project 1
Intro to Soundtrack Pro basics
Research:
Reserve microphone/recorder to check out;
- Develop concept and work plan for recording Sound/Memory project.
- Blog entry (find two extremely distinct narrative examples: http://www.ubu.com/sound/ and use this as a basis of discussion)
- Download quick help guide
Studio: Make high quality sound project.
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2/1 - week 3: High quality source audio due
CLASS RESCHEDULED
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2/8 - week 4:
In-class editing, meet one on one with faculty.
Intro to Soundtrack Pro basics II
Studio: Edit final audio project.
2/15 - week 5: Introduction to digital SLR cameras and portable lighting.
Project 1 due
Class critique
Upload project 1 to class blog
Introduction to Project 2
Photography & Narrative
Composition & Lighting
Research: Watch links on works/projects page, Storyboard three ideas to present to faculty next week.
LINKS
4. Explore what a photograph can do that video cannot or would be very time consuming/expensive.
For example: Sam Taylor Wood
6. Watch Gary Hill's video Around and About
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2/22- week 6:
to do before you shoot
In-class studio exercises.
Meet with faculty one on one.
Download exercise shots and import into FCP
Intro to Final Cut Pro I: settings for still images, understanding function/purpose of tools, intro to editing
Studio: Create a FCP project file, import your project stills and audio from project 1.
Create rough draft of editing sound/image.
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3/1 - week 7:
Intro to Final Cut Pro II including transitions, video/audio tracks, text
Studio: Create final edit. Project 2 due 3/15.
pdf link
Upload project 2 to class blog
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3/8 - week 8: No Class: Spring Break
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3/15 - week 8:
Project 2 due
Class critique
Introduction to Project 3: Animation
Overview of Animation strategies presented:
ROTOSCOPING (use video footage as foreground and or background)
CUT-OUTS (use video footage as foreground and or background)
Research: see links below. Write Blog review on (1) selected animation.
Studio:
1.Create Storyboard: as complete as possible!
2. Shoot footage to include all desire scenes and shots - at least 10 minutes!
3. Bring in video camera next week class to import video footage.
LINKS
Walerian Borowczyk's "Renaissance":
Watch "Frank Film" by Frank Mouris
Watch Kristofer Strom:
Watch Martha Colburn
Additional HELP
CUT-OUT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutout_animation
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/animation-trends-three-d-papercraft.html
http://vimeo.com/6207801
http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/cutout_animation.htm
ROTOSCOPE
- FCP
- PS5
KEYING:
Keying refers to the process of turning an area of consistent color or brightness in a video clip transparent to isolate a foreground subject. The actual keying process results in the creation of a matte, which is then automatically applied to composite an image with a background. In television and in movies, keying is used in a variety of ways to composite actors in front of graphics and other video clips for a variety of effects.
For example, a weather reporter on television often stands in front of a weather map. The reporter is actually standing in front of a large blue or green screen, but the color is made transparent (keyed out), and a map is inserted behind the person, instead. Generating a matte signal using a color signal is referred to as chroma keying, while generating a matte signal using a black-and-white signal is called luma keying.
MASKS:
A mask is an image that is used to create areas of transparency in another image. For example, the luma in one clip can be used to create transparency in another clip. You can also assign the alpha channel of one clip to a completely different clip. (For more information about alpha channels, see Alpha Channels and Key, Matte, and Mask Filters.) Using additional mask filters, you can further modify the resulting regions of transparency—widening, narrowing, or feathering them as needed. Clips used to create masks can be in motion, creating a moving area of transparency.
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3/22 - week 9: Rough footage of animation due -
QUIZ (FCP)
meet with faculty one on one
Intro to Final Cut Pro III: keyframes, mattes, animating basics, keyframing, multiple video layer editing
Research: TBA
Studio: Refine and compile your footage. Create rough draft of animation
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3/29 - week 10: Rough edit of animation due
Intro to Final Cut Pro IV: "send to" STP and Motion within FCP
Working in small groups, studio critiques
Studio: Refine animation
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4/5 - week 11: Project 3 due;
critique
Upload project 3 to class blog
Introduction to Project 4: video
watch RUN LOLA RUN
CONSIDER:
Research: see links below, create project proposal
Studio:Start shooting! Collect imagery and import into new project file.
LINKS
Watch Christopher McManus' Love Letter, 2010
watch Nadia Hironaka's The soft Epic
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4/12 - week 12: How to create an interactive DVD portfolio using Studio Pro
In-class work
>>>>> View info on DVD Studio Pro<<<<<<<<
In-class work, meet with faculty one on one
Research: Your visual identity to create your portfolio
Studio:Continue shooting! Collect imagery and import into new project file. Begin exploring SP and importing assets. Create working project file to
and import thumbnails and media. Rough is due next week
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4/19 - week 13: DVD studio pro continued
AFTER EFFECTS WORKSHOP basics
In class-work
helpful links:
creating shapes is cs5 for DVDSP
creating menus the standard way:
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4/26 - week 14: Introduction to Compressor
Present DVD portfolio interface design to class
Research: review compressor interface and make tests.
Studio: Continue your video editing; continue your Studio Pro project
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EXAM - May 3, 10:30-1:20
DVD of all projects due
Project 4 due - critique
Upload project 4 to class blog
____________________________________________________________
1/18 - week 1: Introduction Class Introductions and Overview
time { history
Research:
Explore links below
Sign up to check out mics for week 2 from equipment cage:http://www.tcnj.edu/~dadt/art/
How will you record sound for next week?
Make a plan and email me before the weekend : what equipment you'll use and the make model # (example: phone (iphone g4) videocamera (sony xlr22) etc) and if you know the file format it records.
Studio:
- Using any equipment you have access to record a 10 second audio clip, that features a voice, to bring in next week.
- Also, create your blog account. Blogger or wordpress are the standards.
Blogger does not require a domain name so if you don't currently pay to server to host your website I recommend Blogger. Wordpress has a lot more flexibility but you must have a domain name purchased in order to publish the blog. Your first blog entry should reflect on the links below. As a reminder, here's the guideline for responses:
- Title of work, artist name and date created
- Describe what the piece is about and how the imagery and/or sound create these impressions.
- Detail the artist/director approach to narrative; how is the story being told?
LINKS
1. Listen to This American Life, Notes on Camp (select play episode to listen)
2. Research Janet Cardiff, audio sound walks and Dreams: Telephone Series also read this description by Monica Biagioli
3. Robert Ashley, She was a visitor
4. John Cage, excerpt from Silence
5. Orson Wells, The War of the Worlds
____________________________________________________________
1/25 - week 2: Introduction to sound recording and sound editing
Bring your basic sound recording to class
Demonstration/studio tests using mics
Introduction to Project 1
Intro to Soundtrack Pro basics
Research:
Reserve microphone/recorder to check out;
- Develop concept and work plan for recording Sound/Memory project.
- Blog entry (find two extremely distinct narrative examples: http://www.ubu.com/sound/ and use this as a basis of discussion)
- Download quick help guide
Studio: Make high quality sound project.
____________________________________________________________
2/1 - week 3: High quality source audio due
CLASS RESCHEDULED
____________________________________________________________
2/8 - week 4:
In-class editing, meet one on one with faculty.
Intro to Soundtrack Pro basics II
Studio: Edit final audio project.
2/15 - week 5: Introduction to digital SLR cameras and portable lighting.
Project 1 due
Class critique
Upload project 1 to class blog
Introduction to Project 2
Photography & Narrative
Composition & Lighting
Research: Watch links on works/projects page, Storyboard three ideas to present to faculty next week.
LINKS
1. Watch La Jetee, by Chris Marker, 1963.
Marker's post-apocalyptic story uses only still images
Marker's post-apocalyptic story uses only still images
2. Watch a clip of Ken Burn's Civil War
3. Watch Old Negro Space Program spoof
4. Explore what a photograph can do that video cannot or would be very time consuming/expensive.
For example: Sam Taylor Wood
5. Patryk Rebisz, Between You and Me
6. Watch Gary Hill's video Around and About
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuHVAlpY2I |
____________________________________________________________
2/22- week 6:
to do before you shoot
In-class studio exercises.
Meet with faculty one on one.
Download exercise shots and import into FCP
Intro to Final Cut Pro I: settings for still images, understanding function/purpose of tools, intro to editing
Studio: Create a FCP project file, import your project stills and audio from project 1.
Create rough draft of editing sound/image.
____________________________________________________________
3/1 - week 7:
Intro to Final Cut Pro II including transitions, video/audio tracks, text
Studio: Create final edit. Project 2 due 3/15.
pdf link
Upload project 2 to class blog
__________________________________________________________________________________________
3/8 - week 8: No Class: Spring Break
__________________________________________________________________________________________
3/15 - week 8:
Project 2 due
Class critique
Introduction to Project 3: Animation
Overview of Animation strategies presented:
ROTOSCOPING (use video footage as foreground and or background)
CUT-OUTS (use video footage as foreground and or background)
Research: see links below. Write Blog review on (1) selected animation.
Studio:
1.Create Storyboard: as complete as possible!
2. Shoot footage to include all desire scenes and shots - at least 10 minutes!
3. Bring in video camera next week class to import video footage.
LINKS
Watch Lotte Reiniger's "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" 1926
Watch video on her process
DIY camera stands:
http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=19857
Watch video on her process
DIY camera stands:
http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=19857
Walerian Borowczyk's "Renaissance":
Watch Bendito Machine (Jossie Malis)
"Episode 1 - Everything You Need"Watch "Frank Film" by Frank Mouris
Watch Kristofer Strom:
Watch Martha Colburn
Additional HELP
CUT-OUT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutout_animation
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/animation-trends-three-d-papercraft.html
http://vimeo.com/6207801
http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/cutout_animation.htm
ROTOSCOPE
- FCP
- PS5
KEYING:
Keying refers to the process of turning an area of consistent color or brightness in a video clip transparent to isolate a foreground subject. The actual keying process results in the creation of a matte, which is then automatically applied to composite an image with a background. In television and in movies, keying is used in a variety of ways to composite actors in front of graphics and other video clips for a variety of effects.
For example, a weather reporter on television often stands in front of a weather map. The reporter is actually standing in front of a large blue or green screen, but the color is made transparent (keyed out), and a map is inserted behind the person, instead. Generating a matte signal using a color signal is referred to as chroma keying, while generating a matte signal using a black-and-white signal is called luma keying.
MASKS:
A mask is an image that is used to create areas of transparency in another image. For example, the luma in one clip can be used to create transparency in another clip. You can also assign the alpha channel of one clip to a completely different clip. (For more information about alpha channels, see Alpha Channels and Key, Matte, and Mask Filters.) Using additional mask filters, you can further modify the resulting regions of transparency—widening, narrowing, or feathering them as needed. Clips used to create masks can be in motion, creating a moving area of transparency.
__________________________________________________________________________________
3/22 - week 9: Rough footage of animation due -
QUIZ (FCP)
meet with faculty one on one
Intro to Final Cut Pro III: keyframes, mattes, animating basics, keyframing, multiple video layer editing
Research: TBA
Studio: Refine and compile your footage. Create rough draft of animation
_______________________________________________________________________________________
3/29 - week 10: Rough edit of animation due
Intro to Final Cut Pro IV: "send to" STP and Motion within FCP
Working in small groups, studio critiques
Studio: Refine animation
_______________________________________________________________________________________
4/5 - week 11: Project 3 due;
critique
Upload project 3 to class blog
Introduction to Project 4: video
watch RUN LOLA RUN
CONSIDER:
Research: see links below, create project proposal
Studio:Start shooting! Collect imagery and import into new project file.
LINKS
Watch Christopher McManus' Love Letter, 2010
watch Nadia Hironaka's The soft Epic
 |
| http://www.nadiahironaka.com/portfolio/the-soft-epic |
______________________________________________________________________________________
4/12 - week 12: How to create an interactive DVD portfolio using Studio Pro
In-class work
>>>>> View info on DVD Studio Pro<<<<<<<<
In-class work, meet with faculty one on one
Research: Your visual identity to create your portfolio
Studio:Continue shooting! Collect imagery and import into new project file. Begin exploring SP and importing assets. Create working project file to
and import thumbnails and media. Rough is due next week
__________________________________________________________
4/19 - week 13: DVD studio pro continued
AFTER EFFECTS WORKSHOP basics
In class-work
helpful links:
creating shapes is cs5 for DVDSP
creating menus the standard way:
________________________
4/26 - week 14: Introduction to Compressor
Present DVD portfolio interface design to class
Research: review compressor interface and make tests.
Studio: Continue your video editing; continue your Studio Pro project
__________________________________________________________________________________
EXAM - May 3, 10:30-1:20
DVD of all projects due
Project 4 due - critique
Upload project 4 to class blog
