Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Assignment for Feb 19

By the beginning of class on Monday, Feb. 19th, you should have:
1. posted your "Scrubs" video to YouTube and uploaded it to this blog.
2. watched the examples of lip syncs and commercials that i posted to this blog.
3. find 2 lip syncs or commercials of your own and post them on this blog. Using the rubric I gave you in class, critique them like I did in my examples.

On Monday, we will:
1. divide into groups and storyboard and then take turns filming our lip syncs. please bring any props that you think you might need for your video. there are no limitations except that the video must be shot on school property and can't interrupt other classes.

DK, I expect you to do everything except #1.

Friday, February 2, 2007

2 Questions:
how do you overlap sound?
Answer: drag the second part of the sound to the first and then it will touch. then let go of it and grab it again and then drag the second one over the first sound click.

How do you take one frame of the video clip and use it as a picture?
answer: go to the right hand corner and then you will see a button with a camera on it. click it and then you have a still picture.

Scrubs - Version 2



Still working on it. The video color bothers me. It seems dull.

My Version - Attempt #1

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Moviemaker Questions

To set Windows Movie Maker to play in widescreen mode you have to go to 'tools', 'options' then 'advanced' and lastly 'aspect ratio 16:9'

Two Questions:
1. How to change DVD files to edit on Moviemaker?
Answer:
• Copy the VOB files from the disc to hard drive

• Use TMPGEnc to convert the VOB files to MPG (MPEG-2 files)

• Use TMPGEnc to convert the video track of the MPG file to AVI

• Use MM2.1 to convert the audio track of the MPG file to WMA

2. How do you add sound to your clip?
Answer: import a song and drop it onto the music track in the timeline

Moviemaker Questions

To set Windows Movie Maker to play in widescreen mode you have to go to 'tools', 'options' then 'advanced' and lastly 'aspect ratio 16:9'

Two Questions:
1. How to change DVD files to edit on Moviemaker?
Answer:
• Copy the VOB files from the disc to hard drive

• Use TMPGEnc to convert the VOB files to MPG (MPEG-2 files)

• Use TMPGEnc to convert the video track of the MPG file to AVI

• Use MM2.1 to convert the audio track of the MPG file to WMA

2. How do you add sound to your clip?
Answer: import a song and drop it onto the music track in the timeline

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Homework for Wednesday

Go to: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/ and look around for 10 minutes. Look in the forum and tutorial link. Look for answers to questions you might have about the abilities of Windows Movie Maker. For instance, how do you use widescrean in moviemaker (widescrean is sometimes referred to as 16:9 or letterbox editing)? Search around, find the answer to this question and ask 2 questions of your own and give us some answers.

We'll look some of your questions and answers before we begin shooting in class.