PROJECT #1: MAKING A MASHUP & PARTICIPATING IN REWRITE CULTURE 40 points DUE Sept. 14
You’ll be taking found (downloadable or ripped) visuals and
piece them together (in Adobe Premiere Pro or another editing program) to
create a cultural commentary or critique.
WAIT: YOUTUBE Resolution...can be ICKY: Youtube videos have pretty crappy resolution--there's nothing you can do about that. Adobe Premiere responds to the crappy resolution by resizing the video so that it's small--the resolution is "clearer" but your output will look like a frame within a frame. If you're using Youtube videos you need to fix that by Right Clicking on each clip of your video and selecting "Scale to Frame Size." The video clip will automatically rescale.
Your entire video project should not be longer than 1-2 minutes.
5. Export and Upload. First, make sure that your video images are all showing at "maximum" size, not a frame within a frame. Adobe Premiere automically detects when a video is poor quaiity (aka, downloaded from Youtube), and it overcompensates by importing your video smaller than full screen. To fix that, put your cursor over each edited clip in the timeline and double click on the corresponding image in program view. You will be able to grab the white handles and expand the screen size of the imported video. You'll have to do this for every clip. When you're done, you’ll want to export your movie File/Export/Media. You'll get a dialog box, "Expot Setitngs" Select Format: Quicktime, Present:NTSC DV, make sure "Export Video" and "Export Audio" are both selected, and click OK. After Adobe Media Encoder box comes up, select "Start Queu" and you'll see (be patient) that your video will convert into Quicktime. It'll save in the same place as your project. Finally, with Quicktime in hand, you're ready to upload the video to: Youtube! If you don’t have a Google/Youtube account, you’ll have to create one. Follow the “Upload” directions…very easy! This MAY take as long as 6 hours or as short as 10 minutes, depending on the time of day and the length/quality of your video.
6. Explain on the blog assignment. Post your video on the class BLOG and answer the following questions: What inspired you? How is your video a cultural critique? What are you critiquing?
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