ATTENTION: OFFICIAL COURSE MATERIALS HAVE MOVED TO CANVAS!
ONLY TECHNICAL GUIDES WILL BE UPDATED FOR 2018-2019
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What's a montage?For our purposes, a montage is just a bunch of clips edited to a music track. Think about hype videos, or travelogues, or highlight reels. In narrative filmmaking, montages are often used to condense time or information. (Think the training montages in Rocky.) We'll watch a bunch during class to help you get a clear idea of the range of possibilities.
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The project explainedAs the video at the side explains, there are basically three components to this project:
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Here are four student examples that you can check out. All of these examples were made from phone video, with the exception of the NYC Montage, which was shot on a GoPro during a NYC trip.
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planning: collecting and organizing assets
The most important pre-production question for this test is "What kind of montage do you want to make?" You could organize around a theme or keep it random. You could make the tone upbeat or more contemplative--or even sad.
You have a few rules:
- Use original footage: Shoot new video--either with the AC-90 or another camera you'd like to use. You can also use old videos stored on your phone or hard drive. If you choose to go this route, all your video needs to be saved to your computer by the first edit day (date TBA, but likely by the first week of February). No vertical video, please.
- Use Creative Commons or otherwise licensed music: If you want to share your work with the world (and why wouldn't you want to share it?), use sites such as the Free Music Archive or Incompetech to find free music that's licensed for use in this sort of video production (non-commercial, educational). If you have questions about music licensing, this guide has some useful information.
- Use copyright-protected music: If you have a favorite song you want to use as a music bed, that's fine. But you should know, if that song is protected by copyright, and if you share your work with the world, you'll likely run afoul of copyright enforcement of some sort--a takedown notice, a cease-and-desist order, or sudden arrest by a copyright SWAT team. Just about every song you know is protected by copyright.
Some details about the final product:
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You need lots and lots of video shotsThis test demands LOTS of video. You'll need maybe 60 or more original and usable clips.
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Technical ObjectivesThis one is all about getting comfy using Premiere Pro, so expect to spend a bit more time in the edit than you did for your sequence project. Over the course of this project, you'll learn and practice the following:
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Technical guides
I'll be adding technical guides as needed, so be sure to check back to find what you need.
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Basic Keyframes
In this video, I'm going over how to keyframe MOTION PARAMETERS, OPACITY PARAMETERS, and EFFECT PARAMETERS. This is a very basic overview of this technique. If you're trying to access this video at school, you'll need to load www.poker.com (a blocked site), and enter your personal login credentials into the bypass. |
How to Export The video to the right will walk you though how to export in Premiere Pro. It's not the Montage project (it's a different project--something from last year), but the process is exactly the same. If you just want to see the EXPORT SETTINGS, check the image below, which is the Export Settings dialog from Premiere Pro. |
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