Final Cut Tutorials

Cloning

Music Video Effects

Basic Effects

One Item in Color

Green Screen Tutorial

Lightsaber

Digital Photo 2: Turning in Action Photos

1. Edit your 8-15 best Shorecrest Action Photos. Do not add text.

2. Create a folder with all edited SC Action Pictures. Name the folder using the naming convention with the sport name as the subject.

3. Drop your SC Action Photos into the Vidstore>Public>Photo J>Spring Sports Folder

Go

Connect to server

Vidstore.shorelineschools.org      

Name: scvideo

Password: Jetta23

Sc video classes

Public Folder

Photo J

Spring Sports Photo 2

4. Start editing your “other” action photos.

5. After all your edits are complete you should start adding text. Please describe the who, what, where, why, and how of each picture. Don’t forget to use full student names.

6. Turn in your best 10 Action Photos adjusted w/text (both sports/activities). Call this Action Photos Adjusted CS.

7. Turn in your Best Action Photo for printing.

8. Create a Weebly website. On this website create a Action Photo Slideshow. Copy/paste text as needed. You can have up to 16 pictures.

Multimedia Music Video Assignment

Requirements:
Students will shoot a music video that is at least two minutes but no longer than three minutes.
Unlike music videos in my Video 1 class, I encourage you to make these videos as bizarre and weird as possible.
Some suggestions:

• Use the Green Screen
• Use Stop Motion Photography
• Move the camera rapidly from shot to shot, slow down for a second, and move again
• Use special effects and filtering in Final Cut 
• Use multiple props or costumes if people are in your video
• Reverse, speed up, and slow down clips
• Layer clips in Final Cut to create ghosting effects
• Use the motion tab keyframes in Final Cut to zoom and pan across the video 
• Use other programs like Flash or Photoshop as needed
•  Use pictures in addition to video

Students may work was many people as they want, but everyone must edit their own version of the video to their own Garageband created song.

Students must turn in a one-page typed treatment.

1. What is your story or concept in great detail? What makes this idea interesting?  Don't forget costumes, editing and shooting style etc. Your answer should be 4-5 sentences.
2. Who are you working with on this project (inside or outside of class) if anyone?
3. When will you shoot? You can shoot all period Thursday and you may also shoot outside of class.
4. Do you have your own video camera or cell phone camera?


Please drop you responses into the Staff server, Period 4.

Raw footage to import into Final Cut is due next Tuesday.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE ASSIGNMENT:
For this project you will be creating an adventure of some sorts that pauses periodically and gives the viewer a choice in where the story goes, thus a "choose your own adventure" tale! Your movie must contain:

* a cohesive and easy to follow storyline
* At least three places where decisions need to be made
* 8 interactive Buttons with up, over, down, hit states
* detailed and moving backgrounds
* no stick figures
* multiple motion and shape tweens
* 4 movie clips
* at least three instances of sound, sound should FILL your animation
* goto and play Action Script
* stop Action Script

Action Photo Practice

Action Photo Practice

Today you will shoot and turn in a full contact sheet of action pictures. 
You should have 10-12 SUCCESSFUL panning style pictures using shutter speeds of around 1/20-1/60 and then 10-12 pictures of regular fast shutter speeds (usually 1/500-1/2500).

How many of you remembered to bring some sporting equipment?
Suggested activities to shoot: someone running across the field, someone doing back handsprings or other gymnastic moves, anyone playing catch with a football or baseball, and hackysack etc.

If you aren't sure about the panning technique please review the motocross video with the Crocodile Hunter. The panning instruction starts at about 1:30.

You may use my cameras to shoot this assignment.

Please return to class at 9:15 so you can upload your pictures and turn in the Contact Sheets. 
Both your "Official" Action Picture Contact Sheets with an SC sport and action/sport of your choice are due Monday.

Action Photo Written Assignment 2

Action Photo Hints and Tutorials 

Please watch the youtube tutorials below and add helpful hints and suggestions to your "notes" from the previous actrion  assignment. Make sure that you reference 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIYh9jaypYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19z7mR_IsDU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoykOwArmXo&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K6_voFhofA&feature=related

Action Photography Slideshow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7YVeGTrZi0&feature=related

Garageband Assignment

Garageband Assignment #1

• Create a full-length song in Garageband that is 2-3 mins long – (to view time go to Control –> Show Time in LCD)
• The song should work for a specific genre of music as opposed to just random clips assembled together. For example, you should create a rock, country, or electronic song.
• The song should have distinctly different parts of the song (parts that are emphasized or de-emphasized or repeated).  "Real" music has verse, middle, and chorus sections.
• The song must contain at least 6 different tracks. Most songs will have have more than six sections.
• You should include at least one sample, voice, or musical instrument
• At least 2 of the tracks must change volume multiple times throughout the song – click on the downward pointing arrow at the end of the track icons to make a track’s volumne fade in or out
• At least one track must include a segment that loops – usually created by clicking in the upper left corner of a region and dragging to the right.

Sports Photography Written Assignment 1

Sports Photography

A detailed description of how to take good sports photos.

Please read the above link in it's entirety (pages 1-7). After you take detailed notes pleasewrite down what you think are the ten most important pieces of advice.
 Make sure your notes are IN YOUR OWN WORDS.


Your first SC Sports Action Shot Contact Sheet will not be due until next week.You will receive your team assignment on Friday.
Objectives foe these pictures: sharp focus, unique angles, capturing emotion, telling a story, and basically taking the viewer someplace they wouldn't normally get to be by just sitting in the stands.
Your most interesting subject may not always be the person with the ball, like the reaction shot below of the Husky bench after beating Marquette last year.

Sports Picture Slideshow


CLIFF DESPEAUX / THE SEATTLE TIME

SCNN Commercial Treatment

Commercial Treatment

You will write a detailed commercial treatment and send it to the coach or advisor of your club/activity/sport etc. You will ask for their permission to make a commercial and also for suggestions. You will also send me a copy (CC) of this email.



List of advisors:
http://schools.shorelineschools.org/shorecrest/asb/index.php#list
School event Calendar



Treatment questions you must answer in COMPLETE sentences.

1. What group or activity have you selected as your subject?
2. Why did you select this group and why do you think you can make an interesting commercial for this group?
3. What is your original concept? How are you going to SELL your subject?
4. What will your tag line be? It needs to be something catchy and memorable.
5. What kind of music will you use in the background?
6. Please email the advisor or coach of your commercial subject ask permission to create a commercial using your concept. Include me on this email.

Photojournalism Photo Essay

Photo Essay...

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

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

Photo Essays tell stories with pictures in ways that words cannot. They show us the faces of joy, pain, pride and fear.

One famous photo essayist was Larry Burrows. Burrows was killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam but his work helped show the face of war to Americans.


TimeLife.com has a Burrows memorial page that has some of his photographs including 15 photographs that served as covers for Life Magazine. This photo is from the cover of his book, Vietnam. You can see some of the photos from this link to the book on Amazon.com.



Time and Life magazines both have a long history of photo journalism. Many of these photo essays are on-line and available for viewing.

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Assignment - Photo Essay (Part 1)

In this assignment you will create your own photo essay. To help prepare you for this you should review some other photo essays and prepare a report.

Select a photo essay from the Time.com web site.

Select one essay and to review it. You will need to respond to these points in a word processing program like Text Edit:

1. Did the photographer use staged photos, candid photos or both?
2. Color or B&W? Did it make a difference? What factors contributed to the selection of one over the other?
3. Find examples of good framing and composition and point them out. How close do the subjects feel in the photo?
4. Find examples of good use of color and light. Do you see backlighting? Were the photos taken early or late in the day?
   
5. How much narration and text support the essay?
6. Do the photos in the essay stand alone or do they need to be seen as a part of the whole?
7. Describe your reaction to the essay. Do all photo essays illicit a reaction in the viewer?

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Assignment - Photo Essay (Part 2)

Criteria:

1. Minimum of 8 photos
2. Single theme or "story" for the essay
3. Consider the following in composing your photographs:
• Color or B&W
• Composition
• Lighting
• Angle and distance to subject
• Candid or posed photos?
4. Consider the need for text to accompany each photograph.

Do some advanced planning and make a list of the photographs you'd like to take. MOST of the work for this assignment will happen OUTSIDE of class and AWAY from school. Plan early and get started early on this one...

Next Project: SCNN Commercial

Your next assignment will be a 15-25 second SCNN commercial for anything school related. This could include a dance, a game, a club, an event, or anything else. Content must be related to the specific school related item.

Your animation needs to include:

• Music AND sound effects
• Keyframe animation
• Shape tween
• Motion Tween
• Two Movie Clips
• Text that says either "SCNN" or the information for the school club, group, or event

Most of these projects will be between 200 and 400 frames each at 10 frames per second.

The Shorecrest Web Site: http://schools.shorelineschools.org/shorecrest/





Here is a list of clubs:
http://learn.shorelineschools.org/shorecrest/sasb/index.php#activities_clubs_organizations

Here are the spring sports teams:

SPRING SPORTS
Boys' Baseball - website & email	Alan Bruns	JV, V
Boys' Golf - website & email	Brian Story	JV, V
Boys' Soccer - website & email	Drew Thompson	JV, V
Girls' Golf - website & email	Bob Quiles	JV, V
Girls' Fastpitch - website & email	Jackie Berg	JV, V
Girls' Tennis - website & email	Wayne Abney, Rob Mann	JV, V
Track (coed) - website & email	Brandon Christiansen	JV, V

Animation: Turn in Your Animation 1 Project

 

Please turn in your Animation 1 Project:

File

Export Movie

Format:

Select Quicktime Movie

Export

Use the naming convention to save your work

(5_mitchellt_Animation 1)

·  Go

·  Connect to server

·  Vidstore.shorelineschools.org    

·  Name: scvideo

·  Password: Jetta23

·  SC video classes

·  Drop your file into Period 5

HDR Assignment

HDR

This is a new assignment for some of you and for others it's something you have done before. There are detailed instructions on how to create HDR pictures below.

I'll give you some hints:
1. Use a tripod or something else completely steady.
 2. Take 8-10 pictures using a variety of shutter speeds from almost dark to too bright. (Adjusting aperture only works also). Please use the snow, sun, landscape, action, firework, and beach settings etc. if you are using a camera that cannot manually adjust
3. Make sure tripod is completely steady.
4. Import pictures and put all the HDR pictures in a folder on the desktop
5 Merge pics in Photoshop using automate>merge>HDR

You should take 40-50 pictures from one awesome scenic location. This translates to five or six HDR merges. Note: review all 8-10 of your shots before changing angles.

Turn in a contact sheet with 16-20 pictures and also turn in one good HDR picture.
Email me with questions.

Weekend HDR Homework:
40-50 more pictures with some type of large subject in the foreground.

Step-By-Step HDR Instruction

Here

In the instructions above they suggest you change your shutter speed (I have successfully created HDR merges with aperture adjustment). I will recommend you try both. You CAN take HDR pictures using a point and shoot camera. Instead of adjusting the aperture you can try different settings for each picture like Beach, Snow, Clouds, and Sun etc.

HDR Pictures

Each of these pictures is actually three pictures combined, each with a different aperture setting.

Magazine 2 Adjustments

Use Photoshop to adjust your best six Magazine pictures.
Turn in your best six pictures on a Contact Sheet called Magazine 2_adjusted.
Please make sure you pick six pictures of a variety of subjects shot from a variety of locations and angles.
You should have at least one landscape, close-up, and action/activity picture.

Spend time on each picture making sure the exposure and color balance is correct.
These pictures should get people excited about visiting the city you chose.
 
Finally, turn in your best picture for printing by itself called Best Magazine.


Required Adjustments:
One Grayscale
Selective Focus
Vignette

Suggested adjustments:
One item left in color
Photo Filter
Brightness/Contrast
Cropping
Portraits: Gaussian Blur, Clone Stamp, and Patch Tool 

Due Today

Next up: HDR 

Updated 1st Animation Project

1st Big Animation Assignment

Animation Assignment

• 5+ layers
    60+ frames
    15+ keyframes
    foreground, mid-ground, and background
    both shape and motion tweens
•  1 Movie Clip
• All items on separate layers
• 2 Sound Effects
• Music or ambient noise throughout

You will work on this assignment Wed and Fri.

B-Movie Poster examples

 

Steps for B-Movie Poster
1. Brainstorm and sketch ideas on paper.
2. Spend time to get any background/landscape pictures that you need. Pick a place that you could potentially have monsters climb on/destroy/reappear from/or live. Your poster must have at least one digital image taken with a camera.
3. Import your background photos to your computer.
4. Create a new document in Photoshop at 8*10  inches with 200 resolution.
5. Add background photo to new document.
6. Manipulate photos to work within your poster. Use free transform to adjust sizes. Hold down the shift key to constrain proportions. Don't forget you need victims and a monster.
7.  Pick a text to create that is appropriate for your poster. Text with blood, fire, or multiple colors also seem to work best. You will make text for your movie name as well as tag-lines and movie stars. The text should go well together.
8. Once you have completed all of your poster you will need to merge layers and convert your picture to grayscale.
9. You will now paint your picture at approximately 23%-30% opacity. Pick colors that stand out.


Grading will be based on the following:
Creative movie title
Creative use of text effects for title and tag lines
Interesting/scary monster or villian
Use of digital image
Color Coordination
Realism of poster (does it look like something we would see in a theater)
Logo included
Movie details included in small print (directed by,starring, rating etc.)

Take your time on this project!

B-Movie Poster examples

http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/movieposters.htm

http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/b/bposter.htm

 

Edit Your Shoreline Magazine Pictures

Today you will edit 20 of your landscape pictures in the following manner:

• Two Selective Focus
• Two One Item Kept in Color with the History Brush
• Two Vivid Color or High Saturation
• Two Black and White/Grayscale
• Two Vignette
• 10 Instagram

Please  create a Contact Sheet with all 20 pictures named Shoreline Adjusted and turn it in to the Classes/Period 2 folder on the server.
 Please make sure the picture adjustment name is saved under each picture in the contact sheet.

Homework:

• Take (literally) a few hundred pictures in the city of your choice. 
• Sell me this city via your pictures. Make me move there! Please try to get to six or seven locations within this city.
• Shoot landscape, portrait, action, macro, and abstract shots.
• Shoreline and Lake Forest Park are not options for this assignment.
• You will turn in at least three contact sheets when you return from break.

1st Big Animation Assignment

Animation Assignment

• 5+ layers
    60+ frames
    15+ keyframes
    foreground, mid-ground, and background
    both shape and motion tweens
•  1 Movie Clip
• All items on separate layers

You will work on this assignment Wed and Fri.

The Best Camera Simulator of All Time!

http://camerasim.com/camera-simulator/

Photojournalism

Class Reading

Class work and homework
This is not a writing intensive course, but there is some reading the first couple weeks of class.
Please take notes on the bold faced words as you read from the links below. You will be shooting the various composition elements this weekend and next week. We will also have a quiz on this material as well.

Wednesday Reading and Homework:

Homework:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/composition.mspx

In Class reading:
http://photoinf.com/General/Geoff_Lawrence/Composition.html

(Take quizzes at the end of each section below)

http://cybercollege.com/tvp023.htm Start reading at "Strive for Feeling of Unity"
http://cybercollege.com/tvp024.htm
http://cybercollege.com/tvp025.htm



This Friday you will shoot six pictures with six different subjects. Please shoot three Rule of Thirds shots and three Unique Angle shots. Your homework is to shoot three leading lines shots and three frame within a frame (using other objects to frame your subject) shots.

Due Monday  the 14th of February: 12 INTERESTING shots using all four techniques described above.
Some people will take 30-40 pictures for 12 good ones.

Make sure you read both sections above.