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Team: Daniel, Stephen, Gabriele

Class notes- Must remember to keep all files in one place so that Premier knows where to find them- transferring them once they’ve been used in premier means that premier won’t be able to shortcut to them.

After opening-

make sure it’s saving to the correct place

HDV 1080p25

Import your pictures from folder- it is possible to organise this in premier but might also be good to organise images before entering them into Premier.

2-3 frames/second

edit-preferences-general, 1 sec 10 frames

to change the timing of many frames at a time, select multiple frames and right click- brings up the option speed/duration. Select ripple edit, shifting trailing to ensure that frames squash together correctly.

Cross dissolve fades one image to the next, click, drag and drop effect the effect on to the frame you want it to change. Transitions are editable once dropped onto the frames, length of time that they run can be changed

If you want sound from a youtube video and not the video, import the MP4 file into premier, and then hide the video layer, keeping only the sound. Sound file can be cut and edited.

You can import a video and export frames from within it for use in stop motion video

to create title go to Title menu- new title (roll, still crawl) and where you can play with different types of text to create your title and credits.

Exporting your Premiere file as an .AVI or .MP4 file:

Select heading menu: File-Export-Media

Choose file type .MP4-(.AVI for youtube) select bottom preset and ensure all other ‘Match Sequence Settings’ options are ticked, then click export.

These are our story board.

After making story structure, I made story board, I just draw and write letters on a4 blank paper. And I made 12 pieces of story board.

Making story board was a quite attractive process. (I really enjoyed this job!).

Self-portrait gif reflections.

I chose the photos of me with a pelican because I spend several weeks each year in mid-summer and mid-winter in the Coorong working on birds. I’ve been going to the Coorong since 1984 when Mum and Dad took me on a research trip at the age of one.

This young pelican took off from the breeding island on a really windy day in January this year and got blown about a kilometre before it fell down in the middle of the highway right in front of the car I was driving. We picked it up, gave it some fish and drove it back up to the shoreline near the island and released it. The wind had dropped and it flew back to find it’s parents on the breeding island.

The words ‘Freedom is mine…’ reflect both the pelican’s story but also the fact that at the beginning of the year I stopped working full-time to come to art school and that I feel a great sense of freedom now.

I had never tried to generate a gif before this class. I was amazed at how easily it could be done using Photoshop. It was quite simple if you started with all the layers you wanted included and then generated the animation. It got a little more confusing when you started trying to modify and add in new layers. Objects started popping up on various frames of the animation when you didn’t want them too and then when you turned them off sometimes you lost them from the frames which you did want them in. I also tried resizing the pelican (making it smaller) as it moved into the distance – this created some unusual ghosting in the animation sequence.

Photoshop is such a great program for image manipulation. In the creation of the layers for this  animation I used;  free transform to create a simple background layer, the select and erase tools to cut out my figure and the pelican and the transform (scale) tool to make the pelican smaller.