Week 13 Tutorial - Final Week!

Final week of class!

• Get feedback on your schemes, narratives, storyboards and any final advice on modelling or editing.
• Continue working on your Assignment 3 videos.
• By this stage you should have defined the concept and direction for your final video, have a workable storyboard that you can follow for your modelling and video editing, and should be working on refining your ideas, modelling your scenes, and producing video edits in AfterEffects (and Premiere if you are using it).
• Read back through past weeks tasks to assure that you have fulfilled all blog requirements tasks. Being sure to have the tasks completed will add to your overall grade for the course.
• Since there was more of a “drop-in” policy undertaken this session, attendance hasn’t been great from most students. This means the 5% - Attendance and Participation mark will based on Participation alone. This will be judged by your engagement with the tasks throughout session.
• The 10% - Blog Mark will be based on the quality and progression of your blogs throughout the session, as well as a progress post for Assignment 3.
• If you haven’t done them yet, DO THE VIDEO CO-PILOT TUTORIALS!

Assignment 3 Progress Post

• To be submitted to your blogs on Monday, 31^st October. Tutors will give feedback on your Assignment 3 Progress Post through blogger comments.
• This should include your completed storyboard, your 300 word narrative, still images showing exactly what you intend your final video to look like, and a draft video of your final submission.

I will be available for private consultations to review your work before submission on request. I will be available most times during the week, so contact me to set up a time. I would like to see you all take advantage of my offer to review your work.

Final Due Date Extended - Midnight, Thursday 10^th November

Good Luck, and feel free to email me anytime with any questions you may have!

Week 11 – Tasks for Studio and Independent Study for Week 12

• Continue working on your Assignment 3 Visualistaions, reading back through past weeks tasks to assure that you have fulfilled all blog requirements.

• By this stage you should have defined the concept and direction for your final video, have a workable storyboard that you can follow for your modeling and video editing, and should be working on refining your ideas, modeling your scenes, and producing rough video edits in AfterEffects an Premiere.
  

• Decide on the music that will accompany your visualistion, and consider sound effects that will compliment your content.
  

• Get feedback and assistance with any modeling or conceptual issue that you may be having.

• Capture any footage that you want to incorporate into your videos, and test the footage with Voodoo Camera track to be sure that you get a good track.

• BECU have video cameras that you can borrow for the task.
  

• You should work on having rough compositions of your whole video, modeling or composing in video editing software ALL of your scenes to varying levels of detail, essentially creating "sets" for each section of your intended video.

• At this stage, they can still be fairly roughly models, but you should have all your main elements modeled or roughly animated, so they can be refined and rendered for the final stages of this project.

• Create low quality videos of all of the main sections of your intended videos, concentrating on camera movement, and animation of main elements.

• You can view your video software as an animated story board at this stage of the process, by combining rough animations, quick test render videos, and scene transitions, you can get a feel for the flow of your video, considering music and sound effects to enhance the experience.