Translating Your Storyboard Into Video
Week 1: An Overview / Week 3: Framing and Composition / Week 4: Choreographing the Moving Image / Week 5: Video Editing + Compositing
After the juicy creative process of developing the ideas, then storyboard, for your video (whether adapted from the comic or not), there are 3 important pragmatic considerations for your video production:
1 – Developing a media assets list, including:
– a shotlist of specific scenes you need to record ( including video, photography and/or sound )
– a list of any graphics you need to make
– a list of any text(s) or titles you need to write, for re-compositing
2 – Developing a realistic and detailed production timeline for capturing the above list…
(see the vimeo school links from week 5, for tips about planning + shooting video)
3 – Developing a timeline for editing and post-production ( including extra compositing, colour grading, visual effects etc ).
Breaking down the technical aspects of video.
A good understanding of technical video parameters will help understand the delivery format needs of a client or project, and help debug any problems with software or hardware while exporting / rendering / delivering.
From The Programmer’s Guide To Video Systems
“We programmers also like to think of video exclusively as data in our computer memory or hard disks.
We often try to ignore the fact that video is also transmitted as an electrical (analog or digital) signal over wires, and stored on (gasp) videotape.
It turns out that if we take a moment to understand the bigger picture of video —how it is transmitted electrically, how it is displayed by TVs and monitors, and how video geeks think of it—then suddenly it becomes tremendously easier to understand where these videosyncracies come from, and to predict and handle them correctly in our video software.”
Group Research Task:
- What are some standard frame sizes?
- What are some standard frame rates?
- What’s the difference between frame based video or field based ( interlaced ) video?
- What is the difference between Picture aspect ratio and Pixel aspect ratio?
- What is a codec, and what are their strengths and weaknesses? ( eg H264 / photopjpeg / Apple ProRes / animation )
- Codec related : Which codecs include alpha channels?
- Codec related : What is a movie wrapper? What is a container format?
- What is bitrate? (And what is an optimum bitrate for a video file to be played on the web or in a gallery? )
- What is the difference between PAL + NTSC?
Editing With Premiere:
Premiere: Familiarise yourself with the interface + workflow: Lynda.com /Creative Cow.
Because of time constraints, we will focus on the minimum needed to complete your video:
– Basic importing of files.
– Basic editing with the razor tool, and moving clips on the timeline. (For more advanced editing tool tips, see Lynda.com )
– How to resize video or images.
– Using multiple layers, and blend modes.
– How to adjust, edit or overlap audio and video separately.
– How to adjust keyframes in Premiere, for fade-outs etc.
– Basic Colour grading in Premiere.
– How to apply effects in Premiere.
– How to create titles in Premiere.
– Exporting. (The above research task is especially useful with this.)
Compositing With After Effects
After Effects: Familiarise yourself with the interface + workflow: Lynda.com.
We will look at After Effects in more detail next week. For our compositing, colourisation and effects needs – we will mostly focus on these elements of the Video Co-Pilot tutorials:
- 01. Introduction
- 02. Effects
- 03. Animation
- 04. Keying & Transparency
- 08. Titles: 1 & 2
- 10. Rendering
Elsewhere:
Sky Art: Thomas Lamadieu Illustrates in the Sky Between Buildings
Artbox – a video player for art galleries.