Project 4: short captioned Video displayed in Flash FLV
50 points of course grade
Learning Goals of Project:
- Learn how to design and develop an exciting web site using multimedia:
Apply Web site design concepts to your own site
- Special issues in web development using video, and other graphics, animation, and audio.
- The use of web usability, accessibility, and human-centered design concepts to increase the usefulness, attractiveness, accessibility, and ease of use
- Explain what you did to build your multimedia files so that others may learn new techniques
- Explain what you did to build your multimedia files so that others may learn new techniques
- Fully develop the content for your site and integrate it so that it all works together!
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Web site Project 4 has 2 main elements:
1. Multimedia Web Site (10 points)
- work on design issues
- validation of all pages
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2. Movie (40 points)
This movie should tell some kind of story that is consistent
with your Web site. Originality will be rewarded!
A 30-day trail version of Premiere CS4 is available from the Adobe website.
Your movie should tell a story -- have a beginning, middle and end
- Make it exciting! interesting!
- Movie needs to be related to the topic of your web site
Develop movie from video clips
- Video cameras are available for checkout in Studio 6
- Digitize video clips from a VHS videotape, video camera, etc., on video workstation in HP IWD lab or in Studio 6
- use video clips from other sources (web, CD collections, etc.)
- Workstation needs special setup for video capture-- get help from Dr. Soe during her office hours or between 5 & 6 PM MW (ask ahead to be sure help is available then)
- import video clips into Premiere
OR Put together a movie from individual photos transferred from Photoshop into Premiere
- use transitions to move from one photo to next
- use filters to pan across photo to make it appear to move
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Use Audio appropriate to movie topic
- use audio that comes with video
- import audio clips (WAV or AIF) that you find on web, or CD collections
- Convert audio from other music formats via a Ripper (links to rippers on downloads page and information about converting and compressing audio files on Professor David Grasmick's Web Audio site
- Mix audio clips (fade one in and one out)
- Use audio filters to change audio sounds -- experiment
- Use the audio program on your computer to record your own voice, and/or other music.
- Edit video and audio clips in Adobe Premiere.
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Titles: Movies must have titles -- Minimum at beginning, middle, and ending of your video
- Use titles to introduce topic of movie and to let audience know what is about to happen (set expectations)
- You can relay a lot of information about your movie's "story" with titles
Premiere/Flash short video
- File>Export>Adobe Media Encoder to open a dialog box that will allow you to export your movie as:
- loaded into a SWF (AS3) movie
- closed captioning with XML file listing frame positions and text to display
- NOTE: IE has a built-in XML parser which displays well-formed XML, but in Firefox, you have to view source to see the XML template
Explanations:
- Be sure to explain how you created your movie on the movie home page where you call up the movie file.
- Include a detailed explanation of what you did, what technology you used, etc., on that home page.
- Compare quality and sizes of both types of compression and compression levels
- Which type of compression gives the best result at low and high compression levels?
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