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Some possible ideas to create a performance piece

Think of something that causes a strong emotion in you such as anger, confusion or joy that most people don’t feel and figure out a way you could help an audience feel that way or at least understand better why you feel that way. Remember you are helping them emphasize you are not reporting something. […]

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Using effects in Premiere Pro

In this section we’ll learn about some of the basic effects you can run in your editing program. These include reducing shake, color correction and animating a fake zoom. Hopefully, this will give you the foundation to do other effects if needed. Reducing camera shake In this section you’ll learn how to reduce minor camera […]

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Elements of Cinematography

The Basics of Cinematography Hello everyone and welcome to the online version of this class. Your homework for our first week back is to watch all of the lectures below. Your video assignment has been updated and will be posted soon if you’ve already started working on the original assignment I gave you, you are […]

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DragonFrame Basics

Dragon Frame is a professional software used for capturing and arranging frames of animation, it’s been used on many of the animatons we saw in class and on many major motion pictures. Much like Premiere there is a lot that can be done with this program that we won’t have time to cover in this […]

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How to animate in Photoshop

Make a new layer for each frame Select Window > Timeline. Click on Create Frame Animation In the timeline menu (the small hamburger menu dorpdown in the upper right corner of the timeline pallet) Select Make Frames From Layers. Set the speed and duration of your frames. After this select convert animation to a video […]

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Shooting your own animations

Because of time and work restraints DragonFrame might not be your best bet. Below are some notes on things to think about when setting up your animation. As always if you have any questions let me know. Picking a place to shoot. Make sure you choose a place where you or your roommate won’t accidentally […]

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Adobe Audtion Resources

Here is where you will find all of your resources for Adobe Audition

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Audio project examples

Example 1 Notice how we start with some the basic sound loop which is used throughout the piece. As it progresses more sounds build. Slowly disturbing sounds are brought into transition to a more disruptive sound. The contrast between the basic loop and the disruptive sounds adds to the disruptive section of the music. Example […]

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Welcome to Time Arts

Hello, everyone. As I said in class today, in honor of all the new things that this term brings I will be trying a number of new things in this class. One of those new things is this site. Here you should be able to download the lessons and exercises you need as well as view the class notes etc.

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How to change the speed of a sound clip in Audition

Make sure you are in Multitrack mode Make sure Global Clip Stretching (the little clock icon) is enabled. Move your cursor over the little white triangle in the corner and it should change to a stop watch. Move your cursor to the left to speed up the clip and to the right to slow it […]