Assignment #4b More Countdown

John Cage from Silence (1979, 60 minutes)  by Joan Logue

1) Open your "Countdown Project"  (in class we reduced the 20 second of black at the start to three seconds).
2)  Superimpose the Countdown master (numbers 8 , 7, 6. etc.) onto  your countdown footage using 6  different key types (your footage on V1 and numbers from master on V2)  and video effects (replicate and a garbage matte, invert, etc.). You may  Superimpose your footage onto the number (put your footage on V2 and the numbers on V1).
3) Import audio from a sound f/x CD and add a second audio channel of audio to each number of your count down leader (at least 4 sounds).  Somewhere in your three channel ( ch 1 tape hiss/chime, ch 2 your sync sound, ch 3 sound f/x from cd) audio mix include at least one fade up-fade down.
4) Move your video black to  V1b and use a transition between your black and your name (title)
5) Shoot a video portrait of yourself framed like John Cage was in Joan Logue's Silence.  Make sure it is in focus and sharp and you chin exits the bottom of the frame and the top of your head exits the top.  Replace the single frame of 2 with one frame of this self portrait.
5) Save your project
6) Export  your  Countdown Leader as a movie (DV NTSC, 720X480, 29.97 fps, 48khz, 16 bit, stereo)  including blacks (front and end) and your name and your single sound f/x.  Save it in your folder on the server with all the parts. and call it "your name 4b.mov"

1.   Create a one minute symphony (not including opening and closing blacks).

2) Use only: 

A) the sound and images from the class sound F/Xs in the "Sound f_x SP05 " folder on one of the Scratch Discs . (this folder should be on each computer--these are your #1 Assignments/sound F/X). 

B) Your (one) extra sound F/X of your choosing from your sound F/Xs.

2) Set up the rhythm visually as well as with the audio. 
3) You may use effects, or alter the speed, but avoid using too many special visual effects.
4) Multiple layers of Audio (mixed).
5) Don't forget that the silences are as important and the moments with sounds--think John Cage

) a 48 point Courier Medium font 2) On one row  3) Justify :Right 4) Center Horizontally 5) Position  in the Lower Third (in the title menu)  6) Aligned with the right title safe zone line  7) Capitalize the first letter of your first and last name 8) In whatever color you need for it to be seen clearly 9) For the last 3 seconds of your Symphony (before the end black).

Preview whatever is necessary, so it runs smoothly. 
3)   Export  your  Symphony for Sound FXs as a movie (DV NTSC, 720X480, 29.97 fps, 48khz, 16 bit, stereo)  excluding the blacks and your name credit at the start and the Countdown Leader (just the symphony part).  Put this in your folder on one of the computers in the editing room. Call it "your name_no_5_Symphony.mov"
(WE WILL MAKE A DVD FROM THESE IN CLASS NEXT WEEK).