To Do This Week
Assignments Due:
Loops (5%):
no more than 10 seconds per loop
Shoot and edit 3 video loops (6-10 second mini-narratives) that depict or evoke different subjective experiences of time: cyclic, slow, timeless, frantic, rhythmic. In one loop try to incorporate continuity editing – POV shot, match on action, etc – to maintain unity. In another, try out a more discontinuous/montage style by contrasting edited shots – dark/light, fast/slow, close-up/long-shot. In the third, attempt a perfect/infinite loop or a mini-narrative loop. Create a variety of shot durations for emphasis. A 4-second shot sandwiched between 2-second shots, will seem to stretch time.
*The best way to show the loop is to repeat (times 3-5) the edited loop in the video track before uploading to YouTube or Vimeo.
Class
View Loops
Premiere Masking, Compositing and Color Effects
RunwayML – AI Effects, Green Screen, Animation and Color
Quick Tutorial: Lighting, Sound Basics
- Three-point lighting system / YouTube lighting
- Camera – shotgun mic
- External recorder – match later to camera sound, use another mobile phone
Premiere Effects
- effects in general
- compositing
- titles and graphics
- animating & keyframing
- color-correction-adjustment
- masking effects
- color grading
- Lumetri color
- audio-effects-transitions
- text-based editing
Digital Composting effects
Digital compositing is the process of digitally assembling multiple images to make a final image, typically for print, motion pictures or screen display. It is the digital analogue of optical film compositing.
– multiple layers of video
– effects (pixels as information)
– green screen – swap pixel colors
http://starwarswars.com/ – Layering of image with Color Key
Yorgo Alexopoulos No Feeling is Final; In Five Chapters, 2010 – multiple frames, picture in picture
Generative AI Cinema:
RunwayML
- green screen / separate background
- in-painting – remove unwanted objects
- super-slow motion
- motion tracking
- text to color grading
- clean audio
- text to speech
- remove silence
- transcript
- subtitles
In-Class Activity:
In this activity you are to play with Premiere and/or RunwayML effects and techniques. Apply at least three effects from either category below to one video or to separate clips that you shoot in class or to previously shot video.
Premiere Effects
- color change/correction through color tools
- color key or ultra key (green screen) -layered video tracks
- mirroring and perspective effects
- animated text
- masking / auto mask tracking
Runway ML Effects
- green screen / separate background
- in-painting – remove unwanted objects
- super-slow motion
- motion tracking
- text to color grading
Blog Post for next week…
Using ChatGPT have a chat to explore a short “story” idea and its visual style that you can use to generate AI video clips (30-60 sec) for the AI Cinema project. Finalize a 200-300- word summary of a story or idea for your AI Cinema project. Post this in the blog. This will be the framework for your prompts. Also, in a separate paragraph, describe the look or style you want to aim for. You can reference directors, genres, or specific films, but also use words to describe the quality of the image: film stocks, cameras, lighting, color/bw, production design, sets, costumes.
AI Cinema (5%)
DUE Tuesday February 27
Create a 30-second video made of generative AI video clips or a mix of generative AI and your own shot video. This is a chance for you to play with what is possible now with Runway ML. The video should be either a narrative or a montage sequence that has a connecting theme or central idea. Discover you own method of working to achieve the look you want. You make also use AI sound tools for music effect and narration.