RISD Division of Continuing Education

Fall 2002

Moviemaking Basics with iMovie 01

Melissa St. Laurent

Homeà401-683-1380, Cellà401-862-4893

risd@gagnet.net

Class Resources: http://students.risd.edu/cestud/mlaurent/

Class 1: Introduction

Expectations – Class Format and structure, assignments, materials, grading and final project overview.

Handout distribution and camera sign-out.

Complete “Student experience Survey”

· Discuss class’s knowledge level and expectations for the course.

Basic Overview of:

o nonlinear video and its relationship with iMovie

o The DV Camera and Tapes (demo)

o CE Server and RISD Lab file management

Ideas for Movies – Types of movies, where to get ideas, what’ll work for this class. Movie screening.

In Class Project: Introduction to iMovie with “The iMovie Tutorial”

Overview of: iMovie Clip Shelf, Timeline, Monitor window, transitions, titles, and audio palettes.

Assignments: Homework assignment #1.

Reading: iMovie for Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide chapters 1-3.

Class 2: Storyboarding in iMovie

Handout distribution and camera sign-out.

Movie Planning and execution

· Types of stories/movies

· Storyboarding ideas and styles

· Using iMovie to create storyboards

· Importing JPG, GIF, BMP, PSD and PICT file import

· Importing DV footage.

· Saving Files and emptying the trash

In Class Project: “Building storyboards in iMovie” and experimenting with DV footage and complete the lesson: “The First Impression”.

Assignments: Complete the Storyboard homework assignment #2, and Begin shooting.

Reading: iMovie for Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide chapters 8 &9.

Class 3: Editing Footage

· Viewing and Previewing Clips

o Eye-View Timeline

o Clip Shelf

· Copying and pasting clips

· Cropping and Clearing footage

· Splitting Clips

· Removing clips from the timeline

· Crop Sliders

· Editing multiple clips in the timeline

· Rendering effects

In Class Project:

Reading: iMovie for Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide chapters 5 & 7.

Assignments: Shoot main video material. Bring in 3 or more CD’s as possible sound for your importing project.

Class 4: Importing Video and Sound

Video

· IEEE 1394 AKA FireWire

· Capture and View mode

· Live Capture

· Batch Capture by time code

· Renaming and Deleting footage

· Mastering the controls - Using the space bar and on-screen controls

· Individual movie clip maximum size

· QuickTime conversion and import

· Saving your project

Sound

· File Types

· Video, narration and music tracks

· The music palette

· File Import

· Audio selection readout and renaming audio files

· Turning audio tracks on and off

· Master volume and individual volume adjustment

· Fade in and out

· The sound effects collection

· Recording Narration

· Using audio crop markers

In Class Project: Importing your video footage and sound import from CD in an open lab atmosphere.

Assignments: Finish importing footage and sound. Bring in the project next class to be edited.

Reading: iMovie for Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide chapters 10-12.

Class 5: Finalizing your movie

Adding Titles and Transitions

Titles Palette

· Setting Durations and effects

· Setting direction

· Setting Color

· Over black, video, and stills

· Adding and eliminating text fields

· Previewing and updating

Transitions

· The Transitions Palette

· Types of transitions

· Setting the duration of your effect

· Processing multiple Transitions

Exporting Footage

· Exporting to the camera

· Locking and Unlocking Tapes

· Adding a Leader

· Creating QuickTime movies

· Compression formats

· Expert Movie Dialogue Box

· Optimizing Video for the web

In Class Project: further your editing techniques with your own footage. Also add transitions and set up your titles.

Assignments: See Final Project Description!

Reading: iMovie for Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide chapters 13-15.

Class 6: Final Project Screening!