Category: Inspiration
Neighborhoods, a film by Vera Danilina
neighborhood from Vera Danilina on Vimeo.
This video serves as the inspiration for our own “Neighborhoods” video project. Each student will document their neighborhood with pre-determined set of shots. Then the videos will be displayed side-by-side, offering a comparison and contrast of the diverse neighborhoods that make up the student body of HTHMA.
Each video will include the following 10 5-second shots in order:
1. Static MS of sign w/name of neighborhood.
2. Tracking shot of how people transport themselves
3. Ext. static WS of where people eat
4. CU of something beautiful
5. CU of something ugly
6. Static WS of nature
7. MS of people exercising/recreating
8. MS kids playing
9. MS of a crowd.
10. CU of yourself
Levitation Stop Motion Video
Shooting your still images
Plan your shots. You will need to take at least 50 pictures of your subject in mid-air. Lock down your camera on a sturdy tripod. Set the camera to “Sports” mode and hold down the shutter release button to shoot in continuous mode. This will help you capture the perfect moment. You will need to discard the images you won’t be using.
Creating Stop Motion Video with Photoshop
1. Open Photoshop and go to File > Open
2. Navigate to the folder in which you saved you pictures.
3. Select the first image. Make sure you only have the images in this folder you want to use for your movie.
4. Check the “Image Sequence” option at the bottom, and then click “Open”
5. A new pop up opens in which you have to enter the frame rate of your movie (the number of photos shown every second). Select 10 photos per second.
6. Go to File > Export > Render Video.
7. Save your rendered video file in the appropriate folder on Rosskopf Shared.
Wiggle 3D
From Gizmodo.com Shooting Challenge
Take multiple photos at the EXACT same level height, a few inches apart. Open in Photoshop and drag the layers into one image. Align images so that key features of your subject are in alignment. Here is a great written tutorial from adorama.com
Open the Animation window and place each layer in its own frame. Experiment with the time delay. Save as a gif, to your my DP folder and reply to this post with your animated gif.
Cinemagraphs
Cinemagraphs are a combination of still image and video. They are most effective when there is motion in at least two subjects in your frame, and one is turned into a freeze frame, then carefully masked. We will be creating these using After Effects.
1. Shoot a minute of footage with the camera locked down on a tripod. If you plan to freeze frame and mask a person, make sure to continue to shoot plenty of video with the person out of the frame, or else you will see the edges of the person still moving behind the freeze frame mask of the person. DO NOT LET THE CAMERA MOVE WHILE SHOOTING.
2. Open in After Effects and duplicate (⌘D) the video onto a second layer.
3. Place the playhead (Time Indicator) over the area in the timeline you’d like to freeze.
4. Freeze frame the top layer (Layer > Time > Freeze Frame).
4. Use the pen tool to mask an area. NOTE: The area you mask will be in the foreground, and everything else will be moving behind it on the duplicate layer — so make sure that is your desired result.
5. You may need to move the bottom layer to sample a different time form your bg video.
6. Export as a QT movie to the appropriate folder on Rosskopf Shared.
Willow Music Video
“The music video above, created filmmaker Filip Sterckx for the song “Sweater” by Willow, takes the idea of 3D projections in a blank room to a new level. Although it looks like the actor visits all kinds of crazy locations, everything is actually happening inside a small “room” consisting of one white floor and two white walls. The surfaces serve as canvases for imagery beamed from three $1,000Panasonic PT-LB90 projectors. A moving treadmill on the ground adds to the effect.
It looks like Sterckx chose to go with CGI for the projected imagery, but imagine what this could look like if done with photos and videos of real locations.”
Easy Vimeo Projects
From: http://vimeo.com/videoschool/lesson/167/easy-vimeo-projects
“At Vimeo, we celebrate all types of videos and video makers, from the totally novice to the completely professional. And while we love a good HD tilt-shift bokeh-filled underwater timelapse video, we also love simple videos of everyday moments, caught on the fly with small point-and-shoot cameras or cell phones and uploaded with little editing or post-production trickery. These types of projects challenge Vimeans to pay close attention, push their personal boundaries, and feed off one another’s creativity.
Over the years, we’ve launched numerous video projects that champion this more candid, off-the-cuff style of video making. Here’s a look at some of our favorite super-easy, super-fun projects, which will hopefully inspire you to go out and start shooting!:
DKNG Studios Stop Motion Curation
A great collection of stop motion video compiled by DKNG Studios can be found here: