For Tuesday's class

A big reminder: by Tuesday's class, you need to have two things –

1. Raw footage for your (non-post production tweaked) special effect. We'll have an hour to edit that footage into shape on Tuesday's class.

2. A storyboard (which can be stick figures) for your cloning project idea. This will help you think through the number and composition of the shots you'll need.

We'll also be starting to work our way into that "cloning" assignment. I'll want you to have your footage shot, and ready to be manipulated, by Thursday of next week. We'll have two hours of Tuesday's class to shoot footage for it.

Here are a couple of tutorials I'll show in class to lay some groundwork for the cloning project.





And here are some cloning project parameters:

1. It doesn't have to be too long. One or two minutes is plenty.

2. There must be one shot where there are at least three "clones" of the same actor in frame.

3. There must be at least one moment where two of the clones physically interact – where one visually crosses the space the other one is occupying.

4. You'll get extra points for creating an interesting scenario – some sort of "story" to frame the action. Think of this as an opportunity to create a short film, not just to do an After Effects exercise. That's the difference between the footage in the first tutorial and the second tutorial – the first is just an exercise, and the only reason you'd watch it is to learn the exercise – the second has a bit more intrinsic value, to be watched on its own terms.