Project 3

PROJECT 3

Preliminary source inspiration material(s) due March 27, 5pm.
Finished work is due April 10, 5pm.

 

For this project, please start by finding something with some text on it.

It should be a physical item in the real world (not online), and the text should not be handwritten (it should be printed by a machine of some sort). Thus, it will likely be from a mass-produced source  — e.g., a magazine ad, coupon, newspaper headline, survey request on a receipt, junk mail, advertisement, grocery bag store logo, etc., but please no books. 

Then, use the text on that physical item as the seed of an idea for a short, edited, 1 to 2 minute work.

 

Please make sure to choose something that intrigues you, enough so to inspire a short video. As with PROJECT 2, video clips should be primarily generated within AE and then edited within Premiere.

How you use your selected printed source as your inspiration is up to you. The main thing is that an element from something physical, on paper most likely, serves as the springboard for your project.

The next Tuesday that we meet (March 27th) you must come to class with the actual printed material along with a rough concept of your plan for the finished project. We will go around the room and play a little show & tell.

The most successful projects will be those that hold one’s attention and demand multiple viewings. Consider the pace you establish in the editing, the many nuances in the choices you’ll have made throughout the edit, your skill in handling content, your skill in revealing bits of important information or emotion over time.

 

Additional Imported Materials

You may or may not decide to incorporate the source material

Imagery you use in this video might be generated from a still camera, from a video, or images you draw or compose, or images from your personal collection (family, friends), or images from your physical source material that you cut out and collage, or draw over or remake in some interesting way.

For this project you are required to use a little bit of moving footage (film or video), minimum 8 seconds, that is to be .

In general, preferably you will use YOUR OWN footage or stills throughout this project. You can use found-footage or found-stills if need be, but then the appropriated footage must be re-worked both THOROUGHLY and UNIQUELY. I will judge this “appropriation criteria” pretty strictly for this project.

One restriction is that the finished work cannot involve an image of yourself, unless it is hand-drawn.

 

Requirements

  1. Total running time between 1:00 and 2:00 -ish
  2. Generate clips primarily in AE, edit the final work in Premiere
  3. Must use animated puppet pins on at least 1 layer
  4. At least 1 instance of parented layers (where the parenting is evident and necessary; ie, would be hard to do without parenting)
  5. At least 1 instance of nested comps (where the nesting is evident and necessary; ie, would be hard to do without nested comps)
  6. At least 1 instance of using the “wiggler” panel
  7. At least 8 seconds (total) of film or video footage with animated masking, similar to the butterfly wing example from the lecture. This can be all from one piece of footage or multiple footage items.