PREMIERE PRO CLASS ASSIGNMENT 2 INSTRUCTIONS

Premier Pro Assignment 2

PLAN AHEAD

Keep material for all PP projects in a notebook to be submitted at the end of this class. Include a Section for project: Notes, Storyboard, Statement of Purpose (Treatment) and a Section for Resources: All handouts and any other relevant information.

Notebook will be checked after each Project Assignment

1               Develop a short documentary, scripted drama, a vacation travel log, promotional video or instructional video 2               Create 2 – 5 minute video using audio, video clips, captured video, stills or a combination Video clips, captured video, stills or a combination needs to be your own. Any video or photographs or imagery downloaded from Youtube or other Websites that are not for that purpose, without written permission from the creator will receive a “fail” for the project. You will need to contact the creator and get a release form in writing to be attached with your project along with contact information for that individual. 3               Incorporate transitions and filters 4               Must have Titles and credits 5               Rough Treatment and Storyboard to be signed off by instructor before begin in PP

GET STARTED SUGGESTIONS:

1.     Research Idea 2.     Collect Material (i.e. still images, video clips, text, audio, ect.); 3.     Create Storyboard; 4.     Assemble in Premiere Pro.

REMEMBER TO TURN IN THE FOLLOWING:

1.     Notebook - see above 2.     Folder with lastname_pp01 Containing:

• Statement of Purpose with your name and scans of all preproduction work

such as storyboards, scripts, etc.

• .Mov movie

DUE:

BE CREATIVE AND HAVE FUN!!!!

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PREMIERE PRO CLASS ASSIGNMENT 1

Premier Pro Assignment 1

PLAN AHEAD

1. Create a short 20 – 30 sec video for a ‘client’ of your choice It can serve as a commercial, public service announcement (PSA), movie trailer, educational etc. Those of you who continue to work with the same themes for all of your projects should try and step out of your comfort zone and work on something new.

2.   Source Material: video clips, captured video, stills or a combination. Video clips, captured video, stills or a combination needs to be your own or copyright free and available for download. We will give you some sights where you can download videos for this purpose or search on line if need be. For this project you may also just use stills. It doesn't necessarily need to be actual video. Any video or photographs or imagery downloaded from Youtube or other Websites that are not for that purpose, without written permission from the creator will receive a “fail” for the project. You will need to contact the creator and get a release form in writing to be attached with your project along with contact information for that individual.

SOME RESOURCES FOR COPYRIGHT FREE VIDEO ARE

archive.org

http://www.real.com/resources/download-one-video/

3. Must contain at least one Audio Track and 2 Transitions

4. Must have Titles and Credits

5. You will need to turn in storyboards that consist of 4 separate concepts of how you want the project to be put together, each concept should be a minimum of 5 frames. These need to be signed off by instructor before beginning in Premier Pro.

STORYBOARDS ARE DUE TUESDAY MARCH 4th

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Get Started suggestions:

1. Research Idea 2. Collect Material (i.e. still images, video clips, text, audio, ect.); 3. Create Storyboard; 4. Assemble in Premier Pro. ______________________________________________________________

Remember to turn in the following:

Statement of Purpose Folder with all supporting files. Final outputted file - .mov or .mp4 placed in your final folder. Detailed instructions from the instructor. _______________________________________________________________________________________

Due: MARCH 12TH AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS

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Premiere Pro - On-Line Assignment 1, INSTRUCTIONS

Pr Pro Discussion Assignment - Editing Analysis

 Due Wednesday, March 5th

PART 1 of 3

Watch this edit segment - at least twice. City of God - Chase the Chicken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoNATPsOsZk

City of God (2002, Braz.) (aka Cidade de Deus)
Editor, Best Film Editing Oscar Nominee: Daniel Rezende

In my opinion, this edit segment epitomizes the expression, "The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts."  

Pay attention to the sound track, the image and sound editing techniques. i.e.:

• • jump-cuts
  • dissolves
  • cuts to black
  • speed variation
  • freeze frames
  • strobe and other visual effects
  • graphic and action matching
  • sound track variations 
  • the use of silence / percussion / SFX

Pay attention to how your reaction to the edit changes betwen the first time you watch it, and subsequent times you watch it.

Blogger MojoRisn describes it as,

"A brilliant use of jump cutting and cutting between two different sets of action. This is incredibly technical editing at it’s best. It is particularly spectacular because it is at the very start of the film, as it has to introduce the main characters."

Read the interview with editor, Daniel Rezende:

http://www.avidblogs.com/avid-toronto-editors-city-of-god/

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Editing, Art and Sound

Award winning Film Editor, Walter Murch said,

“Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does”. The editing in film often goes unnoticed. However, if one does not notice the editing, then it is doing its job. The editor works on the subconscious of the viewer, and controls “the story, the music, the rhythm, the pace, shapes the actors’ performances, ‘re-directing’ and often re-writing the film during the editing process, honing the infinite possibilities of the juxtaposition of small snippets of film into a creative, coherent, cohesive whole.”  ~ Wikipedia

Listen to this 8min. story about Film Editor, Walter Murch.

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=4994411&m=4994802

Listen to this 8 min. story about Film Editor, Joe Walker:

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=279076803&m=279216425

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PART 2 of 3Go to Discussion page to answer these questions and comment. 

Include in your comment:

A. In your opinion, what is the most effective editing moment used in the segment and why.

         For example:

               at 2:20 the two jump cuts between the face of the smiling boy...

B.  In your opinion, what editing technique makes the moment effective.

C. How did the sound track influence your selection.

PART  3 of 3

You must comment on at least one other comment. Because you all are interesting.(Oh. And commenting counts toward your grade.)

City of God - chase the chicken

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PrPro ON LINE ASSIGNMENT 1 FILM EDITING DISCUSSION THREAD

BRIEF COMMENT

In my opinion, the most effective moment or sequence in the segment is on time 2.30 when the chicken is in front of the running jeep, then  jump-cut to the guys   walking toward the jeep for  for maybe less two seconds, then back again to the chicken which is now under the truck exiting out in front of the left rear tire.  I think this is close to a perfectly  timed sequencing. . The  sound track variations  are matched with what are being displayed on the screen  The use  of silence  greatly added to the sense of mystery at the start,   then   gradual application of percussion in tune with the sort of a Latino festivity in somewhat violent environment added suspense and excitement, offered by the chicken being chased after release from captivity;  then a lull, a period of indecisiveness on part of the actor, then a a flashback in time to the year 19sixties 

on part of the actor where he was on the similar situation. The revolving camera application 

around the actor while the scene transform from the present to the 19sixties is really awesome.   

Nevertheless,  may I be allowed to expound on some instances  I think needed to be refined and I have them illustrated below:

The chicken not moving at all at time 3.57 is just 2 feet away from the actor but  on 

the next slide at time 3.58 the chicken, though not moving at all,  looked like 30 feet away

from the actor

On this slide the chicken, not moving at all which is supposed to be just about 

two feet away from the actor now looked 30 feet away.

Those two guys are walking towards the camera at time 4.21

but after 11 seconds of brisk walking they seemed to be farther

away from the camera as shown on the next slide.

Those two guys farthest from the camera should have passed 

the fence given that they are walking fast in a matter of 11 seconds

as they were already closer to the fence as shown on the slide above.

White clothing missing on the bigger ellipse and there is a piece of 

wood on the smaller ellipse

White pieces of clothing now appearing which are missing from the slide

above while the piece of wood is now missing which can be seen from the slide above.

END OF COMMENT

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New 'Pompeii' movie

FROM : MOTHER NATURE NETWORK

New 'Pompeii' movie begs the question: Could Mount Vesuvius erupt again?

A professor of Roman archeology and a volcanologist weigh in on deadly volcanoes, the new film and the surprising evidence that some people may have survived the epic event.

By

Gerri Miller

Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:48 AM

Photo: Sony Pictures

In the summer of 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted, obliterating the seaside resort of Pompeii.
Volcanic ash covered everything, preserving evidence of the disaster for nearly two millennia.
The story endures too, in accounts by eyewitness Pliny the Younger, who viewed the eruption
from a nearby town, and in books, TV movies and films inspired by the catastrophe.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson’s “Pompeii” (opening Feb. 21) is the latest in the genre, focusing
on a fictional love story to recount the explosive event, while endeavoring to recreate an ancient
world as precisely as possible. His CGI Vesuvius erupts spectacularly, but how accurate is it?
Is “Pompeii” true to history? And could this kind of cataclysmic eruption happen again there — or 
elsewhere on Earth? For answers, we turned to two experts, Sarah K. Yeomans, professor of
Roman archeology at West Virginia University, and Dr. Rosaly Lopes-Gaultier, volcanologist and
senior research scientist and manager of the Planetary Science Section at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory.

Yeomans, who has taken students to Pompeii many times over the last decade, characterizes the
ruins there as uniquely “flash frozen in time. When we visit this site we get a real sense of how
Romans lived and the things that were important to them. It’s the best insight we have into this
ancient culture,” she says, which coupled with a morbid curiosity about devastating disasters, is
what makes it so eternally fascinating.

“One of the things I really enjoyed was the way Paul Anderson reconstructed the site. He clearly
has been there, had done the photography. For example the streets of Pompeii had [raised]
stones that people would walk across to avoid mud, sludge and water,” she points out. “The way
he reconstructed the houses was really well done, right down to graffiti inscribes on the walls.”
The latter was often political or sexual in nature, but the phallic images had a purpose, “what
we call an apotropaic function,” Yeomans explains. “They would put images of the phallus next
to the doorways. It was a symbol to ward off evil and bad luck. Not all of them did this, but it
does account for some of the ubiquity of phallic images.”

Visually, Yeomans believes the film “did a nice job with the layout of the city, with respect to where the amphitheater is and respect to other buildings,” and she appreciated its portrayal of the Pompeiian resentment of Rome, which had annexed it 150 years before. But she sees artistic license at play in the depiction of the volcanic eruption. “There was never a lava flow and these firebombs you see launching out of the volcano. That did not happen in this particular type of eruption. But it’s a movie, not a documentary,” she adds.

What killed most the population was a combination of heat and ash. “The most deadly phase of the 

eruption is what’s called a pyroclastic flow — basically super-heated mud that comes racing down at 

about 80 mph and that kills people pretty much immediately. Most of the people died of heat shock,” 

says Yeomans. "Nevertheless, there were a few who lived.”

“There is plenty of evidence that people did survive. We have inscriptions in other towns that were made by survivors of Pompeii who had relocated. We know that many people left when the earthquakes began. There are tunnels in Pompeii, evidence that people may have come back to tunnel down and retrieve some of their possessions.”

Yeomans, who “fell in love with Roman archaeology in my junior year in college” while studying abroad in the Roman ruins-laden region of southern France, says that Pompeii’s ruins are in a vulnerable state due to excavation and tourist traffic, “a pretty large concern at the moment. There have been several recent collapses of houses at the site. They’ve really slowed down on the granting of excavation permits and limit tourist traffic. There’s a great deal of the site that tourists are not allowed access to. The focus is on conserving what’s been excavated.”

Will a volcano catch us by surprise?

Also of concern is the possibility, however remote, that Mount Vesuvius — an active volcano — might erupt again. If it did, “It would be equally as dangerous and would affect many more people because now the area is much more populated. We have better technology for evacuation and detection now, though,” Yeomans points out. “Volcanoes are not going to catch us by surprise.” She explains that earthquakes precede volcanic eruptions, “which is what happened with Vesuvius in AD 79. The region is volcanic, and the Romans were used to seismic activity, but there’s no evidence to suggest that they connected the two. They didn’t realize that it was a warning sign of a coming eruption.”

According to Lopes-Gaultier, “Vesuvius has not erupted since 1944, and that was not a violent eruption. Not all eruptions of Vesuvius are as violent as the 79 A.D. eruption was; most are not. It could erupt again. The most violent eruptions of Vesuvius tend to occur after the volcano has rested for several hundred years. Vesuvius is very well monitored, so we will have some warning.”

Dr. Rosaly Lopes-Gaultier in Vanuatu (Photo courtesy NASA/JPL)

Globally, “There are many other volcanoes in the world that have the potential to have violent eruptions such as the 79 A.D. one. Mount St. Helens in 1980 was a violent explosive eruption,” she offers as an example. “There are about 600 volcanoes on land considered active, meaning they have been active in historic times and we think they are likely to erupt again. There are many underwater volcanoes along the spreading ridges. As for volcanoes in the U.S., Kilauea erupts often — and it has been active for decades — but not in a violent, explosive way. The most hazardous volcano in the U.S. is considered to be Mount Rainier. This means it could erupt in the near future and has the potential to be very dangerous — it could erupt in an explosive way like St. Helens in 1980. What makes it more dangerous is that it has glaciers at the top, and even a not-very-violent eruption could cause ice to melt, creating mudflows, which are very destructive.”

Lopes-Gaultier, who holds a degree in astronomy from the University of London, got into volcanology via a planetary geology course (when the professor missed class to cover a Mount Etna eruption; “I thought that sounded really exciting, and decided that I wanted to do that too.”) She says that in analyzing hazardous volcanoes, modern scientists “look at frequency of eruptions in the past, and how likely one is to happen again in the next few decades.”

For example, Yellowstone National Park is a hotbed of volcanic activity. “Yellowstone has had enormous eruptions in the past, it is the largest volcanic caldera on Earth. Calderas are formed by collapse following very violent eruptions. Yellowstone's violent eruptions last occurred hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although its eruptions could potentially be far more devastating than Mount Rainier's, they are less likely to happen in the near future,” she says. Consider yourself reassured. Or forewarned.

Sarah K. Yeomans with students at Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius is in the background. (Photo: Alyssa Beall)




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Decorate this week's Reader cover and you could win $100!

How to enter:

1) Download the cover or pick up a hard copy at 7/11, AM/PM, Circle K, Vons, Albertsons, Ralphs, Stater Bros., Food4Less, or CVS.

2) Design the cover. Be creative! Use crayons, paint, collage... (If you're curious about the entries we've received so far you can check out the gallery of entries!)

3) Submit your design online as an image, or deliver or mail your creation to the Reader's Golden Hill office:
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