Today you will go out in groups and take on the task of properly exposing your camera using the shutter speed, f/stop, and gain functions on the GL-1 or GL-2.
Once properly exposed you will record yourself white balancing on a piece of white paper with your name on it.
As soon as you are done white balancing you will need to find 2 objects that are different distances from the camera, zoom in, and rack focus from one object to the next, and then back again, while recording.
When you are done with this, find anything with color on it and use the manual white balance to prepare the next person in your group for their white balance exercise.
Everyone in your group MUST repeat this process.
You are being graded individually, despite the fact that you're in groups.
Good Luck!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Happy New Year! Now Read This!
Today's reading assignment:
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp018.htm
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp019.htm
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp018.htm
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp019.htm
Friday, December 14, 2007
What to do today 12/14
You are required to go to the following url and watch the the tutorials indicated below.
Go to:
http://movies.atomiclearning.com
Type in 'Final Cut Express' into the 'Search' engine.
Watch these tutorials:
'Tool Palate/Audio Meter'
'Capturing Video'
'Setting in and out Points'
'Creating other Effects'
'Rendering'
'Speed Changes'
'Color Correction'
'Color Manipulation'
Go to:
http://movies.atomiclearning.com
Type in 'Final Cut Express' into the 'Search' engine.
Watch these tutorials:
'Tool Palate/Audio Meter'
'Capturing Video'
'Setting in and out Points'
'Creating other Effects'
'Rendering'
'Speed Changes'
'Color Correction'
'Color Manipulation'
Thursday, December 13, 2007
While I'm out today.
Today you are to continue to play around in both Final Cut Express and LiveType.
Test the many different 'Video Filters' and 'Video Transitions' in Final Cut Express, along with the 'Motion' tab in the 'Viewer Slug'.
In LiveType. Try animating the different 'Live Fonts' and apply and use the 'Effects' and 'Objects' in that program.
Experiment and have today.
THERE WILL BE NO VIDEO GAME PLAYING!!!!
YOUR SUBSTITUTE WILL WRITE DOWN ANYONE WHO VIOLATES THIS RULE AND YOU WILL RECEIVE A SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT FROM ME NEXT WEEK!!!
Test the many different 'Video Filters' and 'Video Transitions' in Final Cut Express, along with the 'Motion' tab in the 'Viewer Slug'.
In LiveType. Try animating the different 'Live Fonts' and apply and use the 'Effects' and 'Objects' in that program.
Experiment and have today.
THERE WILL BE NO VIDEO GAME PLAYING!!!!
YOUR SUBSTITUTE WILL WRITE DOWN ANYONE WHO VIOLATES THIS RULE AND YOU WILL RECEIVE A SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT FROM ME NEXT WEEK!!!
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Required Tutorials for Video 1
You are required to go to the following url and watch the the tutorials indicated below.
Go to:
http://movies.atomiclearning.com
Type in 'Final Cut Pro HD' into the 'Search' engine.
Watch these tutorials:
'Storyboarding in the Browser'
'Setting In and Out Points'
'Marking in the Timeline'
'Using the Ripple Edit'
'Using the Roll Edit'
'Sliding Clips into the Timeline'
'Using the Log and Capture Window pt. 1'
'Using the Log and Capture Window pt. 2'
'Logging Your Clips'
Go to:
http://movies.atomiclearning.com
Type in 'Final Cut Pro HD' into the 'Search' engine.
Watch these tutorials:
'Storyboarding in the Browser'
'Setting In and Out Points'
'Marking in the Timeline'
'Using the Ripple Edit'
'Using the Roll Edit'
'Sliding Clips into the Timeline'
'Using the Log and Capture Window pt. 1'
'Using the Log and Capture Window pt. 2'
'Logging Your Clips'
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Writing A Treatment and Treatment Example
A treatment consists of a written condensation of a proposed film or TV dramatic production. It covers the basic ideas and issues of the production as well as the main characters, locations, and story angles.
In part, its purpose is to sell the proposal to financial backers and major stars. Treatments should be attention-getting and interesting to read. They are written in the present tense, using active language and often read like a short story.
Treatments cover the full story sequence. They typically contain some key scenes that help to entice the reader and sell your idea.
Here are some examples.
Music Video Treatment
“All My Life” – Foo Fighters
An epic song deserves an epic music video. This is a dark song and therefore I will have it be a dark music video. There will be a lot of lighting that will help put across the effect of it being really dark and oppressive. We see black lights to keep the imagery that's dark and distorted, and flood lights to create harding lighting and long shadows.
The speed of the action in this video is varying from slow, to fast, to normal.
There are multiple people singing the song in fast and slow motion while things are going on around them at different speeds.
The beginning shows us a dark room with dark walls and only black lights illuminating the room. Our main character is in all black with a white pic playing guitar. We see only select parts of him that are illuminated by the black lights. He starts playing the part with close ups on his eyes and mouth, that are closed. Once the lyrics kick in, he starts singing, with a close up back on his mouth. Once the music kicks in with the rest of the band, the dark person under the black lights opens his eyes extremely wide and screams with the music.
After the intro and into the verse, we see someone walking downtown at night, the street lights creating hard lighting from above, casting shadows over our character's face. The people and the cars in the background will be going very fast as our character moves slowly.
The chorus kicks in and the band is playing the song in a dark room with a single flood light that lights the band.
The next verse is similar to the verse before but instead of walking down town, our main character is walking on the waterfront which once again, is a dark setting and with the person singing the song in fast to slow motion.
Now the “build-up” part of the song, has quicker cuts, which go from one scene to another. From the man in the intro in the black light, to the band playing, to the scenes in the verses. On every scratch, the man in the black light would starts to appear in all of the scenes.
The “build-up” reaches its apex, to a scene of the guitarist in the band jumping up in the air, shot from a low angle with a flood light behind him, so all you see is a black figure with a guitar jumping through the air in slow motion. The scene then cuts to the man in the black light scene screaming the lyrics while playing the guitar.
During the final chorus, we see quick cuts of the band rocking out to the song, and at the very end of the song the man in the black light lunges at the main character.
“Leap Year” Music Video
This music video is all about time and friendship, losing friends and those who never loose hope or stop waiting for those that matter. We begin by focusing on a boy, pondering a picture on a window-sill (digitally), the picture flies from his hand in a gust of wind, music begins. An montage of urban scenes flash by, starting with a sun rising very fast, mixed with short flashes of character remembering his two friends.
There are three main shots that remain constant scenes. One, a candlelit room with a large frozen clock taking up the entire background, where the boy occasionally sings along with mixture of mystery, longing, and sadness.
Next, a simple framed shot of the boy centered between his female and male friend, both facing them, only the backs of their heads and shoulder blades are visible as the stand halfway outside the spotlight .
The boy now sits up in an old, grey tree, centered in a gated off abandoned schoolyard. Numbers of a clock circle around him and certain things hang on the branches like a Christmas tree.
These very fantasy like, slow motion; whimsical, a little detached from reality shots of the boy striving to find the true friends as he remembers but not clearly enough. The girl friend is a manikin through most of the video, symbolizing how girls grow less honest of themselves around old friends in awkward meetings, and at the climax of the song she becomes real as he finally finds the way to see her the same again.
Now the climax of the song and at an abandoned closed down establishment the two stand together, Just beginning to speak, suddenly a car turns towards them, the headlights blinding bright. From this point on, several flashes, like camera flashes, creating a sense of the clock getting faster and slowing down to normal at the end of the video.
Finally, we see a close up of the character's hands reaching for on another, silloutted by a bright headlight.
This image fades to “The End” written in Christmas lights.
In part, its purpose is to sell the proposal to financial backers and major stars. Treatments should be attention-getting and interesting to read. They are written in the present tense, using active language and often read like a short story.
Treatments cover the full story sequence. They typically contain some key scenes that help to entice the reader and sell your idea.
Here are some examples.
Music Video Treatment
“All My Life” – Foo Fighters
An epic song deserves an epic music video. This is a dark song and therefore I will have it be a dark music video. There will be a lot of lighting that will help put across the effect of it being really dark and oppressive. We see black lights to keep the imagery that's dark and distorted, and flood lights to create harding lighting and long shadows.
The speed of the action in this video is varying from slow, to fast, to normal.
There are multiple people singing the song in fast and slow motion while things are going on around them at different speeds.
The beginning shows us a dark room with dark walls and only black lights illuminating the room. Our main character is in all black with a white pic playing guitar. We see only select parts of him that are illuminated by the black lights. He starts playing the part with close ups on his eyes and mouth, that are closed. Once the lyrics kick in, he starts singing, with a close up back on his mouth. Once the music kicks in with the rest of the band, the dark person under the black lights opens his eyes extremely wide and screams with the music.
After the intro and into the verse, we see someone walking downtown at night, the street lights creating hard lighting from above, casting shadows over our character's face. The people and the cars in the background will be going very fast as our character moves slowly.
The chorus kicks in and the band is playing the song in a dark room with a single flood light that lights the band.
The next verse is similar to the verse before but instead of walking down town, our main character is walking on the waterfront which once again, is a dark setting and with the person singing the song in fast to slow motion.
Now the “build-up” part of the song, has quicker cuts, which go from one scene to another. From the man in the intro in the black light, to the band playing, to the scenes in the verses. On every scratch, the man in the black light would starts to appear in all of the scenes.
The “build-up” reaches its apex, to a scene of the guitarist in the band jumping up in the air, shot from a low angle with a flood light behind him, so all you see is a black figure with a guitar jumping through the air in slow motion. The scene then cuts to the man in the black light scene screaming the lyrics while playing the guitar.
During the final chorus, we see quick cuts of the band rocking out to the song, and at the very end of the song the man in the black light lunges at the main character.
“Leap Year” Music Video
This music video is all about time and friendship, losing friends and those who never loose hope or stop waiting for those that matter. We begin by focusing on a boy, pondering a picture on a window-sill (digitally), the picture flies from his hand in a gust of wind, music begins. An montage of urban scenes flash by, starting with a sun rising very fast, mixed with short flashes of character remembering his two friends.
There are three main shots that remain constant scenes. One, a candlelit room with a large frozen clock taking up the entire background, where the boy occasionally sings along with mixture of mystery, longing, and sadness.
Next, a simple framed shot of the boy centered between his female and male friend, both facing them, only the backs of their heads and shoulder blades are visible as the stand halfway outside the spotlight .
The boy now sits up in an old, grey tree, centered in a gated off abandoned schoolyard. Numbers of a clock circle around him and certain things hang on the branches like a Christmas tree.
These very fantasy like, slow motion; whimsical, a little detached from reality shots of the boy striving to find the true friends as he remembers but not clearly enough. The girl friend is a manikin through most of the video, symbolizing how girls grow less honest of themselves around old friends in awkward meetings, and at the climax of the song she becomes real as he finally finds the way to see her the same again.
Now the climax of the song and at an abandoned closed down establishment the two stand together, Just beginning to speak, suddenly a car turns towards them, the headlights blinding bright. From this point on, several flashes, like camera flashes, creating a sense of the clock getting faster and slowing down to normal at the end of the video.
Finally, we see a close up of the character's hands reaching for on another, silloutted by a bright headlight.
This image fades to “The End” written in Christmas lights.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Today's Test and Reading Assignment
After you have finished taking today's test, go to CyberCollege.com and read the following 2 articles that continue to discuss lighting techniques that you will need to know for your Music Video Project.
Absolutely NO VIDEO GAMES WILL BE PLAYED TODAY!!!
I want to continue showing Music Videos from previous years during the second half of class today, but I will NOT show these videos if I catch 1 person playing video games during class today.
Don't be the person that ruins it for the class.
Consider yourself warned!
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp035.htm
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp036.htm
Absolutely NO VIDEO GAMES WILL BE PLAYED TODAY!!!
I want to continue showing Music Videos from previous years during the second half of class today, but I will NOT show these videos if I catch 1 person playing video games during class today.
Don't be the person that ruins it for the class.
Consider yourself warned!
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp035.htm
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp036.htm
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