Open Labs - Character Animator & Premiere Pro
Topics
- Open Lab
- Submission and Marking
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1. Open Lab
This is will be the third and fourth "Open Lab" of the semester. You can combine combine these two labs together to create something "bigger" or you can do two "smaller" project. In case you are stuck for ideas, here are some suggestions:
The following ideas would count as ONE lab. You would have to complete TWO of these from the list.
- Using video footage from an open source site, create an advertisement using Premiere Pro. The length of the video should be between 15 - 30 seconds long.
Deliverables:
- YouTube link to your 15 - 30 second long advertisement
- Screen shot of your Premiere Pro Work Environment
- Your learning journal entry with a screen shot of your work environment.
Don't forget to document your learning and cite your sources
- Using found video footage (like the
stop-motion clip
provided from last week's lab materials), create an entertaining 1.5 to
3 minute long movie (or music video). If you use music that is not open-source,
you will not be able to upload your video to YouTube
(you will have to give your lab instructor a copy of the .mp4).
Deliverables:
- YouTube link of your final movie. (or the .mp4 file transfered to your lab instructor)
- Screen shot of your Premiere Pro work environment
- Your learning journal entry with a screen shot of your work environment.
Don't forget to document your learning and cite your sources
- Design your own character (from Scratch) in Character Animator and record 15-30 seconds of animation in Character Animator. The following resources might be useful:
Deliverables:
- YouTube link to your 15 - 30 second long recording of your character
- Screen shot of your Character Animator work environment
- Your learning journal entry with a screen shot of your work environment.
Don't forget to document your learning and cite your sources
- Add a background scene and a second character to your existing Character animator project. This character can be an existing puppet.
Deliverables:
- YouTube link to your 30 - 60 second long recording of your characters interacting
- Screen shot of your Character Animator work environment
- Your learning journal entry with a screen shot of your work environment.
Don't forget to document your learning and cite your sources
- Add two particles and/or physics to your Character animator project (For instance, snow and a ball bouncing around). This video may be useful:
Deliverables:
- YouTube link to your 30 - 60 second long recording of your physics
- Screen shot of your Character Animator work environment
- Your learning journal entry with a screen shot of your work environment.
Don't forget to document your learning and cite your sources
If you want to do something bigger, you can combine the two labs to create a story. If you do not have a storyline, you will lose marks. The following would count as TWO labs:
- Add a Character Animator puppet into live footage that you've collected. The idea is that this character can be an "actor" in a approximately 1 minute video.
The following might be useful to import your character into Premiere Pro with a transparent background:
Deliverables
- An entry in your learning journal (in your spark page) with a screen shot of your work environments (both Premiere Pro and Character Animator). Please indicate that this is a Lab 9 and 10 combination
- Please document your learning and cite your sources in your learning journal
- Your finished video will be uploaded to YouTube
- Create your own 1 to 1.5 minute long movie (or music video) using footage that you have collected
Deliverables
- An entry in your learning journal (in your spark page) with a screen shot of your work environment (Premiere Pro). Please indicate that this is a Lab 9 and 10 combination
- Please document your learning and cite your sources in your learning journal
- Your finished video will be uploaded to YouTube
- Create your own 1 to 1.5 minute long movie using existing footage. For instance, you might have footage from your sister's
wedding that you would like to compile into a "memory video"
Deliverables
- An entry in your learning journal (in your spark page) with a screen shot of your work environment (Premiere Pro). Please indicate that this is a Lab 9 and 10 combination
- Please document your learning and cite your sources in your learning journal
- Your finished video will be uploaded to YouTube
The above are just suggestions.
If you feel inspired to do something in Premiere Pro, Character Animator,
or After Effects, then let me know what you would like to explore.
The results of these labs, however, should be a video completed using one (or two) of these
Adobe products. Please do not be too ambitious.
The deliverable of each lab should be no more than 1 minute of video.
If you intend to do 2 or 3 minutes of final video (and it has well thought out story line), then it can
be considered as two labs .
2. Submission and Marking
2.1 Submission
An entry in your Adobe Spark Page learning journal. This page will contain weekly entries for each of the CS205 labs. The deadline is the start time of your following week's lab.
Your learning journal for this week should contain:
- A heading for Labs 9 and 10 and a brief description of what tool was used and what you did.
- Please include a screen shot of your work environment (use Command-Shift-4 and space on a mac to take a snapshot of your environment).
- A learning journal entry which might contain any or all of the following: a description of what you've learned, challenges faced, any YouTube videos or tutorials that you found useful, any credits for content that you got from "open source", and anything that you might want to remember about what you've done for the future.
Don't forget to detail what you've learned in your journal!!!