Idea Sharing & Teaming for Fast Forward

Grab your 6 examples from your folder as you get settled in today; after today's "Director's Chair" presentations, we'll share ideas as a large group, and begin to 'aggregate' according to whose ideas are similar to yours.

You may wind up with a partner, on a team of 2 to 3 people total, or by yourself.

Once you've determined who you're working with (or if you're flying solo), begin your Treatment & Outline.

I'm particularly concerned with HOW you intend to execute this project, WHERE it will take place, and WHEN you plan to film. Please include this info on your T&O before turning in.

fast forward....

I imagine this project might challenge some of you in ways you're not used to, so we'll start small and work our way up to a full-blown IDEA for Project #1: Fast Forward!

Grab your folder, and a blank sheet of paper. It's time to answer some questions, watch some videos and think a little bit. Yesterday, we reviewed sample projects from across the spectrum of project possibilities. Today, as you review a few of those samples, I'm going to ask you to brainstorm in each of the categories we discussed.

On your paper (which you'll keep in your folder), write 2 examples of projects YOU could create in each of these categories. That's 6 original examples straight outta your brain!

Watch the videos first if you think they will help; you can watch just the suggested videos in each category, or go crazy with the "Fast Forward Sample Links" bar at left.

1. Expository: This "how-to" category includes the 'making a bottle opener' video, and deals with process-oriented actions. Making a cake for someone (mmmmm, birthday cake....), how to create a graffiti stencil, creating a maze and then drawing your way out, create an ugly stuffed animal, fight your way out of a paper bag, etc....

Copy and paste into your URL:

http://vimeo.com/8362481

2. Chronological/Travel: This category addresses the passage of time, like the 'Trafalgar Square' video, and movement through space ('riding my bike to the beach'). You could document the growth/deterioration of an object (think table-top science project--ask Cadman for ideas!), the way a space changes as the day passes, the building/destruction of something, etc...

Copy and paste into your URL:

http://vimeo.com/5252899

3. Portrait/Interpretive: This is the category where you can just go crazy. Draw a portrait of someone or assemble it from a pile of torn photos, assemble a series of video clips that profile your neighborhood or city from different points of view/times of day, tell an intricate and personal story (think 'holiday card' video), create a high-speed tour of your favorite places, or create a video that sends a 'message' you believe is important.

Copy and paste into your URL:

http://vimeo.com/10655199

"I just wanna say: good luck. We're all counting on you."--Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen), Airplane! (1980)

FCE Opacity and Audio; Moving on to Project #1!

Make sure you've put your Opacity experiment footage in the SAME PROJECT with your first series of shots, but that you create a NEW SEQUENCE (FILE---NEW---SEQUENCE) for the Opacity experiment.

We'll learn a little bit about working with audio in FCE today, too.

Halfway through class, we'll shift gears and begin talking about Fast Forward.

TGIF!

Several things to cover today:

1. Download new footage to FCE. Transfer into the same PROJECT, but make a new SEQUENCE on the timeline.

2. Meet with your "Director's Chair" partner and complete the permission form.

3. Football students can edit the 1st game footage; Balloon Team, see me!

And now, for something completely different....

We're taking a break from the Final Cut Mind-Grind today to cover a few topics of interest, and get outta the house for awhile!

1. Albuquerque Aloft---Balloon Fiesta, The Movie!

2. Ms. T is legit---DukeCityShootout.org

3. FX on $0 per day

4. Director's Chair: Who's next?

5. Burning down the Firewall: Vimeo.com

4 Basic FCE Functions: Superimposing Video Layers, Cropping, Adding Filters & Adding Titles

Grab your folder and get ready to take notes and dive deeper into Final Cut Express! The last series of our introductory tutorials will cover 4 useful functions in FCE. By the end of class, you must complete the following in your sequence, for a 4-point grade:

1. Superimposing Video Layers--create a "Picture-in-Picture" effect using a second Video layer.

2. Cropping--radically crop a clip in your sequence.

3. Adding filters--add an easily visible filter to a different clip in your sequence.

4. Adding titles--create a "World View Redux" title on the first clip in your sequence.

Note: Each of these 4 functions should be applied to DIFFERENT clips, to make each one easily visible and distinguishable on your sequence. DO NOT double up effects on the same clip!!!

Exploring Final Cut: A Tutorial with an Accent!

Use the link at the bottom of this post to access a series of training tutorials for FCE beginners.

Initial setup

Final Cut Studio Overview | by Damian Allen

View this entire Final Cut Studio course and more in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.

View this entire Final Cut Studio course and more in the lynda.com Online Training Library®.