Gunsmoke

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B648BUKwsfL2NTljMTU3MWEtMTlhYS00MWUwLTk0MWYtNWJkMjUzMzQ2ODVh&hl=en

This is my final project in Final Cut Pro. I got the dailies of a fight scene in the old show Gunsmoke and edited them to make a straight sequence. My overall concept for editing the sequence was to make it as believable and continuous as possible. There were a number of different shots of the entire fight, so there was definitely a lot of material to choose from. I ended up using the entire longshot of the fight, with close-ups of certain moments to enhance the drama. I used primarily straight cuts (with one wipe transition), so I made sure to time the cuts on an action (like a punch or a fall), so the continuous nature of the scene was clear. I also added sound effects (like slaps and punches) that I found on freesound.org. Making the timing of these sound effects accurate was difficult, but I used the frame-by-frame arrow keys and markers in order to make a very specific placement of the sound. At the end I added titles, with text superimposed over the final shot. To polish off the movie, I found a old-timey news music clip from the stock selections in GarageBand to end with a heroic feeling. 

Final Cut Pro: Graphic Match Project

http://hills.ccsf.edu/~agomez41/agomez_graphic_match.mov

In this project, I chose three different shapes, found two or more videos containing each shape and cut/edited the videos to match the shapes.

I used many more of the feature of Final Cut Pro in this project. I used the motion editing vectors to achieve zoom-in, rotation and rescaling, so each shape would be in the same location in the frame and a similar size. I also used a wave filter to match the movement of two shapes.

I would have liked to add one song to the entire video, but I ran out of time. Perhaps I will find an appropriate song and go back to add it later.

Final Cut Pro Cut to Rhythm Project

http://hills.ccsf.edu/~agomez41/agomez_rhythm.mov

This is my first attempt at using Final Cut Pro to edit video. The assignment was to find two or more videos and cut back and forth between them according to the rhythm of a song. I chose the song "17 Years" by Ratatat, because it has a solid beat on which to base the videos. The song is rather intense and epic, so I chose videos to express more intense content, namely the juxtaposition of wealth, capitalism, nuclear power and poverty.

In doing this project, I became familiar with using the viewer, canvas and timeline windows to understand which part of the video I was manipulating. I also used basic tools, such as the razor blade and markers, to cut the video sequence to the beat of the song.

Final Flash Animation

http://hills.ccsf.edu/~agomez41/flash/dog_ball.swf

This is my final flash project, a minute-long movie with two characters, sound effects, music and credits. I started this project by making a storyboard with 12, 5-second scenes. This process helped me to layout what I wanted to include in the entire story and about how long I thought each development in the story would take.

The animating was very slow-going at first, but once I got the hang of how I was going to animate each of my character's bodies, it became a bit easier. I used individual layers for the facial features of both characters (a dog and a ball), so I could make facial expression to show emotion, since I was not using words. I also made use of motion tweens to create the bouncing ball animation, as well as the squash-and-stretch property of animation to make the bouncing believable. I then made another layer for all of the sounds and lined the keyframes up with the character movements.

The story is very simple, involving a dog and a rubber ball. There is a brief conflict, which is resolved at the end to the tune of one of my favorite, up-beat songs.

15-second Flash Animation

http://hills.ccsf.edu/~agomez41/flash/doggy.swf

In this Flash animation, I worked with just the face of one character to create a 15-second movie showing a few different emotional expressions. I put each of the different facial features on a different layer so I could manipulate them independently of each other. I then found sounds on freesound.org and added those to another layer, using keyframes to line it up with the animation timing.

Bouncing Ball

http://hills.ccsf.edu/~agomez41/flash/bouncing_ball.swf

This is my first effort at using Adobe Flash CS5 to create a simple animated movie. I used the basic circle and rectangle tools to create the ball and the ground on separate layers. I also used the brush tool to draw a face on the ball, creating an element of emotion in my basic animation. My movie had a framerate of 24 fps, so I decided to make the bouncing ball take 1 second, or 24 frames. So I had the ball hit the ground at frame 12. I made the ball stretch out when it hit the ground by using the Transform tool.

Four Seasons Website

http://hills.ccsf.edu/~agomez41/four_seasons/index.html


This is my first effort at using Adobe Dreamweaver to create a website. The basic design of the page is a home page with four corresponding pages for each season. I included an image, a haiku and a short video on each season's page.

I wanted my site to be easy to navigate, so I made a horizontal navigation panel by using inline lists of links. I added styling to the links to give them a colored, boxed background.

For each season's page, I found an image of trees from each season on the web. For the home page, I wanted to include all of these images, but they were all different sizes and resolutions. I used Adobe InDesign to resize all the images and combine them into one image. I made an image map around each picture on the home page, so clicking on the image would lead to the corresponding season page.

In each page, I included a haiku about each season. I wanted the poem to appear over the image, so I used div tags to create a transparent box.

I also included a video in each page. I found the original videos at archive.org and used Quicktime 7 to select short clips from each video.