WebAudio Daily Agenda - Year 2

Monday 11/23

1. In-class demo: Flash Bone tool and Art Deco Tool
2. Continue drawing your parts for your animation

 

Thursday 11/19

1. Continue drawing your parts for your animation

 

Tuesday 11/17

1. Start drawing necessary art work for your Animation in Illustrator or Flash

 

Friday 11/13

1. Final Animatic due today as an .mov

 

Tuesday 11/10

1. Work on your animatic

 

Friday 11/6

1. In-class demo: how to slice up scans for animatic in Photoshop.
2. Start recording rough audio for animatic.
3. Using After Effects, put together animatic. Final Animatic due Friday 11/13 as an .mov

 

Wednesday 11/4

1. Due by the end of class: Draw your storyboard for your Animation. How will your Storyboard be graded? An OUTSTANDING storyboard is complete with sketches for each scene, detailed notes on titles, transitions, special effects, sound, etc. An OUTSTANDING storyboard reflects outstanding planning and organization for the visuals in the video. Blank storyboards can be downloaded and printed from here.
2. If finished early, start working on artwork for animation using Illustrator or Flash.

 

Monday 11/2

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Puppet Tools in After Effects and Flash
2. HWK: Draw your storyboard for your Animation. How will your Storyboard be graded? An OUTSTANDING storyboard is complete with sketches for each scene, detailed notes on titles, transitions, special effects, sound, etc. An OUTSTANDING storyboard reflects outstanding planning and organization for the visuals in the video. Blank storyboards can be downloaded and printed from here.

 

Thu 10/29

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Using Flash with After Effect: Space Wars continued

 

Tue 10/27

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Using Flash with After Effect: Deep Blue, Cyclist and Space Wars

 

Fri 10/24

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Chapter 2:Advanced Animations with Graphic Editor continued
2. Flash CS4 - new way of creating motion tweens - similar to After Effects

 

Wed 10/22

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Chapter 2:Advanced Animations with Graphic Editor

 

Monday 10/19

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Chapter 5: Text Animations continue
2. After Effects Brainstorming features

 

Thursday 10/15

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Chapter 5: Text Animations

 

Tuesday 10/13

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Chapter 4: Transparency

 

Friday 10/9

1. Work Day due to MVHS Homecoming

 

Wednesday 10/7

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Chapter 4: Transparency
2. Swirl effect with Illustrator and After Effects - directions.

 

Monday 10/5

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Finish Chapter 3: Layer Control.
2. New web features in Illustrator - symbols and multiple artboards

 

Thursday 10/1

1. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Chapter 3: Layer Control.

 

Tuesday 9/29

1. Overview of the rest of the quarter - Narrative Animation with After Effects and a small Flash Website
2. What can AE do? We'll watch some examples.
3. After Effects in-class demos and practice - Chapter 1: Basic Animation.

 

Friday 9/25

1. Final changes
2. Final Cut Screening - juniors are invited
3. Make sure to create an .mp4 version of the film and drop it into my Senior Drop Box for website posting
4. Check your Freestyle email for a link to the project survey. Complete the survey before Monday @ 3:30 PM

 

Wednesday 9/23

1. Adjusted schedule - make changes as needed to the film

 

Monday 9/21

1. Rouch cut screening - get feedback and make changes

 

Wednesday 9/9 - Thursday 9/17

1. Production time: get cameras and equipment and start shooting your shots based on your pre-production work
2. Get recording kits and start capturing your neede audio

 

Friday 9/4

1. Due by the end of class: Edited screenplays, location scouting report, and storyboards.
2. Come check out a recording kit to get started on recording your SFX

 

Wednesday 9/2

1. Meet in the Film Room to continue writing screenplays, location scouting, and drawing storyboards

 

Monday 8/31

1. All school discussion in the AVHS auditorium about SF MOMA Field Trip on Tuesday 9/1.
2. Meet in the Film Room to work on Fortune Cookie Joint Film/WebAudio Project
   • Film students with Mr. Florendo to learn some basics about audio manipulation
   • WebAudio students with Ms. kefauver to learn some basics about film production and film pre-production
   • In groups, start writing the screenplay

 

Thursday 8/27

1. Pro Tools plug-ins
   • Combining many tracks into one by busing to another track
   • Normalize vs Gain
   • Reverb
   • Delay
   • Bounce to Disk as .wav
   • Convert to mp3 in iTunes
2. Assignment due by the end of the class: Get one of the other PT Session RAW files. Mix it and make it sound better as best you can in a short time. Bounce out and convert to mp3. Submit the final mp3 with your name starting the file name. Also take a Grab screen shot of your MIX window that shows all the fader/pan positions and plug-ins you have used. Consider these options
   • Mix volume levels with faders
   • Use panning to mold the soundscape from left to right
   • Use reverb to mold the soundscape from front to back
   • Use plug-ins to clean up individual tracks
   • Use groups, buses

 

Tuesday 8/25

1. Pro Tools review
   • Play, Stop, Playhead, FF, RW, Solo, Mute
   • Fit tracks to window, Beginning, End
   • Preferences > Operation > Check Timeline follows...
   • Resize single track, multiple tracks
   • Main time > Mins:Secs
   • Edit Window View Selector > Inserts only
   • Ruler View Selector
   • Regions List
   • Track ListModes - Slip, Grid, Shuffle, Spot > Set to Slip
   • Tools - Trimmer, Selection, Grabber (Smart Tool), Scrubber, Pencil
   • Zoom Tools
   • Mix View vs Edit View
   • Mix View - Solo/MuteMix View - reset one fader to unity, reset multiple faders to unity
   • Mix View - reset one pan to unity, reset multiple pans to unity
   • Link Timeline and Edit Selection toggle button
   • Link Track and Edit Selection toggle button
   • Markers for Call on Me
     • Intro 0.02
     • Verse 1 0.16
     • Chorus 1 0.41
     • Verse 2 1.07
     • Chorus 2 1.32
     • Bridge 1.57
     • Guitar Solo 2.23
     • Vocal Ad Lib 2.34
     • Soli - Violins 2.48
     • Coda 3:13
2. Using Groups effectively
3. Using Equalization & Compression on other musical tracks
4. Using pans to shape sound wall from left to right

 

Friday 8/21

1. Pro ToolsReview - I/O, Configure Setup>Playback Engine>H/W Buffer Size>2048 Samples (for editing)
2. Pro Tools plug-ins: Equalization, Compression, Gates, Strip Silence

 

Wednesday 8/19

1. Welcome back and what's new
2. Organize account, create project folders, setup browsers, reset DW Remote Settings, "Get" all files.
3. Year overview for WebAudio Projects.
4. Google Docs tutorials
5. SF MOMA Permission Forms due to Mr. Florendo by Monday, 8/31 @ 5PM - download form here.