Shooting the Video Vocabulary

 CM412 Students will be "shooting the vocabulary" - that is to say, shooting original video illustrating a number of shots used in video production, ranging from the EWS (Extremely Wide Shot) to the ECU (Extreme Close-up), as well as a few B-roll shots like the Noddy Shot, Cut-in, etc.

(Examples can be found here!) 

Students will also add samples of the four basic camera movements: Pan, Tilt, Zoom, and Dolly/Truck.  (See Pan, Tilt, Dolly, Zooming)

Students will then make a "Video Vocabulary Examples" video with titling, music, etc. to illustrate all the techniques and shots. Students will embed their videos in to a blog entry with reflection and discussion of their projects.

Making Movies: Editing with Premiere Pro

Students will use Premiere Pro (and provided video, audio and photos) to recreate the 25-second introduction to a fictitious documentary called "Baseball: America's Pasttime."

 In doing so, students will demonstrate their learning of the program interface, importing collateral, using photos, layers, timeline, transitions, effects, editing clips before and after insertion to the timeline, titling, the Ken Burns effect, and exporting to various video formats (in this case, a format suitable for YouTube.)

They will upload their videos to YouTube and embed them in their blogs with additional prose commentary on the process.

Here is the sample video I hastily edited:

Some of the tasks I completed while making this clip:

• cutting a video clip into two segments
• dropping in a music clip for background
• shortening a music clip
• "fading out" a music clip
• adding title
• adding photos and resizing photos for frame
• fading in - and out - title
• fading in photos
• cross-fading between photos
• "Ken Burns" Effect - rough cut - on still photos
• fading video to black
• and more...

Adobe has some helpful links to instructions and video tutorials to help you get started HERE.

A good YouTube tutorial of the "Ken Burns Effect"

(In follow-up projects, students will create a sample of camera shots, and a brief tutorial on tips to make video better.)

RESOURCES: 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/w7rfkzx02atyv4j/AACAbYnAKPpWjvkloJoUqhMea?dl=0