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Monday, 19 September 2011

Thursday, 17 March 2011

How to add sound to your blog

So, Blogger let's you add Video to your blog. But not sound.


So how do you do it?


Here's how to get around that problem:

1) Upload your sound file to soundcloud.com and give them your email address
2) Get the link they sent to your email
3) Click the SHARE button and copy all the EMBED CODE (select it all and press CTRL C to copy)
4) Come back to Blogger and create a new post.
5) Write your post, and then click the EDIT HTML tab at the top.
6) PASTE the code AT THE END of all the text.
7) Return to COMPOSE and you should be ready to publish your post.


Upload test by brucewayne12

Thursday, 3 March 2011

How to add screen shots of your video editing to your blog

Follow this video if you're not sure how to take screen shots of your editing and then upload it to your blog.

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Page Turn PDF - Exporting your magazine

This year we are going to upload our eMags to a website that will make them into a snazzy virtual magazine, with page turn animations.

You can upload your finished and exported PDF to http://www.axmag.com/submit.html. They will email you the link to your document when it is finished.

Here's a sample of what we're working towards:

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Horror Video Editing

Here is my example edited video.

 For the murder sequence at the end, most of the shots were only 6 frames long.
Remember, the short cuts for editing are:

i - In (open bracket)
o - Out (close bracket)
,  (comma) will insert your bracketed clip onto the timeline

Editing Glossary


Continuity Editing
This means you edit your shots together so that time moves forward in a logical way.

You can't just put the camera anywhere and edit it randomly. The audience will expect the result to make sense. 

The most obvious continuity issue is the content. For example, in shot 1 the actor picks up the phone with her right hand, then it is expected that the phone is still in his right hand in shot 2.

Sequence & Scene
Sequence
Join several shots together in some way (Ideally a logical way), you get a sequence. A sequence can be considered as a sentence and should contain a relatively complete meaning.

Scene
A scene consists of one or more sequences. Normally, all the shots in one scene are about something happened at the same location. A scene can be regarded as a paragraph.

Establishing Shot –
A type of shot (usually an extreme long shot) that shows the whole setting of the stage. It is usually used as an opening to introduce the audience the setting of where the story is taking place. In terms of editing, it is used to keep the transitions smooth.

Cut-in
instant shift from a distant framing to a closer view of some portion of the same space. It's like cutting to get a closer look.

Reverse shot 
two or more shots edited together that alternate between characters, typically in a conversation, from one perspective to another.

Eye line match
a cut where the first shot of someone looking at something is followed by a second shot of what they are presumed to see

Action match cut
 a cut where action taking place in the first shot continues in the same direction in the next shot (action seems uninterrupted)

Fade
Fade is eventually a dissolve between a normal image and a black screen. When you fade from the image to black, it’s a fade out. When dissolving from black to image, it’s called fade in. Fading out often conveys to the audience the passing of time.






Thursday, 3 February 2011

Video Shot types & angles

Here's a link to a great video of what each different shot is and an example of how it can be used