1) Create 60-90 seconds of footage from the New York clips found in Final Cut. Use the ovelays to create different transitions and experiment with filters and effects. Export a version of your final edit using the following settings.
2) Open up GarageBand create a new Song and name it New York Credits or something appropriate, chose the Loop template. Then drag the export MPEG4 of your edit onto the GarageBand timeline and create a soundtrack with the use of the samples. Once finished, export your music using the following process.
a) Highlight the Movie Track at the top, go to Track > Delete Track.
b) Go to Share > Export Song to Disk, tick Compress, and choose MP3 Encoder from the drop down menu.
c) Import the MP3 into your Final Cut document and place in the Audio timeline.
3) Take a screenshot of your final edit of the Final Cut document, print out, stick on to a piece of A3 and annotate. (Annotations to include, use of tools used (razor blade, selection, pen, playhead etc.) and what they do; what each window is for and how you used it; any use of overlay transitions or filters)
4) Take a screenshot of your final edit of the GarageBand document, print out, stick on to a piece of A3 and annotate. (Annotations to include, use of tools used, and what they do; what each window is for and how you used it; any use of effects or automation)
For both the above tasks make sure you have an interesting screenshot to annotate so for Final Cut have clips visible in the bin, zoom out to get as much of your timeline in and have images in the viewer and canvas. For Garageband, have the loops window and maybe the track editor function open.
5) On tumblr embed the opening credits from Panic Room (this can be found on youtube) and write down what order the credits come in - do not copy the Panic Room credits (i.e. Jodie Foster etc), I want you make note of what sort of credit comes in what order. eg
Studio:
Production company:
Main Stars:
Film title:
Co-Stars:
Casting by
Costume Designer
Music by
Film Editors
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Produce by
Written by
Directed by
6) Using the above structure create credits for your New York Sequence as if it was the opening to a film. Do this in Final Cut using the text editor in the viewer.
7) Place these credits onto your timeline and make them move across the screen and fade in and out using overlay, the pen tool, key framing and the copy/paste attributes function.
Key Frame Basics
With keyframing you're telling Final Cut when you would like 'something' to begin on your timeline and when you would like that 'something' to stop. That 'something' could be movement, a use of filter of effect.
For movement do the following steps
a) Make sure you 'selected' the clip you want to move. Also that you have Image + Wireframe selected on the canvas window and that you are zoomed out enough to see the edges of your clip.
b) Move your play head to the point in the timeline you want to start the movement, then in the canvas move your credit to its starting point (holding down shift will ensure it will move along horizontal or vertical axis).
c) Once you are happy with the clip starting point click keyframe and the wireframe on the clip should turn green.
d) Next, move the playhead to point you want the movement to stop (for here, at the end of the credit) and click Keyframe for second time.
e) Now perform the movement you want to happen in the Canvas window.
Copy and pasting attributes
Once you have created the transitions and movement your happy with on one credit, you can place these attributes onto all your other credits so they behave in exactly the same way.
a) Select the credit that you have keyframed and pen-tooled, go to Edit > Copy (Command+C).
b) Then select the credit you want to paste the attributes onto and go to Edit > Paste Attributes. A pop-up menu will appear allowing you to select which attributes you want to paste - here we're going for Opacity and Basic Motion - so make sure they are ticked.
c) Press OK.
8) Once all elements have been put in the sequence, export the sequence using the following settings: EXPORT > QUICKTIME MOVIE, and upload this onto Vimeo (see board for username and password).
9) On your blog embed your final sequence and complete the following written evaluation. Write a paragraph on the three process you have used to create the sequence.
Editing
Music Compostion
Creation and movement of credits
In each paragraph include the following
a) A description of what the aim of the process was.
b) Description of how you went about the task and what techniques you used.
c) What you felt confident in doing/what you found difficult.
Then for your final paragraph - evaluate your final sequence. What aspects did you think went well (matching of music and audio, a particular transition, the movement of credits)? What parts would do you differently and how would you improve it?
Summary
By the end of this process you have the following piece of evidence of your learning.
1 - Annotated Final Cut screenshot
2 - Annotated GarageBand screenshot
3 - A blog post with the analysis of the structure and order of conventional film credits (Panic Room)
4 - Your final sequence (footage, music, credits) uploaded onto Vimeo.
5 - A blog post with your final sequence embedded and a written evaluation of your work.