After Effects Basic Training - Year Four (or Three)

http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

Please go to this link to begin learning how to use After Effects. Year Fours - you will need this to create your animated logo. Watch these videos first and then begin planning your storyboard and ideas.

Year Threes - you can view these as well - to assist you in developing some ideas to enhance the Mainstage Promo video.

Treatment and rough imagery

Wednesday October 16th. Year Three - please continue working in your groups to develop a treatment as well as a rough cut, and/or series of images/videos that can help you express your idea and pitch your idea.

Create your treatment - a rough storyboard as well as a shot list and schedule. Also, go back to the blog post on video lighting - I've added a couple of links to check out. Use them to help you think about lighting ideas.

Be prepared to present your pitch - on Friday to Ms. Silverman.

Tips on pitching an idea for a video.

Watch this video and use the idea of the message map, not only to help you pitch your idea, but also to formulate the 3 key points you're trying to make in the promo video. Think about how you can support your three main points with visuals, text, interviews, narration and/or voice over, text/titles as well as supporting audio - ambient sound, music and sound fx.

Lighting for video

Video on three point lighting. http://vimeo.com/4386572

These videos are worth checking out. Please divide them up within your groups to get some ideas - or just learn some tips.

20 tutorials on lighting

http://filmmakeriq.com/2011/04/20-lighting-tutorials-for-film-and-video/



Promo videos

Strathcona High School

3 examples of promo videos


Also a behind the scenes look at the making of the 4 hour body video.

Please look at this again and scroll down further to see some of the lighting set ups used for the shoot.

Here is the camera simulator

Click HERE

Or find it in the Artistic Links list on the sidebar of this blog.

AI WEI WEI RESEARCH

LAKESHORE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE

PORTRAIT PROJECT 2013 with DAN BERGERON + PAUL ALOISI

Prior to our visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario on Thursday, please do some research about the renouned contemporary artist Ai Wei Wei.  Below, you'll find a series of links to information about the artist and his work.

AI WEI WEI: BIO

Ai Weiwei (Chinese: 艾未未; pinyin: Ài Wèiwèi; born 18 May 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. He collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.  As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He has investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of so-called "tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, he was held for 81 days without any official charges being filed; officials alluded to their allegations of "economic crimes".  (source Wikipedia)

WIKIPEDIA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

AI WEI WEI  PERSONAL WEBSITE:

http://aiweiwei.com/

CBC NEWS CLIP - SEPT 6 2013:

http://youtu.be/VnXj5-SNI34

BBC DOCUMENTARY FILM - JAN 1 2011:

AI WEI WEI: WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR

http://youtu.be/gcRodOfu_s8

DOCUMENTARY - AI WEI WEI: NEVER SORRY - JUNE 14 2012

http://youtu.be/QAADXK9MeOU

TORONTO NUIT BLANCHE - ALL NIGHT CONTEMPORARY ART THING - SATURDAY OCTOBER 5 2013

http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/2013-event/ai-weiwei.html

GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH: AI WEI WEI

https://www.google.ca/search?q=ai+weiwei&client=firefox-a&hs=vuM&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=cthKUsXtEcz3rAGBuYC4Aw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=624&dpr=1

Video Shot types

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


FIRST SHOOTING EXERCISE: 

Here is an example of the Five Shot method.

Notice that there are two extra shots used on top of the 3:6:9 idea of wide, medium, close from three different perspectives.

Go around the school and find something happening that you can use for this exercise. Please don't spend too much time on this. Go to one of these three locations. The wood shop, the auto shop, the Costmetology room.

Take 5 different shots for 10 seconds each. Use a tripod to set up stead shots and compose each shot carefully.

1. Tight or CU - hands or whatever the person is doing

2. Face - who's doing it

3. Medium - face and hands

4. Over the shoulder - just what it sounds like

5. A different angle (at least one of these)

Come back with your footage and we will watch it together.

Sound Design

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ogCVi0WqrQ

Sound is a HUGE industry and holds many varied career opportunities. In the movie industry alone - whether it be small independent productions or massive blockbuster movies, sound production is technical, creative, artistic and crucial in making the visual in audio-visual really shine.

ASSIGNMENT: Please submit a written document - Printed!
Please watch some or all of these videos and read through some of the information in the links below.

1. Post on your blog what you have learned about sound design and production. Specifically, name and describe in your own words, the various components of sound in film production. How do they all work together to make the final viewing experience what it is?

2. Watch the following clip (the first 1.5 - 2 minutes - no need to do more, but feel free to watch all of it) and decipher all the various audio component that you hear. Describe as best you can, ALL the sounds you hear and what categories of sound design they fall into. Then provide a brief analysis of how the sound impacts your viewing experience.




You'll have to watch it directly on youtube.
Try this link if the above doesn't work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwy412nttI&feature=player_embedded

Due: Monday September 30th, 2013




Sound Design for King Kong















Here are some sites to explore to learn more about sound production and post-production.

Videomaker.com - an online magazine dedicated to creating and publishing video

Filmsound.org - for the art of sound design for film

Equipment Emporium - an online resource for film and video production, specializing in production recording

Film Inside Out (iofilm) - here's an article on recording good sound for film and video in a blog called iofilm, on the art and craft of making movies

Here is a lick to an article called Sync Tanks that discusses post-production sound in depth.