Thursday, November 5, 2009

November 4, 2009

The DP video students are at different stages of video production:

Ricardo logged and captured the interviews he recorded in class on Monday and started to edit them. I showed him how to use broll with an interview in FCP.

Eddie typed up a poem that his friend wrote about music as therapy.

Moe Moe digitized a couple of interviews that she recorded last week. She also imported her audio files into FCP.

Thuy finished up her storyboards and she is now finalizing her logistics worksheets.

Amy is going to shoot this weekend and she is going to bring in jpeg photos of her dog to import into FCP on Monday

Monjaro did research for his project and he plans to shoot over the weekend and digitize next Monday

Jonathan showed me his first video of 11 min. We talked about his process. He used stock photos from the internet for his first video, but I encourage everyone to create their own photos and video for their projects. He has yet to decide on his idea for his project.

Ruby received individual instruction with the DVX and boom mic from Krystal in preparation for her shoot this weekend. She is going to record interviews and digitize next Monday.

Trina finalized her shot list. She is ready to start production.

Andrea has her shot list and she was working on her script for voiceover.


November 2, 2009

We watched the first couple of minutes of Slip of the Tongue again this time paying attention to the cuts, shot duration, audio. The purpose of a second viewing was to discuss how it relates to planning your shoot using the logistics worksheet.

Moe Moe was ready to record her voice over narration so we went to the digital audio suite as a class for a recording demo. Monjaro is a DP audio graduate so he took the lead as our audio producer. We used ProTools to record .wav files that Moe Moe can import into Final Cut Pro (FCP) to use in her project.

Tips for recording your voiceover:

1. Have water handy in case you get thirsty
2. Place your script at eye level so you can face the mic directly and gaze up to read your script without moving.
3. If you make a mistake mid sentence. Stop, count to 3 and then continue from the beginning of the sentence instead of starting all over again.
4. Enunciate your words, speak clearly and slowly. There's a tendancy to read too fast.
5. Be careful when you turn the pages of your script. Pause and do it between sentences and not while you are speaking.