RE: FINAL ASSIGNMENT

EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE OR DOCUMENTARY
(100POINTS) Due DEC 4th
Your assignment is to develop either a documentary or a short film that is between 4-10 min in length. The concept behind the piece is entirely up to you. There are several deadlines to meet for this project. They are as follows:
DEADLINES: 
NOV. 6th Description of project 1-3 Paragraphs accompanied by a shot list or storyboards.
NOV. 20th Ruff Edit Review 
NOV. 27th 2nd Ruff Edit (with Color Corrections) Review
DEC. 4th & 6th | FINAL CRITIQUE
(Failure to meet any of these dates above will result in the loss of one letter grade for your final project.)
CLASS SCHEDULE:
OCT. 30th & NOV. 1st Screening short films and documentaries 
NOV. 6th Discussing project concepts one on one
NOV. 8th LAB DAY
NOV. 13th Color Correction Tutorial (How to read scopes and create effects)
NOV. 15th LAB DAY
NOV. 20th Ruff Edit Review
NOV. 22nd LAB DAY
NOV. 27th 2nd Ruff Edit review
NOV. 30th Open Screening 
(Highly recommended to show work and get feedback for final corrections.)
DEC. 4th & 6th FINAL CRITIQUES 
DEC. 10th FINAL EXAM

SUBCONSCIOUS DISCONNECT from Ian Kammer on Vimeo.

I'm Retired from Peter Atencio on Vimeo.

OPEN SCREENING NOV. 30TH

Shelter: a look at Manchester's homeless. Full film. from Mike Staniforth | Filmmaker on Vimeo.

THE FIRST 36 HOURS: An inside look at Hurricane Sandy from Jeff Pinilla on Vimeo.

Birthday | Short film from smider on Vimeo.

ASSIGNMENT TWO

EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE OR DOCUMENTARY
(100POINTS) Due DEC 4th

Your assignment is to develop either a documentary or a short film that is between 4-10 min in length. The concept behind the piece is entirely up to you. There are several deadlines to meet for this project. They are as follows:

DEADLINES:
NOV. 6th Description of project 1-3 Paragraphs accompanied by a shot list or storyboards.
NOV. 20th Ruff Edit Review
NOV. 27th 2nd Ruff Edit (with Color Corrections) Review
DEC. 4th & 6th | FINAL CRITIQUE

(Failure to meet any of these dates above will result in the loss of one letter grade for your final project.)


CLASS SCHEDULE:
OCT. 30th & NOV. 1st Screening short films and documentaries
NOV. 6th Discussing project concepts one on one
NOV. 8th LAB DAY
NOV. 13th Color Correction Tutorial (How to read scopes and create effects)
NOV. 15th LAB DAY
NOV. 20th Ruff Edit Review
NOV. 22nd LAB DAY
NOV. 27th 2nd Ruff Edit review
NOV. 30th Open Screening
(Highly recommended to show work and get feedback for final corrections.)
DEC. 4th & 6th FINAL CRITIQUES
DEC. 10th FINAL EXAM

DOCUMENTARY

A Brief History of John Baldessari from Supermarché: Henry & Rel on Vimeo.

OF SOULS + WATER: THE MOTHER from NRS Films on Vimeo.

Huck from Andy Maser on Vimeo.
      

The Junk King from Evan Burns on Vimeo.

THE SHORT FILM

3Channel Narrativehttp://www.ubu.com/film/ahtila_6.html

Doug Aitken

*http://www.ubu.com/film/aitken_electricearth.html

http://www.ubu.com/film/aitken_blow.html

http://www.ubu.com/film/aitken_autumn.html

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVRds0rTILM

HAM SANDWICH from Dave Green on Vimeo.

Flicker from Peter Atencio on Vimeo.

TRUE SKIN from H1 on Vimeo.

Form 17 from Red Giant on Vimeo.

DIY LIGHTING

Lighting Instruments & Concepts (READ PDF)

THREE POINT LIGHTING Introduction
Paper Lantern Lighting

Tech Tip - China Lanterns from Framelines TV on Vimeo.

Lighting with a Bounce

Bounce Lighting from Vimeo Video School on Vimeo.

Using a Reflector For OutDoor Fill Light from Olivia Speranza on Vimeo.

Gels and Light Diffusion

Putting Together a Budget DIY Lighting System

Other Links:
https://vimeo.com/22073882

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFpON5Hsob4

http://www.videomaker.com/article/14583

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UwpGoUlUi-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ5rZrNQBXo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOVswSEXsYk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5xY72bQ9E&feature=channel&list=UL

OPEN SCREENING OCT. 26TH

Dear Creators of Media,

Arts Codec (New Media Student Arts Group) and I are hosting Open Screening Oct. 26th from 5:30-6:30 @ WieKamp 1001. Please note the time has changed. 

Open screening is for everyone in the New Media Department or anyone interested in media. Anyone who produces any kind of electronic media is welcome (video, design work, digital photography, etc.). Please bring work in progress or finished work to share. Our goal is to strengthen the electronic arts community on campus and give us a chance to see what students, faculty, and staff are creating.

Please bring files on a thumb drive and make sure they are optimized for viewing (smaller file sizes are preferable). Be prepared to discuss your work and receive feedback.

CONTINUITY (MOVING THROUGH THE CINEMATIC SPACE)

INTRODUCTION from The Five C's of Cinematography

"A professional sound motion picture should present a continuous, smooth, logical flow of visual images, supplemented by sound, depicting the filmed event in a coherent manner."

In Class Assignment

Group up in pairs of two or for more of a challenge 3, its up to you. I then want you to develop quickly a narrative structure that has one or two characters (depending on your groups size) moving from one place to another. These pieces should be comprised of at least 15 shots of the character moving through space (walking or running), and 1 shot at the end of them arriving/reacting to where they are. It could be as simple as arriving at a door step or looking over out at the landscape. These need to be any where from 30sec to a minute long. Make sure you keep the axis line in mind when shooting. After shooting is complete, every team member should take the footage, and make their own edits. The project is DUE Oct. 23RD. You will have this class and the next to develop your ideas, shoot, and edit. 

READING Assignment: I want to start the 2nd Chapter CONTINUITY: Read 67-75 up to Master Scene Technique and 93-103 up to Map Direction. No quiz will be given for this given reading, but the principles learned within the reading should inform the assignment above.   

EXTREME CONTINUITY

BRING YOUR CAMERA FOR TOMORROW

IF EVERYONE SHOULD BRING A CAMERA FOR TOMORROWS CLASS. WE ALSO NEED 6 TRIPODS (COMMENT ON THIS POST IF YOU CAN GET ONE FROM THE LIBRARY.)

DRIVE-BY Shooting

Drive-by Shooting: Using Your Car to Make Better Videos from Vimeo Video School on Vimeo.

MONTAGE/Editing on MOVEMENT

DUE Sept 20th

You homework is to create 3 Montage Sequences. Each sequence will needs a break of a couple of seconds in-between. For example you could start with setting up a character/actor like sitting and watching TV (like Shaun of the Dead) then go into a very quick montage sequence, then break, then montage, then break, and then end on a montage. You could do the reverse of that. Either way you end up with 3 short montages and 3 breaks or moments in-between. Shoot for the edit, watch for things moving or create your own by moving the camera really quickly. Your montage may not have any cross dissolves only hard cuts.  

5x5

For your homework compose five 5-second clips and use original sound. A 5x5 is a great way to tell a short story, illustrate a scene, or communicate a mood. DUE Sept. 18th

Check out these by others: https://vimeo.com/groups/fivebyfive

5x5 - Motion from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

The pleasure of from Vitùc on Vimeo.

Rule of thirds from Jayne Whitelock on Vimeo.

PIXEL TIME

The-Basics-of-Image-Resolution

640x480="307,200" pixels. 

Each pixel displays a color. In order to represent the color of each pixel numerically, with enough variety to satisfy our eyes, we need a very large range of different possible color values. There are many different ways to represent colors digitally. A standard way to describe the color of each pixel in computers is to break the color down into its three different color components —red, green, and blue ( a.k.a. RGB)—and an additional transparency/opacity component (known as the alpha channel). Most computer programs therefore store the color of a single pixel as four separate numbers, representing the alpha, red, green, and blue components (or channels). This four-channel color representation scheme is commonly calledARGB or RGBA, depending upon how the pixels are arranged in memory.

0 to 255

Memory from Adam Rokhsar on Vimeo

UPLOADING VIMEO TO BLOG

When your finished with your video export your video with H2.64 VIMEO SD 29.97. Once your video is exported from Adobe Premiere Click here to upload it. Once your video is finished uploading to VIMEO then you can embed it into the blog. Please see the following video on how to do that.

Embedding video content into Blogger from Jason Nix on Vimeo.

CONVERSATION & LOCATION

CONVERSATION & LOCATION 

Directions: I want a 10 second location montage to set up the location of your conversation. Then out of the 4min recording I want 20 nicely edited seconds. This means you will have to be selective of what you choose to pick out of your conversation. I am not requiring you to do the full 4min. I did not make this specifically clear today. So your end product should be 30 seconds. Have fun with the editing things do not need to be linear. You can make what that say out of context by moving your edits around. You will have lab time on Tuesday and we will watch what you have done on Thursday. Get in and try to lay down some footage and start editing. Check out the ADOBE PREMIERE Lynda Essentials for a break down of the basics. As for the movie you are suposed to watch look on the side links under course documents for the FILM Analysis work sheet. You will need to fill this out when watching Eternal Sunshine... and turn that into me on Tuesday next week.

THE LONG AND EXTREME LONG SHOT

THE LONG AND EXTREME LONG SHOT

Based on the location and the topics of you improve conversation... Capture 10 to 15 long and extreme long shots. You will be using these shots to create an 8 to 15 sec intro montage to establish the location of your conversation. ALL VIDEO shots... I would shoot in either HD or get a DV camera from the library to keep the same resolution we shot in today. This will be DUE Sept. 6th (bring your footage to class).

OUTLINE FOR TOMORROWS SHOOT (HIGH PRIORITY):

Dear Production Team of TEL-T 283, 

OUTLINE FOR TOMORROWS SHOOT (HIGH PRIORITY):

Tomorrow is all about conversation, compositions, capturing audio, and a little improve. Each of you will get to shoot a 4 min. improved conversation between two male actors. The conversation topic is up to you. I want you to have this topic before coming into class tomorrow. I also want you to look at the typical two-shots section in last weeks reading again for compositional ideas. When it's your turn you will be in charge of the main two-shot composition and the topic of conversation. During each shoot there will also be several other responsibilities that will be rotated out on each 4 min shoot. These include the main camera ("master shot")/director, left over the shoulder camera, right over the shoulder camera, a B-roll Camera (which will get close ups of hands gestures, eyes, feet, extra...), and the boom operator. To sync the various cameras and there audio we will use a clapper. We must be quick tomorrow to accomplish this in the time we have so be prepared and ready with ideas. If some of you have time before class starts I would appreciate some location scouting with emphasizes on the sound in that location for these conversations to take place. We could possible be outside if its nice out, but look around for other possibilities. 

You will not be needing to bring your camera's tomorrow for class, however I need THREE people to check out a tripod EACH from the Library (POST on this blog post if you can do that). I will have all the cameras/equipment we will need tomorrow. 

On Thursday I will be introducing Adobe Premiere Pro and we will be working on editing the improved conversations and syncing the audio from the various cameras. 

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?

Parameters:

1. Get into teams of 2 

1. Every shot needs to be on a tripod

2. You cannot move you tripod (everything must remain stationary)

3. You must capture 2min of footage in 50min

4. All footage needs to be gathered outside in the campus mall

4. You will be shooting on MiniDV tape so all "Edits" will be in Camera

5. We need to be back in the classroom at 12:20 PM

At 12:20 we will play back your tapes for the whole class to view and critique.

HOMEWORK DUE Sept. 4th

Read Chapter one Camera Angles in the FIVE C’s of Cinematography pg. 24-35 (End at camera height) and watch Audio Essentials chapter 4 of Fundamentals of Video:Cameras and Shooting by Anthony Q. Artis on Lynda.com take Quiz > released after class on the Aug. 30th and is Due before class on Sept. 4th (quiz available on Oncourse). 

FIRST DAY GUIDE FOR HOMEWORK

Homework:
Watch Chapters 1 and 3 of Fundamentals of Video: Cameras and Shooting By Anthony Q. Artis on Lynda.com (if the link above doesn't sign you in automatically when your at home then use this: http://ittraining.iu.edu/lynda/  <This link will get you signed into Lynda through your IU name and pass phrase.) and you need to Read Camera Angles in the FIVE C’s of Cinematography pg. 11-23 (Handout) After reading this you need to take the quiz. Quiz > released after class on the 28th and is Due before class on the 30th (quiz available on Oncourse). The quiz will test you on the videos you watch and the handout I give you.

Make sure you check the syllabus often for what homework you need to do.

(You will need to purchase this book and have it ASAP)