Tasks to be Completed for Week 7 Tutorial

• Refine your 150 word draft text for this Assignmnet based on tutors feedback.

• Based on your 150 word story, 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, to form a coherent music video that both supports and is supported by your chosen music. Consider titles, credits, text, special effects, real footage, digital footage and graphics for your videos (credits should include all references for images and music), include these as story board components if they are relevant.

• When developing your story board, consider what real footage you intend to capture and incorporate with your digital media.
  

• Leading from ideas developed in your rough sketched storyboard, start capturing some initial footage using a good quality video camera. Be controlled, and don't overdo the camera movement. It is also a good idea to record some basic measurements of the physical area you are filming, so you can create a Max model that equates to the real world.

• BECU has video cameras that you can borrow for this purpose. You may want to start combining content from Max files, rendering out elements to start incorporating with After Effects.
  

Week 6 Tutorial Tasks

• Continue doing After Effects tutorials, getting a feel for some of the techniques that can be used by you.
  

• Do the tutorials on Synchronising Sound with animations in After Affects:
  • http://layersmagazine.com/audio-visualization-in-after-effects.html
  • http://www.adobe.com/uk/tips/aft6audio/index.html
  • http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7da3.html
  • http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/audio_sync.php
  • http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hooton_joel/synch_video_to_audio.php
  
  
• Try applying techniques from the tutorials using your chosen music.

• I have provided a bunch of professional Sound FX, along with some After Effects Tutorials in the samples folder for this course, on emustore.

\\emustore\Resources\samples\benv\BENV2402 Time based Visualization - Harkins\Sound FX Media and Tutorials

• You may also want to consider mixing in sound effects to your video to provide counterpoint for certain elements.

• You can use Adobe Soundbooth to crop or edit your audio files.
  

• Continue reviewing Adobe After Effects tutorials, which is the best place to add effects to 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. With other applications, we can still help conceptually, but will be less able to help with technical problems.

• You are welcome to use external content, but it must be referenced correctly. A good place for Royalty Free Stock footage is: www.archive.org

Tasks to be Completed for Week 6 Tutorial

• Gather 15 architectural images that you will use an influence for your architectural content, and post them to your blog with references. Choose images that have an emotive effect on you or resonate with an aspect of the Built Environment that interests you. (Post references for the images)
  

• Write another 150 word draft text, drawing from a particular theme or idea raised in your first 150 word concept, and influenced by the 15 Architectural Images from the point above. This 150 words should read like a story, or written version of how you perceive the narrative of your final video may be. This will form the basis for your second Assignmnet.
  

• Find a song that you would like to use as the basis of your video clip. Here is a site that has Royalty free musiv that you can use: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

• If you are going to use a song that is not royalty free, you will have to make a silent version, as well as version with sound that you can only submit to emustore.

• Find a short clip from the net (eg: from Youtube, etc.), that displays a technique or atmosphere that you would like to convey in your own music video. Post the video to your blog.

• Bring headphones to class next week so you can hear your music.

Week 5 Tutorial Tasks

• Submit all Assignmnet 1 outputs correctly! This includes models, textures, images and videos submitted to emustore as well as all outputs posted to your blogs!

• If you are sure that everything is submitted correctly, you can have one of the tutors review your work, and make small suggestions for how your work may be improved. As a bonus for those that are finsished with Assignmnet 1, you will have the opportunity to use the Tutors advice to resubmit any elements that you would like, or you can leave it as is if you are happy with what you have submitted.

• Read Through the Assignmnet 2 Brief from Blackboard.
  

• Play around with After Effects using the content you created form Assignment 1.

• Start watching the After Effects tutorials at:

• After Effects Beginner Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ypsF-WGRgY
  

• http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/ (excellent Tutorials)

• AE Quick Tips: http://ae.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/quicktips/ (some good but fairly advanced tutorials).
  

Tasks to be Completed for Week 5 Tutorial

Submit Assignmnet 1 - 15%!
Due Week 5, 9pm Wednesday 18th August.

• Post all Assignment outputs, as specified in the Assignment 1 brief and Marking Schedule to your blog, consider blog layout for easy assessment.

• Submit good quality videos, images and Max files to emustore.
  

Week 4 Tutorial Tasks

• Catch-Up!!! Get your blogs up to date!

• Discuss your 150 word theoretical concept with your tutor, and the 7 words that you extracted from your writing, being sure to think creatively about how you arrived at your 7 words (whic form the basis for your first assignment).
  

• Show your tutor your 7 representative drawings for each of your 7 words.

• Have your tutor provide feedback on your proposed animations.
  

• Work on finalising 3D scenes for each of your 7 words that you can animate throughout the week, looking to develop footage relating to your theoretical standpoint developed in the last couple of weeks of class.

• Your tutors will help you with any tools or techniques you may want to explore in your animations.

• Assignment 1 is due at Midnight on Wenesday 18th August!

Tasks to be Completed for Week 4 Tutorial

• For each of the seven words developed around your themes of "Set" during the last tutorial, sketch with a black ink pen and a small piece of blank paper (the size of the paper should be no bigger than a quarter of an A4 piece of paper) a representative picture of the the idea and emotion of each word, and the intended animated clip. This can be viewed as a single image of a Storyboard.
  

• These can either be extremely expressive representations of your words, or an imagined scene of your intended clips. Either way, they should have elements that can be modeled in your final videos for Assignment 1, and should each be a attractive artwork within itself.
  

• Post your 7 sketched images, labeled with your chosen Words to your blogs.
  


• Using your sketched images a s a basis, start to model 7 different 3Ds Max scenes (in 7 different files) that reflect the intent of your sketches, and consider camera viewpoints. Don't worry too much about the animation at this stage, mainly concentrate on developing rich and detailed scenes first, that you can animate at a later stage.

• Bring your 7 3Ds Max files to class for next weeks tutorial, where the tutors can help you to develop and refine the animation of your scenes.

Week 3 Tutorial Tasks

• Give your blog address to your tutor.

• Have your tutor read through your 150 word post relating to an idea of set, and the readings you read throughout the week, seeking advice to refine your ideas.

• Extract 7 words, encapsulating ideas and emotions either straight from the text, or that emotively capture themes in your text, that are drawn from your written task.
  

• Continue with tutorials from the links on the BENV2402/7143 Time-Based Visualisation 'Courses on the Web' page.
  

• Experiment with animating camera paths and focus paths to start to increase the sense of motion in your videos.

• Continue to explore the the 'Animation' features of 3Ds Max, including the 'Create', 'Modify', and 'Modifier' tools available to you, as well as extending your understanding of materials by trialing different types of mapping techniques; diffuse maps, bump maps, opacity maps, etc.