• Understand basic concepts of editing
• Practice seamless editing and transitioning
• Develop temporal design through pacing and rhythm
• Focus on audio and video sync
• Create a meaning/mood/message that reflects song
• Enhance the meaning/mood with After Effects: try adding effects, alpha or luma mattes, blending modes, rotoscoping, rotobrushing, tracking, creating split screens, and/or compositing other assets or animations…

Pre-Production (6pts)

• posted chosen music & video clips
• brainstorm results & rough outline

Exercise (25pts)

• innovative concept & narrative arc (reflect music & beginning/mid/end)
• enhance meaning/mood with After Effects (innovation & quality) 
• temporal design (audio/video sync, pacing, rhythm)
• transitions (match cuts, cut-on-action, invisible cuts, jump cuts, dissolves…)
• composition/design aspects (framing, balance, color, contrast, blending modes, type, supporting graphics, consistency/variety…)

Last Year’s Student Examples

• Growing Up Too Fast
• Travelin
• Air Travel
• Family Vacation
• Rage Fear Love

Student Music Videos (with found footage)

• Futurenature – short music video w/ some voiceover/sound effects and cool compositing
• In Time – music video with color matte effects
• Pinky Promises editing example
• You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire – editing example

Student Spoken Words (with public domain footage and fun AE compositing)

• All Seeing Eye
• Alan Watts
• I, Eye
• Real Science for Real People
• Out to Sea On An Automobile

Student Spoken Words (with newer or original footage and AE compositing)

• Worth
• New Dimensions in Sound
• Oil
• Emotion
• There is a Light
• Michelle Obama

Professional Music Video Examples (with found footage)

• Bonobo
• Ratatat
• Boards of Canada
• The Chemical Brothers
• Beirut
• Cassius
• Coldplay
• Tame Impala (unofficial)

Length: 30-45 seconds.

Size: 1920x1080px (you will need to proportionally scale and crop your found videos to fit this aspect ratio, and consider adjusting Brightness/Contrast or Levels in Video Filters under Image Control to improve image quality)

Content: Found footage from Prelinger Archives. Must edit – don’t just use their edits. Enhance the video in After Effects: try using effects, alpha or luma mattes, blending modes, rotoscoping, rotobrushing, tracking, split screens, or compositing other assets or animations…

Audio: 1 copyright-free or original song by you or someone you know with permission. I am open to choosing spoken word as well and/or sound effects. You cannot use the original audio with the videos you collect. Credit the music artist in your description area on YouTube or Vimeo! 

Tools and File Type: Premiere Pro, After Effects, and H.264 mp4

11.4 – Project assigned.
For next class:

• Link to chosen music
• Brainstorming concept:
  • What is the tone of the song?
  • The message or meaning?
  • What imagery comes to mind?
  • What narrative or message do you want to send?
  • What approach do you want to take? – image-association – collision or comparison montage, analytical sequential montage, motif, jump cuts, match cuts…?
• Rough outline instead of storyboard
• Link to Prelinger Archive chosen clips

11.9 – In class: Look at song choices, brainstorm results, rough outline, and clip choices

11.11 – No Class

11.13 – Saturday by 5pm– Show halfway progress on Exercise7 Slack Channel. Comment on at least 3 other classmates’ posts. Prioritize commenting on ones that don’t yet have comments. This goes towards your participation grade in this course.

11.16 – Exercise 7 due.

• Upload final Exercise 7 mp4 to Vimeo or YouTube and link to Exercise7 Slack Channel.
  • 1920x1080px (remember you will need to resize your downloaded found footage clips to fit this size while you are working on the video)
  • .mp4 file format
  • 30-45 seconds 

Preproduction work during project:

• Post chosen song, chosen clips, brainstorm results, rough outline to Exercise7 Slack Channel.