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Video Shooting Tips

Camera setup Using a tripod should be the default way to shoot. Only shoot handheld if there is a justified reason for it. Focus manually. Autofocus can cause problems that you might not be aware of until after the shoot. Remember the camera’s microphones are not that great, use another audio recorder like the Zooms Tripod

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Connections

In the next few classes, we will be talking about change and juxtaposition and how they affect the structure of a piece of time based art. Lev Kuleshov was a member of the early soviet filmmakers who believed the editing or piecing together of film to be the most important factor in how an audience reads a film.

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Pudovkin’s 5 Editing Techniques

<iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/76513972″ width=”100%” frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/76513972″>Pudovkin&#039;s 5 Editing Techniques</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/evanerichards”>Evan Richards</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

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Performance homework

Hello everyone, Just a quick reminder that I want you to think about a couple of things for our group performance. Think of a location nearby that we can get to and come back from during the class. Also, keep the weather in mind. Think of some ideas for a group performance – check out http://improveverywhere.com/ […]

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A little app to help with image sequences

If you shot your footage at home on your still camera and you’re going to import the footage into Premiere Pro as an image sequence, I’ve made a little script to help you out.

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Sound Exploder Listening

Sound exploder is a podcast that takes you track by track through some contemporary songs. In this episode we learn how the theme to Bob’s Burgers was created.

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A list of the videos we watched last class

Hello all, last class we talked about some of the elements of narrative structure. Below you’ll see a list of the videos we watched in class.

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Some videos from today

As promised in today’s lecture here are some links to the videos I talked about or played. You might also want to try the silk – milk thing out on your friends.

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Please take this test

Help an alumni, who is doing her graduate work at MIT, fine tune her personality algorithm.

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Personality Test

Before you go today, I’d like for you to take the personality test linked below. It will give me a better idea of the class as a whole. It’s anonymous so please be honest with your answers. Take the personality test by clicking here. Thanks and I’ll see you next class.