Week 5 – Tasks (In Class)

Peer Review

• Peer Review two of your fellow students work. Use the peer review Marking Schedule from Blackboard (also on Emustore), under the Assignment Briefs section.

• Peer Review the person above you and below you within blog list from the Course Blog.

• Fill out all fields and give brief constructive comments.

• Post images of the reviews that you do on other students to your own blogs, and submit two word docs to emustore with the file name format of: StudentMarked_Marker.doc.

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• Continue doing After Effects tutorials, getting a feel for some of the techniques that can be used by you.

• Do the tutorials on Synchronising Sound with animations in After Affects:
• http://layersmagazine.com/audio-visualization-in-after-effects.html
• http://www.adobe.com/uk/tips/aft6audio/index.html
• http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7da3.html
• http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/audio_sync.php
• http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hooton_joel/synch_video_to_audio.php

• Try applying techniques from the tutorials using your chosen music.

• I have provided a bunch of professional Sound FX, along with some After Effects Tutorials in the samples folder for this course, on emustore. You can also find many other sound effects with a quick search on Google.

\\emustore\Resources\samples\benv\BENV2402 Time based Visualization - Harkins\Sound FX Media and Tutorials

• You may want to consider mixing in sound effects to your video to provide counterpoint for certain elements.

• You can use Adobe Soundbooth to crop or edit your audio files.

• You are welcome to use external content, but it must be referenced correctly. A good place for Royalty Free Stock footage is: www.archive.org

Tasks to be completed by Week 6 class

• Refine your 150 word draft text for this Assignment with the help of tutors feedback.

• Based on your 150 word story, sketch out a rough, approximately 15 panel storyboard for your music video, concentrating on scene transitions, and the way you will link and combine your media, to form a coherent music video that both supports and is supported by your chosen music. Consider titles, credits, text, special effects, real footage, digital footage and graphics for your videos (credits should include all references for images and music), include these as story board components if they are relevant.

• When developing your story board, consider what (if any) real footage you intend to capture and incorporate with your digital media. You may want to start laying out your storyboard in after effects as place holders for your final video, so you can get an idea of timing, etc.

• Leading from ideas developed in your rough sketched storyboard, start capturing some initial footage (real or digital) using a good quality video camera or Max. Be controlled, and don't overdo the camera movement. It is also a good idea to record some basic measurements of the physical area you are filming if capturing real footage, so you can create a Max model that equates to the real world.

• BECU has video cameras that you can borrow for this purpose. You may want to start combining content from Max files, rendering out elements to start incorporating with After Effects.