Theory Behind Film-making
To understand why we create films and how film-making is different than other sources of conveying information requires you to understand the elements that are spoken about in the video to the right.
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Pre-Production: Storyboarding
In order to create a short film, music video, etc. you must first storyboard your ideas to lay out your shot sequence, showing every camera angle, pan, zoom, etc., the duration of the shot, and any camera movement.
According to Storyboarding for Dummies, you must evaluate each shot.
Evaluating each shot:
You have several elements to consider when preparing your storyboards. You first need to evaluate your script and break it down into shots. Then, as you plan each shot panel, ask yourself the following questions:
According to Storyboarding for Dummies, you must evaluate each shot.
Evaluating each shot:
You have several elements to consider when preparing your storyboards. You first need to evaluate your script and break it down into shots. Then, as you plan each shot panel, ask yourself the following questions:
- What is the location setting?
- How many actors are needed in the shot?
- Do you need any important props or vehicles in the shot?
- What type of shot (close-up, wide-shot, establishing shot, and so on) do you need?
- What is the shot's angle (where the camera is shooting from)? Is it a high angle? A low angle?
- Do any actors or vehicles need to move within a frame, and what is the direction of that action?
- Do you need any camera movement to add motion to this shot? In other words, does the camera follow the actor or vehicles in the shot, and in what direction?
- Do you need any special lighting? The lighting depends on what type of mood you're trying to convey (for example, you may need candlelight, moonlight, a dark alley, or a bright sunny day).
- Do you need any special effects? Illustrating special effects is important to deciding whether you have to hire a special-effects person. Special effects can include gunfire, explosions, and computer-generated effects.
Assignment:
You are going to get pre-assigned groups for this activity: Your job is to come up with a 4-5minute clip that touches upon social awareness. Pick a cause or group that you would like to promote or bring about awareness:
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Assignment Due Date: January 24, 2020
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Production:
After understanding the concept of how film-making is its own sort of niche, here is a video on how the art of film-making brings out the best in its way of telling a story.
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Here's an idea on how you may want to film your videos so that it may feature some of these cuts.
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Filming Due Date: November 28th, 2017
Post-Production: Adobe Premiere Pro
One of the most expensive and most powerful tool in the Adobe Creative Suite programs used by many professionals and filmmakers is Adobe Premiere Pro. This is a program where you can not only create your transitions and compile different videos together, but also edit in and out sounds, control how loud or how soft it gets, how long or how short a scene is, how fast or how slow you can change your transitions, make your films look professional with the type of rolling credits shown in movies, and the list goes on.
Introduction: Setting Up Adobe Premiere Pro
Please watch the following video at the start and end time stamps:
3:10 to 10:00 Introduction Set Up 10:01 to 17:03 Setting Up Title Using After Effects and Bridge 23:35 to 26:06 Adding Stills and Animating Them 27:35 to 32:55 Ending it 33:35 to 35:20 Exporting the Video Project |
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Layering: Multi-video effect: |
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Ending it: Credit Roll Scene
This guy talks super fast, but since we're all experienced with the previous tutorials it shouldn't be too hard to understand what the stuff he is talking about.
One thing I disagree with him is the don't use hotkeys. PLEASE USE HOTKEYS/or shortcuts if you know what they are!! He's freaked out in the video because his computer probably can't handle it. I think our MacLab is good enough to do it. But do take a piece of advice from him: Even though I think our computers are good enough, I've seen the other classes' PP crash many times so do save often. |
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