Vis Comms session 22/3/10

• 22/3/10
  
  Outline for next couple of weeks
  
• finish storyboard/animatics
• use either film or animation to produce 30/60 second narrative
• evaluate any outcomes
• experiment with different techniques. Identify what style you would like to use for the project (final) after Easter

• Things to ask Julie today:
  
• can't save print screen in Photoshop (to upload onto blog) - you can save a Word document (from home) as a PDF and then upload this into blog.
• videos not uploading to blog in spite of compressing them to 39MB. - Try setting up a YouTube account, uploading them there and embedding them. Can then put them up on blog.
• drawn animation - how many frames? - in DV Pal it's 25 frames per second. Can reduce this by taking one photo and having it on for two frames (e.g: timeline would then be 12 frames per second = 360 frames for 30 second animation.
• does it matter that the cut-outs are not so flat on the background? - no.. for actual objects that might move about, use blue tac.

Took my rabbit photos and imported them into Premier Pro 1.5

Set Default Duration to 3 frames.

• To drag all photos onto timeline at once, click on small picture icon next to the file.jpg name and drag onto timeline.
  
  

Ran the video and it looked great - if a little 'sketchy' and the frames moved around a bit! I need to get hold of a tripod that will shoot flat on.

Talked briefly about Effects
Apply these to one jpeg at a time.
Double-click on the image - go into EFFECT CONTROLS

Drag into window EFFECTS - VIDEO EFFECTS

For colour - IMAGE CONTROL - TINT - drag into frame in timeline for them to take effect

To take off an effect click on Effect controls in the effects window and click CUT

Will talk about Key Frames next week.

Saved my video - but it's not saved as a DV Pal file - only a movie!!! ahghgh! I need to compress it and can't.

REMEMBER TO ALWAYS SAVE AS A PREMIER PRO file before saving it as a movie!!!

Have set up a YouTube account and here is my video!