Media Film 160 – AKatz – Fall 2017

FILM/MEDIA 160 – Extra Credit Blogging Assignment : Fall 2017 The Department of Film and Media Studies and the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program (the grad program for our department) will be hosting an event coming up very soon. If you would like to attend and write a short report on what you learned, this can be used as “extra credit.” A Third World Newsreel and Aronson Awards Event Veterans Day Reframed Film Screening @ Hunter College Tuesday, November 14th ~ Recepton 6:30 PM Film Screening 7 PM Panel with veterans & flmmakers Moderated by Pam Brown - WBAI Producer, former Morning Show Host Sponsored by the IMA/MFA Program and the Department of Film & Media Studies at Hunter College THREE TOURS by Bety Yu - Three U.S. military veterans, Nicole Goodwin, Ramon Mejia and Ryan Holleran, work to heal their wounds and batle with PTSD following their deployments in Iraq. The flm follows them as they advocat...

Project #3 - Moving Through Space Storyboard due: Lab 10  (Nov 9th) Filming: Lab 11   (Nov 16th) Editing: Lab 12   (Nov 30th) Completed video due: Lab 13   (Dec 7th) Create a scene with a clear beginning, middle and end, using one actor. Your storyboard will have no more than 8-10 panels. Remember, each panel equals one shot only. The actor will move through his/her environment. You’ll include a point-of-view sequence using continuity editing. For example, you can use match cut editing, 30 degree rule, etc. There will be no dialogue or voice over. You may add music or sound effects in Premiere. You can also record ambient audio to build a background sound track. You will work with a partner, each person will submit his/her own idea. You will storyboard, shoot and edit your own video. Your partner will act in your scene. Both you and your partner will shoot both your videos on the Hunter campus, during one lab period. Each person should li...

Blog #3 - Relationships Between Shots For this assignment, you will pick a film scene (any genre) and break it down shot by shot.   Please don’t give the plot summary. This blog is about editing choices.  Describe how each shot relates to the next one by identifying editing strategies. Are the cuts continuity editing or montage editing? Example: Matched action? 180 rule?Jump cuts? Graphic matches? Eyeline matches? You can identify point-of-view shots? How are the shots organized in terms of their content, composition, color, movement? Find a short piece of media (1 minute or less) you can watch several times on YouTube or Vimeo.  If you can, please create a link in your blog to the media, or embed the clip (analyzing a piece of media allows you to reproduce it under the Fair Use aspects of Copyright Law). 250 Words Due in Lab #10

FILM/MEDIA 160 – Extra Credit Blogging Assignment: Fall 2017 The Department of Film and Media Studies and the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program (the grad program for our department) will be hosting two events coming up very soon. If you would like to attend one of these events and write a short report on what you learned, this can be used as “extra credit.” EVENT ONE: Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow/ Family Picture USA with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris Time: Monday, November 6th - 6:30pm Location: Hunter College, East 68th Street and Lexington Ave. NYC. Screening Room Hunter North 502. RSVP: imamfaassistant@gmail.com to put your name on the list. Harris's Family Pictures USA emerged from his efforts to archive African-American photography in his feature documentary Through a Lens Darkly, which explores neighborhoods and cities through the lens of family photographs and the stories residing within them though digitizing events. The show travels to different locations to co...

UPLOADING to clyp.it After exporting in premiere, head over to clyp.it Sign into you're a account, or create one. If you click on the clyp.it logo on the left hand side, an “upload” option will appear in the top middle of the page in yellow letters. Click on it. Upload your file. Give your file a name and description. Go to your profile (located in top right corner of your screen). You get there by clicking on your user name then head into “profile.” Your audio file will be on your screen now. Click on the actual name of your audio file, which will bring the file up on a page by itself. Now if you scroll down, on the bottom right, there will be an embed code. Copy this embed code. Head over to your blog. Create a new post. Go into HTML mode and paste the embed code, and then make sure to publish your post.

Project #2 - RUBRIC Here's what I'll be looking for as I grade project #2: Concept– Is there a clear and engaging story? A clear beginning, middle, and end, or other purposeful structure? Technical– Was the audio recorded clearly, using the proper zoom settings and mic placement? Editing– Did they use the tools we covered in lecture and lab? Is room tone placed under and between the interview bytes? Were sound effects (SFX) and music used effectively? Does the voice of the interviewee sit well above the music and SFX level? Team player– Was the student communicative and collaborative with their partner? Did they show up on time, prepared with questions? Did they participate enthusiastically as an interviewee? Timeliness– Was the project completed, exported, and uploaded to the blog on time? Were the correct export settings used? Workflow– The student participated in the pre-interview, there’s evidence that a list of questions were prepared, and tha...

SUGGESTED WORKFLOW FOR EDITING YOUR AUDIO PIECE 1. Listen back to the whole interview in the source monitor. Make in and out points as you go along, selecting the portions of the interview you like, and dropping each clip into a sequence called "Selects." 2. Duplicate your "Selects" sequence and re-name the new sequence "Draft #1." Use this "Draft #1" sequence to organize and trim your selected clips together to make coherent sections (with a beginning, middle and end). 3. Every time you open up premiere, duplicate this "Draft #1" sequence and give it the next sequential number, i.e. "Draft #2" and then "Draft #3" that way you are saving your edits as you go, and can always return to a previous version of your edit if you do not like what you did. This is not a hard and fast rule, but generally it is a good idea to edit out most of the "um's" and repetitive lines, making sure that the interviewe...