Week 6 – Tasks (In Class)

• Get feedback on your images, influential video, 150 word narrative and your rough sketched 15 image storyboard to guide you through the majority of this project over the break.
• Refine your 15 panel Storyboard for Assignment 2, to be a work of art, depicting the progression of your music video, showing any major transitions or scenes that you feel should be conveyed. Post high quality image/s of your storyboard/s to your blog.
• For the second Assignment, we have been working mainly in After Effects, and have learnt (through tutorials) to work with multiple “compositions” within After Effects. If you are starting to get overly complicated AE projects, there is a better workflow which involves using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects in tandem using the Dynamic Link function.
• Premiere and After Effects can essentially do the same thing, though AE is more of an Effects program (for adding, editing modifying small clip segments), and Premiere is more of an Arrangement program (for putting lots of small clips together. In the end you work wherever you feel more comfortable.
• Here is a link to a video in the “Adobe Video Workshop” site: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0256 that shows a quick demonstration of using the Dynamic Link from Premiere to After Effects. This site has many other useful guides and tutorials.

• Continue working on your Assignment 2 music video.
• You can run through the Camera Tracking Tutorials using Voodoo Camera Tracker (files have been placed on emustore in the samples folder for this course, if you think it is pertinent.

o Blender and Voodoo Tutorial 1/2

o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO4kmT-n3lU

o Blender and Voodoo Tutorial 2/2

o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5POnW5Pkam0

• When exporting your final video, I suggest using “H.264” as the output format. This format gives relatively small file sizes with good quality.
• When exporting from 3Ds Max, I suggest using PNG image sequences. This gives you images rather than a video to work with, and reduces loss of quality. It also gives you transparency within your images.

Tasks to be completed over the Break

• Submit Assignment 2, Due Thursday 1st September.
• Read Through the Assignment 3 Brief from Blackboard.
• Think of a concept for your Final Video.
• Decide on a subject area and direction for your final video.
• Write an initial 150 words outlining a theme, or visual direction for your video. This will begin the idea generation process for your final video.
• Find a minimum of one online Journal article, using Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, CuminCAD, or similar database, that interests you, and helps inform the direction you would like your final video to follow.
• Read through your article and write a 200 word synopsis/review of your article. (If you have chosen more than one article, write a synopsis for each one.) Include a full reference on your blog.
• Create a rough visual outline, or storyboard comprising of around 10 sketchy images, that begin to define your video. You can either use physical sketches, or digital sketches (models, images, montages, etc) as your rough visual outline.