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).

Edmodo system and Photography

                               

The session today is fully explained on the lesson plans for photography tab on this website.


The following web link will be used for this session


http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackstar/sets/72157626117942754/detail/

Basically we will be using the images that you have taken over the last few sessions in the photography studio and that you had added to your Blogger websites.
These images can also be selected and uploaded to your Edmodo accounts that we are using within this group.
The Edmodo system as you know is very similar to Facebook but secure and safe to use within the college, and will make the documentation of what you do within each session quicker to do.

During the session students will take photographs of sections of each other as per the example above. And then the images will be put through Lightroom to edit them quickly as a group.

The images that you have taken will be selected from the Lightroom software and uploaded into Edmodo. Lightroom software is only currently available on the studio computer as it can directly import and export studio images very quickly from a large groups work.

Todays class

In this session you are required to round up all the images from the studio shoot you did on tuesday. The images need to go onto your blogs and written work needs to support these images.

Compare and contrast what you have done against images from research, if you haven't done that then carry on and do more research of other portrait photographers and add their images onto your blog.

Also you need to make sure that you are adding videos from Youtube that show these photographers at work or a documentary about them etc...

Also the amount of written work you do for images still applies to videos, don't just add videos in without and written work outlining your thoughts and ideas.

Studio Portraits in response to Research

This session is all about putting into practice what we have covered over the last few weeks, you should know how to use the lights and what attachments are available to you.

Research an image from the internet and get it onto the screen in the studio, together we will go through how the lighting is put together, but mainly it will be down to you to position the correct lighting and attachments in order to get close to the research photograph.

I will help to move the pantographs into position as the mechanism is prone to trap fingers so be careful and ask me to move the lighting. Also I will alter the lighting attachments for you as the flash tubes and bulbs can be very hot.

The photography this session will look at the variables that exist between one type of light and another in respect to the variety of different lighting attachments that can be used in the photography studio.
I will take on an observing role and will help you only if you require it, you must take the lead within this session.