points: 100
Assigned: Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Due: Tuesday, April 21, 2020, by 11:59 pm
YOU WILL NEED THE D7500 CAMERA, MICROPHONE AND TRIPOD
A Person and their Sound
Goal – This is an introduction to shooting video. The goal with all these skills is to make you a better storyteller. In this case we will focus on a number of video skills, but remember to make it interesting as well!
You need to find a person – NOT YOUR FAMILY OR FRIENDS – to interview AND a sound that is connected to them. It can be a sound they make – interview a blacksmith about her job and also collect the sounds and images of her pounding a horseshoe – or it could be the sounds associated with them or that they have in their lives all the time – an airplane pilot and his noisy plane, a tap dancer and the sound of the shoes, a new mom and her baby crying/gurgling
There needs to be some ACTION to shoot along with the INTERVIEW
Your subject should be doing something real, not just pretending for the camera. DON’T shoot someone standing around playing a guitar – get them during a real rehearsal or performance for example.
- For class, create a Premiere Project as we discussed in class and explained in the handouts.
- The video should have text with the date of the recording and your name as either a title or lower thirds
- Edit your video – 60 seconds MAXIMUM (it can be shorter, but NOT longer)
- Export your video as a Quicktime Movie and place that on the server
REMEMBER –
Set up your project folder properly and set the scratch disks FIRST. Anything not in your folder and saved to your external harddrive or computer) will be lost when the lab computers reboot overnight.
NAME YOUR PROJECT AND EXPORTED MOVIE: DATE_YOURNAME_SOUND
ex: 20111130_YourName_blacksmith
UPLOAD THE ENTIRE PROJECT TO BO
I should be able to open the Premiere file and edit your video
You will be graded on:
- Quality of the audio
- Is the interview shot in a well-lit location and well-composed
- Is the b-roll properly exposed, in focus, well-composed
- Is the story interesting!!
- Your video should include a Title or lower thirds (the name of anyone who speaks in your video placed on the video)
EXPORT INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Once you’ve finished your video, you MUST export your project as a movie file. You will turn in the movie file NOT your Premiere project. I ONLY need your movie file.
Click on the Timeline
Select File>Export >Media
You’ll see the window below
Set the settings for:
Format: H.264
Preset: Vimeo 1080
Click the blue next to Output Name and name your movie, and save it into your project folder.
Click ‘Export’
Once the video has finished exporting, it should be wherever you saved it. Play the video, make sure it plays properly, beginning to end.
- Is there audio?
- Does the movie start and stop at the right place?
- any goofs you need to fix?
- If there are mistakes, you’ll need to fix them in Premiere and export all over again
- If everything is ok, put the video file in the dropbox on the server and you’re done!