Today’s plan:
- Review Work List #1
- Schroeppel Activity
- For Next Class
Work List #1: Intro Video Assignment
Our first worklist project serves as a vehicle for learning Adobe Premiere’s fundamental functions. I’d like you to show us something you can do. This video will be due Monday, September 9th at midnight.
We will work out the exact requirements for this video after we have read the two Schroeppel chapters.
I want to present a relay for inspiration. Think of this video as introducing yourself as if you were a character in a movie. Be creative in your shots and sequences. This is meant as a “relay,” an inventive technique that asks you to invent something while thinking about something else. It isn’t necessarily a direct imitation, more like a spirit of innovation, what I and others have written about as “choric” invention.
Pinsky on inspiration.
Schroeppel Reading
First, let’s review the criteria from Stockwell thatI shared on the first day of class:
- Rule of thirds
- shots should be 10 seconds or less
- Whites of their eyes (faces)
- Light behind the camera, not behind the subject
- Keep the camera still, don’t shoot and move
Let’s quickly review what Schroeppel’s chapter on Composition adds:
- Balance / Leading Looks / Head Room / Lead Room
- Balance / Masses
- Balance / Colors, Brightness
- Angles / Depth and Value
- Framing
- Leading Lines
- Backgrounds
This stuff can be harder than it seems.
Schroeppel Activity
Working in pairs, I would like you to go out and take 7 photographs that illustrate these principles in action. Assemble them into a quick Google Slides presentation (just do blank slides and set these images as the background). Put a shareable link in the Canvas discussion.
When you get back, make a copy of this presentation template (MAKE. A. COPY). Put in your photos (either share the Google Slides with you partner’s gmail address or send her your photos). Submit it as a group to Canvas.
For Next Class
Read Schroeppel Chapter 3, basic sequence.
Bring your Adobe Premiere Book to class–we will do the lesson #5 together in class on Thursday.
