- Complete your 30 - 40 image storyboard!
- This MUST be completed for Week 11 tutorial (7th October), and the task will count towards your participation mark for the course.
- When creating your storyboard, consider coherent styling across the range of images, visual progression from one frame to the next and a logical ordering device (such as discreet numbering for each frame).
- Post your storyboard to your blog in a logical and clear sequence. Post high quality images, so each individual frame can be easily scrutinised. You can post each frame as an individual image or post in groups of frames, but all frames should be clear to see, and cropped well in photoshop.
- Your storyboard also comprises an element of your Assignment 3 grade, so it is in your interest to make your images visually attractive and convey a clear understanding of your narrative.
- Finalise the concept for your video, and refine your 300 word narrative, using feedback from your tutors. Ideas drawn from your article, and summarised in your 200 word review/synopsis should be evident in your narrative.
- If you haven't started to storyboard your ideas yet, start with 10 expressive images of important "moments" from your intended video. These images can be digital montages or sketches, but should be attractive images that can stand scrutiny in their own right.
- Using your 300 word narrative as a guide to help you define your "story", continue producing your 30-40 images for your final storyboard (generally one image for around every 5 seconds of intended footage). Use rough sketching and quick 3D modeling to express the feel of each frame of your storyboard, thinking about the feel of your video, and how visual language will be used to convey your ideas. Any models you create at this stage can form the basis for your refined models in your final animations.
- Consider the overall flow of your video, being sure to include a beginning, middle and end, and incorporating ideas such as suspense, excitement, interest, surprise, climax, resolution and catharsis, using camera work and scene transitions. How do you keep the audience captivated, and how do you produce an emotional involvement for the viewer using visuals?
- You can run through the Camera Tracking Tutorials using Voodoo Camera Tracker (files have been placed on emustore in the samples folder for this course.
- Revisit your 150 word theme outline, and using concepts, and ideas raised in your chosen article, expand and develop on your initial words to make it into a 300 word defining piece of writing, that clearly outlines your intended narrative.
- Consider this like a creative writing exercise.
- Begin creating an extensive storyboard for your intended animation, concentrating on beginning, middle and end, highlights and exciting moments of your narration, a climax, and resolution to your video. Also include storyboard elements for titles, scene transitions and credits.
- You should generally have a story board image for around every 5 seconds of your video, depending on the speed and complexity of the scene. So if you intend a 3 minute video, then you will need around 30 images in your story board.
- Submit all Assignment 2 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 Assignment 2, 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 Assignment 3 Brief from Blackboard.
- Think of a concept for your Final Video.
- Decide on a subject area and direction for your final video, with your tutors help.
- Write an initial 150 words outlining a theme, or visual direction for your video. This will begin the idea generation process for your final video.
- Find a minimum of one online Journal article, using Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, or similar database, that interests you, and helps inform the direction you would like your final video to follow.
- Read through your article and write a 200 word synopsis/review of your article. (If you have chosen more than one article, write a synopsis for each one.) Include a full reference on your blog.
- Create a rough visual outline, or storyboard comprising of around 10 sketchy images, that begin to define your video. You can either use physical sketches, or digital sketches (models, images, montages, etc) as your rough visual outline.
- Get feedback on your Assignment 2 progress.
- Get final assistance, suggestions or advice on your story boards or videos , or any techniques that you are interested in utilising in your projects.
- Work on pulling your concepts, footage, models images etc. into one coherent sequence, using your story boards as a guide to your music video.
- Develop skills in video editing softwares (After Effects, Adobe Premiere), to do this do relevant tutorials form the sites I have provided links to on the course blog to enhance your desired concepts and ideas.
- There are so many tutorials out there, and you will all have such different concepts, you will have to be selective in searching for tutorials that suit your needs.
- We will have one last lab session for feedback from the tutors on your music videos before submission, in week 8.
- Get feedback on your images, influential video, 150 word narrative and your rough sketched 15 image storyboard to guide you through the majority of this project over the break.
- Refine your 15 panel Storyboard for Assignment 2, to be a work of art, depicting the progression of your music video, showing any major transitions or scenes that you feel should be conveyed. Post a high quality image of your storyboard to your blog.
- Develop content in Max and After Effects for your Music Video, and piece together a close to complete draft project in Premiere, with your chosen music.
Peer Review- Peer Review two of your fellow students work. Use the peer review Marking Schedule from Blackboard, under the Assignment Briefs section.
- Peer Review the person above you and below you within your tutor group lists from the Course Blog.
- Fill out all fields and give brief constructive comments, and grade them as if they were being graded on there final submissions.
- Post images of the reviews that you do on other students to your own blogs.
