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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
For TUESDAY (4/20)
A reminder that for Tuesday, you should come armed with an idea for a location you want to create in After Effects, and an exercise move for Payton to perform.
And if you're Payton, remember: costumes, costumes, costumes!
And if you're Payton, remember: costumes, costumes, costumes!
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Thursday (4/9) Class
Hello there everyone. I have to miss class today because of an out-of-town appointment – but here's what is on the agenda today. At the start of class, Payton's going to play the movie "Hero" – I think it's a good example of a film that uses special-effects enhanced stunts. There is a combination of wirework and digital manipulation that gives each scene a distinct emotion and visual feel. All the effects really serve a strong storytelling purpose – I hope you enjoy the movie as much as I do. At any rate, it's way less gross than "The Fly."
After watching the film, I want you to write a brief one-to-two page response to the film. I want you to choose one scene to specifically focus on, and I'd like you to describe the use of special effects in the scene (so, obviously, pick a scene that relies on effects). Answer these questions:
How do you think the effects were achieved?
How did the effects serve the sense of story, or serve to illustrate the thoughts and feelings of the characters?
Also, beyond the use of special effects, I want you to pick out at least one shot in the scene, and describe that shot, and the visual choices that went in to filming the shot. How did elements like composition, camera movement, and color contribute to the way the shot communicated its message? Feel free to expand on editing choices as well.
So part of this requires you to look at the film with an aware, critical eye. Hopefully the exercise of having filmed a few short videos will help you think more critically about the choices the director and cinematographer made in setting up and executing their shots.
I'd like you to print out your one-to-two page response, and bring it in at the start of Tuesday's class. We'll discuss the film then. You can also use the remainder of today's class to continue to edit your flying video. See you next week, and have a great weekend.
After watching the film, I want you to write a brief one-to-two page response to the film. I want you to choose one scene to specifically focus on, and I'd like you to describe the use of special effects in the scene (so, obviously, pick a scene that relies on effects). Answer these questions:
How do you think the effects were achieved?
How did the effects serve the sense of story, or serve to illustrate the thoughts and feelings of the characters?
Also, beyond the use of special effects, I want you to pick out at least one shot in the scene, and describe that shot, and the visual choices that went in to filming the shot. How did elements like composition, camera movement, and color contribute to the way the shot communicated its message? Feel free to expand on editing choices as well.
So part of this requires you to look at the film with an aware, critical eye. Hopefully the exercise of having filmed a few short videos will help you think more critically about the choices the director and cinematographer made in setting up and executing their shots.
I'd like you to print out your one-to-two page response, and bring it in at the start of Tuesday's class. We'll discuss the film then. You can also use the remainder of today's class to continue to edit your flying video. See you next week, and have a great weekend.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
a fine example
Terry Crews and After Effects:
Terry Crews.....This Guy Is Hilarious
Posted by Gerardo Gabriel on Saturday, April 4, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Flying "Cheat Sheet"
Marking a point in the timeline:
Pull marker icon from far right of timeline (just above the top layer), or move the playhead to where you want the marker and hit *. To edit the marker label, doubleclick the marker and a dialogue window will show up.
To duplicate your layer, select it and hit command-D.
To cut the footage in the layer, hit alt-]. (alt-[ will cut footage at the at the start of the playhead).
To freeze-frame your footage, right-click on the layer, and in the new menu go Time > Freeze Frame. (It's a little confusing in the tutorial, bur he's freezing the second layer from the top, and then cutting the topmost, unfrozen layer at the point where he want time to freeze on that second layer).
Mask out your actor on the frozen layer.
"Soloing" a layer - if you click the box below the circle (next to the microphone icon) on a layer, it will hide all non-solo layers.
To change the position of your masked actor - select your masked layer, and hit "P" to reveal the position values (rotation might be relevant too, if the actor is spinning as well).
The "hitch" on the jump initially in the tutorial is caused by the moving footage essentially repeating the frame that's frozen in the frozen layer - so he cuts the moving footage back by a frame.
For the blur effect, you can right-click on the layer (or alternately go to the "Effects" menu) and keyframe some blur options.
The video copilot action essentials toolkit is here:
For the rain effect – Layer > New Solid (or Command+Y).
On that layer, Simulation > CC Rain
To blend it with the other layer, he toggled switches/modes (there is a button below the layers that allows this - otherwise, hit F4). Then he chose "screen" as a blending mode.
Colorista, which he used for color correction:
How to do a camera shake:
Set two keyframes in the Position property of your footage layer, select them, go to:
Window: Wiggler
Adjust the parameters there, and apply.
Tutorial here:
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