Lyrics and Story

The song is We Can be Heroes by David Bowie.

Here's Bowie's original music video from 1977.

Here is the Wallflower's remake of the song from a few years ago.

Today's goals:

1. Grouping/assignments
2. Rewrite of lyrics
3. Conceptualize the story we want to tell
• Key people 
• Key Events
• Location of events
• Conflict
• Acts (are there 3 or more...what happened, and what happened next)
• Symbolism to include

Original Lyrics:

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be Heroes, just for one day

And you, you can be mean
And I, I'll ----- all the time
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, and that is that

Though nothing, will keep us together
We could steal time,
just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
What d'you say?

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing,
nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes,
just for one day

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be Heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day

I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns shot above our heads
(over our heads)
And we kissed,
as though nothing could fall
(nothing could fall)
And the shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes,
just for one day

We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be Heroes

We're nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe we're lying,
then you better not stay
But we could be safer,
just for one day

Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh,
just for one day

Music Videos

 

Soomo Publishing

Original (One Republic)

Watch a music video that promotes one of your favorite musicians (Please be sensitive to those around you, nothing inappropriate for the classroom).

With a friend, or individually, identify the production and post-production techniques you see in the video. After identifying at least 10 techniques, write about how you would approach setting up such a shot, or how you would achieve such an effect, or how you would approach the edit. Write up your findings and submit them to this folder. Make sure all names involved are included so everyone gets credit.

You will as a class make a music video (Due Oct 29th, end of class) that will be a satirical/theatrical production themed 'Heroes of the Constitution'. You will as a class (not groups but entire class):

1. Determine roles/jobs for everyone in the class
2. Understand the song "Heroes" and artist, David Bowie
3. Rewrite lyrics based on your knowledge of the heroes of the constitution
4. Create story or themes
5. Make (and keep) a schedule
6. Make a detailed storyboard
7. Design sets (real & digital)
8. Plan costumes
9. Plan for props or design props
10. Prepare/decorate studio
11. Make digital sets
12. Conduct a shoot(s) with proper lighting, camerawork
13. Review material from shoot for quality, determine reshoot needs
14. Post Produce - Create effects and edit the piece
15. Transform the original audio, remove or lower the voice track
16. Record the new voice track (singer)
17. Add foley in music appropriate to actions on screen
18. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse (and sing!)

Assessment:
Collaboration-100 possible points (10 pts per block period, 2 pts per mon)
Individual Contribution - 50 pts
Final Product (rubric based) - 50 pts

Tues Sep 24

In looking at the resulting material from your shoot, what would you improve the next time you set up a shoot?

What can you do now in editing to fix or improve any of these problems?

Is it best to fix in 'post production editing', or get it right during the shoot?

Tues. Sept 24- Animators, Perspective and 3D sets

Start here with an overview on perspective. Go through it in detail and read every bit of it. When ready you will have a discussion with Mrs. L on the rules of perspective and what you have learned (or may already know).

THEN START:

Animation Tutorials:

Animators will complete this series of tutorials to equip yourself with the knowledge necessary to build Digital Sets for the upcoming music video project.

1. Simple Digital Set-do this tutorial!
2. Simple Perspective Tutorial-look at this tutorial to see how to set up single point perspective. Try it. You do not have to decorate with materials, but set up the perspective with the lines to better understand how single point perspective works.
3. Great tut on matching perspective in a shot with the awesome Burt Monroy. Using an Independence Hall interior shot, composite a layer over the interior shot and place in perspective. What you composite over it is up to you. Be creative!
4. Watch making a perspective room using Illustrator's Perspective Tool. Please try this. Recreate the perspective and room you see in the Independence Hall photo.

HAND IN:
1. Tutorial 1 outcome as jpg file (lastname_tut1.jpg)
2. Tutorial 2 outcome as jpg file (lastname_tut2.jpg)
3. Creative solution to #3 (Lastname_tut3.jpg)
4. Creative Solution to #4 (lastname_tut4.jpg)
Hand in here

WHY (you ask)? Because you will be creating digital sets for the upcoming music video. As such, you will be working with the director/producer and camera people, lighting designers and others to figure out what the visuals for this music video will be. This will require you to most likely recreate some interiors and get the 3D correct.

A process could be:

1. Principal decision makers pre-visualize each shot/storyboard is made that is specific to camera angles, placement of actors (mise-en-scene)
2. Artists who can draw (Ryan-that's you and others), will draw what the above people are visualizing, checking in with them, making sure to visualize what they 'envision'.
3. Illustrator is used to establish the 3D perspective for the scene and serves as a template for the set. The Illustrator file is developed based on Ryan's drawings either loosely, or formally. 
4. Photoshop is used to make the corresponding walls-they will be designed FLAT, not in perspective, so imagine you are creating one big wall, with everything on it (Pictures, wall paper, insets, inset pillars, even fireplaces, windows, curtains, statues (close to the wall), etc).
5. The resulting Photoshop walls are then assembled in Illustrator using the 3D tools.

Alternates:

1. Establish the 3D plane in Blender, texture map the photoshop walls in Blender. 

2. Use Photoshop for the whole thing.

production

You will have a 15 min slot in the studio in which to shoot your piece. How will you use that time? How can you get in an out in 15 min such that all groups can finalize their shoot early enough in the process.

Scene from your IR Book

You will be making a short scene from your IR Book this week and next, while reviewing media arts concepts. Describe a scene from your IR Book in which the character reveals a deep emotional truth. What happens to the character? How is the audience informed? Is there dialog between characters?

Describe the mood of the scene. How would lighting help suggest a mood?

Where would you place characters within the scene?

How would you shoot the scene in terms of camera angles, framing and composition?

Week of Sept 15th...

Animators-please check here for your assignment this week.

Filmmakers-please check here for your assignment for this week and next


Monday Sept. 16th:
VideoMaker Magazine, The Dark Knight, Lighting Deconstructed
VideoMaker Magazine, Outdoor Lighting
VideoMaker Magazine, 3 Point Lighting

Tuesday Sept 17th:-please check out the Canon Vixia hg20 Manual (it is linked in the upper right hand corner of your shsfilm.blogspot.com. Look at the Advanced features starting on page 45. Read through this section with a camera in hand. Be prepared to use the following concepts in your next production:

1. Cinema mode (24fps)
2. Shutter and Aperture adjustments (aperture relates to depth of field)
3. Special Scene mode (and options)
4. Exposure adjustment in manual
5. Backlight correction
6. Audio monitoring

Each IR Group should check out a camera and set of lights for their IR Project for this Tues/Thur. All groups will use the same lighting/staging set up in the studio. A small group of filmmakers will set up the lights, another group will set up a dedicated camera.


Tuesday Demo FCE (approx 20 min):

1. Audio gain normalization
2. Audio fade in/out
3. Audio markers/sequence markers
4. Transitions
5. Effects

Monday, Sept 23rd: Garage Band Demo for foley effects, export to mp3

Final Cut Survey

Please take the following survey. Answer honestly so that I can see what you know, want to learn about Final Cut over the next couple of weeks.
Thanks

Survey Here

Depth of Field

http://www.izzyvideo.com/depth-of-field/

Please view the above link. After reading the entire thing (for about 5 min), work with your group to identify how will you apply depth of field concepts to your commercial work. Each person will provide 2 examples of how you will use DOF in your work on this first project.

If you do not understand the concept, or how to achieve the look, SEE ME!

Data Vis

The attached infographic (data visualization) is a result of feeding all of the words of moby dick into a software program, eliminating all 3 letter and below words, and finally displaying all the rest of the words visually. If you could feed the words of a book into a software program that would allow you to manipulate and display the words in a different way, what would you do? How would you visualize the words of a book in a single frame?

30 second commercial

How will you complete your 30 sec commercial by the end of class Thursday?

What will you do today?

What will you do Thursday?