Project 4 (final project)

PROJECT 4  (final project)

Due April 17th: CREATIVE TREATMENT
Due May 15th: FINAL VIDEO

SUMMARY

This project has 3 phases.

Phase 1. You will write up a short “treatment” based on your assigned writing prompt. This will be considered homework exercise no. 4.

Phase 2. At the green screen shoot you will work together (with others who share your writing prompt) to write/shoot/act/direct anything you want in front of the green screen. Afterwards I will combine everyone’s footage together in an online folder.

Phase 3. The most important phase! Each person, on their own, will create a short, final work. Among other material, it will incorporate any footage you want from the group pool of green screen footage. This will be considered your final project.

DETAILS

Here’s some more info on the phases above.

Phase 1 – Treatment. You are to write a one-page creative treatment based on your assigned writing prompt. I will send out the assigned writing prompts via email. You are to submit the treatment to D2L, and you are to bring your creative treatment to the green screen shoot, typed up and printed out.
https://screenwriting.io/what-is-a-treatment/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_treatment
https://www.writersstore.com/what-is-a-treatment-and-why-do-i-need-one

Phase 2 – Team green screen shoot. On the day of the shoot, you’ll form a temporary team with others who have the same writing prompt as you. You’ll have some time to discuss your various treatments, brainstorm about ways you might hybridize your treatments together, and plan what you’ll do with your team’s turn at the green screen. For example, maybe one person has a great idea that stands out from the rest, or maybe there’s a way to blend everyone’s treatment into something greater than the sum of the parts. When your team is ready, you’ll get a turn using the green screen. I’ll provide the camera and tripod. Feel free to bring props and costumes! Plan on taking between 20 and 45 minutes to get the shoot done. After the shoot I will combine the footage from all the teams and upload it to an online folder where everyone can access it.

Phase 3 – Final video. You are to make your Final Video with a duration of at least 1 minute 30 seconds. It should have at least minimal, ambient sound. You need to use at least 30 seconds of any green screen material from the pool of everyone’s footage. The source of the rest of the material is entirely up to you. You might use stills or photos, shoot more of your own video, or rely on the green screen shoot exclusively, for example. With the exception of the pooled green screen footage, you may not appropriate anyone else’s visual work, which includes free / public domain material. You can use free / public domain audio, but no commercial music.

NOTES ON THE FINAL VIDEO

This is your final edited project of the class. It should feel like a final project: Ambitious, polished, and complete. Something you’re proud of!

While the writing prompts for the green screen shoot will be assigned to you and might even guide your final project’s subject matter, feel free to deviate from that path if you think of something better.

Although they’re not explicit requirements, you’re encouraged to use as many of your newly acquired AE skills as you can (property keyframes, puppet pin tool, parenting, sub-compositions, null layers, motion sketch, looping, etc).

I’m expecting a well-edited work with raw clips generated primarily in AE and edited together in Premiere.

FINAL VIDEO TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Duration: At least 1 min 30 sec
  • Resolution: At least 1280×720
  • Edit: Should somehow have a beginning, middle, and an end! Raw clips mainly generated in AE and edited together in Premiere. Single-clip edits are not allowed; this should feel like an edited work.
  • Chroma Key: Use the Keying techniques from the Keying lecture on at least 2 different clips totaling at least 30 seconds from the pool of green screen footage
  • 3D techniques: Use at least two 3D layers, with at least one of them being animated somehow; use at least one camera that has been animated somehow; use least one light that has been set to cast shadows
  • Keyframe looping: Use at least one instance of keyframe looping using the loopIn or loopOut expressions
  • Sound: Can be ambient, simple, but done well.
  • File size: Final video should be compressed using handbrake.  (If there is a noticeable degradation in quality contact me ahead of time to figure out a solution.)
  • HAVE FUN!