Final Day Checklist
1. Is your voice and choice broadcast on your website?
2. Is your voice and choice video on your website?
3. Fill this out if you have not: Voice and Choice Broadcast turn in form
4. Check your grade. Anything missing that you turned in? Anything that you recently turned in? Fill this out: End of the Year Work Turn-In Form
5. Put a couple 3D graphics shots on your graphics page. Stills are fine. Optional: Render an animation and post it to your site.
6. Back up your files to the server. Put your photos, movies, desktop (if everything is there...), Documents, anything you think you might need.
7. Clean up your computer and area around your computer. Untagle your wires if you can.
June 3: Animating with C4D
May 30: Build something that can be animated. A car, a robot, an airplane, a spaceship, a flower, a lamp, a spider, anything.
May 28/29: Getting started with C4D
May 7/8-10 Broadcasting
May 13: Shoot your introductions, Create a Movie Poster
May 14/15 Getting shots off the Tricaster. Start editing your show. Everyone does an edit. End with a SLAM logo animation. Remember music.
May 17: Turn in your show here: Voice and Choice Broadcast turn in form
April 1: Plan your next project on a google doc and share it with tonyfarley@slamfamily.com
Here are the instructions: Voice and Choice
Thursday March 28: Detailed plan due on Google Doc. Chart out your day to day goals and progress.
Monday April 8: Progress report: this should show the development of your idea with screenshots (Command-shift-4), sketches, best photos, or other assets. Put them all on your planning doc with explanations for what is shown.
Monday April 29th: Rough Draft of project due. We will watch the rough drafts on Tuesday/Wed. If you are using Final Cut, follow these directions for Exporting a Master File.
Monday May 6th: Final Draft is due on your website. Also, Export a Master File and put it in the Voice And Choice Final folder on the server.
Quarter 3
March 12: Editing A Podcast with Audition. Edit your podcast and turn it in to server.
March 11th. Watch this video to learn how to use Audition. Use your podcast recording and the recordings in the SLAMA/Folder of Sharing/Fast Podcast folder to edit your podcast. You will find an intro audio section and music to use.
March 4-8: Podcast recording and editing.
A good show will have music in the intro, an introduction to the show and the topic, and good sound editing throughout.
3/5 Create a graphic for your podcast:
Canva: login: slam@slamfamily.com Psswd: slamstudent
3/3-3/8 Record podcast
2/28 Screen Replacement/Corner Pin video tutorial. Track the computer shot and corner pin something on the screen. Corner Pin Instructions
2/27: AE tracking, AE Tracking Steps
2/25: Fast for Nonviolence videos
2/12-13 Finish Macbeth quote with audio, animation, title, and credits. Put it on your website.
2/7 Animating Poetry or Lyrics
2/4 Harryhousen Documentary
1/22 Effects Breakdown and Obiwan
1/15 AE Composition and Text animation
1/14: Finish your green screen shot, post it to youtube, then your website, then the forum here. Critique at least three shots that don't have three critiques already.
1/10 Shoot your own greenscreen shot. Shoot a shot of yourself or someone in your group in front of a green screen. Think of where you want to put yourself and act accordingly. Then go shoot your background shot. When you get back to class, import your video or if you shot in the studio.
1/7: VFX: Going Behind The Magic: ILM
1/8,9: Greenscreen compositing in Final Cut
Quarter 2
10/15: Spirit Week Photo Assignment
10/16: 5 shots Montage
10/22: Update website, create Video page for your video assignments.
10/23 Critique Spirit Week Photos. Composition, Focus, and Light photo assignment.
10/25 Importing from camera. Color correction with adjustment layers.
10/30 Critique Comp/Focus/Light. Next assignment: Line
11/4 Shoot Disappear Shot.
11/6 Post Disappear to your website's video page.
11/13-14 Record Autobiographical Poem: Recording a Voiceover with GarageBand. Shoot video or take pictures for your autobiographical poem. Here is how to log in to the server from the sound rooms.
11/29 New due date for autobiographical poem: 12/7
To turn it in: Export a Master File of your autobiographical poem. Put it in the autobiographical poem folder on the server. Then, upload it to youtube.
Semester Final: Your your website is your final. It must display all the work you have done so far in a professional and appealing way.
12/17 View Mr. Farley's comments about your website here.
Fill out this form if you make changes to your website or have specific assignments you want looked at.
Quarter 1
Day 1: Introductions, Pep Talk, website tour, Some videos
Day 2: Logging in, setting up your computer, and getting started with GarageBand.
Day 3: Sharing your Garage Band Song
8/20: Log in to your Google Account and posting hello message #helloslam
8/23: Turn your sound story into a Visual Story.
Sign in to your SLAMfamily google account and join one of these G+ Communities: Join SLAM21a or Join SLAM21b
8/27: Finish Sound Story (due Friday) and publish to Youtube: Visual Story.
8/28-29: Getting Started On Your Website
8/30: Character Creation
9/4-5: Photoshop Getting Started, Erasing, and Compositing.
Also, Watch five Sound Stories from the Sound Story Playlist and leave a comment on each one about the story arc or lack of one. Only comment on sound stories that have five comments or less.
9/10: Collage Project.
9/13: We will review websites and then you make the changes needed.
9/14: Quick Selection Tool and Refine Edge
9/17: Magnetic Lasso, Quickmask, Command-J, and the Filter Gallery!
9/18 and 19: Graphic Design Basics. Use the provided graphics and post to your website.
9/20: Typography with Photoshop
9/24: Intro to Illustrator, Creating and coloring shapes. Note: to create a jpeg, use File > Export > Export As.
9/25 Follow these videos to make the Pizza Logo, then use those skills to create your own logo. Post your drawing from yesterday, your pizza logo, and your own logo to your Photoshop page. Then rename the page Graphics.
9/28 Exporting a jpeg from Illustrator.
10/2: Design your Portfolio Banner.
10/4: PixelArt
10/8: Sign up for the SLAMforum, change your avatar to a picture of yourself, say hello and introduce yourself in the say hello forum.