Video Assignments

Elevator Transition

This is a really cool transition in Final Cut Pro that you do not need any additional plugins to use. Check out the YouTube view attrached to learn how it’s done. Once you have figured it out, try it out on some of your own video and post your final video to Instagram or YouTube.

Speed Up Transition

This is another Final Cut Pro transition that you don’t need any addtional plug ins for. Watch the Youtube video attached to get an understanding on how to create this transiotion. Once you are finished post a short video to Instagram or YouTube of you using this transition with some film you have taken!

Favorite Moments in College

Create a video using some of your favorite pictures/videos that you have taken while in school this year! Add a wide variety of pictures from throughout the year. Make sure to add some music to the video before you post it!

Sport Highlights

Compile clips of you participating in your sport. They can be from practice or in-game. Make sure that your clips show you doing well/ making good plays. Show yourself off a little. Doesn’t matter how you compile the videos, just make the whole thing a few minutes long. Add some cool music or sounds to make it even more interesting!

Observe Something Grow

Make a collage of something growing up, or growing bigger. Now this takes some time-you must have some video footage of the object, person, pet, etc. growing older. It can be a stop motion of a plant, or if you have puppy pictures and now a full sized dog, put them all together and make a collage of it! Be creative! 

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

This assignemnt is an option to report on something that people do not know much about. Take something that you are interested in or passionate about & tell us more about it! This should be research style with sources to back up your research. You can put your video together with pictures & voice overs, or simply record yourself. Be sure to teach us something!

Tell Your Character’s Story

Tell your character’s story or a story from their life through video. This can be as simple as adding images and putting a voiceover, or recording a bit from your character’s life. Use MovieMaker or iMovie to put together the video and throw in some sound effects if you’d like. It is up to you! 

Fake Propaganda Video

Smash up any combination of videos, still images, and audio to create a fake propaganda video.  It can be comedic or (non-offensively, of course) serious, its up to you.  Possibilities include: advertising a product, creating a villain, or selling a revolution.

Discuss a Films Plot

Using a movie editor software, use clips or scenes from a film or show and do a voice over in which you tell the overall plot of the story.

Of Most Importance!

Who or what is most important to you?  Take a video of the top 5 people, places. or things most important to you.  Speak for about 30 seconds about each one and let us know why it/they are important.