For This Week
Blog Exercise
Favorite Place Mini-Video-Essay:
Create a 30-60 second video essay about a favorite local place.
What is special about this place for you? Is there anything important about getting there?
- Is there anything you like to do in this place? Does the place bring back memories?
- What connections can you make about this place with your life and world?
- Visit the place to capture images and sound for your editing.
- Use voice and/or text to express your ideas/thoughts along with the images and sounds.
- Besides the images and sound you capture, you may incorporate other images and sounds to help with expressing your ideas.
Class Notes
View AI Cinema projects and Favorite Place Mini-Video-Essays
“Visual Evidence” in documentaries, fiction, and the film essay:
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- A/B Roll
- “B roll” should be primary – the visual evidence for the narration/interview
- Visual evidence as “dramatization” or “reenactment”
- Visual evidence as metaphor
- Visual evidence in the film/video essay
Adobe Premiere Shortcuts
Timeline and Editing Shortcuts
- Ripple Delete: Control/Right Click + Delete (Windows), Control/Right Click + Delete (Mac)
- Delete Clip with Ripple Delete: Ctrl + Delete (Windows), Option + Delete (Mac)
- Select All: Ctrl + A (Windows), Cmd + A (Mac)
- Zoom In: + (plus key)
- Zoom Out: – (minus key)
Playback and Navigation
- Play/Stop Toggle: Spacebar
- Go to In Point: Shift + I
- Go to Out Point: Shift + O
- Step Forward: Right Arrow
- Step Backward: Left Arrow
- J: Play backward. When pressed repeatedly, playback speed increases in reverse.
- K: Stop playback.
- L: Play forward. Pressing L repeatedly increases the playback speed.
- J + K: Plays the video in slow motion backward.
- K + L: Plays the video in slow motion forward.
- L + J: Press simultaneously to return playback speed to normal.
- Go to Beginning: Home (Windows), Fn + Left Arrow (Mac)
- Go to End: End (Windows), Fn + Right Arrow (Mac)
Tools
- Selection Tool: V
- Razor Tool: C
- Hand Tool: H
- Text Tool: T
- Pen Tool: P
Video Essay (15%)
DUE March 19th
Project Overview
Create a 1-3 minute video essay on a subject of your choosing. Incorporate continuity editing, montage, temporal manipulation, loops, compositing, and special effects. Use text overlays and/or voice-over narration to enhance your narrative. Written text and/or voice-over is required.
Project Goals
- Creative Expression: Reflect your personal viewpoint or experience.
- Technical Integration: Integrate cinematic techniques to create an engaging narrative.
- Content Development: Begin with a compelling image or thought-provoking sentence, allowing ideas to evolve organically.
Requirements
- Identify a Theme: Articulate a central theme to guide your project.
- Collect Material: Gather visuals and text that serve your narrative purpose.
- Essay Form and Pace: Decide on structure and pacing.
- Assemble and Edit: Explore and refine your narrative in Adobe Premiere (or similar).
- Supplementary Media: Use graphics, sound, and music, adhering to copyright limitations.
- Draft and Refine: Develop a conversational tone for textual content.
- Finalize: Polish your video with titles, credits, and sound mixing.
Evaluation Criteria
- Creativity: Originality in subject choice and narrative approach.
- Technical Proficiency: Effective use of editing techniques and media integration.
- Clarity: Strong communication of your central theme or argument.
- Engagement: Ability to captivate and provide insight.
- Reflection: Depth of personal perspective or unique viewpoint.