Watch this and tell me it’s not an awesome intro. Any interest in learning how to do this? Or maybe you’d like to learn how to add amazing special effects to your PREEXISTING film. Or maybe you need to spice up your motion graphics portfolio? Either way, you MUST see Video Copilot (the video above […]
Continue readingDMS Help – Awesome Photoshop Effects to Jazz Up Your Project
Photoshop CS5 (academic price): $250 Stock photo of a blonde holding back her hair: $5 Taking the time to check out the tutorial below on how to spice up the photo of the blonde: $0 + 60 minutes Putting this image up on the board during project presentations in your class (and consequently showing up […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Overlay Video Or Photos Over Video in iMovie ’09
Often times students come to us in the Digital Media Studio with an assignment to create a video about a particular subject. More often than not this “video” assignment doesn’t actually involve shooting a video and then editing it together to tell a story. Typically students are told to create a montage of images and […]
Continue readingQuentin Tarantino’s First Film – My Best Friend’s Birthday
My Best Friend’s Birthday is the first film made by Quentin Tarantino, eight years before Reservoir Dogs. It was created as a collaboration with Roger Avary in 1984 and shot on a budget of $5,000. A 70-minute rough cut was made, but a fire at the lab damaged the film and only 36 minutes of […]
Continue readingNow in Media Services – Chronicles of the Refugee – DVD 7721 – 7723
Chronicles of the Refugee is a 6-part documentary film series looking at The global Palestinian refugee experience over the last 60 years. Starting with ‘al-Nakba’ (catastrophe) in 1948 (part I) and continuing through repeated community and individual expulsions (part II) and enduring discrimination by virtue of being Palestinian (part III), the first three episodes are […]
Continue readingTodd’s Tips – Visual Hub Should Be Your Facebook Friend
Actually you should really just leap ahead and marry it. It’s amazing. One of the most frustrating things about video work is conversion between one format and another. This typically comes up when you’ve finished your project. You export it, make a DVD and then someone says, “You should put it on the web/your website/YouTube.” […]
Continue readingI Am Jack’s Calvin And Hobbes
The internet has long been abuzz about the connections between “Calvin And Hobbes” and “Fight club,” but he’s a great video mash-up of the two.
Continue readingFix Shaky Video in iMovie ’09
Yes, you read that right, “fix shaky video.” One of the hardest things about doing video assignments for class can be shooting your video. Interviews are easy because you’re likely sitting and (maybe) resting the camera on something steady. But when you need other footage there’s a good chance that you’re shooting handheld. This is […]
Continue readingSave Some Time – Automate your Photoshop Tasks
Have you ever been in a situation where you have a bunch of photos on which you need only to make basic alterations? Has it ever frustrated you that you have to sit there and do each one individually? Yeah. Me too. But now you don’t have to. Use Photoshop’s Automate command to have the […]
Continue readingGet Savvy on Dreamweaver – Jazz up Your Assignment
Dreamweaver is one of the most useful of Adobe’s applications. It can allow you to visualize all sorts of code and layouts before you publish your site. It comes with a number of templates for common website layouts. It will even write code for you. One thing that Dreamweaver is no so good at is […]
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