Video Editing and Compositing
– Breaking down the technical aspects of video (will cover more in week 6).
– Introduction to editing and compositing principles
– Introduction to editing (Adobe Premiere) and compositing (Adobe After Effects ) software..
– Thinking beyond traditional cinema + TV when it comes to using video and the moving image.
Video In a Non-Cinema Setting:
Installation showreel by The Light Surgeons.
The Ice Book – a performance blending animation, puppetry, and film.
Speed of Light aka The World’s Tiniest Police Chase : Micro projections + animations customised for an office.
La Cena by VJ Suave
DFUSE – Particle Performance
VJing, Live Visuals & Creating Videos w/ Glowing Pictures.
Thinking About Editing:
Familiarise yourself with the Adobe Premiere interface and workflow with tutorials at Lynda.com /Creative Cow.
Editing rhythms – physical / emotional / event based. (from ‘Cutting Rhythms Shaping the Film Edit’, Karen Pearlman)
From ‘Cinematography, Theory and Practice: Imagemaking for Cinematographers and Directors’ by Blain Brown
Six types of cuts:
- The content cut
- The action cut
- The POV cut
- The match cut
- The conceptual cut
- The zero cut
From ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ by Walter Murch ( editor of Godfather, Apocalypse Now etc ):
“An ideal cut (for me) is the one that satisfies all the following six criteria at once:
1) it is true to the emotion of the moment;
2) it advances the story;
3) it occurs at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and “right”;
4) it acknowledges what you might call “eye-trace”-the concern with the location and move- ment of the audience’s focus of interest within the frame;
5) it respects “planarity”-the grammar of three dimensions transposed by photography to two (the questions of stage-line, etc.);
6) and it respects the three-dimensional continuity of the actual space (where people are in the room and in relation to one another).
- 1) Emotion 51%
- 2) Story 23%
- 3) Rhythm 10%
- 4) Eye-trace 7%
- 5) Two-dimensional plane of screen 5%
- 6) Three-dimensional space of action 4%
Emotion, at the top of the list, is the thing that you should try to preserve at all costs. ”
Alfred Hitchcock’s 7 minute editing master class
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (Abridged Version) Part 1
Vimeo Video School – features a well organised collection of video-making categories – including editing, lighting, shooting, software and sound.
Vimeo’s guide to Editing ( Capture / organising clips / backup / editing software overview / trimming / transitions / adding text or sound / exporting and compression guidelines ).
Vimeo: Storyboarding basics / Making A Shot List / Varying Your Shot Composition / Shooting Basics /Setting Your Editing Pace / Compression basics
Guide to Open Source Video Editing (an introduction to the key ideas, using free software. These techniques and ideas are easily transferable to other software.)
Premiere
Getting started with Keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro
another list of Premiere keyboard shortcuts
Adobe’s comprehensive list of Keyboard shortcuts for Premiere CS6
Videos:
The Light Surgeons: In Passing ( stylised blending of graphics and footage ) (In Passing – project info)
City of Hollow Mountains ( blends photos + many different types of footage with a narrated soundtrack) (project info )
Video Composition
Familiarise yourself with the Adobe After Effects interface and workflow with tutorials at Lynda.com / Video Co-Pilot.
“From Kino-Eye* to Kino-Brush”
“Partitura aims to create a new system for translating sound into visual forms. Inspired by the studies of artists such as Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oscar Fischinger and Norman McLaren, the images generated by Partitura are based on a precise and coherent system of relationships between various types of geometries.” – Quayola
Beyond traditional cinematography, digital composition enables us to utilise and explore techniques from animation and motion graphics. (See notes from Week 4 : Choreographing the Moving Image – and Motion Graphic Design, Applied History and Aesthetics, 2nd Edition By Jon Krasner )
After Effects
A concise guide to Keyboard Shortcuts for After Effects
5 Essential keyboard shortcuts in After Effects
(And the full keyboard shortcuts reference guide from Adobe… )