Week 4: 02/17/2018 – The Shoot: Cinematography, Lighting and Sound

Project 1 Due: Photo Storyboards Presentations
Printed Storyboards and Cover Shot
The Shoot: Cinematography, Lighting and Sound
Three-Point-Lighting
Lecture & Screenings
Equipment Demo: DSLRs, Exposure, Shutter Stop vs. Aperture, Frame Rate, Lighting, White Balance, Camera lenses, Focal Length, Focus, Depth of Field, Sound Recording
In Class Exercise: Intro to Premiere – Digital Organization & the Timeline
*Lecture Notes
Cameras at QC

Assignment
Read:
Walter Murch – Why Do Cuts Work?, Cut Out the Bad Bits, Most With the Least, The Rule of Six (book pages 5-20 || pdf pages 2-12)

Do:
– Continue working on Project 2 “Personal Diary”.  Create a storyboard – this can be hand drawn, prepare a shooting schedule, go out and shoot. Bring your footage and sound to class project studio next week.
-Assignment 3 – Re-edit a clip with a new look and new soundtrack. The goal is to entirely change the reading of the found footage. The clip can be your favorite commercial, music video, social media video or video from your data archives.

Share:
– Project 2 Storyboard – upload to class blog with your #name and #project2storyboard. Do not worry if you are still updating your storyboard.
-Assignment 3 – The original clip and the re-mix. Please explain your decisions and what you discovered or learned.  Upload to class blog with your #name and #assignment3 before class. Download video tool

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