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Levitation Stop Motion Video

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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

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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

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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.

 

Ampersand Kinetic Typography Project

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In this collaboration between Humanities and Multimedia, students were tasked to record a conversation with either a mentor or family member. From this record of the conversation, they were to excerpt a quote and create a “kinetic typography” animation using After Effects.

Students submitted early drafts and participated in a written critique process that can be seen here.

The finished pieces were projected at a launch party for the students’ self-published books.

ROP Competencies:

Digital Art and Mixed Media

IX. Elements of Design

C. Shape

D. Line

G. Color

H. Form (3d Space using z-axis)

XII. Types of Art Communication/Storytelling

D. Literal Communication

XVIII. Other Media

B. Combining of Media Types

C. Use of Adobe Suite

Scene 64 Editing Contest

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In Scene 64, Alexa and Dom (Q’orianka Kilcher and Jesse Bradford) cross paths in a tense moment, and it’s all controlled by YOU. Sign up to join the contest, log into the online editor and find video clips of each shot, take, and angle at your fingertips. The best edit is going into our final cut and you’ll see your name in lights, in the front end screen credits of the finished film.

Ampersand Kinetic Typography

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View the Typography drafts of the 4 students who follow you in alphabetical order on the class roster. Respond to their posts with your kind, helpful and specific feedback. Address all of the following: pacing, color scheme, layout, animation, readability, type face, and intangibles. Please identify a strong element of the work that you appreciate, and offer suggestions on how you feel the work could be improved.

After you have received and read feedback about your piece, post a revised version, as a response to your last critique, along with a description of how you incorporated the feedback you received into your final draft.