In class Wed Sept 28th

David Lynch gives his thoughts about the connection location has to the viewing experience of film.

Continue to Critique Project 2

What Storylines have you come up with for our short film?

Storyline

1- Continue Sarah Richards

2 - Presidential Scandals (Drugovitch)

3 - Sci fi person gets a NES game shoved in head

4 - Saxton Hall is haunted

5 - West side story Hartwick & SUCO

6 - Guy-Girl Switch luck

7 - Eraser Head spoof

8 - Psychic powers

9 - Documentary on night clowns (clowns of table rock)

10 - Intervention style on perfection

11 - Traditional Mafia style gang movie

12 - Oneonta Project X

13 - Strange Encounters random on campus

14 - Life of a dog in college

Style

1 - Cartoon (8bit) / Real Life interaction 

2 - Rotoscope

3 - Documentary 

4 - First person - video game

5 - Found footage

6 - Public service announcement 

7 - Intervention style

8 - Narration 

9 - Stop-motion

10 - Hollywood

11 - Reality TV




Work on projects!

In class Mon Sept 26th

Previous Films from this class!








 
Critique Project 2



What Storylines have you come up with for our short film?



Work on project!

In class

Watch: Eraserhead by David Lynch

Review Project 2




Making a movie!

Today we are going to start the process of creating our movie!

First we need to generate some possible story ideas, so lets play with the Story Dice!


Storyline Brain Storming


What are the limitations we will encounter while trying to make our film?

What locations do we have available?

What time of year will we be shooting the film?

What advantages do we have? What special things are at our disposal?

In class Mon Sept 19th

Reservoir Dogs opening

Dead Man 



How to export a video in Premiere

- Audio Fade

- File Export
- Check Export Settings
- Check Sequence Name
-- Final Cut XML



Project 3 Assigned

Abstract video
For this project you are required to create a 1.5 min abstract video that utilizes "continuity editing" only and is cut to sync with a soundtrack. You must use at least 30 different shots in your video. Loop your 1.5 min to fill out the rest of the time if the audio is longer.


Continuity editing: is used to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots by using aesthetic and compositional relevance.

In class Wed Sept 14th

Adobe Primere




Work on Project

In class Monday Sept 12th

Due! - Hand in your POV, angle and camera movement Assignment on you USB thumb drive


Assignment 1 Due
- Thumbdrive
- Email me your Youtube account link


Watch 2001 Space Odyssey Intro
Film Editing
- Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking.

* The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms like poetry or novel writing.

Shot
- a shot is a series of frames, that runs for an uninterrupted period of time.^[1] Film shots are an essential aspect of a movie where angles, transitions and cuts are used to further express emotion, ideas and movement.

Scenes
- In Filmmaking and video production, a scene is generally thought of as the action in a single location and continuous time. Due to the ability to edit recorded visual works, it is typically much shorter than a stage play scene. 

Film Transition
- A film transition is a technique used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing by which scenes or shots are combined. Most commonly this is through a normal cut to the next scene. Most films will also include selective use of other transitions, usually to convey a tone or mood, suggest the passage of time, or separate parts of the story.

Cut (transition)
- In the post-production process of film editing and video editing, a cut is an abrupt, but usually trivial film transition from one sequence to another. It is synonymous with the term edit, though "edit" can imply any number of transitions or effects. The cut, dissolve and wipe serve as the three primary transitions.

Match Cut
- A match cut, also called a graphic match, is a cut in film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which objects in the two shots graphically match, often helping to establish a strong continuity of action and linking the two shots metaphorically.

Continuity Editing
- Continuity editing is the predominant style of film editing and video editing in the post-production process of filmmaking of narrative films and television programs. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.


Introduction to Adobe Premiere

- Starting up Premiere
--- folder for content on the desktop
--- HD1080 

- Whats where?

- the Timeline, audio and video

- Cutting a video clip

- Saving your video



Work on Project 2
- Loop
- 30 second Appropriated Story

In class Wed Sept 7th

Due Today!

- Your video clips of camera angles, movement and POV 



Watching Dead Man - Cecil B Demented 






Assignment #1 due Mon 12th

- Show me your 8GB thumb drive
- Create a Youtube account if you do not already have one and email me the link to your channel.

Appropriation

ap·pro·pri·a·tion

əˌprōprēˈāSH(ə)n/

noun

1. 1.

   the action of taking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

   "the appropriation of parish funds"
2. 2.

   a sum of money or total of assets devoted to a special purpose.

in Art

Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.^[1] The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual,musical and performing arts). In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are theReadymades of Marcel Duchamp.

Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change.

Project 2 

Appropriation & the Loop 

description:

For the first part of this project you will appropriate video from Archive.org. You will then cut and edit the appropriated video to create a 30 second story. The video can be no longer or shorter then 30 seconds exactly. You may use the audio as it is edited or you may replace it with audio you find on CCMixter.org. Be careful NOT to choose a sound track that is more powerful then your visuals. A silent film will work also. 

For the second part of this project you need to create a video loop. (Use the same video clips you downloaded for part 1). Be innovative, be thoughtful and be precise. Loop creation is all about syncing up the beginning with the end. Have you ever seen a mobius strip? The loop takes the inevitable beginning and end out of video as a medium and creates infinity a repeated moment stuck in time. 

You will be working with Adobe Premiere to create this project. When you are finished with your Videos export them as .movs. Save your videos using this naming convention: yourname_01, yourname_02 (ie... jvonstengel_01.mpeg or jvonstengel_01.mov)

whats due:

* 2 Final videos as high rez as possible. I will collect all your files in class on a portable hard drive.

* Upload your videos to your Youtube account. 

Due: Sept  19^th at the end of class

Archive.org & CCmixter.org
- What are these sites how do they work?
- What is Creative Commons licensing
- Whats on these sites?
- How to appropriate?