November Changes to Story

The main tweak I want to make to my project is to slow down and re-record my audio. I have already recorded about three times, but I still feel as though I need to devote more time to slowing down and re-recording a couple more times. I need to sit down and say my story until I get it right. I could also benefit from some image editing in my story. I want to download gimp and play around with that a little bit – I really liked Theresa’s demo of that on Monday. My project can certainly benefit from some image editing that you cannot do in Premiere. I can certainly enlarge some images and play with the brightness of it. But I can also add pictures of people into some of the scenes of New York that I have. This would allow me to show two worlds kind of “colliding” if you will – the world of Ellis Island and the new American age, and today’s modern age. Perhaps this would cause viewers to think about how the first one affected the other, which is what I want. If I slow down my audio, this would extend my project. I may need to look for some new images to add. I know the eagle at the end of my last draft may have not been the best thing to include. But perhaps I can add in some images of “modern America” at the end of my project, as well as some more images of the old life of first-generation immigrants. This would further show a contrast between old and new and how the old contributed to the new.

Revision Plan

I feel like there is not a large amount of major revision needed for my project. The only major thing that I really want to do is re-record my audio. I want to try to slow down a bit and have pauses that are more deliberate. I hope that through these pauses I can leave the audience some time to absorb and comprehend what I am saying. I do not want to do this too much because doing so will negate the message that my story is trying to say. I think that the way I am speaking my story now is too rushed and mumbled. Besides this, the only other thing that I want to do is fine editing. I want to fix some of the cuts to make them fit better with the words that are being said. Right now while some are good, others just need some slight fixing. I also think that I want to look for some other stock footage for certain parts of my story. The purpose of the stock footage is to provide a literal and comical translation of what I am and saying. Some of the clips that I had chosen were not as literal as I would like, especially at the moment when I say “four men on an adventure”. There are a few other spots that stick out as not fitting quite perfectly, but this one sticks out for me. Right now, there are only two men in the shot, but I want to try to find one that has four. Besides these small details that I would like to change and the re-recording of my audio, there is not much else that I think needs changed in my project.

Reflection and Rotation

Hey guys - I originally was going to show you how to make the rabbit hole image twirl in my piece but after working with it, I decided that I no longer liked the effect. So, I found this tutorial that had two key elements that I thought a lot of you might like to use.

I personally haven't implemented it yet but plan to. The two aspects are the reflection and image rotation. Enjoy!

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Hey all!

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."

Celia

https://youtu.be/hj5PuSCCXcg

Flip book tutorial

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.

Gimp/Photoshop tutorial

Hello everyone,

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