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Lecture 10: Assignment Overview and Ideation

IS246Multimedia Information

(FILM 240, Section 4)

Prof. Marc DavisUC Berkeley SIMS

Monday and Wednesday 2:00 pm – 3:30 pmSpring 2003

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is246/s03/

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Today’s Agenda

• Review of Last Time

– Audio Production Overview

• Assignment 2

– Training Assignment Feedback

– Assignment 2 Overview

– Assignment 2 Ideation

• Action Items for Next Time

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Today’s Agenda

• Review of Last Time

– Audio Production Overview

• Assignment 2

– Training Assignment Feedback

– Assignment 2 Overview

– Assignment 2 Ideation

• Action Items for Next Time

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Audio Production

• Sound intensity decreases as the square of the distance from the sound source

• Record audio and video separately• Use headphones to monitor audio• Supercardioid microphone

– Use to focus on sound source– Use a windscreen to reduce movement noise

• Lavalier microphone– Use to record audio at a considerable distance from sound

source– Placement on subject affects recording quality

• Fishpole– Use to situate microphone close to sound source above or below

frame

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Today’s Agenda

• Review of Last Time

– Audio Production Overview

• Assignment 2

– Training Assignment Feedback

– Assignment 2 Overview

– Assignment 2 Ideation

• Action Items for Next Time

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Today’s Agenda

• Review of Last Time

– Audio Production Overview

• Assignment 2

– Training Assignment Feedback

– Assignment 2 Overview

– Assignment 2 Ideation

• Action Items for Next Time

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Assignment 2: Short Media Production

• Apply the theoretical principles learned in previous weeks to practical application

• Gain hands-on experience of the complete motion picture production cycle

• Think about how multimedia information systems could support the production, use, and reuse of motion picture content

• Improve your teamwork skills in preparation for the final projects

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Assignment 2: Milestones

• MILESTONE 1: PREPRODUCTION (DUE MARCH 3)– Paragraph with Plot Outline and Paragraph with Motivation – Annotated Storyboard– Work and Role Distribution Table– Paragraph Answering One or More of the Questions For Thought

• MILESTONE 2: PRODUCTION (DUE MARCH 12) – Rough Edit– Updated Work and Role Distribution Table– Paragraph Answering One or More of the Questions For Thought

• MILESTONE 3: POSTPRODUCTION (DUE MARCH 19)– Final Cut– Updated Work and Role Distribution Table– Paragraph Answering One or More of the Questions For Thought – 15 minute Presentation in Class

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Today’s Agenda

• Review of Last Time

– Audio Production Overview

• Assignment 2

– Training Assignment Feedback

– Assignment 2 Overview

– Assignment 2 Ideation

• Action Items for Next Time

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Assignment 2: Movie Topics

• We would like you to produce a film that functions as a message or interpersonal communication in the broadest sense. Here are a few examples:

– “A Day In The Life Of…” to send home to one’s parents– Party Invitation– Video Greeting Cards: (e.g., Birthday or Valentine’s Day

greetings)– Meeting Summary– Video Resume– Personal Ad– Learn processes: how to register, how to get into a building

• Your final film should have a length between 2:30 and 3:00 minutes. The length must not exceed 3:00 minutes.

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Assignment 2: Project Teams

• Project Team 1– Phoebe Liu, Ping Lee, Atiba Phillips, Dilan

Mahendran, Catherine Lai

• Project Team 2– Mahad Ibrahim, Robert Ritchie, Xiaolei Chen, Lisa

Wang, David Warthen

• Project Team 3– Angel Gonzalez, Risto Sarvas, Lin Jiang, Ana

Ramirez

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Assignment 2: Ideation

• Brainstorm in your group about ideas for a possible 3-minute movie (20 minutes)– You can use any of the ideas presented above or

come up with new ones– Keep in mind possible location, time, and resource

constraints for the production

• Come up with 2 or 3 ideas and present them at the end of class for discussion (10 minutes)

• You should leave the classroom with an idea for your short film and a meeting scheduled for your project team (5 minutes)

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Today’s Agenda

• Review of Last Time

– Audio Production Overview

• Assignment 2

– Training Assignment Feedback

– Assignment 2 Overview

– Assignment 2 Ideation

• Action Items for Next Time

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Assignment 2 Milestone 1

• Required– Paragraph with Plot Outline and Paragraph with Motivation

• Format: txt, MS Word, or html

– Annotated Storyboard• Format: PDF, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, MS

Word, or html

– Work and Role Distribution Table• Format: MS Excel (preferred), MS Word, or html

– Paragraph Answering One or More of the Questions For Thought

• Format: txt, MS Word, or html

• Optional– Production Plan

• Format: txt, MS Word, MS Excel, or html

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Readings for Next Week

• Wednesday 03/05 “Theory and History of Computation”– Required

• Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Ablex Publication Corp., Norword, New Jersey, 1986; pp. 83-92.

• Georges Ifrah. The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer. New York: John Wiley, 2001; pp. 272-295.

– Recommended• Danny Hillis. The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas

That Make Computers Work. Perseus Books, New York, 1999; pp. vii-59.