Independent Study for Week 11

• Complete your 30 - 40 image storyboard!

• This MUST be completed for Week 11 tutorial (7th October), and the task will count towards your participation mark for the course.

• When creating your storyboard, consider coherent styling across the range of images, visual progression from one frame to the next and a logical ordering device (such as discreet numbering for each frame).

• Post your storyboard to your blog in a logical and clear sequence. Post high quality images, so each individual frame can be easily scrutinised. You can post each frame as an individual image or post in groups of frames, but all frames should be clear to see, and cropped well in photoshop.

• Your storyboard also comprises an element of your Assignment 3 grade, so it is in your interest to make your images visually attractive and convey a clear understanding of your narrative.

Week 10 Tutorial Task

• Finalise the concept for your video, and refine your 300 word narrative, using feedback from your tutors. Ideas drawn from your article, and summarised in your 200 word review/synopsis should be evident in your narrative.
  

• If you haven't started to storyboard your ideas yet, start with 10 expressive images of important "moments" from your intended video. These images can be digital montages or sketches, but should be attractive images that can stand scrutiny in their own right.

• Using your 300 word narrative as a guide to help you define your "story", continue producing your 30-40 images for your final storyboard (generally one image for around every 5 seconds of intended footage). Use rough sketching and quick 3D modeling to express the feel of each frame of your storyboard, thinking about the feel of your video, and how visual language will be used to convey your ideas. Any models you create at this stage can form the basis for your refined models in your final animations.
  

• Consider the overall flow of your video, being sure to include a beginning, middle and end, and incorporating ideas such as suspense, excitement, interest, surprise, climax, resolution and catharsis, using camera work and scene transitions. How do you keep the audience captivated, and how do you produce an emotional involvement for the viewer using visuals?
  

Independent Study for Week 10

• Revisit your 150 word theme outline, and using concepts, and ideas raised in your chosen article, expand and develop on your initial words to make it into a 300 word defining piece of writing, that clearly outlines your intended narrative.

• Consider this like a creative writing exercise.
  

• Begin creating an extensive storyboard for your intended animation, concentrating on beginning, middle and end, highlights and exciting moments of your narration, a climax, and resolution to your video. Also include storyboard elements for titles, scene transitions and credits.

• You should generally have a story board image for around every 5 seconds of your video, depending on the speed and complexity of the scene. So if you intend a 3 minute video, then you will need around 30 images in your story board.
  

Week 9 Tutorial Task

• Think of a concept for your Final Video.
  

• Decide on a subject area and direction for your final video, with your tutors help.

• Write an initial 150 words outlining a theme, or visual direction for your video. This will begin the idea generation process for your final video.
  

• Find a minimum of one online Journal article, using Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, or similar database, that interests you, and helps inform the direction you would like your final video to follow.

• Read through your article and write a 200 word synopsis/review of your article. (If you have chosen more than one article, write a synopsis for each one.) Include a full reference on your blog.
  

• Create a rough visual outline, or storyboard comprising of around 10 sketchy images, that begin to define your video. You can either use physical sketches, or digital sketches (models, images, montages, etc) as your rough visual outline.
  

Independent Study for Week 9

• Submit Assignment 2 by Midnight, Monday 21st September.

• Post your Assignment 2 Music Video to your blog using Youtube.

• Submit your final Music video to emustore, along with all source material (images, videos, after effcts files, premiere files, etc.)
  

Week 8 Tutorial Task

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• Work on your Assignment 2 submissions for Monday 21st September.

• Read through the Assignment brief for all submission requirements.
  

• Get feedback from the tutors on your draft videos.

• Make sure your blogs a
  

Independent Study for Week 8 (September 16th)

Work to complete over the Mid-Semester Break!

• Refine your 15 panel Storyboard for Assignment 2, to be a work of art, depicting the progression of your music video, showing any major transitions or scenes that you feel should be conveyed. Post a high quality image of your storyboard to your blog.

• Develop content in Max and After Effects for your Music Video, and piece together a close to complete draft project in Premiere, with your chosen music.

• Develop skills in video editing softwares (After Effects, Adobe Premiere), to do this do relevant tutorials form the Adobe sites I have provided links to on Courses on the Web to enhance your desired concepts and ideas. There are so many tutorials out there, and you will al have such different concepts, you will have to be selective in searching for tutorials that suit your needs.
  

• We will have one last lab session for feedback from the tutors on your music videos before submission, in week 8.

Week 7 Tutorial Task

• Review your grades for assignment 1. When you log in using your FBE login, and go to the Courses on the Web page, you should see an "Assignment 1 Feedback" link on the right-hand menu you that will take you to a feedback page.

• Sketch out a rough 15 panel storyboard for your music video, concentrating on scene transitions, and the way you will link and combine your media, ( your "set" images, architectural images and videos from assignment 1) to form a coherent music video that both supports and is supported by your chosen music. Consider titles, credits, text, special effects and graphics for your videos (credits should include all references for images and music), include these as story board components if they are relevant.
  

• Leading from ideas developed in your rough sketched storyboard, develop more footage in 3Ds Max to link your videos content together. You may want to start combining content from your Max files to render out linking scenes for your media. You will a minimum of three extra videos for submission.

• You are welcome to use external content, but it must be referenced correctly. Go through the other students blogs, and look for content that you may want to incorporate form their video stock, if you ask them nicely, they may let you use it. Or if you don't know who they are, use me as a conduit, and I will ask them for you.
  

• Do the tutorials on Synchronising Sound with animations in After Affects, from the Courses on the Web page, using your chosen music. You may also want to consider mixing in sound effects to your video to provide counterpoint for certain elements.

• There is also a link to the Adobe Video Workshop, and Adobe TV, that has many useful and relevant videos, relating to all things Adobe.

• Start reviewing Adobe Premiere video tutorials, which is the best place to combine your various media. You can use any programs you are comfortable with (doesn't have to be Premiere, After Effects, etc) to create your music videos, these are just suggested applications that Dan and I can help you with. With other applications, we can still help conceptually, but not not be able to help with technical problems.

• If you want you can check out Resolume, a VJ (video Jockey) software for mixing video in real-time. This is a great little application, very simple to use and has some great video effects. It is also very quick at rendering out video in varying formats. I have added links to the application download page and a manual on Courses on the Web page.
  

• As you develop your music clip, consider the flavour of your music, and how it relates to your content.