Class 2 – February 2
Assignment 1 – Blogged Sequences Due and Discussion
Visual Narrative, the Storyboard and Sequencing
Camera Basics
Intro to Digital Imaging & Photoshop
* Lecture Notes
Screenings:
Notre Musique – Jean Luc Godard, 2004
The Haunted Castle – Georges Méliès, 1896
Birth of a Nation – D.W. Griffith, 1915
Battleship Potemkin – Sergei Eisentein, 1925
La Jetée – Chris Marker, 1963
At Land – Maya Deren, 1944
The Serpentine Dance – Lois Fuller – Lumière Brothers, 1899
Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope – Eadweard Muybridge, 1880
Eadweard Muybridge’s cinematic legacy – Eadweard Muybridge
In class Assignment: Write at least a paragraph or two about your project 1. Post to your blog by the end of class. If you have more than one idea write all of them. Scan or take photos of your in class hand drawings.
Assignment:
Read: John Berger, Ways of Seeing – Chapter 1 + Understanding a Photograph
Do: Project 1 – Sequence Stories. Imagine you are making an in-camera edited film. With a camera of your choosing shoot a story in 10-18 still frames. Describe the action in each shot. Due week 4.
Share: Upload hand drawn storyboard to your blog with your with #storyboard. Each storyboard page can have at least 4 shots but no more than 10 shots. A good average is 6 shots per page. Also upload any initial hand drawings related to this project.
What to include in a storyboard:
Camera angle, e.g. Long-shot of house exterior.
Description of the action, e.g. woman sleeps
Time of day or light conditions if relevant, e.g. morning light rays shine through hair.
Sound if relevant, e.g. birds singing in the background
Camera movement if relevant, e.g. camera pans left to right to reveal woman’s face.
***If you have your own camera, find the manual (if you lost it, find it online) and bring both the camera and its manual to class.
From Lynda.com watch Premiere Pro CC 2017 Essential Training: The Basics. Watch up to and including 4. Basic Editing