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Movie Trailer MashUp Assignment - CyberARTS Year 3/4

Movie Trailer Parody Assignment.

TGI 3M1 CyberARTS Year Three                                                     

Ms. Silverman

Sound in multimedia productions has a tremendous impact on the outcome of the final product and on the viewers’ interpretation of the production.

Try watching any movie or tv show without the soundtrack – even just without the music and you will be amazed at the lack of emotional impact – or the lessening of emotional impact.

Þ   Your assignment is to effectively and drastically change the mood and emotional impact of a movie trailer for a well-known Hollywood movie.

o   You may rearrange the clips from the trailer

o   You MUST change the soundtrack (music AND sound fx)

o   You may use the original voice-over, or create your own, or “borrow” from other sources

o   Your trailer must be around 2 minutes long - give or take 30 seconds. Please, no longer than 2:30 and no shorter than 1:30. You will lose marks for going over or under.

The important thing is that the changes you make effectively and drastically change the mood and emotional impact of the movie trailer.

You will be evaluated on the following:

Effective and dramatic change in mood                                               

Effective choice of soundtrack/music                       

Effective use of sound fx                                               

Effective use of voice-over     (you should be re-recording the voice-over)                               Syncing and placement of Audio in relation to visual

When you are finished, you MUST post the original trailer as well as the altered trailer on your blog with a written report stating:

• Your process - how you came up with idea - take use through your creative process.
• Your choice of sounds - music, fx, voice to change the mood.
• How you did - why and how you think you effectively and dramatically changed the mood of the movie

The written report will be evaluated on the following:

Communicates clearly, professionally                       

In depth description of how mood change was achieved (sound and visuals)

–      original vs. new trailer

Movie choice and sound ideas must be submitted to me by Friday September 13 at the beginning of class. 

Final Trailer posted on your blog with the written report, ready to present in class 
DUE: Friday September 20th, 2015

Please save your final trailer in the original file format as well to drop into the drop folder. 

ADOBE PREMIERE  INTRODUCTION

For inspiration, check out some of our past year's student work:

Toy Story 3 By Blaire 

Spiderman: The horror by Niem (from two years ago)
Sherlock Holmes: The romance by Lizzie Lowe


For info on how to download a trailer check google. There are many tutorials on how to do it. Help each other out.

Also there are links below to check out as well.

Top 10 best recut trailers

Ms. Silverman's Pinterest

Link for an introductory tutorial on Adobe Premiere CS6.

Kinetic Typography Submission and Artistic Reflection - Yr 2 Tech

Where and how to submit your final work:

Export final After Effects Project to a quicktime .mov file for your blog. 

Post on your blog with a brief written description AND drop the After Effects Project folder (include the exported .mov file and .aep file into the Drop Off folder marked Kinetic Typography

Reminder - you MUST drop off your entire folder to include ALL assets with your After Effects Project

Technical and Artistic Reflection (T&AR)

You will produce a piece of writing that will be one to two pages long. It must be in proper paragraph form and must address the following issues:

-        State the title of the work

-        List the medium (or media) and applications used.

-        Describe the content of the work.

-        What do you like about the final product? What would you change on reflection?

-        Describe your design choices. What did you do to make it look the way you did?

-        What technical or implementation challenges did you find most difficult?

-     Which technical or implementation solutions were most satisfying 

Please submit this on paper - printed and properly formatted!

Adobe Premiere Tutorials and DSLR video shooting

For those of you who want to begin learning on your own, I've left a few links for tutorials for Adobe Premiere.

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-premiere-pro-cs6/

Also, click HERE to learn about linking work from Premiere Pro with After Effects

or HERE (which includes why Premiere is awesome)

click HERE for some excellent tips on creating a "film" look using a DSLR camera

2 weeks to Kinetic Typography deadline

Plan accordingly. Your Kinetic typography assignment is DUE for viewing on JUNE 8th 2015, which means the last day to work on it in class is JUNE 5th!!

Culminating activities will begin on Tuesday June 9th and end on Friday June 12th.

Kinetic Typography Inspiration

There are many great examples of kinetic typography.

Here's a LINK to a blog that has 34 must-see examples...

Enjoy.

Kinetic Typography Storyboarding exercise

Now that you have been introduced to After Effects and the possibilities for animating typography, your next task is to choose your audio piece that you will animate and begin storyboarding.

FIRST however, I'd like you to practice storyboarding.

We will take 15-20 minutes of class today to storyboard the kinetic typography piece that you chose for your analysis.

I will provide you with a storyboard. You must do one page!
Please submit this when you are finished. I will take a look at the kinetic typography posted on your blog and mark both your analysis of the principles of animation as well as your storyboard of the first 20 images (1 page).

Good luck and have fun!

I've put some examples of storyboards as well as some templates in the Year 2 CyberARTS folder under Assignments for pickup.
Go HERE to find many many storyboard templates to choose from. Pick the one that suits you for storyboarding YOUR kinetic typography.

If you're into this and want more practice, then check the link below.

1. Check out this LINK and read it!

2. Create a storyboard for the first 100 frames of a movie you love. You can take the advice of Emma Coats, or choose any movie.

3. You do not have to do an entire movie, though if you're serious about film you might want to.