Short Term Digital Film Making & Special Effects
by Compufield Computer InstituteMumbai |
Category: Graphics, Animation and Multimedia | Audio/Video Editing | Film Making & Television
| Medium of instruction: | English |
Covering Topics:
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Photoshop
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Adobe After Effect
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Final Cut Pro
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Script Writing
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Film Direction
PHOTOSHOP
Adobe Photoshop is an Image Processing software package that enables you to create & edit images on IBM personal Computers. Adobe Photoshop is acknowledged in professional fields as the cutting-edge Program, the final word in Commercial Art.
Salient Features
- With Photoshop's tools you can paint a likeness of a physical object.
- Mixing and Manipulating of colours at a click of a button.
- You can Blend 2 Images.
- You can create Patterns and Artistic Designs using Fills and Colours.
- You can manipulate your Design images with Special Effects and Techniques.
- You can Import and Export your Images.
- Retouch, Manipulate and Enhance Designs & patterns.
Application
- It has been used to edit and create images as diverse as Commercial Art, Cosmetic ads, New Photos, Motion picture footage, Animation cells & Fine Art work.
- Creates original Art & converts it to desired Platforms.
- Retouch, manipulate & enhance photographs of Digital arts.
- Master the special effects you've always wanted.
- Learn the secrets of Output & Storage of your Images.
- Web page designing.
Syllabus
1) What is Photoshop CS5?
Adobe Photoshop offers more non-destructive ways of working than any other photo editor, and Adobe is always adding enhancements to help get the job done faster and with less frustration. The latest version, PhotoshopCS(orPhotoshop8), offers improvements for everyone, but photographers will benefit most from this upgrade.It's the professional image-editing standard and the leader of the digital imaging line. Groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, there's no slowing you down.
New Features of Photoshop CS5
* File Browser Improvements
* Photomerge Feature
* Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
* The New Filter Gallery
* Keep Track of Editing History
* Text on a Path or in a Shape
* Live Histogram Palette
* Customize Picture Package Layouts More Easily
* New Ways to Share Your Photos
* New Scrubber Controls
Interface
Adobe Photoshop offers more non-destructive ways of working than any other photo editor, and Adobe is always adding enhancements to help get the job done faster and with less frustration. The latest version, PhotoshopCS(orPhotoshop8), offers improvements for everyone, but photographers will benefit most from this upgrade.It's the professional image-editing standard and the leader of the digital imaging line. Groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, there's no slowing you down.
New Features of Photoshop CS5
* New in Photoshop CS3
* System Requirements
* RAM Requirements
* Digital Tablets and Mice
Interface
1) The Welcome Screen
2) Color Spaces
3) Document Window
4) The Toolbox
5) Menus
6) Palettes
7) Options Bar
8) Shortcuts
9) Getting Assitance
10) Workplaces
File Menu
1) New
2) Open
3) Close
4) Close All
5) Save As
6) Save
Tool Bar
1) Rectangle Marquee Tool
2) Ellipitical Marquee Tool
The marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections.
3) Edit Lasso Tool
The lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic (snap-to) selections.
4) Polygon Tool
The Polygonal Lasso tool is useful for drawing straight-edged segments of a selection border.
5) Crop Tool
The Crop tool trims images.
6) Deselect the Selection
7) Magic wand Tool
The Magic Wand tool selects similarly colored areas.
8) Move selection
You can move a selection border around an image
9) Copy Using Move Tool
You can use the Move tool to copy selections as you drag them within or between images
10) Perfect Rectangle & circle
Edit Menu
1) Free Transform
2) Transform
3) Scale
Horizontal scale and vertical scale specify the proportion between the height and width of the type.
4) Rotate
The Rotate commands let you rotate or flip an entire image
5) Skew
6) Distort
The Distort filters geometrically distort an image, creating 3D or other reshaping effects.
7) Perspective
8) Wrap
9) Rotate 180°
10) Rotate 90° cw
11) Rotate 180° ccw
12) Flip Horizontal
13) Flip Vertical
Select Menu
1) Color Range
2) Drawing and Painting Tools
3) Brush Tool
The Brush tool paints brush strokes.
4) Air-Brush Tool
5) Pencil Tool
The Pencil tool paints hard-edged strokes.
6) Eraser Tool
7) PaintBucket Tool
The Paint Bucket tool fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.
8) Gradient Tool
The Gradient tool creates a gradual blend between multiple colors. You can choose from preset gradient fills or create your own.
9) Smudge Tool
The tool picks up color where the stroke begins and pushes it in the direction you drag.
10) Define Brush
11) Load Brush
12) Create a new Layer
13) Delete Layer
Layers
Layers allow you to work on one element of an image without disturbing the others. Think of layers as sheets of acetate stacked one on top of the other.
1) Rename a Layer
As you add layers to an image, it’s helpful to give them names that reflect their content. Descriptive names make layers easy to identify in the palette.
2) Position the Layers
3) Layer Opacity
A layer’s opacity determines to what degree it obscures or reveals the layer beneath it. A layer with 1% opacity appears nearly transparent, whereas one with 100% opacity appears completely opaque.
4) Draging Layer
5) Link Layers
6) Invisible Layers
7) Merge visible layers
Merge - When you have finalized the content of layers, you can merge them to create partial versions of your composite image
8) Flatten image.
Flattening reduces file size by merging all visible layers into the background and discarding hidden layers.
9) Edit Gradient colors
10) Swatches Palette
The Swatches palette stores colors that you need to use often.
11) Eraser Tool.
Image and Text Editing.
1) Image Size
* Wireframe Wireframe —
displays simple wireframe in addition to intermediate blend shapes.
2) Different Modes for filling colors
* Color Mode
* Multiply Mode
* Screen Mode
* Opacity of color
* Save selection
* Load selection
* Fill gradient
* Merge Down
* Strokes/outlines
* Rasterize the shapes
* Canvas Size
* Type Tool
* Vertical Type Tool
* Type Mask Tool
* Adjustments - Brightness/contrast
An adjustment layer applies color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing pixel values
Channel Palette and Mask Mode options
The Channels palette lets you create and manage channels. The palette lists all channels in the image—composite channel first (for RGB, CMYK, and Lab images).
1) Standard Mode
2) Quick Mask Mode
Quick Mask mode Lets you edit any selection as a mask.
3) Channel Palette
4) Load a channel as a selection
5) Adjustments
Auto levels
6) Inverse Selection
7) Filters
Artistic - Colored Pencil
Feathers
1) Feathers
2) Add Revelal Selection
3) Rulers
4) Clipping Mask
5) Adjustment - Hue/Saturation
6) Color Balance
The Color Balance command changes the overall mixture of colors in an image for generalized color correction.
Drawing & Editing Paths
1) Path
2) Pen tool
The Pen tool creates straight lines and smooth flowing curves.
3) Filter - Neon Glow
Neon Glow Adds various types of glows to the objects in an image. This filter is useful for colorizing an image while softening its look.
Clonme Stamp
The Clone Stamp tool takes a sample of an image, which you can then apply over another image or part of the same image.
Adjustment - Replace color
The Replace Color command lets you create a mask to select specific colors in an image and then replace those colors.
ADOBE AFTER EFFECT
Adobe After Effects software delivers a comprehensive set of tools to efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web
- After Effects.
- New in After Effects 6.0.
- Animation and Motion Graphics.
- Formats that After Effects Produce.
- After Effects Differ from Photoshop.
- After Effects Different from Avid, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere.
- After Effects Different from Adobe Flash.
- Compositing.
- To Get Video Content into AE.
- Tools Need Besides After Effects.
- More About Animation, Video, and Compositing.
Salient Features
- After Effects offers unparalleled integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator to produce professional results.
- Control the compositing environment while working in a 2D or 3D with this tool
Application
- Create motion graphics.
- Unbelievable visual effect for films film, video, multimedia.
Syllabus
The Fundamentals
- Introducing the After Effects Interface
- The Grand Tour
- Introducing the Interface
- The Project Window
- The Clip Window & Palettes
- The Comp Window
- The Timeline
- Keyframes
Up to Speed
- Motion
- Compositions
- Input, Output & Preferences
- Import
- New Photoshop Tips
- New Illustrator Tips
- Video Standards
- Output
- Preferences
Animation & Special Effects
- Animation
- Basic Parenting
- Character Animation
- Masks & Autotrace
- Mattes
Effects Part 1
- Intro to Effects
- Basic Effects
- Intermediate Effects
- Background Effects
Effects Part 2
- Shatter
- Card Wipe
- Card Dance
- Colorama
- Radio Waves
- Wave World & Caustics
- Foam
Effects Part 3
- 3D Filters New in AE6
- Shape Effects New in AE6
- Noise Filters New in AE6
- Color Filters New in AE6
- Distort Filters New in AE6
- Channel Filters New in AE6
3D, Expressions, Text & Design
- 3D
- Understanding 3D Space
- Open GL
- Cameras
- Objects, Lights & Materials
- 3D Channel Filters
Expressions
- Introducing Expressions
- Wiggle
- My Favorite Expressions
- Tips & Recipes for 3D & Expressions
Text
- Adding & Formatting Text
- Basic Text Animation
- Advanced Text Animation
Design
- Animating Lines
- Paint
- Distorting Your Designs
Compositing & Advanced Effects
- Keying & Rotoscoping
- Keying
- Rotoscoping
Compositing & Professional Tools
- Motion Tracking
- Plug-in Palettes & 3D Assistants
- Color Adjustment
Production Bundle Effects
- Distortion
- Audio Filters
- Fractal Noise
FINAL CUT PRO
Final Cut Pro is a professional non-linear editing system developed by Apple Inc. that has found popularity amongst independent filmmakers and Hollywood film editors alike. The program has the ability to edit many digital formats including, SD, HDV, HD, Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM, 2K, 4K, and IMAX film formats. The system is currently only available for Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later.
Salient Features
- Broad Format Support:
Final Cut Pro 6 lets you edit virtually anything with the highest possible quality, including camera-native editing of leading SD and HD formats. Work with DV one day, then HDV, XDCAM HD, DVCPRO HD, or uncompressed HD the next. Or use ProRes 422, Apple’s new post-production format, for uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes.
- Incredible Real-Time Effects:
Add visual interest to any production with the rich set of effects and visualization tools built into Final Cut Pro 6. Experiment freely and iterate quickly. You’ll see the results of your changes in real time as you work, with no need to waste time waiting for renders.
- Comprehensive Editing Tools:
The faster the tools, the more time you have to be creative. Final Cut Pro 6 makes it easy to edit quickly, accurately, and flexibly. Everything you do in Final Cut Pro — from editing and trimming to audio mixing to finishing to delivery — feels like second nature, so your creativity can flourish
Application
- Film Industry
- TV Channels
- Production Houses
- Multimedia Companies
Syllabus
Introduction:
- Understanding Clips, Media Files and Sequence.
- Starting a Project.
- Importing Files
The Browser Window Elements:
- Browser Overview
- Organising Clips In The Browser
- The Creation of Sequences and Bins
- The Icon View and Columns View
The Viewer Window Elements:
- Viewer Overview
- The Tabs in Viewer
- The Transport Controls
- Marking Controls
The Timeline and Canvas Windows:
- The Timeline Overview
- Canvas Windows Overview
- Editing Clips Into The Canvas & Timeline
- Drag and Drop Editing
- Overwriting and Inserting Edits
- The Sequence Timecode
Basic Editing In The Timeline:
- The Settings
- The Timeline Buttons and Controls
- Navigating and Zooming
- Transferring Clips in the Timeline
- Trimming Using the Selection Tool
- Clip Handles & Media Limits
- Closing and Finding Gaps
- Linking and Sync
The Tools Palette in FCP:
- Selection
- Rolling Edit
- Ripple Edit
- Slide Edit
- Slide Edit
- Razor Blade Tools
- Zoom and Hand
- Crop & Distort
- Pen Tools
Audio:
- The Adjustment of Levels
- How to Read Audio Meters
- Working with Stereo and Mono Clips
- The Adjusting Plan
- Adjusting Audio Over Time
- The Audio Mixer
- Using the Voice Over Tool in Final Cut Pro 4
Advanced Editing:
- Using the Keyboard to Edit
- 3 Point Editing
- The Creation of L-Cuts
- Delete Between the In/out Points
- The Trim Edit Window Explained
- Edit in the Trim Edit Window
- Matchframe
- The Viewer Sync Controls
- Superimpose Edit
- Fit to Fill Edit
- Replace Edit
- How to Edit a Sequence of Clips in the Viewer
Subclips and Markers:
- Adding Markers
- Markers in the Timeline
- Creating Subclips
- Using Markers to create Subclips
Preferences & System Settings:
- Matching Settings Overview
- The Item and User Preferences
- Some System Settings
- Both Audio and Video Settings
Capturing Capturing Footage:
- Connecting Sources for Capture
- Creating a New Project for Capturing
- Previewing and Marking Your Source,
- Logging Clips, Choosing Clip Settings
- Choosing Capture Settings
- Choosing Capturing Options,
- Setting Capture Preferences and Acquiring Other Media.
High Definition:
- High Definition Formats
- Frame Sizes
- Frame Rates
- Scanning Methods
- Interpreting the Numbers
- HD Workflow
- Using HDV
Transitions:
- Both Applying and Adjusting Transitions
- Favourite and Default Transition
- Trouble-Shooting Transitions
Filters:
- Applying and Viewing Filters
- Viewing and Modifying Filter Parameters
- Applying Audio Filters
- Using a Color Correction Filter
- Animating Filters.
Rendering & Realtime:
- The Real Time Capabilities
- Rendering Overview
- The Rendering Settings
- How to Preview Effects
Multicam Editing:
- Creating a Multiclip
- Viewing Multiclips
- Performing a Live Cut
Colour Correction in Final Cut Pro:
- The Basic Principles
- The Three-Way Colour Correction
- Frame Viewer
Titles and Graphics:
- Generating Items
- Using Title 3D
- Using Motion Enhanced Titles
- Creating Basic Titles
Keyframing & Compositing:
- Multiple Tracks in the Timeline
- How to Adjust Basic Motion Attributes
- Using Keyframes
- Adding Keyframes in FCP
- Changing the Pace of a Clip
Output:
- Finishing
- Exporting QuickTime Files
- Outputting to Tape
- Backing up Projects
SCRIPT WRITING
Basics of Direction:
Imagination power, Artistic identity, Visualization, Screen language Treatment and direction department.
Production:
Fundamentals of film and video camera, lighting, shot division, taking of shot and scene, dialogue delivery, que sheet, costumes, movement of artists camera, dummy and miniature shooting, croma, shot composition, montage, resolution and climax, flash back, special effects and MORE.
Idea to Screen:
The complete process of film Making in Power Point presentation Idea to Screenplay - Pre production - Production Postproduction
Pre-production: Principals of script writing, directors script, aesthetics of script, story structure, audition of artists , location hunting, schedule of shooting, script break down, story boarding, budgeting, screenplay, erection of sets properties of set and the creative team, permits, hiring staff and crew.
Practical Sessions in Script writing:
Concept Synopsis Story line Screenplay Dialog
Storyboard
Principles of Script writing:
Structural concepts of screen writing Story genres, Three act structure, Plot points, Scene description and Narrative treatment. Film appreciation and Analysis Visualization Script development Script analysis Screen play writing Character development Dialogues writing Story board writing Script editing and format Script terminology (Fades, dissolves, cuts, angles, framing etc )
Script for New media
(Cable, Internet and direct to video)
Direction Film(Film and Video)
Post-Production:
Fundamentals of linear and non linear video editing, sound recording and dubbing, titles, release prints.
Direction:
Direction as an Art
The Job of Director
Working with Creative crew. Like Writers, Actors, Music Directors, Signers Director of photography, Designers etc.
Working with Technical crew - Cinematographer, Sound recordist, Editor, Art Director etc.
Advanced Technique:
Frame size, camera angle, fundamentals of 3D Animation,After effects, body language, gesters and movement, continuity, rehearsal and directing actors on set, film length, film analysis and film reading..
- About Film Distribution
- Practical- A Project
Practical Sessions In Direction:
Types of shot Taking - purposes of shots
Camera movements
Five Shot continuity
Screening of Model Films to understand the grammar of film making
Screening and Analysis of exercises shot in workshop
| Classroom - Regular | ||||
| When | Duration | Where | Remarks | Price |
| Not Specified |
150 Sessions |
All Venues | 1 session is of 1hr. |
INR 47,500 Per Course (Taxes As Applicable) |
Mumbai, Bandra West (Branch):- 1st Floor. O'Priya Building, Near Mehboob Studio Peter Dias Road Bandra West, Mumbai - 400050, Maharashtra, India
Mumbai, Andheri West (Branch):- Wembley Society, Shop No 3 Shastri Nagar, Lane no2, Lokhandwala Andheri West, Mumbai - 400053, Maharashtra, India
Compufield Computer Institute
COMPUFIELD® Computer Institute was started in 1985 by Mr. M. E. Khairaz to impart training in Internet, Digital Art, Multimedia, Software and Network Engineering. Today we offer many different courses covering the latest and most widely used software worldwide.
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