Cinemagraph Project

Cinemagraph Project -

By combining a video with a picture, one can create a visually perplexing, yet stunning, image. Using the techniques learned in Photoshop, cinemagraphs will be graded based on two factors: aesthetics and "wow" factor.

Aesthetics will take into account landscape orientation, movement in video (must be taken from a solid surface), fluid infinite effect (loop selection key), the importance that only isolated movement(s) are moving (no movement in foreground or background).

"Wow" factor will take into account whether or not the image seems to defy reality.

Note - using a shaky video or one taken "selfie" style will immediately knock the project down one letter grade.

Cinemagraph lesson for today

PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS BEFORE STARTING!

When finished with your cinemagraph open my dropbox (option+k from desktop/finder, then "dropboxes," then "middle school," then "diedrich"). RENAME IT "YOUR PERIOD YOUR NAME" and then drag it into my folder. If you do not finish you need to take a screen shot (command + shift + 3) of the work you did in Photoshop and drop that into my dropbox. "I forgot to put it in there" will not suffice as an excuse. I need to see how far you got. Do not do put your work in my dropbox and you will get no credit for classwork today.

The assignment

You'll need to go to Google Drive and find your movie. Check the box next to the file and then go to "More" at the top and click on the arrow to open the drop down menu. Choose "download" and click on "download anyway" if it says it cannot scan for viruses. Once your movie is on your computer double click on it to open it in Quicktime. If it opens and you see Quicktime, then you can watch the video below to create your cinemagraph. You can either watch it first and then work, or work along with it as you go. 

Conferences

PLEASE KNOCK IF TIME SLOT BEFORE YOURS GOES OVER :)

iMovie premiers and HW ALERT for Cinemagraphs

Welcome back! Today is iMovie premier week. Looking forward to sharing the students' work with their classmates.

There is a HW assignment due this week. Record 20-30 seconds of quality video and upload it onto your Google drive. Key items to remember: Motion you are looking to isolate must be repetitive. Camera must be completely still! Attempting to do this holding it will cause issues. Secondly, the motion you are looking to isolate cannot have other moving things/people in the foreground or background. This will also cause issues. My suggestion is to take two or three videos of different scenes. Then you'll have options in case one or more doesn't quite work.

Here are a few samples of cinemagraphs I made.

iMovie collaboration survey

survey

iMovies due next Friday

I've been impressed with the tools and techniques students have discovered in working with iMovie. From voiceovers to cutaways, the students have made remarkable strides in their technical abilities as editors. I've also appreciated how students have sought out one another to collaborate with in sharing images/video. Very creative films!

iMovies in full swing

We've now uploaded all of our footage into iMovie and all of our pictures into iPhoto. We'll be using music from freeplaymusic.com and other similar sites to avoid copyright issues. Students were given an introduction to the basic layout/features of iMovie and then let loose. If they get stuck they are encouraged to use the tools at hand to seek out the solution.