Welcome to MDCM3002 Video Production!
This is where we’ll be posting course notes, links, discussions, works-in-progress, final videos and all kinds of other stuff that will help you in your learning experience.
The course outline is available here
Archive for the 'Workshops' Category
There are countless resources on the web to help learn all aspects of digital video production. This is a list of sites I have found most useful;
- Creative Cow Forums is a great resource for just about all the major digital video and animation/motion graphics packages out there. Includes online forums and loads of tutorial material as well. This should be your first port of call. http://forums.creativecow.net/
- Video Copilot contains some of the best aftereffects tutorials online and free! http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials
- Loads of afterEffects tutorials on Pixel2Life
- A general vfx site – fxForums – vfx, mograph, and production discussions
- Squidoo is a graphics design oriented learning resource.
- Motionographer has an up to date list of the current hot production houses and individuals working in motion graphics
- Digitalzoo is a good collection of general resource. links
This list will gradually be added to.
Mat is posting some great stuff as usual over at the mdcm2002 blog and he’s remimnded me of Ken Stone’s great finalCut site and especially this useful article on the language of film by Michael Wohl.
Setting Up a Project in Final Cut 6
This is a good outline of how to set up your project correctly in Final Cut. Just remember to substitute PAL formats where ever NTSC is used.
A new exhibition I’m showing in at the Macquarie University Art Gallery;
Dates: From Thursday 24 September to Wednesday 11 November 2009
Curators: Rhonda Davis & John Potts
Artists:
Effy Alexakis
Fabian Astore
Liam Benson
Drew Bickford
Stephen Birch
Andrew Browne
Penny Byrne
Matt Coyle
Mark Davis
Christopher Hanrahan
Louise Hearman
Sam Leach
Alasdair Macintyre
VR Morrison
Alex Proyas
Scanner
Darren Sylvester
Tim Silver
Jelena Telencki
Monika Tichacek
Pete Volich
Drew Bickford
Stephen Birch
Andrew Browne
Penny Byrne
Matt Coyle
Mark Davis
Christopher Hanrahan
Louise Hearman
Sam Leach
Alasdair Macintyre
VR Morrison
Alex Proyas
Scanner
Darren Sylvester
Tim Silver
Jelena Telencki
Monika Tichacek
Pete Volich
Horror, Come Darkness explores the genre of horror as an emotional state for its encapsulating effects of fear, suspense and the irrational – where the manifestation of darkness can transform reality into the threatening, the unfamiliar, the unknown and the unknowable. Tormented creatures, monsters, spectral beings, the living dead camouflaged within nocturnal landscapes all recall an indeterminate evil that looms just under the surface of existence.
Horror, Come Darkness will feature contemporary artists using cinematic effects, literary sources and technological visualisation, painting, stills, installation, and video and sound devices, for effecting the simulation of horror.
Linked to popular culture, horror has become – for many – the ultimate adrenalin rush. Inducing mind-altering states, the spectacle of horror manifests itself as a means of escapism from the everyday.
Horror, Come Darkness will create a psychological drama with a number of works that encompass theatrical atmospheric lighting and sound effects – a world inhabited by the detritus, lonely bushland, marshes, tunnels, chambers, isolated highways, graveyards, abandoned buildings, immersing the spectator from within.
In this 2 minute video tip, check out how to use After Effects’ Leave Color effect to create the look where you footage is made black and white, leaving only a single color, made popular by the film Pleasantville. http://www.motionworks.com.au/2008/04/leave_color/
Here’s a great little collection of video tutorials on youTube covering basic techniques in FinalCut Pro
Here are some more online afterEffects tutorials, these are at an intermediate level and well worth going through;
1. Video wall: This tutorial covers how to create a video wall but the techniques covered will help you learn about using the “camera” layer and 3D space we looked at this week. Download the AE composition. You will need to download the Trapcode Shine plug-in to complete the tutorial. Trapcode make a great set of pug-ins so you might want to check them out, especially Particular.
2. Creating light streaks: light streaks as per iPod commercials also using Particular. Download the AE composition.
3. I’ve also placed the materials for the motion tracking example we worked through in class this week in the Media_Stu/mdcm3002_09/video folder so have a go and see if you can make sense of the techniques we covered.
Alyssa has posted instructions for handing in your proposals this Thursday. Details are @ http://mdcm3002.newsouthblogs.org/2009/04/03/handing-in-your-project-proposal/
The only variation to this for our classes is that rather than handing in a printed version, I would prefer everyone hand in a CD containing the PDF of your proposal plus any media files you are submitting as supporting test material.
Also a guide of what to include in your proposals http://mdcm3002.newsouthblogs.org/2009/03/23/project-proposal-guide/
I mentioned in class that your story board doesn’t have to be done by sketches, you could use photo stills or mock up stills done in photoshop.
Whilst a script is not necessary as part of the proposal it can be attached as an appendix if you have one. Funding bodies will not read anything they don’t have to but if your idea is strong enough then its always good to show you have done the work to back it up.
