Here's the tutorial I made for some helpful tips in dealing with a video clip in Premiere, including how to easily separate the video from the audio, how to change the speed of your clip, and how to correct the color.
Hope this is helpful! And I hope you don't get as annoyed as I did with the amount of times I say "drama."
First, take screen shots of the video you would like to animate with still images
Label the images sequentially, in a way that makes sense to the viewer and will successfully animate your stills (I labeled mine 1-8)
Import them into Premiere
Add the images to your sequence
Make each clip very short (you will need to zoom in to be able to see these images better)
You can use commandR or in the menu bar, Clip>Speed/Duration to change each image duration to .07 seconds
Then, copy and paste the images backwards from image 8. So after 8 will come 7, then 6, then 5 etc. until back to image 1
After reaching image 1 at the end of the repeated sequence, you can group the images together to more easily copy and paste the entire sequence again. To do this, go to Clip>Group or commandG.
Repeat this step to copy and paste the sequence until it is at the desired length.
I think I am supposed to post an online tutorial for the workshop I'm doing tomorrow, so here is a helpful video I found. I am working with GIMP, because it is free, but the process should be extremely similar in photoshop. See you in class!
Theresa
Apparently I am also supposed to do a step by step, so here it is.
1. Open two images, one for the subject and another for the background.
2. If you want, adjust the opacity bar for the background image.
3. Right-click on background image. Go to Layer - New Layer. Choose White for the layer fill type. Now you have a transparent background image on a white background. You could make the background a color other than white using the paint bucket tool.
4. In your subject image, click on the paths tool in the toolbox.
5. Click around your subject to create a path selection. If you make a mistake, click the backspace button or drag the points into place. If you come to a difficult to select area, like hair, just make a wide path around it. We can fix this using the eraser tool later.
6. Ctrl click to connect the first dot to the last to complete your selection.
7. Right click, go to Selection, and click "From Path." The selection should turn into flashing dashes.
8. Right click - Edit - Copy
9. Go back to your background image and go to Edit - Paste as - new layer. Your subject should now appear as a new layer in front of your background. To manage which layer is on top, drag them in order in the layer window. Click on the eyeballs next to layers to make them appear/disappear.
10. Resize your subject layer if needed using the scale tool in the toolbox. If you don't want your image to be distorted, make sure you click on the chain picture in the window that pops up. Drag your subject into the size you want, and then click the "Scale" button in the pop up window.
11. Use the eraser tool to clean up any rough edges. You can use the zoom tool to zoom in, and change the size and hardness of the eraser in the toolbox window to handle small details.
12. When saving your image, make sure the file extension is compatible with Premiere, like .jpeg or .png
I really liked the POV shots that she took frm 4:40 on into her entering her uncle's house. It is simple, and yet poetic b/c it transports the viewer to her environment as if in her own mind.
I found the camera angle used to show the faces interesting. This is a cool element that I feel makes the image more personal. The images looked friendly and welcoming which added more emotion than a typical close up may. This would be interesting to incorporate into my visual translation in order to introduce a few of the characters.
I could potentially use the method of
showing a black screen while posing an important question (at time 8:46,
project title “Association” by Megumi Nakano) in my own project. I think the
use of the black screen is extremely effective in making the audience take time
to ponder the question being asked. By excluding visual representations at that
moment, the audience does not have illustrative distractions and is obliged to
only listen to the question and think about the response.
Maggie Nelson writes her
book in a very different manner than most authors. Whether or not you like the
method that she has chosen, it is impossible to say that she writes like most
other artists; she is extremely unique. She writes about her intense love for
the color blue and even more specifically, certain shades and tones of blue, on
any surface, regardless of the object. However, the setting does shape her
perception of what her love for the color means. Her style allows her to pose a
series of situations that she links together, slowly connects, and can come
back to whenever she switched from section to section. The haphazard feel of
the piece confuses the reader, but it aids to what she is trying to do – to get
you to truly understand her thought process and understand the way that she is
being confused by this color. The content serves as an extremely confusing, yet
relatable purpose. She give very specific details about the color, but allows
you to place your own characters in those that she builds. She has a single
main character, but it acts as a color, feeling, person, God-like entity, or
anything that you can imagine. Although her shifts in thought can be extremely
confusing, I think that she chose the correct method for portraying what she
wished to. There were a few specific parts that exemplify this so well. She
originally breaks the reader’s mindset by using the word “burning” in relation
to blue, while it is usually tied to red. From that moment, you begin to break
all prior ties that you had with blue and negativity or cold. At another
moment, she explains this man and his possibly fake love for her. Instead she
contemplates if this color can love you. These obscure questions make you ask
yourself about why you have certain previous notions about all objects in your
world. The last part of the piece that I would like to highlight is the passage
where she explains that many people think that we do not actually see color.
Though it confused me and made me uncertain of all that she had written, it was
my favorite part of her book thus far and I would like to continue discussing
it.
Nelson’s explanation of her
love for the color blue strongly replicates a train of thought. As you read,
you can understand her confusion about the love that she is experiencing while
also getting a sense of how she feels about the color. I do not feel that her
writing intersects her life and seems to halt it. I rather feel that she is
working out her confusion as she is writing and is also trying to understand
why she feels what she does. She uses extremely vivid words in order to explain
the way that she feels, which often go against former ties made with the color
blue. She ties in stories only when necessary, just as she would look back at them
to make a choice about something in the future. Overall, her writing style very
strongly replicates the life that I feel she lives, full of intrigue and detail,
and confusion about all that she feels.
