LAB 10: Project 3 Overview / New cameras / Audio Project Review

1. Quiz Check-in: Grades higher overall
2. Blog Check-in: Please submit any missing blogs (post them on your site) by next Wednesday! They include:

• What I Hear
• MOMI Trip OR Codes & Modes Conference

Extra Credit:

• Codes & Modes Conference
• Nam June Paik Retrospective 
• DOC NYC

3. Project 3 Check-in:

• Partners?
• Narrative OR Documentary?
• Equipment?
• Actors/Extras? 
• Locations?

If narrative, you must follow the rules of continuity shooting and editing using one of the story options below:

1. A 2 - 3 person interaction
2. Moving a character through space as they complete a task
3. A chase/follow or meeting sequence 


If documentary, you must create a 2 - 3 minute portrait of a person or group, employing interviews and creative visuals.

Due NEXT WEDNESDAY via email: 
Your storyboards and story outlines/synopsis if you will be working on a narrative, or your proposal and interview questions if working on a documentary.

Media 160 Examples:
Costume Shop
It's All About the Game
Bathroom Impossible

Other Examples:
Ronnie
Nelson
Boomerang


4. Sony Alpha 3000 Overview

• Format Memory Card
• Select Manual Setting
• Select Frame Rate & Aspect Ratio

The Sony Alpha 3000 allows you to record at various frame rates and resolutions. The ones you should consider are:

1920 x 1080 @ 60 fps (TV or documentary look; can be slowed down in post to create slow motion effect)
1920 x 1080 @ 24 fps (film look)

• Set Shutter Speed
• Set ISO 
• Set Aperture (F-stop)
• Set White Balance

Synching audio: When not recording sync sound, you can sync the image from the camera with the audio from your recorder in post, by using a slate or by clapping your hands on camera. In post, you would match the frame when your hands meet with the sound of the clap from the recorded audio.

 

5. Audio Project Review

• What did you learn?
• What surprised you?
• What would you do differently?

When giving feedback, be constructive. What did you like or appreciate about the piece? What suggestions do you have? What questions would you like to ask?

LAB 9: Finish Up Audio Interviews

Your audio interviews are due by the end of lab. Please have your interviews edited and uploaded so that we can begin listening to them in the last 30 minutes of class. 

To upload your interviews, please create a Soundcloud account. When you are ready to export your interview from FCE or the program you are using, please follow these steps:

Exporting your audio project

1. Select your IN and OUT points
2. FILE > EXPORT > AUDIO TO AIFF
3. In iTUNES, Import your exported AIFF file to the library
4. CONTROL CLICK on your AIFF file in the library and CONVERT TO MP3
5. Start a Soundcloud account and upload your project to it
6. Put a link to the soundcloud file on your blog so that I can grade it

If you have any questions about your edit, I will be walking around and listening / providing feedback to your cuts.


Blog 3 is due beginning of LAB 10!