Course Outline:
+WEEK 1 AUG30
Lecture/Presentation: Computer Core Competencies
•The basics of how to properly use the Mac Books will be emphasized with supplemental instruction on the MCAD labs. Those students with little or no Apple OS X experience (as well as those who are pros) will work hands-on with their computers to explore how to accomplish and find what they need under normal computing circumstances.
Digital Landscape:
The basics of the Apple OS X operating system, including Finder, Hard Drives, Apple Menu, User and the Boot drive
Network Logins and Proper Usage
•How to log in
•The dangers of filling up your network share
•The proper workflow (moving files to UserData)
•Preferences and how to set them
•Additional server usage (Class/Network Temp Storage)
File Management – Supplemental
•How to burn CDs and DVDs in the labs
•Backing-up important files: how and why
Laptop-specific issues
•How to connect to the wireless network at MCAD
•How to connect their laptops to a classroom’s AV systems for presentations
Digital Support:
• The MCAD Intranet and its resources
• MCAD Online Knowledgebase tool
http://kb.mcad.edu/
• Support departments
• FAQs
• Searching
Academic Support Resources
(IT, Media Center, Service Bureau, Library, 3D Shop, etc)
Computer Help Desk
Additional Help Strategies
• Built-in user manuals
• Web-based discussion boards
• Paper manuals and training books
• Search-engine techniques (Google, etc)
• http://intranet.mcad.edu/modules/lynda/
Blogger and you:
PHP vs HTML:
PHP files are just like HTML files, but they can include both HTML and PHP code. The PHP code is parsed (or executed) by the Web server when the page is accessed and the resulting output is written as HTML within the Web page. When a user accesses a PHP page, his Web browser only gets sent the HTML code, since the Web server has processed the PHP code in the background. Most PHP pages are processed so quickly that it does not noticeably slow down the loading of the Web page.
The .php extension is important, since it tells the Web server that the page may include PHP code. Therefore, it must be run through the server's PHP engine before being sent to a client's Web browser. This allows dynamic content to be generated each time the Web page is loaded, based on the variables included in the PHP code. For example, PHP pages may load objects such as the current date and time, data from form fields submitted by a user, or information from a database. Still, once the page reaches the user's Web browser, everything is formatted as HTML.
Discuss servers, .html, publishing and content.
Image Resolution
• -Print resolution
• -Screen resolution
• -Acquiring the right resolution for output
In-Class Assignment:
Create a Blogger Blog
the minimum:
ex. http://nfreeman-mcad.blogspot.com/
-Choose and customize template
-Add a static About Page [e.g. brief bio]
In-Class Reading:
The Photographer’s Eye
Discuss:
The Things itself
• Content: who what where and why
• Backgrounds: contributing a sense of place and contrast of content
Detail
• Line:
◦ Flow
◦ Curved straight and broken
◦ Horizontal /vertical diagonal implied
• Focus and Depth of Field:
◦ Selective focus
◦ Shallow depth of field
◦ Full depth of field
• Shape/Pattern: groups, contrasts of groups and balance
• Contrasts of light and dark: highlighting a subject, emphasizing negative and positive space.
Frame
• horizontal or vertical placing the subject within the frame: centered, off kilter tension movement from right to left.
Time
• stop-action, motion/blur
Vantage Point
• Perspective and point of view: looking down, up, on your knees (worm’s eye view), subject’s point of view, etc.
• Space and Perspective:
• Shallow space
• Deep space
• Positive and Negative space or ground
• Compressed perspective or telephoto effect
• Expanded perspective and wide-angle distortion.
Assignment 1: The Photographer’s Eye
Assignment 1 part 1: Go to the library and become familiar with the Photography section of books (TR 600’s). Look at many, many images. Find 10 you love, one of which you feel compelled to write a one page essay discussing the difference between the photograph of the subject and the subject itself. Find the artist and or examples of the images online, make a list of URLs. Post images and artist info on your student blog. Email Essay to instructor before next class.
DUE SEPT6
+WEEK 2 SEPT6
Crit : Assignment 1: The Photographer’s Eye
Technical Lecture: The Digital Camera
• setting resolution
• white balance
• shooting modes
• apertures, f-stops, shutter speeds
• flash setting
Using the Digital Camera’s Media Cards and Card Readers
Checking out flash card readers from the media center
Proper connection to the student laptops
Using image capture to import photos off the capture cards
Basic Photoshop + Bridge:
Downloading to computer
File management
Batch processing
Renaming
Reformatting
Technical Lecture: Photoshop
Image Format Types
• -Raster – what, how and why
• -Vector – what, how and why
Interface Introduction
• -Document window
• -Panels
• -Tool bar
• -Tool options bar
Feedback tools
• -Rulers
• -Guides
• -Snapping
• -Zooming
History panel
Opening existing files into Photoshop
Size/Resolution manipulation
• -Relationship between dimension size, file size, and resolution
Resample image
Constrain proportions
• -Do’s and Don’ts of resizing/rescaling images
• -File > Image Size
When to turn on and turn off Resample Image
• -File > Canvas Size
Basic image adjustments/correction
• -Crop tool
• -Perspective
• -Levels
• -Dodge/Burn tools
• -Shadows/Highlights
• -Transform functions
• -Sharpening
Selection Tools
• -Marque tools
• -Magic Wand
• -Lasso tools
• -Feather/Modfity
Output: Print
• -Flattening images
• -Using the TIFF format vs. the PSD format
• -Color modes and profiles
Introduce Assignment 1, part 2: Create two images for each of the five aspects touched on in the Photographer’s Eye essay - 10 images total - (vantage point, time, the frame, the thing itself, detail).
DUE SEPT13
+WEEK 3 SEPT13
Assignment 2: Before and After:
Using the image manipulation techniques learned in class today: alter (e.g. add, delete, improve something) 5 images from the 10 you brought for homework. Keep in mind the conceptual power of the techniques described in the Photographers Eye.
Post side by side versions to your Student Blog
DUE SEPT20
Introduce Assignment 3: Epigenetic Self-portrait
Epigenetic is the study of heritable traits that are not dependent on the primary sequence of DNA. In simple terms that means circumstances that happened to your past relatives (both physical and emotional), might have had an effect on who you are emotionally and physically. Assuming this is the case, create a self-portrait using an image and Photoshop to explore some possible reason you are who you. This can be imagined or actual. Also keep in mind a self-portrait does not have to be an actual portrait of you. I’m looking more for the elements that make the sum total, not an exploration of your current interest. We will be printing these images in Service Bureau, no smaller than 8.5x11 inches, in class.
File DUE SEPT20
+WEEK 4 SEPT20
The Service Bureau
Self-serve paper vs. buying paper from the Service Bureau
Print station sign up / availability
Using the provided instruction manuals
In-Class Assignment:
Using the Service Bureau, print your Epigenetic Self-portrait no smaller than 8.5x11 inches. Due for Crit by the end of class.
+WEEK 5 SEPT27
Technical Lecture: Adobe Audition 5.5
Core Interface Elements
• Workspace presets
Importing a Sequence from Premiere Pro In Premiere Pro:
• Edit > Edit in Adobe Audition > Clip or Sequence
In Audition:
• File > Import > Select the exported XML file
Importing Audio Files File > Open
• Adds a new file to the Files window and opens it in the Editor window
File > Import > File
• Only adds it to the Files window
When imported it creates a .pkf file- waveform reference file When changes are made to a file an asterisk appears next to the file name in the Files window. Signifies that the file must be saved to finalize the change.
• Edit > Copy to New
o Save / or Save As
Importing Video Files You can’t view a video clip unless it’s part of a multitrack session
• File > New > Multitrack Session
• Multitrack > Track > Add Video Track
o Creates a video reference track
Display Options
• Waveform Display
o Measures amplitude
• Spectral Frequency Display
o Measures frequency and amplitude
o Brightness shows amplitude
Adjusting Levels Several ways to do it - some destructive, some not Single Track Editor:
• Entire file: drag the orange dB level dial (Amplify)
• Portion of file: Time Selection Tool to select a section then use level dial
• Effects > Amplitude and Compression > Normalize (process)
Multitrack Editor:
• Right-click on clip file > Insert into Multitrack > New Multitrack Session...
• Properties > Clip Gain
o non-destructive
Effects (single track) Destructive:
• Effects Menu
• Diagnostics
o Effects > Diagnostics
Non-destructive:
• Effects Rack
o Effects > Show Effects Rack
o Can add up to 16 effects to a clip
♣ Apply button: Applies the effects - destructively updates the file
Using Spectral Frequency Use a tool to select the problem audio
• Rectangular marque
• Lasso
o Preferences > Spectral Display > Play only selected frequencies when a spectral selection exists
o Delete clears the selected frequencies
• Paintbrush- “paints a selection”
o Use dB levels to drop it down
• Healing Brush tool
o Auto heals
Multitrack Sessions
• Session files: organize audio clips, maintains info on edits, etc.
o .sesx file exists to your hard drive- links to audio/video assets
• Preferences > Time Display
• Mouse scroll wheel- contextual zoom on display
• Editor window
o Input / Output settings
o Simple dB control
o Volume keyframe control
o Fx window
♣ Applied to tracks - not individual clips
o Sends
♣ Multi-bus output (sub-mixes)
o EQ
♣ Track-based EQ control
• Mixer widow
Editing in a Multitrack session Tools
• Razor tool - add edits
• Move tool - selects, trims
• Time Selection Tool- click and drag selection ranges
o Right-click and drag- behaves as if the Move tool
• Slip tool - maintains clip’s overall duration but changes the in/out location of the content
Effects
• Clip Effects vs. Track Effects
Adjusting Levels
• Clip based or Track Based
o Clip Based
♣ Set key frames on clip
o Track Based
♣ Twirl down “Read”
• Show Envelopes
• Select: Volume
o Add, Remove, Clear All Keyframes
o
Other stuff Window > Frequency Analysis Exporting
• File > Export > Multitrack Mixdown
• OMF
• FCP XML
• Session
• Application Settings
Sending Multitrack Session to Premiere
• Multitrack > Export to Premiere Pro
o XML file
o Mixes down each track as a single clip
Introduce Assignment 4: Soundscape
Part 1:
Create a 1-minute (minimum) soundscape inspired by a memory. This memory could be from your childhood or more recent. Pay special attention to the way that time is marked and passes (qualities like -- speed, rhythm, words, etc) throughout the piece. The soundscape can be created from found sound, recorded sound, or both. The sounds can be raw, or digitally altered, produced by you or others. Consider other methods of creating sounds -- sculptures, physical objects, “performance”, speech, etc. Consider making sound “procedurally”. Consider using effects that are built-into Audition. We will be using stereo speakers to listen to the piece, so experiment with panning. Think about the contour of the sound, the texture and the layering.
Part 2:
Choose one piece of work from two of the example artists. Write a brief (1 page)
response detailing what drew you to the pieces and how you feel that the artists explore the idea “time” (whether directly or indirectly) in the works.
DUE OCT6
+WEEK 6 OCT4
Crit: Assignment 4: Soundscape
Technical Lecture: Premiere Pro CS 5
Workflow:
• File backup (disk image, etc.)
• File ingestion into NLE
• Edit rough cut (assembly edit)
o Cuts
o Possibly transitions
• Reshoots if needed
• Edit fine cut to “picture lock”
• Audio
o Soundtrack
o ADR
o Folly/ FX
o EQ/Mix
• Visual FX/ Filters
o Color Correction
• Titles
• Final cut
• Project archiving
Creating new Projects: Welcome screen
• Recent Projects
• New Project
• Open Project
New Project window Leave all as-is except for bottom section
• Location - central folder where all assets will be stored
• Name
Scratch Disks
• Same as Project
New Sequence window Sequence vs. Project Sequence Presets
• Needs to match footage - not output
• See KB article for Sequence setup how-to
General - allows you to edit the preset settings Project > Project Settings Sequence > Sequence Settings Preferences Auto Save Memory
Importing Footage: Creating Disk Images in OS X Importing Clips
• Double-click on Project window
• File > Import
• Media Browser
• File > Browse in Bridge
o File Properties
o Keywords
Bridge & Metadata
o Metalogging preset workspace in Premiere
o Project window > Metadata Display options
Linked Media
• Offline media
• Right-click on clip in Project window > Link Media
Sorting and Organizing Clips Maximize panel: Select Project panel and click ~ Sorting clips by columns Categorizing
• Folder icon = Bins
• Icon View - used to previsualize edits
o Set Poster Frame
Preliminary Edits Three-Point Editing
• Source Monitor
• Set In / Set Out / Set In on Sequence
• J, K, L
• I, O
• Arrow keys
• Jog Wheel
• Shuttle
• Set In and Out
o Drag into Timeline (Video, Audio, or Both)
o Click Insert or Overwrite buttons
♣ Target track buttons
o Click , or . buttons
o Drag to Project window to create a subclip
Overlay and Insert Edits
• Insert- Splits edits, affects overall duration, does not delete any existing footage in timeline
• Overlay- writes over existing footage in timeline
Using video layers to add B-roll
• “Checkerboard” editing
• Drag Video Only button
Ripple Edits and Ripple Delete
• Ripple Delete: Right-click on empty gap and choose Ripple Delete
o Selecting gap and hitting Delete key also works
• Ripple Edit Tool: Trims and ripples at same time
o Command-click with selection tool
Razor Tool Splices footage
• Option-click: Overrides link
• Shift-click: Multi-track splice
Slip Edits
• Does not change overall duration of clip or timeline
• Changes the In/Out frames for the content within the clip
• Slip Edit window
Rolling Edits
• Click and drag top move the edit point between two clips
• There has to be enough extra footage in a clip that we’re not seeing to accomplish the rolling edit
Navigation Efficiency
• Changing view - zoom in/out
• - and + keys zoom
• Backslash key \ full sequence view
• Home and End keys - jump to beginning/end of program
• Arrow keys
• Mouse wheel - scroll up and down scrolls through time
• J, K, L
Editing Techniques Markers
• Markers > Set Clip Marker
o Unnumbered
o shift-cmd-arrows: jumps between markers
• Markers > Set Sequence Marker
o Marker attributes (double-click)
Rearranging Clips in Timeline
• Selection tool
o Marquee selection
• Track Selection tool
o Shift-click: Multi-track selection
• Click and drag - Overlay edit
• Command-click and drag- Insert edit
Disconnecting audio and video
• Option-drag when trimming: trims just the selected element (audio or video)
o L-cut or split edit
• Clip > Unlink
o Right-click > Unlink
Changing the Speed of a clip
• Right-click > Clip Speed/Duration
o Reverse
o % Change (adjusts rate and duration)
• Rate Stretch tool
Transitions
• Effects panel > Video Transitions
o Click and drag to cut point
♣ Return key- renders out preview
o Cross Dissolve
o Dip to Black
• Default Transition
o Command-D (creates transition automatically)
o Right-click > Set Selected as Default Transition
Filters/ Effects
• Accelerated Effects- takes advantage of processing power of certified graphics cards (CUDA)
• 32-bit Effects- supports high bit-depth processing
• YUV Effects- for footage/projects created using the YCbCr color mode
• Drag from Effects pane and drop onto clip
o Toggle Effect- turns it off during preview
o Keyframing effects
Color correction
• Adjusting white balance
o RGB color- additive color mode- if white is right all others will follow
• “Photoshop equivalent” tools
o Video Effects > Adjust > Auto Levels
♣ Blend with original
o Video Effects > Adjust > Levels
o Video Effects > Adjust > Auto Contrast
o Video Effects > Adjust > Shadow/Highlight
o Video Effects > Color Correction > Brightness & Contrast
• Fast Color Corrector
• Three Way Color Corrector
o Tonal Range - selects which range to edit
o Secondary Color Correction
♣ Output > Mask
Disconnecting audio and video
• Option-drag when trimming: trims just the selected element (audio or video)
o L-cut or split edit
• Clip > Unlink
o Right-click > Unlink
Audio Mixing
• VU Meter (Audio Master Meters)
o -6 Master mix
o -6 to -12 dialog
o Dynamic Range
• Ambient Audio
o Room tone
• Audio waveform view
o Adjust track size
o * key- sets sequence markers
• Changing Audio volume over time
o Keyframe “rubberbands”
Audio Transitions The Constant Power crossfade creates a smooth, gradual transition, analogous to the dissolve transition between video clips. This crossfade decreases audio for the first clip slowly at first and then quickly toward the end of the transition. For the second clip, this crossfade increases audio quickly at first and then more slowly toward the end of the transition. The Constant Gain crossfade changes audio at a constant rate in and out as it transitions between clips. This crossfade can sometimes sound abrupt. Exponential Fade fades out the first clip over a smooth logarithmic curve while fading up the second clip, also over a smooth logarithmic curve. Selecting an option from the Alignment control menu, you can specify the positioning of the transition. Titles
• File > New > Title
• Text tool
• Gets added to Project window
o Double click to edit
• Animating rolling credits
o Drag text box below visible area in title tool
o Roll / Crawl Tool
o To change speed - drag the clip in time line
Layered Photoshop Documents
• Import Layered Files window
o Merge All Layers
o Merged Layers (lets you choose)
o Individual Layers
o Sequence
♣ Creates new Premiere sequence with all layers included
Exporting (basics) File > Export Media
• Match sequence settings
• Queue - opens Adobe Media Encoder
Related KB articles: (all can be found from the MCAD Knowledgebase > Media Center > Film/Video) Exporting a movie file from Premiere for computer playback/ class critiques http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=457&relid=52 How to set up the Canon HG20 camera settings and import that footage into Premiere Pro http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=518&relid=52 Exporting a Premiere project for Vimeo uploading http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=512&relid=52 How do I create a disk image from P2 cards, SDHC cards, Compact Flash cards or camcorder hard drives? http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=319&relid=52 How do I capture video footage from a DV tape using a DV camcorder and Premiere Pro? http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=95&relid=52 How do I author a video DVD using Toast Titanium? http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=106&relid=52 How do I export an "archival" movie from Premiere? http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=513&relid=52 Working with DSLR video in Premiere Pro http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=515&relid=52
Introduce Assignment 5: Stop-animation
Using your soundscapes from last week, create a 1-minute (minimum) stop animation movie. You can change your sound piece accordingly (stretch, delete, compound). Keep in mind the effect stops, starts, rhythm changes, etc have on the effect of time-based visual material.
DUE OCT18
+WEEK 7 OCT11
Work Day
+WEEK 8 OCT18
Crit: Assignment 5: Stop-animation
Introduce Assignment 6: Light Sequences
For the next assignment you will be composing two sequences of 4-8 images: one set with natural light, and the other in the Grey Studio.
By sequencing I do not mean narrative, but the image-to-image visual connections that hold a sequence together.
A non-narrative sequence is a series of images that do not exist on a time line, but revolve around the same idea or concept. Usually you could rearrange the order of these images and the meaning would not be affected.
Set 1 parameters:
- only natural light
- minimum of 4 images, maximum of 8
- printed out individually, size to be determined by artist
- at least one image must have a human subject
- none can be shot on campus
- one image must be Front lit - Light shining on the side of the subject facing the camera.
- One image must be Side lit - Light striking the subject from the side relative to the position of the camera; produces shadows and highlights to create modeling on the subject.
- At least one image must be Back lit - Light coming from behind the subject, toward the camera lens, so that the subject stands out vividly against the background *sometimes called a silhouette.
- Hint* Use open shade and diffused light:
DUE: NOV1
+WEEK 9 OCT25
Lighting Demo in Grey Studio
Set 2: parameters:
Same as Set 1 but exchange ‘natural light’ for ‘studio light’, and they must be shot in either the Grey or Black Studio.
Keep in mind I am more interested in seeing expressive camera angles and the use of depth of field than I am in spectacular circumstances and objects.
DUE: NOV15
+WEEK 10 NOV1
Crit Set 1 Light Sequences
+WEEK 11 NOV8:
NO CLASSES
+WEEK 12 NOV15
Crit Set 2 Light Sequences
+WEEK 13 NOV22
Assignment 7: Object as Subject
For the last assignment you will be creating short videos dealing with an inanimate object/s at odds with its/their environment, where the object and environment create a kind of synergy (i.e., the working together of two things to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects).
Assignment parameters:
Minimum of 1 min, Maximum of 2 min in length
Sound: you can use any music, found sound, captured sound, etc, you want; however, you must capture some actual environmental sound yourself and use it in the piece. You may not just simply add music over the whole track.
Due: DEC6
+ WEEK 14 NOV29
WORK DAY
+WEEK 15 DEC6
Crit: Object as Subject
+WEEK 16 DEC13 Final Class
Crit Final Site Update
+WEEK 1 AUG30
Lecture/Presentation: Computer Core Competencies
•The basics of how to properly use the Mac Books will be emphasized with supplemental instruction on the MCAD labs. Those students with little or no Apple OS X experience (as well as those who are pros) will work hands-on with their computers to explore how to accomplish and find what they need under normal computing circumstances.
Digital Landscape:
The basics of the Apple OS X operating system, including Finder, Hard Drives, Apple Menu, User and the Boot drive
Network Logins and Proper Usage
•How to log in
•The dangers of filling up your network share
•The proper workflow (moving files to UserData)
•Preferences and how to set them
•Additional server usage (Class/Network Temp Storage)
File Management – Supplemental
•How to burn CDs and DVDs in the labs
•Backing-up important files: how and why
Laptop-specific issues
•How to connect to the wireless network at MCAD
•How to connect their laptops to a classroom’s AV systems for presentations
Digital Support:
• The MCAD Intranet and its resources
• MCAD Online Knowledgebase tool
http://kb.mcad.edu/
• Support departments
• FAQs
• Searching
Academic Support Resources
(IT, Media Center, Service Bureau, Library, 3D Shop, etc)
Computer Help Desk
Additional Help Strategies
• Built-in user manuals
• Web-based discussion boards
• Paper manuals and training books
• Search-engine techniques (Google, etc)
• http://intranet.mcad.edu/modules/lynda/
Blogger and you:
PHP vs HTML:
PHP files are just like HTML files, but they can include both HTML and PHP code. The PHP code is parsed (or executed) by the Web server when the page is accessed and the resulting output is written as HTML within the Web page. When a user accesses a PHP page, his Web browser only gets sent the HTML code, since the Web server has processed the PHP code in the background. Most PHP pages are processed so quickly that it does not noticeably slow down the loading of the Web page.
The .php extension is important, since it tells the Web server that the page may include PHP code. Therefore, it must be run through the server's PHP engine before being sent to a client's Web browser. This allows dynamic content to be generated each time the Web page is loaded, based on the variables included in the PHP code. For example, PHP pages may load objects such as the current date and time, data from form fields submitted by a user, or information from a database. Still, once the page reaches the user's Web browser, everything is formatted as HTML.
Discuss servers, .html, publishing and content.
Image Resolution
• -Print resolution
• -Screen resolution
• -Acquiring the right resolution for output
In-Class Assignment:
Create a Blogger Blog
the minimum:
ex. http://nfreeman-mcad.blogspot.com/
-Choose and customize template
-Add a static About Page [e.g. brief bio]
In-Class Reading:
The Photographer’s Eye
Discuss:
The Things itself
• Content: who what where and why
• Backgrounds: contributing a sense of place and contrast of content
Detail
• Line:
◦ Flow
◦ Curved straight and broken
◦ Horizontal /vertical diagonal implied
• Focus and Depth of Field:
◦ Selective focus
◦ Shallow depth of field
◦ Full depth of field
• Shape/Pattern: groups, contrasts of groups and balance
• Contrasts of light and dark: highlighting a subject, emphasizing negative and positive space.
Frame
• horizontal or vertical placing the subject within the frame: centered, off kilter tension movement from right to left.
Time
• stop-action, motion/blur
Vantage Point
• Perspective and point of view: looking down, up, on your knees (worm’s eye view), subject’s point of view, etc.
• Space and Perspective:
• Shallow space
• Deep space
• Positive and Negative space or ground
• Compressed perspective or telephoto effect
• Expanded perspective and wide-angle distortion.
Assignment 1: The Photographer’s Eye
Assignment 1 part 1: Go to the library and become familiar with the Photography section of books (TR 600’s). Look at many, many images. Find 10 you love, one of which you feel compelled to write a one page essay discussing the difference between the photograph of the subject and the subject itself. Find the artist and or examples of the images online, make a list of URLs. Post images and artist info on your student blog. Email Essay to instructor before next class.
DUE SEPT6
+WEEK 2 SEPT6
Crit : Assignment 1: The Photographer’s Eye
Technical Lecture: The Digital Camera
• setting resolution
• white balance
• shooting modes
• apertures, f-stops, shutter speeds
• flash setting
Using the Digital Camera’s Media Cards and Card Readers
Checking out flash card readers from the media center
Proper connection to the student laptops
Using image capture to import photos off the capture cards
Basic Photoshop + Bridge:
Downloading to computer
File management
Batch processing
Renaming
Reformatting
Technical Lecture: Photoshop
Image Format Types
• -Raster – what, how and why
• -Vector – what, how and why
Interface Introduction
• -Document window
• -Panels
• -Tool bar
• -Tool options bar
Feedback tools
• -Rulers
• -Guides
• -Snapping
• -Zooming
History panel
Opening existing files into Photoshop
Size/Resolution manipulation
• -Relationship between dimension size, file size, and resolution
Resample image
Constrain proportions
• -Do’s and Don’ts of resizing/rescaling images
• -File > Image Size
When to turn on and turn off Resample Image
• -File > Canvas Size
Basic image adjustments/correction
• -Crop tool
• -Perspective
• -Levels
• -Dodge/Burn tools
• -Shadows/Highlights
• -Transform functions
• -Sharpening
Selection Tools
• -Marque tools
• -Magic Wand
• -Lasso tools
• -Feather/Modfity
Output: Print
• -Flattening images
• -Using the TIFF format vs. the PSD format
• -Color modes and profiles
Introduce Assignment 1, part 2: Create two images for each of the five aspects touched on in the Photographer’s Eye essay - 10 images total - (vantage point, time, the frame, the thing itself, detail).
DUE SEPT13
+WEEK 3 SEPT13
Assignment 2: Before and After:
Using the image manipulation techniques learned in class today: alter (e.g. add, delete, improve something) 5 images from the 10 you brought for homework. Keep in mind the conceptual power of the techniques described in the Photographers Eye.
Post side by side versions to your Student Blog
DUE SEPT20
Introduce Assignment 3: Epigenetic Self-portrait
Epigenetic is the study of heritable traits that are not dependent on the primary sequence of DNA. In simple terms that means circumstances that happened to your past relatives (both physical and emotional), might have had an effect on who you are emotionally and physically. Assuming this is the case, create a self-portrait using an image and Photoshop to explore some possible reason you are who you. This can be imagined or actual. Also keep in mind a self-portrait does not have to be an actual portrait of you. I’m looking more for the elements that make the sum total, not an exploration of your current interest. We will be printing these images in Service Bureau, no smaller than 8.5x11 inches, in class.
File DUE SEPT20
+WEEK 4 SEPT20
The Service Bureau
Self-serve paper vs. buying paper from the Service Bureau
Print station sign up / availability
Using the provided instruction manuals
In-Class Assignment:
Using the Service Bureau, print your Epigenetic Self-portrait no smaller than 8.5x11 inches. Due for Crit by the end of class.
+WEEK 5 SEPT27
Technical Lecture: Adobe Audition 5.5
Core Interface Elements
• Workspace presets
Importing a Sequence from Premiere Pro In Premiere Pro:
• Edit > Edit in Adobe Audition > Clip or Sequence
In Audition:
• File > Import > Select the exported XML file
Importing Audio Files File > Open
• Adds a new file to the Files window and opens it in the Editor window
File > Import > File
• Only adds it to the Files window
When imported it creates a .pkf file- waveform reference file When changes are made to a file an asterisk appears next to the file name in the Files window. Signifies that the file must be saved to finalize the change.
• Edit > Copy to New
o Save / or Save As
Importing Video Files You can’t view a video clip unless it’s part of a multitrack session
• File > New > Multitrack Session
• Multitrack > Track > Add Video Track
o Creates a video reference track
Display Options
• Waveform Display
o Measures amplitude
• Spectral Frequency Display
o Measures frequency and amplitude
o Brightness shows amplitude
Adjusting Levels Several ways to do it - some destructive, some not Single Track Editor:
• Entire file: drag the orange dB level dial (Amplify)
• Portion of file: Time Selection Tool to select a section then use level dial
• Effects > Amplitude and Compression > Normalize (process)
Multitrack Editor:
• Right-click on clip file > Insert into Multitrack > New Multitrack Session...
• Properties > Clip Gain
o non-destructive
Effects (single track) Destructive:
• Effects Menu
• Diagnostics
o Effects > Diagnostics
Non-destructive:
• Effects Rack
o Effects > Show Effects Rack
o Can add up to 16 effects to a clip
♣ Apply button: Applies the effects - destructively updates the file
Using Spectral Frequency Use a tool to select the problem audio
• Rectangular marque
• Lasso
o Preferences > Spectral Display > Play only selected frequencies when a spectral selection exists
o Delete clears the selected frequencies
• Paintbrush- “paints a selection”
o Use dB levels to drop it down
• Healing Brush tool
o Auto heals
Multitrack Sessions
• Session files: organize audio clips, maintains info on edits, etc.
o .sesx file exists to your hard drive- links to audio/video assets
• Preferences > Time Display
• Mouse scroll wheel- contextual zoom on display
• Editor window
o Input / Output settings
o Simple dB control
o Volume keyframe control
o Fx window
♣ Applied to tracks - not individual clips
o Sends
♣ Multi-bus output (sub-mixes)
o EQ
♣ Track-based EQ control
• Mixer widow
Editing in a Multitrack session Tools
• Razor tool - add edits
• Move tool - selects, trims
• Time Selection Tool- click and drag selection ranges
o Right-click and drag- behaves as if the Move tool
• Slip tool - maintains clip’s overall duration but changes the in/out location of the content
Effects
• Clip Effects vs. Track Effects
Adjusting Levels
• Clip based or Track Based
o Clip Based
♣ Set key frames on clip
o Track Based
♣ Twirl down “Read”
• Show Envelopes
• Select: Volume
o Add, Remove, Clear All Keyframes
o
Other stuff Window > Frequency Analysis Exporting
• File > Export > Multitrack Mixdown
• OMF
• FCP XML
• Session
• Application Settings
Sending Multitrack Session to Premiere
• Multitrack > Export to Premiere Pro
o XML file
o Mixes down each track as a single clip
Introduce Assignment 4: Soundscape
Part 1:
Create a 1-minute (minimum) soundscape inspired by a memory. This memory could be from your childhood or more recent. Pay special attention to the way that time is marked and passes (qualities like -- speed, rhythm, words, etc) throughout the piece. The soundscape can be created from found sound, recorded sound, or both. The sounds can be raw, or digitally altered, produced by you or others. Consider other methods of creating sounds -- sculptures, physical objects, “performance”, speech, etc. Consider making sound “procedurally”. Consider using effects that are built-into Audition. We will be using stereo speakers to listen to the piece, so experiment with panning. Think about the contour of the sound, the texture and the layering.
Part 2:
Choose one piece of work from two of the example artists. Write a brief (1 page)
response detailing what drew you to the pieces and how you feel that the artists explore the idea “time” (whether directly or indirectly) in the works.
DUE OCT6
+WEEK 6 OCT4
Crit: Assignment 4: Soundscape
Technical Lecture: Premiere Pro CS 5
Workflow:
• File backup (disk image, etc.)
• File ingestion into NLE
• Edit rough cut (assembly edit)
o Cuts
o Possibly transitions
• Reshoots if needed
• Edit fine cut to “picture lock”
• Audio
o Soundtrack
o ADR
o Folly/ FX
o EQ/Mix
• Visual FX/ Filters
o Color Correction
• Titles
• Final cut
• Project archiving
Creating new Projects: Welcome screen
• Recent Projects
• New Project
• Open Project
New Project window Leave all as-is except for bottom section
• Location - central folder where all assets will be stored
• Name
Scratch Disks
• Same as Project
New Sequence window Sequence vs. Project Sequence Presets
• Needs to match footage - not output
• See KB article for Sequence setup how-to
General - allows you to edit the preset settings Project > Project Settings Sequence > Sequence Settings Preferences Auto Save Memory
Importing Footage: Creating Disk Images in OS X Importing Clips
• Double-click on Project window
• File > Import
• Media Browser
• File > Browse in Bridge
o File Properties
o Keywords
Bridge & Metadata
o Metalogging preset workspace in Premiere
o Project window > Metadata Display options
Linked Media
• Offline media
• Right-click on clip in Project window > Link Media
Sorting and Organizing Clips Maximize panel: Select Project panel and click ~ Sorting clips by columns Categorizing
• Folder icon = Bins
• Icon View - used to previsualize edits
o Set Poster Frame
Preliminary Edits Three-Point Editing
• Source Monitor
• Set In / Set Out / Set In on Sequence
• J, K, L
• I, O
• Arrow keys
• Jog Wheel
• Shuttle
• Set In and Out
o Drag into Timeline (Video, Audio, or Both)
o Click Insert or Overwrite buttons
♣ Target track buttons
o Click , or . buttons
o Drag to Project window to create a subclip
Overlay and Insert Edits
• Insert- Splits edits, affects overall duration, does not delete any existing footage in timeline
• Overlay- writes over existing footage in timeline
Using video layers to add B-roll
• “Checkerboard” editing
• Drag Video Only button
Ripple Edits and Ripple Delete
• Ripple Delete: Right-click on empty gap and choose Ripple Delete
o Selecting gap and hitting Delete key also works
• Ripple Edit Tool: Trims and ripples at same time
o Command-click with selection tool
Razor Tool Splices footage
• Option-click: Overrides link
• Shift-click: Multi-track splice
Slip Edits
• Does not change overall duration of clip or timeline
• Changes the In/Out frames for the content within the clip
• Slip Edit window
Rolling Edits
• Click and drag top move the edit point between two clips
• There has to be enough extra footage in a clip that we’re not seeing to accomplish the rolling edit
Navigation Efficiency
• Changing view - zoom in/out
• - and + keys zoom
• Backslash key \ full sequence view
• Home and End keys - jump to beginning/end of program
• Arrow keys
• Mouse wheel - scroll up and down scrolls through time
• J, K, L
Editing Techniques Markers
• Markers > Set Clip Marker
o Unnumbered
o shift-cmd-arrows: jumps between markers
• Markers > Set Sequence Marker
o Marker attributes (double-click)
Rearranging Clips in Timeline
• Selection tool
o Marquee selection
• Track Selection tool
o Shift-click: Multi-track selection
• Click and drag - Overlay edit
• Command-click and drag- Insert edit
Disconnecting audio and video
• Option-drag when trimming: trims just the selected element (audio or video)
o L-cut or split edit
• Clip > Unlink
o Right-click > Unlink
Changing the Speed of a clip
• Right-click > Clip Speed/Duration
o Reverse
o % Change (adjusts rate and duration)
• Rate Stretch tool
Transitions
• Effects panel > Video Transitions
o Click and drag to cut point
♣ Return key- renders out preview
o Cross Dissolve
o Dip to Black
• Default Transition
o Command-D (creates transition automatically)
o Right-click > Set Selected as Default Transition
Filters/ Effects
• Accelerated Effects- takes advantage of processing power of certified graphics cards (CUDA)
• 32-bit Effects- supports high bit-depth processing
• YUV Effects- for footage/projects created using the YCbCr color mode
• Drag from Effects pane and drop onto clip
o Toggle Effect- turns it off during preview
o Keyframing effects
Color correction
• Adjusting white balance
o RGB color- additive color mode- if white is right all others will follow
• “Photoshop equivalent” tools
o Video Effects > Adjust > Auto Levels
♣ Blend with original
o Video Effects > Adjust > Levels
o Video Effects > Adjust > Auto Contrast
o Video Effects > Adjust > Shadow/Highlight
o Video Effects > Color Correction > Brightness & Contrast
• Fast Color Corrector
• Three Way Color Corrector
o Tonal Range - selects which range to edit
o Secondary Color Correction
♣ Output > Mask
Disconnecting audio and video
• Option-drag when trimming: trims just the selected element (audio or video)
o L-cut or split edit
• Clip > Unlink
o Right-click > Unlink
Audio Mixing
• VU Meter (Audio Master Meters)
o -6 Master mix
o -6 to -12 dialog
o Dynamic Range
• Ambient Audio
o Room tone
• Audio waveform view
o Adjust track size
o * key- sets sequence markers
• Changing Audio volume over time
o Keyframe “rubberbands”
Audio Transitions The Constant Power crossfade creates a smooth, gradual transition, analogous to the dissolve transition between video clips. This crossfade decreases audio for the first clip slowly at first and then quickly toward the end of the transition. For the second clip, this crossfade increases audio quickly at first and then more slowly toward the end of the transition. The Constant Gain crossfade changes audio at a constant rate in and out as it transitions between clips. This crossfade can sometimes sound abrupt. Exponential Fade fades out the first clip over a smooth logarithmic curve while fading up the second clip, also over a smooth logarithmic curve. Selecting an option from the Alignment control menu, you can specify the positioning of the transition. Titles
• File > New > Title
• Text tool
• Gets added to Project window
o Double click to edit
• Animating rolling credits
o Drag text box below visible area in title tool
o Roll / Crawl Tool
o To change speed - drag the clip in time line
Layered Photoshop Documents
• Import Layered Files window
o Merge All Layers
o Merged Layers (lets you choose)
o Individual Layers
o Sequence
♣ Creates new Premiere sequence with all layers included
Exporting (basics) File > Export Media
• Match sequence settings
• Queue - opens Adobe Media Encoder
Related KB articles: (all can be found from the MCAD Knowledgebase > Media Center > Film/Video) Exporting a movie file from Premiere for computer playback/ class critiques http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=457&relid=52 How to set up the Canon HG20 camera settings and import that footage into Premiere Pro http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=518&relid=52 Exporting a Premiere project for Vimeo uploading http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=512&relid=52 How do I create a disk image from P2 cards, SDHC cards, Compact Flash cards or camcorder hard drives? http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=319&relid=52 How do I capture video footage from a DV tape using a DV camcorder and Premiere Pro? http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=95&relid=52 How do I author a video DVD using Toast Titanium? http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=106&relid=52 How do I export an "archival" movie from Premiere? http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=513&relid=52 Working with DSLR video in Premiere Pro http://kb.mcad.edu/index.php?action=article&id=515&relid=52
Introduce Assignment 5: Stop-animation
Using your soundscapes from last week, create a 1-minute (minimum) stop animation movie. You can change your sound piece accordingly (stretch, delete, compound). Keep in mind the effect stops, starts, rhythm changes, etc have on the effect of time-based visual material.
DUE OCT18
+WEEK 7 OCT11
Work Day
+WEEK 8 OCT18
Crit: Assignment 5: Stop-animation
Introduce Assignment 6: Light Sequences
For the next assignment you will be composing two sequences of 4-8 images: one set with natural light, and the other in the Grey Studio.
By sequencing I do not mean narrative, but the image-to-image visual connections that hold a sequence together.
A non-narrative sequence is a series of images that do not exist on a time line, but revolve around the same idea or concept. Usually you could rearrange the order of these images and the meaning would not be affected.
Set 1 parameters:
- only natural light
- minimum of 4 images, maximum of 8
- printed out individually, size to be determined by artist
- at least one image must have a human subject
- none can be shot on campus
- one image must be Front lit - Light shining on the side of the subject facing the camera.
- One image must be Side lit - Light striking the subject from the side relative to the position of the camera; produces shadows and highlights to create modeling on the subject.
- At least one image must be Back lit - Light coming from behind the subject, toward the camera lens, so that the subject stands out vividly against the background *sometimes called a silhouette.
- Hint* Use open shade and diffused light:
DUE: NOV1
+WEEK 9 OCT25
Lighting Demo in Grey Studio
Set 2: parameters:
Same as Set 1 but exchange ‘natural light’ for ‘studio light’, and they must be shot in either the Grey or Black Studio.
Keep in mind I am more interested in seeing expressive camera angles and the use of depth of field than I am in spectacular circumstances and objects.
DUE: NOV15
+WEEK 10 NOV1
Crit Set 1 Light Sequences
+WEEK 11 NOV8:
NO CLASSES
+WEEK 12 NOV15
Crit Set 2 Light Sequences
+WEEK 13 NOV22
Assignment 7: Object as Subject
For the last assignment you will be creating short videos dealing with an inanimate object/s at odds with its/their environment, where the object and environment create a kind of synergy (i.e., the working together of two things to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects).
Assignment parameters:
Minimum of 1 min, Maximum of 2 min in length
Sound: you can use any music, found sound, captured sound, etc, you want; however, you must capture some actual environmental sound yourself and use it in the piece. You may not just simply add music over the whole track.
Due: DEC6
+ WEEK 14 NOV29
WORK DAY
+WEEK 15 DEC6
Crit: Object as Subject
+WEEK 16 DEC13 Final Class
Crit Final Site Update
