Stop frame final cut editing

For this session can you get your images from the front computer and add these onto your desktop, then open final cut and import your images into the software.
Place only the images on the timeline that you need, you may choose to add an effect or alter the sound with music or audio effects of your choice or off the Internet.

The final cut video will then need to be exported and then uploaded onto your blogs, then you need to write about what you did, what kit you used to do it, how well did it go, what would you do differently next time to improve it.

Then when you have done that you need to be doing research of stop frame photography on YouTube and on the web. Then you need to write about what you like about each video that you have added onto your blog.

These videos will then give you ideas for your own versions that you need to do with the digital Canon 450d cameras.

Links for Stop Frame Photography

Now we are back after half term you are now doing a new assignment about Stop Frame Photography on location. This is where you will involve people and objects within a series of still photographic images that you take on a normal digital SLR camera.
The assignment paper is on this site in full and will explain what you need to do so please read it. The photographs that you take will need to have a clear theme and be shot entirely on location.

Plan and prepare where you intend to go, make sure that you have the right person or people with you to do the shoot, and above all put some thought into the objects, outfits and props that people will use and this will make all the difference to the final images and movie that you create.

Try to be creative with the locations and get them to fit the style and theme of your shoot, do them near your home or on a day out somewhere to make them as interesting and original as possible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwX7uEiEWx4&feature=related

plus look into music videos as there are many that have been shot in this format.

Design / Learning Cycle

                       

The research that you do fits the ‘Design Cycle Model’ this is a cyclic event where continual evaluation takes place.

You may start with the ‘Design Stage’ and plan what you wish to explore based on inspirations from your research. Then the idea will enter the ‘Development Stage’ where the whole concept, theme, resources and equipment required will be considered.

The ‘Implementation Stage’ is where the actual photography will take place in a practical way. And the ‘Analysis Stage’ is where you can reflect back on how well the outcome has met the initial thoughts and ideas.

All the way through all of these stages you will be continually evaluating how well your project is evolving. This takes the form of a reflective process where you will consider what went well, what you think needs improving and what you would do differently next time. 

The areas identified can then be rectified, and so you will go round the cycle again repeating the same process hopefully in an upward spiral raising the level of your work each time.

You are also expected to compare your work against that of your research to see how well you have done and to help you final evaluate your work.

The whole point of research is to examine the images of photographers who are renowned in their own particular field or genre. The analysis or deconstruction of these images is very valuable and will enable you to add value to your own work.

The main key words you can use to identify the value from the photographs are;

Composition, Colour, Shapes, Patterns, Lines, Tonal Range, Frames, Rule of thirds, Texture, Form, Focal Point, Perspective, Scale,  Denotation, Connotation, (literal and implied meanings).