Lab 8 First movie project workflow

Today I decided to record my work flow of editing short movies. (I decided to do a lot of things, but just didn't have enough enthusiasm) This time I'm going to start doing it now by archiving my past work flows. (Starting from the very first)



(1) 'The video of 0609'
Sophomore year
A short movie about my class, 0609.
Equipment - Sony handy-cam tape USB interface, Panasonic camcorder tape 1394 interface a little flashlight in front, IBM laptop 256MB RAM, Premiere Pro 2.0, Windows Movie Maker

Work flow outline - [SHOOTING and PLANNING] -> [LEARN to use Premiere Pro 2.0] -> [IMPORT in full length] -> [CUT and ORGANIZE within Premiere Pro 2.0] -> [EDIT] -> [SHOOT extra footage] -> [EDIT] -> [EXPORT]

1. Plan to have four chapters in this movie, Basketball, Learning, Music and Skateboard.
2. two Cams, two shooter. Tell them to shoot as much as they can and don't worry about wasting tapes. I shot some as well.
3. Went to hunt for a decent video-editing software. The shop-keeper recommended Premiere Pro 2.0 to me. Spent a long time installing it on my old IBM laptop.
4. Went online for video tutorials on Premiere Pro 2.0. Soon had a basic sense of want Premiere Pro 2.0 can do. During this time formulated a more solid time line for the movie.
   
5. Imported the footage via Windows Movie Maker's Capture function (I didn't know that Pr could capture footage). the footage was imported to its full length.
6. Import footage into Pr. Put the full-length clips in one huge time line. Cut out segments of good footage and rename the portion in the time line. (Weird way of organizing, huh?) Made more time lines for categorizing these scattered footage. Moved footage to different time lines.
   
7. Start editing by dragging the portions into a main time line.
8. Had some more ideas during edit and shot the extra footage.
9. Continue to edit.
10. Export. OMG that was the most painful part. It took 5 or 6 hours for a 20-minute movie to be rendered out as I recall. What's more because of my lack of professional knowledge and experience I couldn't choose the right format, codec and dimensions. So I ended up rendering 4 or 5 times.
    

Lab 实验 7 Fan Team new video teaser 翻TEAM新片预告

Just Finished this 1 min teaser.

Fan Team has decided to make a new video. And this time totally different from before!

刚刚做完这个一分钟的预告片。

翻TEAM决定再次制作短片。这次绝对和以往不同！

Lab 实验 5 Adding lights and shadows

(Weird. This picture got washed out after I uploaded it, her face should be more saturated)
P.S. problem solved - I had to export the image from Aperture first to get the best quality, or else it's just a thumbnail preview in aperture.
But still, the image is a little washed out.

Before - eyes barely visible, some red and blue on the sweater.
After - As shown - lightened her up, lens blurred the background

All subtle changes, but better than the original

LAB-1 （实验-1）

Says 'iamfreeska' on the bottom.

底下写着 - iamfreeska

Didn't do much work today, just watched some PS tutorials. 

Found an amazing piece of work, want to know how it was drawn.

Hope PS did this!

今天没做什么，就看了几个PS教学。

发现一个厉害的平面作品，真想知道是怎么话多。

希望是PS做的！

Results 成果

Photoshop CS4 (Mac),

Pen tool - option click on anchor point to clear latter direction line

Smart Object - PS reserves a copy of the original layer in order to make non-destructive editing possible

我用的是英文PS，有机会翻译术语吧。

P.S. 

Found the artist of the work. Just a paper texture. But the result is stunning! 

找到作者了。图是加了纸质滤镜。不过效果极佳！