Portrait: A Multimedia Web Workshop

Winter 2010

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Week 9 – Assisted Work

Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by zorns in weekly class outline

Review of rough cuts
Student presentations: Pat, Andrew, Suzy
iDVD
Assisted Work

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Week 6 Post-Production & Yuri Norstein Screening

Posted on February 9th, 2010 by zorns in Uncategorized

Check-in

Video Editing with iMovie

Importing video
Clip editing
Audio and video effects
Transitions
Titles
Exporting to a Quicktime file and uploading to your blog

iMovie Handout

Yuri Norstein Event:

Please note that you will need to have your student id ready to pickup your ticket at the Communications building Recital Hall.

The show begins at 7:30 sharp so please be sure to be in your seat (at 7:15 please) before the show begins. Please be respectful and do not disrupt the show by leaving early.

Assignment for Week 7

Create a short video using your footage you captured from last week in iMovie and post completed work in Moodle (50MB size limit). Posting to your blog is optional (20 MB limit). Include at least:
- One title
- One transition

Write a blog post at least a paragraph in length in response to the Yuri Norstein event including:
- The thematic and stylistic approaches that you saw in his work including mood, texture, pacing, character development, scenery etc.
- How did you receive these pieces? How do you think they represent Yuri as an artist and also respond to the cultural stories/events that are featured?
- How does his talk about being an artist and producing work translate (if at all) to your final project?

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Week 5 Moving Image

Posted on January 31st, 2010 by zorns in weekly class outline

Review podcast assignment from last week
Group check-in on individual projects – discuss project status
- what you have created,
- what is your next step… where you are going,
- what has changed

Photoshop

Working with video presets

Video Palmcorder Proficiencies

Video formats, tape stock and where video is headed
Composition, movement, perspective, posture, and shooting techniques
Camera operation
Storyboarding

Student Presentations

Lucas, Lisa & Lisa (from week 4)
Oliver, Karen, Mele

Assignment Due Week 6:

Gather video content, alone or with a partner, for week 6’s editing workshop. At a bare minimum you should have around 10 different shots to work with. This footage should NOT include any dialogue, but rather demonstrate through the elements of framing, composition, texture, exposure, movement to create a portrait of a person or environment. Tripods are strongly recommended.
If you are planning on using video in your final project you can also use this assignment as a starting point.
This footage should also include any environmental sounds that you capture, and or include an external soundtrack through alternative recordings/music etc, but NO DIALOGUE.
When shooting while recording audio remember that you will need headphones, a headphone adapter (with Canon palmcorder), a mic, and if using XLR connector microphones a hi-lo adapter.
Next week we will be going on a not-so-far field trip to the Yuri Norstein Evergreen Expressions event in the Recital Hall of the Com building.