After Effects tutorials - Year 2 Tech

After Effects Basics with Terry White



Start here and watch the 10 tips beginners want to know.
Take notes and open After Effects to DO as you WATCH!! Go at your own pace.

Syncing text to audio. VERY IMPORTANT 10 MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE!!!
Please watch this and then watch it again if need be! Remember the shortcuts, write them down and use them!



Also, there are many videos on After Effects on Video Copilot

Here's another video on Basic typography and motion graphics that may also be helpful.

Reviewing the 12 Principles of Animation

For more information and detail about what each of those principles actually means, check out this article about the 'old men of Disney' and the 12 principles of animation. They actually developed these principles and they still check out today and the basis for all animation.

Pose to Pose - understanding key poses. Click here to get a better understanding of creating key poses that essentially create your animation.

Inbetweens and motion arcs. Here you can learn about how to make things appear smooth - timing and motion arcs are particularly important.

Please view the video and read through the article so that you have an understanding of some of the main principles of animation. You will need to be able to identify them in the kinetic typography you analyze, but you should also be implementing some of them in your kinetic typography.

RESEARCH:
1. Review or learn about the 12 principles of animation. Read the article linked above and watch the video above.

2. Watch and search for great examples of kinetic typography.

Here's "The Child". Amazing what you can do with a bunch of words.


3. Post one amazing kinetic typography video on your blog. Write a brief analysis of the video.
Include the following:

• 3-4 examples of principles of animation (you need to identify the specific timecode when you observed the principle of animation and explain why you think it's a good example of it)
• Your observations (like we did in class) of pace, timing, choice of font, colours used and any particular techniques or movements used that were especially effective in expressing the mood and sound of the piece of music/spoken word and also how the words sound when they're spoken/sung.

Lighting for Video and Film - Year 3 TECH

Lighting for Video and Film

Here is a great video that clearly describes a basic three-point lighting set up with a black background, a white background and also a film noir, moody set up.

Three Point Lighting Tutorial

Here's one on using a green screen. Very handy for eliminating the background and adding graphics or any other kind of background.

Green Screen Tutorial

5 deadly sins of Amateur Video

Making your video look like film. Check out this video

Simple special fx

Please review these videos and look/think about any other ways you can creatively and stylistically light your video to take it to the next level.

Read this article and watch the Lenny Kravitz video for a sense of a stylistic coherence.

Pay particular attention to the suggestions to NOT be literal.

"The music videos that tend to be appreciated by the industry these days are highly conceptual. This means that the imagery used in the music video is mostly unrelated to the lyrics "

Here is another article with tips on making music videos.

Typography Exploration - Year 2 Tech

Please make sure you have the paperwork (2 handouts) done by Friday - as well as your Mainstage Drama Promo work in the drop folder.

Typography Exploration Assignment is due on Monday by the end of class - in the dropoff folder as a pdf, and then posted on your blog with a brief written statement by Tuesday morning.

Statement should include how you interpreted the word - definition and how it sounds when spoken/heard - and how you chose to visually illustrate the word. Don't forget to include layout - placement (size in relation to format, composition).

Year 3 Tech: Music videos over the decades

Check out the technology used in this music video. You need to open it in Google Chrome. It uses HTML 5.

www.thewildernessdowntown.com

Also, please take a look at the history of music videos - which began in the 1980s with MTV. According to U.S. Time magazine, these are the best 30 music videos of all time.
Best 30 Music Videos

Here is another "Best 30 Music Videos of All Time" by Music Radar
These seem a little more underground. Also more contemporary. Check them out as well.
Check out #22 Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar for some amazing editing and perfect sync-ing.


Take a look through both the Arcade Fire video and the article on the 30 best music videos. Watch a minimum of 9 of the videos and read the summaries below - making sure you watch at least 2 per decade. There are 10 per decade in the article.

Exercise:
FIRST Write a blog post...
1. Summarizing your thoughts, opinions and inspiration from the 9 videos you watched.

2. Which ones do you consider works of art in their own right? and Why? Note: The first video - Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime" was exhibited in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

3. Also, comment on the types of changes you noticed through the decades. (Lighting, editing, sophistication, pace etc.)

4. How does the Arcade Fire video compare to the earlier decades?

5. What's next in music videos in your opinion?

THEN...

Embed two videos (the ones you find the most compelling, artistically) into your blog post
1. Comment on the pacing, artistic style, lighting and artistic intent/meaning of each of the posted videos.
2. Comment on the shot types, camera angles and shooting techniques, referring to specific terminology.
2. How do the videos visually express the emotional theme of the music? Look at specific imagery, pace, style, lighting etc.



TECHNIQUES
Check out this link for framing, basic shot types and camera movements:

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/camera/tutorial/01-framing.html

Then look at this one for camera angles

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/camera/angles/

And this one on shooting techniques:

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/camera/tutorial/01-technique.html

Deadlines

Mainstage Posters and T-shirts MUST be submitted to the final drop folder (all versions, with corrections at recommended during our feedback session) by the end of the school day on Wednesday April 22nd 2015.

Typography handout DUE: Beginning of class on Thursday April 23rd, 2015

Daily Create Blog Posts

Daily Create Blog Posts.                                

CyberARTS Year 3.

There are 20 options here for sound/image, still photography and video assignments. You must complete 10 of them in total.

You must complete one by the end of each week.

You must have at least two from each category. (sound/image, still photo, video) The rest is up to you.

1.   Take a close up photo of an object with unique texture or pattern; make us guess what it is.

2.   Make a photo of anger, or something that makes you angry.

3.   Make a photo that emphasizes one color much more than any others in the shot

4.   Record some outdoor sounds. Pair them with one, three or five still images.

5.   Fabric: we wear it, sleep on it, decorate with it. Make a photo of an interesting cloth design or texture.

6.   Take a creative photo without aiming in the viewfinder

7.   Take a photo that shows two contrasting things, e.g. light & darkness, life & death, cats & dogs etc.

8.   Power plugs are ubiquitous. Can you make a creative photo of such a common thing?

9.   Mix a sound from nature with a musical selection so both can be heard clearly.

10.                 Make a short audio of the sound of water pinging, flushing, splashing, roaring, tumbling...and add an image, or three or five.

11.                 Draw a flower with your eyes closed. Then turn it into a vector illustration.

12.                 Make a photo of an outdoor scene free of any human artifacts.

13.                 Take a picture of an object that is a metaphor for your learning style

14.                 Make a photograph of a plastic object that you’ve used today.

15.                 Make an extreme close up 30 second video of someone playing a musical instrument, using at least three different shots.

16.                 Record 30 seconds of ambient sound in your environment. Pair it with images that contrast the sound you've recorded.

17.                 Take a closer look at where you spend a lot of time. Photograph something there you never noticed before.

18.                 Take a picture of construction.

19.                 Make a 30 second video with sound of a typical street scene using wide, medium, close-up and extreme close-ups.

20.                 Find a grid pattern somewhere (brick sidewalk, ceiling tiles etc.). Make a photo of an interesting slice of it.

YEAR 2 DEADLINES

Reminders of deadlines:

Please submit the following by FRIDAY APRIL 10, 2015

MODERN ART STYLES 11x17 poster

• drop off folder (original file format)*
• blog (with brief written statement)

*NOTE: If you used InDesign, you MUST submit all original images with your InDesign file and make sure the images are linked!!!

DIGITAL SELF-PORTRAIT

• drop off folder (original file format)
• blog (with brief written statement - explaining your choice of art style)

Please submit the following by MONDAY APRIL 13, 2015

LES MISERABLES T-SHIRT (original file format - 300 ppi if .psd file)
(Front and Back of shirt + jpg of image on a shirt)