Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Making Storyboards Matter



Above is a part of one storyboard for the film below. You'll recognize which shot it is.
Look at the storyboards for the video below. How closely were they followed in the creation of the film?

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Reflection for "The Water is Wide" music video assignment: 1. In 5-6 sentences, summarize the story you were trying to evoke (suggest) to go along with the music. 2. Choose the sequence of images in a 30 second segment that you are most proud of. Identify the time sequence (e.g., from 1 min. 10 sec. to 1 min. 40 sec.). Describe in detail what part of your story you were trying to suggest or evoke in this sequence. Describe how your choice of images helped suggest the story. Describe how your consideration of colors, shapes, and abstract images helped suggest a mood for this sequence. 3. What percentage of your film is made up of abstract images? Did you have a consistent idea about using a color or shape to suggest a mood? Explain. 4. What did you learn, realize, remember, or discover about the use of abstract images in film? 5. What did you learn, realize, remember or discover about the interaction between music and images. 6. What was the most important contribution your PARTNER made to this film? 7. What was the most important contribution YOU made to
this film?
 

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Beware the Jabberwocky! A special effects experiment...

This is a collaboration among members of Dr. A's Block 1 Teledramatic Arts class. Students were experimenting with special effects and matching visual representations with the mood suggested by Carroll's original poem.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Reflection for "Jabberwocky": Which special effect did you use best? Describe what effect you used and why you think this worked. What mood were you trying to communicate? What idea were you trying to show by using this image and effect? Labels: reflection, Jabberwocky, special_effects

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Effects Sandbox Assignment: Tutorial, Directions

Here are the complete directions for your special effects assignment. Please complete by end of block.
Points: 10 pts. per effect. You MUST do TWO. You may do another for extra credit.

Effects Sandbox Assignment Model

You need to post TWO SEPARATE posts today like the one here. Label your posts "special_effects."

Do the following:

  1. Give directions about how to find the effect (what is it called? What FOLDER is it in?)
  2. Explain how to change the settings to get the effect you're showing.
  3. Give us an idea about how you might use it in a film.

Sample:

For the effect below, you choose “Emboss” in the “Stylize” folder.
You want to adjust the Relief between 1.50 and 2.0, set the contrast between 50 and 70, and make sure there is 0 Blend. Changing the Direction only decides which part of the clip will show the embossing most strongly.

You might use this in a fantasy about someone turning to stone. You could also use it to simulate statues coming to life.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Evaluating Values Videos

With your partner, complete this evaluation for each group from the block you are NOT in.
(Block 1 evaluates Block 2, Block 2 evaluates block 1).

GO TO EVALUATION FORM

Monday, March 26, 2012

Before You Tackle Your Final Video

If there are 4 people in your group, work with your partner.
If there are 3 people in your group, work as a group of 3.

1. Open a Word file. Copy and paste all the comments about your video into the Word file.
2. Read all the comments.
3. In the Word file, create a section called "Positive comments."
MOVE the most genuine, honest and helpful positive comments from ALL posts into this section. Include first names of people who wrote the comments. I'd like at least SIX, but it's better to include ALL the positive comments that helped you understand what you did well.
4. Create another section in the Word file called "Suggestions."
MOVE the best suggestions you received into this section. Include first names of people who wrote the comments. I'd like at least FOUR suggestions, but it's better to include ALL the suggestions you think might be on target.
5. Create a blog post called "Thinking about Our Final Values Video."
Copy/paste the "Positive Comments" and "Suggestions" sections from your Word file.
6. Write:

This post is from __________________ and ____________________________.
The positive comments that were most meaningful to us were from _____________ and __________________. (two different posts, not a pair saying one thing). _______________ told us that _______________________________________________________________, and that was helpful because___________________________________________________________. In addition, ________________________ told us that ____________________________________________, and that helped us see that ________________________________________________________.

The two best suggestions we got were from ___________________________ and ___________________________ (again, two suggestions from different posts, a pair saying one thing).

_____________________________suggested that we ________________________________. We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is to_____________________________________________.

_____________________________suggested that we ________________________________. We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is to_____________________________________________.

Labels: values_video, reflections

If you're working with a partner, be sure to include both names at the top of the post.
In addition, post to BOTH blogs.

7. Decide what you and your group can accomplish so that you have uploaded your FINAL draft of your film by the end of class on March 29th. On a sheet of paper, write the member of your group and your plan for completing your film. Specify who will do what. Turn that in to your instructor before you start executing your plan.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Cesar, Isaiah, and Ashley.

Jose, Taylor, and Kelsey.

Ivy, Kenzie, and Emily.

Blanca, Michelle, and Sabrena.

Krystian, Jake B., Zoie, and Alex.

Jacob, John, Joselyn, and Morgan.

Michaela, Ashley, and Eduardo.

Marleen, Kaycee, and Dillon.

Cole, Brad, Chris, and Michaela

Bree, Cody, Michael

This video has been removed due to copyright violations. This group may re-post its video for feedback after removing copyrighted content that has been used without permission.

Kayla, Laura, Mario, Hayley

Julissa, Ryan, Liz