4/9 Schedule

Premiere Exercise 2 Continued/Work Session For Project 4

5:30 - 6:30 zoom meeting open for general project discussion/exercise 2 help
6:30 - 8:00 individual meetings continued, if you have not signed up, please do so here

Requested resources:

Masking out objects in premiere 

Choreography & match cut inspiration 

Please check out these resources Kristen Mills shared

4/7 Schedule

5:30 - 6:30  Storyboards due, class discussion
6:30 - 7:45 Independent meetings sign up here

Premiere Exercise: Stop Motion Animation
2 due 4/9 end of class

Choose some objects you would like to animate, this can be done inside, outside, or drawn.

Stopmotion animation is a way to animate inanimate objects by taking a series of stills and playing them together like a flipbook.

Premiere Tutorials: 

1. Putting together a Stop Motion Animation in Premiere
2. Nesting & Adjustment Layers

Stopmotion Tutorials:

• How to put together stop motion in premiere
• Short & very simple stop motion tutorial with smart phone
• Kristen Lepore making a stopmotion (she is using a specialized stop motion software we are not be using)
• Combine Stills & Video Stop Motion Effects

Things to consider before start: 

For a stop motion animation, it is recommended that you have a light source, tripod of some sort and a partner to help you either animate your objects or take the photographs. 

• phone/camera with a lot of space for photos We will be making a 30-second video. For a stop motion animation you will need 12-24 frames per second, that would mean a 150 frame video would be 12.5-6.25 second of footage. Plan to have a significant amount of space on your phone or camera so you don't run into problems.
• Cable to connect your device to the computer (or another way to upload multiple files in chronological order)
• A way to steady phone/camera (tripod or something else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtJovKtujo )

Artist to look at:

• Kirsten Lepore: Bottle
• A collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
• PES: Fresh Guacamole
• William Kentridge: Felix in Exile & Sobriety, Obesity and Growing

Stop Motion Student Examples:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIISYvW3hss

with 3D printed objects:

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wCudS0a6_Bu356oJAJ6y65SA3jy9eDTL
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w6DbhNgDtvDIIml4VfXVI37lYnOvydxN
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a-I37MEiZRizAnUquIvGzqyCprVNM5DX

Steps when making your stop-motion animation: 
1. Take 100 - 200 photographs. Slowly, sequentially move your object between each frame.
This should be the most time-consuming part of this exercise.

• turn off your auto exposure and use exposure lock if you have it
• use a stabilizing device (tripod, support, etc. )
• plan your composition, you'll want to get in close to see what's happening

2. Import all of your still photographs onto your external drive, creating a new folder for your stop motion project. Put all the media you plan to use in that folder.

3. Import your media into premiere and set up your timeline for your stop motion project.

• To change the speed/duration of your sequence select all frames and under the clips, menu change the speed/duration  00;00;00;03 is recomended)
• Add transitions where necessary
• Add music and use key frames to fade your music in and out

3/31

5:30 I will be available on zoom for feedback/help/etc 

7:00 group meeting ZOOM RECORDING HERE

1. View tutorials in the sequence listed in canvas module 3/31 Schedule + Details.
Independently review linked tutorials on LinkedIn Learning (sign in with your TU login)

Please view these in this order:

From Linkedin Learning

1. Adjusting and keyframing audio volume
2. Working with stills
3. Animating stills
4. Using basic motion effects
5. working with transition effects
6. Applying and modifying video effects
7. Keyframing effects over time
   
   Made by me
8. Adding Effects to your Video  
9. Animating a movement

These tutorials are a curated list to help you learn to add edits to your video, adjust and animate your audio and add video animation. Viewing them should take about 30-40 minutes. 

Independent work Premiere Exercise 1 Due 4/2: Appropriated Video Compilation
Submit to this folder, and link to your video on your blog.


Choose 3-5 videos on youtube that you want to cut up and compile into one piece.

When choosing the audio and/or appropriate videos for your piece, consider copyright issues.  

It is possible that even though this is a student project and not for commercial use you might not be able to use some material.  This is most commonly an issue with the audio. Layering your audio or altering it might get you around that. 

TUTORIAL LINK: How to  rip video from youtube

I will be available via zoom to meet with anyone who needs help or wants to meet individually.
Please send me a canvas message if I am not already logged into zoom.

3/27 Schedule

5:30  No official group meeting
The zoom room will be open for those of you who would like to meet or hang out as you work.
I will check in at 6pm and be available via canvas message for feedback/help/etc 

1. View tutorials in the sequence listed in canvas module 3/27 Schedule + Details.
Independently review linked tutorials on LinkedIn Learning (sign in with your TU login)
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Some people have told me they're running into problems with the tutorials I asked you to review.
If you are having trouble I'm in zoom and happy to help.

The links I posted are not working as I had hoped they would so please review the following tutorials before beginning your appropriated video exercise.

Please view these in this order:

1. Launching Adobe Premiere Pro
2. A high-level look at the interface
3. Touring the Project panel and Source Monitor
4. Touring the Timeline and more
5. Playing and marking shots
6. Subclipping shots
7. Setting up a sequence
8. Performing insert edits
9. Moving clips and swapping shots
10. Removing material for concision
11. Exporting your project

These tutorials are a curated list to help you learn to navigate premiere, add footage, organize the footage and export your footage. Viewing them should take about 30-40 minutes. 

Independent work Premiere Exercise 1 Due 4/2: Appropriated Video Compilation

Choose 3-5 videos on youtube that you want to cut up and compile into one piece.

When choosing the audio and/or appropriate videos for your piece, consider copyright issues.  

It is possible that even though this is a student project and not for commercial use you might not be able to use some material.  This is most commonly an issue with the audio. Layering your audio or altering it might get you around that. 

TUTORIAL LINK: How to  rip video from youtube

I will be available via zoom to meet with anyone who needs help or wants to meet individually.
Please send me a canvas message if I am not already logged into zoom.

Project 3 Response Questions

Please post a response to Project 3: Covid-19 Survival Kit

1. This being our first online project, how did our new format change your experience of working in this class?
2. How did you challenge yourself creatively, conceptually and/or technically in the making of this piece?
3. Were there elements that made the completion of this piece either more difficult or felt not challenging enough?
4. Reflect on the project critique: was the feedback you received helpful? Be specific about why or why not.
5. Was there anything that your professor could have done to better support you thought this project?
6. Please share any other thoughts.

Project 2 Response Questions

1. In what way did you change your process to make a piece that was site specific?
2. How did you challenge yourself creatively, conceptually and/or technically in the making of this piece? If you did not feel challenged is there something you would do differently if you were to do it again?
3. Were there elements that made the completion of this piece either more difficult or felt not challenging enough?
4. Reflect on the critique and consider how your experience was different from the first: was the feedback you received helpful? Be specific about why or why not.
5. Please share any other thoughts.

Blog Response 4

Watch and Respond to each:

1. Composing Movement
2. Editing Space & Time
3. How to Structure a Video Essay
4. Poetry (From this interesting blog: Every Frame a Painting)