You will produce a promo for "The Jazz Nativity," a production that is regularly presented in New York City in late November and/or early December.
Complete the project according to the following guidelines:
a. There is no maximum running time, but generally under 4 minutes is best.Once the project is completed to your satisfaction, burn it to a DVD using Toast (see Creating DVD Release Prints of Student Projects handout). This release print is the only copy that will be graded. CHECK it after you burn it to make sure audio and video recorded correctly. There is a Sony DVD player and Panasonic monitor in G-31 which will be considered the reference playback system for DVD technical quality. No matter how good your project file may be, your grade is totally dependent on the quality of the DVD copy! It represents what would go to a dub house or TV station, or directly to the viewer.b. The opening CG of "Bending Towards the Light, A Jazz Nativity" should be over a black background.
c. Trim clips as appropriate. You do not have to use the entire length of each clip.
d. There are 4 paragraphs of narration (labeled narration 1, 2, etc.). You must use each one, but they do not have to be back-to-back and they can be shortened.
e. You may want to dissolve between shots (and crossfade audio between shots).
f. You may want to kiss black between dissimilar segments depending on your editing approach.
g. Be sure to pan the voice/narration track and the music track(s) so that all audio comes out of both speakers.
h. Be creative and have fun with this.
The finished project must conform to the menu standards dictated in the Toast handout and must begin and end with approximately 1 second of black, with the program fading in and out.
Grading will be based on the following:
DVD format & function 10%
technical quality of video 20%
technical quality of audio 30%
aesthetic quality of project 30%
knowledge of non-linear editing observed 10%
