Illuminating Films: How to Create Compelling Abstract Art at Home

1. Introduction: Hi, welcome to illuminating abstract art films. I'm Wan-Ru, Lin, a multimedia artist who uses photography, videography, and installation art to express my passion of the art. I've exhibited my artwork around the world. Also, I'm the founder of the art studio RuRu Bomb in London. The art work you see now is made from home lights taken on my iPhone with same pro video editing techniques by Adobe Premier. You can also turn your home lights into abstract films. The course is designed for students of all levels. You do not need to have prior experience in video art. If you are already familiar with film making, I'm sure this course will bring you much more inspiration. The course consists of the following sessions. Wow Abstract Film, Burst Mode Animation, and What Is It? How to Create Light Photos and How to Make a Light Animation. By the end of the class, you will know how to create your own abstract film with "lights" for individual or business purpose. Let's get started. 2. Overview of Class Project: Hi. Thank you so much for enrolling in a class with me. Let me explain a little behind story about this course. It's about five years ago, I was about to make a stop motion, but it turns out I create another technique to present the animation. It's also a turning point so that I discover myself fascinated about the light, particularly in the dark area. This drew me into a big journey, till today I'm still doing that. I discovered the whole process is relax, and it's a lot of fun. You never really use this perspective to see the light. I want to bring these for you because current situation is sometimes a bit dull and not so fun, and I think light can cheer everybody up. Let's have a look to our overview. I organized the course into three sections, let's prepare, let's create lights, let's make films. By the end of this class, you will have created a light animation, that you can use in your own personal projects. The first section, let's prepare. I will help you build up a solid knowledge about Burst Mode animation and how to fill and capture lights at home. This section consists of the following lectures: What is Abstract Film? What is Burst Mode animation? How to set up your filming spot? In the second section, let's create lights. We will focus on building up your sense of the light, for being in the dark place, and use all the techniques for our first section, to create your own lights. After you finish those experiences, in the third section, let's make films. You will learn basic premier skills, to create videos. Once you finish the first three sections, you will be able to create light film of your goal. Let's have a look what is the assignment. 3. Your Assignment: [MUSIC] We are going to talk about your assignment. Yes. It's quite easy after you finish this course, I will need you to make a 10-second. It's not too much, 10-second lines animation and if you are happy and confident enough, please upload to the project gallery so that I can see and everybody can see. Looking forward to see your assignment. [MUSIC] 4. What is Abstract Film?: In this video, we're going to talk about what is abstract film. Abstract film is a type of non-narrative film, and it's also the subgenre of art film or experimental film. Let me quote something from Wikipedia about abstract film, "Abstract film are non-narrative, contain no acting and do not attempt to reference reality or concrete subject. They rely on the unique qualities of motion, rhythm, light, and composition inherent in the technical medium of cinema to create emotional experience." This sounds really, really difficult. I don't understand. Of course, you don't understand because the way to express it's like, something so vague, not understandable, not in our daily life. Let me explain what I understand about the abstract film. Normally, if you make a film in the general idea, the narrative film, mainstream film, you need to hire some actor to do your story. You want this story being understand to a majority of the people. The abstract film is not doing this way. The abstract film, you don't need to find a person to do the acting, instead, you yourself need to find a material to express yourself. For example, I fascinated about light. I want to use the light to discover how I'm going to use the light to present my idea so I need to discover what the light character, what it's unique character can be present in front of the audience. By doing this, I need to discover a particular process which related to me myself. I don't need to generate a story first to let a majority of the people to understand my story. What I have to do is I need to figure out what is the fascinated part about this unique material, the light, is going to bring my way of emotion out. Once you understand actually abstract film is not going to present a proper storyline to you, I think it will become much easier for understanding because now if you want to make an abstract film, you just need to find a right material for yourself. You need to present how you are obsessed about it and if at the same time, you can put your emotion into your presentation become a film, then that is an abstract film. I hope my explain is much understandable and we'll see each other in next the video. Next video I'm going to talk about burst mode animation. 5. What is Burst Mode Animation?: In this video, we're going to talk about what is burst mode and knew is burst mode animation. Imagine you're in a situation and you just want to take a photo, you want to take a selfie, but you accidentally long press a button. As a result, you get exactly the same facial expression. You got to choose the perfect one for yourself and the rest of them, you just delete it. That is burst mode. Once you know burst mode and you go for a trip, you really want to take a picture of a situation is like this. There are a lot of trees in front of you and you want to take the very specific moment when the train pass by, but the head of the train need to be in the middle of the trees, what will you do? You want to take a series of photo and pick one. That is burst mode. That is what a lot of people trying to do to capture the very moments they're in a very specific place. Burst mode means continuous shooting. What is burst mode animation? Imagine now you already got your burst photos and instead of choosing one or two or three, this time you import all the pictures into Premiere and make a video and this video's called burst mode animation. You will ask, what is this related to the light animation. It is because we are going to change your subject. Instead of choose Trim Paths By, Human Pass By, Animal Pass By, we are going to choose none of them, but we're going to create light movements by ourselves and we are going to record it. In this course, we're going to change the subject. First, we're going to create extra light, light become your subject. Second, we're going to use burst mode to record your light movement. Third is, once you record all the movements, you've got all the pictures, we are going to move the pictures into the video editing software. In the video editing software, I'm going to teach you how to do a little bit change, how to create your lights animation. After all these things done, I will teach you add some music so your video will be a lot of fun. Next for us, we're going to talk about how to set up your photo shooting spot. 6. How to Set up Your Filming Spot?: In this video, I'm going to show you how to set up your filming spot. I separate into two parts; the first part is about the device, material, equipment and I will tell you why we need to prepare those things and what the function is, so that you will understand why you need to prepare, and how to prepare. The second part, as you're already fully equipped, then I will show you how to set up your filming spot by those equipment, material, or something else. Before we start to talk about what equipment, what material that you are going to prepare, let's quickly have a look what the resulting video will look like. This is the real working situation in the video, you will be in a fully dark room, play with the lights and here is the picture when I turn on the lights, you can clearly see the filming spots. The first thing you need to prepare is when you take up your phone and take a picture on the table, it is fully dark. In order to do that, first, you need to turn off the light. Second, you need to be in the night. Third, you need to find any stuff that you put on the table and you take a picture, it can be fully dark, which means the easiest way is you prepare a dark cloth, and if you don't have the dark cloth, you can choose some fabric, like on the table, I have this fabric, it' dark. If you do have the cloth, then maybe you can choose the blackboard, or black sheet, or black paper. This phase you can find in stationery. If you finally decide to choose the paper, the size need to be at least A3 size because if you go down with A4 size, that will be a bit too small. Of course, when you take a photo, when you play with the lights, you don't want to see the edge. Don't go down with A4, A3 is your minimum size, and of course, you can buy as large as you can, they will be perfect and more easy for you. The second thing you need to prepare is a light because we're going to do light animation but there are a few things you need to be aware, for example, you cannot choose a light is too strong, otherwise, even that is a dark room, the light is very strong, you create a light room. I will recommend this kind of little torch, the light is not too strong, it's will only create a small, round light when you turn it on. If you have second phone, or old phone, or unwanted phone, you just take it out, but makes sure that old phone is able to generate the light, for example, like these things. The third part I need you to prepare is wrapping paper. For this wrapping paper, the function is soften the light or create a texture. Once you put light into the paper, you clearly can see the pattern or once you compare with the direct light, you can see this is direct light and this is the one with the layer, you clearly see your light being softened and changed the phone, and that is what we want. Where to find this wrapping tissue paper, the easiest way is whenever you purchase something, probably the company already puts this wrapping paper in. What you will see is, it looks like that. If you, next time, see that, you can keep it. Otherwise, there are a lot of alternative choice, for example, toilet paper, kitchen paper, try to find a white paper. You also can find your A4 print paper, which is ideal, it's white, and the light is not going to fully penetrate, but you still can see the light is coming out somehow. The next one you definitely need to get is your phone because we are going to use the phone to take a lot of burst photos. You will ask, what phone should I get? IOS? Android? It's okay, it doesn't matter because both phone can generate burst photos. The next thing you need to prepare is Adobe Premiere, because we are going to use your photo, import into Premiere, and create some videos. Now, finally, we come to the last things we need to prepare. I need you to make a decision whether you want to fix your phone or not. I provide you free options, you just need to choose one of them and the first option is you fix your phone, the second option is you find somebody to help you hold your phone, the third option is you don't want to fix your phone, you want to do freestyle. Let me explain in detail, let's assume you want to fix your phone, as I do, I choose a phone holder. This is very easy, you just need to put your phone on and it will be nice, steady, and simple. But what if you don't have a phone holder at your home and you don't want to invest money on a phone holder just because you want to finish this course? Then I will provide another option, which is a DIY option. All you have to find is this kind of paper box, and once you have your box, all you have to do is seal in the middle. You don't need to seal all the box, you just need to seal in the middle because we need to have this gap. How wide is this gap? Try to squeeze your phone in, if this is nice and tight, then this is already done, but if that is a bit loosened, your phone probably will easily fall, and if that is too small, you can't squeeze in. I already squeezed in and you can see the phone is very tight and steady. How do I know this is the right height for me? All you have to do is turn on your camera and squeeze your phone back, try to take a picture, and if you don't see the box inside of the screen, then that will be perfect. Once you're fully equipped, then we come to the final part. We're going to set up your filming spot. Like you see, now, I chose the dark cloth as my background. If you are doing the same as me, I need you to prepare these things to clean your surface, if you found there is a lot of dust on the surface, and try to make your cloth as even as possible so that you create a very beautiful background. As you can see, this is very dirty. If you are not the one choose the cloth, you choose the paper, you just put in the middle. Now, I'm the person choose the option 1, fix the phone, and put the phone on. The lens needs to be faced to the middle and the bottom is faced to the edge. If you choose option 2, then you need to ask your friend or your family member standing like this, and your phone needs to be on your background. If you are the one choose option number 3, which is free style, then please check video number 10. I choose option 1. Now comes to the light. I choose the torch, if you chose the phone, then it will be like this. If you choose the other light source, you just hold your light source and try to do this. Turn on your phone and try to see whether you can see your light or not and if you can see it, you're perfectly okay now. Now you finished set your film spot, it's very easy and nice and clean and don't forget to prepare your wrapping tissue paper or your toilet paper, kitchen paper, any kind of paper that we mentioned before, you need it, just put here. All right. Next video, we're going to talk about how to feel the dark. 7. How to Feel the Dark?: In this video, I need you to give me a few minutes. I want to share with you the experience of dark. For me, I believe dark and light are existing together. You want to sense the light, you need to sit in a dark. You want to sense the dark you need to sit in the light. Because this course we are going to search light, create light, before we play with light, I need you to sit in a dark area. How are we going to find a fully dark area? It's actually really simple. You just choose night and turn off the light fully, choose a place that you'll feel comfortable to sit. No matter that is a bed, a chair, a sofa, you just sit or a ground. You sit there and close your eyes, open your eyes, close your eyes, open your eyes. You give yourself 10 minutes. These 10 minutes, I need you to focus on your sense to feel what is surrounding you. You will find by sit in a dark for 10 minutes from the beginning to the end, it's a small journey. Beginning, you shock by the dark, in the middle, your eyes started to familiarize the darkness. You will gradually see a little bit light coming in, and then, you started to familiar with the situation. You're familiar with the dark. You started to search, where is the light coming from? This is the moment you need to memorize. The very moment you felt a little light coming in; how you feel and how this light gradually bump into your body. I need you to memorize this moment because it's very powerful and it will help you to find the light. I hope you like my little journey. We go to next course to find the light. 8. Let's Play the Lights: In this video, we're going to play with the lights. I separate into three parts. First part, I will turn on the light to show you the hand movements and how I use a light source to create lights. Second part, I will turn off the lights so that you can see the real situation, how it will look like. The third part I'm going to show you how to select your resulting burst photos so that you know what photo is suit for you to put into the premier. Let's begin with the first section. I will turn on the lights because I want to show you how I move my hand to create the lights. The second thing I want you to prepare in the first section is think about a music, because music has a rhythm. I want to use this rhythm to bring you more inspiration about how to move your hand some bodies to present your light inspiration, light imagination. Third thing I want you to think about your light source as your pen and the air as your paper. Instead of using the pen drawing on the paper, this time I want you to use the light source to draw in the air and that is why I think the torch is really a good choice because it looks like a pen, so you can easily to imagine your background is a paper and you are drawing on the paper. To create a movement, you can sit or you can stand. It really depends on you and for the demonstration, I sit. You just need to focus on my hand. Let's have a look. As you can see in the video, first I start with a circle, and I do forward and backward, change the speed with forward and backward. This is like waving or up and down. Change the size of the circle or simply just searching, spraying the lights. You can also change the speed. Speed is also the very important part to change how the light is going to be. Two big circles, small circle. If you want to add the wrapping tissue paper, first try two layers and one layer is still strong. Two layers is really cool. You fold it and try to shake it. You don't need to be afraid of the wrapping paper inside of your screen. Sometimes it can generate something really cool. The second thing, you can make a bag, like I can do in the screen, just randomly fold it and try how it will look like. My favorite type of way is randomly making a bag, like I'm doing now. I just grab it and leave a little bit space in front and shake it. All technique is the same as when you told have the wrapping paper. You can try this eight, like an insect dancing. It's quite cool. Another alternative way you can try is you just simply put your light underneath and shake a bit to see how it will be. You'll will surprise if you try more movement, the results are actually very different. Before we move on to our second section that will be fully dark, let me quickly show you which hand I do what things. I will choose the right hand because I am the right-hand user to control the light, and I will choose the left-hand only press the button. The real situation will be like I press a button and then I play with the light. I hope this really help you. We go to the second section, and we are going to turn off the light. We're in the second section. Make sure you turn off the light fully so that you can immerse yourself properly in the dark. One more thing you need to double-check is the four corners in your phone screen. If you choose paper as your background, we don't want to see the edge, because edge will look very awkward in the end. Otherwise, we can start the journey. As you can see, I use two screen to demonstrate the situation. The big screen is the real situation. Because it's in the dark, you can't really see my hand, but you can see there is torch and a light and how it move. In top-left corner there's a iPhone screen. You will see a lot of number is increasing, and you see there's a small square constantly generating the pictures. This is first mode. Once you press the photo-shooting button, the picture will keep coming in until you let go of your finger. In this demonstration, I will in total, demonstrate five for you. The first one is without any covering, and it's just like previously how I show you the hand movement. From second part, I cover with the wrapping tissue paper. As I mentioned before, you need to leave a little bit space between the cover and your touch or your light source so that you're not going to see the original shape of your light. You don't need to afraid of the wrapping. Sometimes the wrapping will help you to generate some unexpected results. The third technique, I simply just put the light source on the table. On the other hand I shake the wrapping tissue paper. This one is two layers. I wasn't that happy with the two layers, I changed into one layer and the technique is exactly the same, I just shake the paper. As you can see, the real situation and the screen situation is slightly different. Just be brave to try because you will surprise yourself. The final one is, I want to share a little bit of the photo for feeling. As here, I feel like to use a light to demonstrate the feeling of ending. I use the big circle, put away from the paper and close the paper to feel the feeling of ending. This is the end of the real demonstration. We go onto the third part in next video, select from burst photos. 9. Select from Burst Photos: In this video, we are going to talk about how to select the picture from your burst photos. First, click the "Photo", go to "Burst", and then you see a lot of burst photos that we just made in previous video, in Video 8. What is this? This is the things we are going to do in this video. You need to make the notes about each burst, what kind of imagination you have so far so that you will know how to define which one you want to use or you want to select or not. Before we select a picture, we need to take notes, we need to have a better idea. It's totally different from the normal day you take a burst, and then you choose one or two. Because we are doing large animation, it's much more abstract. You need to have rules to help you so that you will know better. That's quick where you start. What I'm going to suggest to you is you need to prepare a few papers because probably you are not going to take note once, you probably need to take few times. So far, we see we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3. You just draw exactly the same as the one in the picture. You don't have to be super precisely. As you see, I'm not super precisely as well, but I need to know which one represent your [inaudible]. For example, like this, very rough. As I remember, probably this six is from the Technique 1, and this might be 2, 3, 4, 4, 5. That's what I guess. This is definitely Technique 1, and then here can be Technique 2, I guess. Right here is 3, 4, and 5. As you remember, 2, 3, 4 are the one with the wrapping paper, and five without, and one as well, one is without. Let's start with the first one. Hit "Select". Usually, you will select a picture from here, and you will say, "Oh, I like it. Oh, I don't like it." But this time, you need to scroll the bar right and left. While you're scrolling, you already see the animation. But in this course, we are not going to import all the picture. We want to take some of the best out of the best, make a video. First technique you need to do is you just quickly look how you like it. We probably only like a very small part of it. I remember there is these things. I also remember these things. This symbol, you don't need to make exactly the same as I do. Use your imagination to write down a symbol, so it doesn't need to have meaning. Also, you need to mark whether you hate it, you love it, you have no idea. Let's practice again. We go to second one, select and then scroll the bar. What I remember is the beginning is like this and then like this. I give a more mark as wait and see. Here is wait and see. When I marked question mark, this means it's not my favorite and it's not like I have no idea. I don't know I want it or not, but I certainly think one or two part of this video, I would like it. I will leave in the very end to put as a consideration. At the beginning, you don't need to think too much. This one, I don't like. You just think about you like it, you don't like it. This one, I accidentally found this is actually T_2, so I will put T_2. Then let's do like this. I love it. If I love it, then I don't think too much, I just love it and I know I will come back to it. During the time passed by, I organized these notes through my pictures. You can do the same. From this moment because I already have some blueprints in my mind, and this blueprint will help me to make all the decision, which means I will set my priority. As you can see, I have recorders and these recorders represent different priority. The second thing is with the priority, I know what picture I want to select. I also give myself a little process guide. My first rule is I will get rid of the picture that I definitely don't like. The second is once I know what I don't like, I select my favorite little part. As you can see before, we quickly scrolled the down bar. I will highly recommend you do with different speeds back and forth and quick, slow, quick, slow. You try to involve yourself with this light movement. The more you're involved with the light movement, the more you will see. The third one is you mark down the parts that you like and then pick up your picture. I'm going to tell you the detail after I explain this graph. This is my plan so far. As you can see, pink is my first priority, is my favorite. So far, I just focus on the pink. The green and blue will be in a situation. When I already select the picture from the pink part, go to the premier editing my video. But I found something is missing, and I go back to the second and third. Do exactly the same process as the pink, your favorite picture. All the process is the same, but I set a priority. It can be the second first, you are not going to choose anymore, it can happen. Now I already know pink is the part that is my favorite, so I move on to this part. This part is out of my best of the best. Our reach is five out of 12, now I choose three out of five. Here is my notes about how it looks like and how I feel, the shape of the lines and something. Up till now, it's all the notes that I already created and I already have a big picture, which one I should start first. Let's move back to the phone. As you can see, the big heart is located in here and here which means these two, and the star is here. I'm going to show you one of these, and the rest of the procedure is entirely the same. It's all about your preference. Let's get started. That's from here. As you can see, there are 172 photos, so you are not going to choose 172 photos, and hit "Select". What you are going to do now is before you already click "Scroll" is you know you like it. But now, instead of scrolling the same speed very quick, back and forth randomly too, this time you need to very deeply consider. For example, when I see back and forth, the first thing you need to do is mark the beginning and the end, that is your favorite part. For example, I like from here, and I might choose the end in here. When you quick scroll the bar, you see there are two blue tick. From this blue tick, you choose what you don't like and you are not going to type on it. For example, I don't like this one so I'm not going to type on. I like this one, maybe. The criteria of choosing scene really based on how you feel. Of course, you need to practice more to get this feeling. You are now going to immediately get to a light pattern as your favorite at very beginning. But by select few times, you will get the feeling that you don't like it, you like it, it really will become your instinction. For example, I can tell you what I definitely don't like is these things. I will try to avoid that or I will try to avoid similar things happen. For example, these two is very similar. I don't think this really will affect my video, but it really needs the practice to figure out. I already select 46, and now we hit "Done", keep only 46 fair. Remember, try to at least select 10-20, don't below this number. Because if you don't have enough picture, then the movement is two ways, and it's not really good for editing a video. Next step you are going to do is import the picture that you just select into your computer. 10. What if... Free Style?: In this video, I'm going to show you how to do the free style. Free style means you are not going to fix your phone. Free style means when your phone like this, the light performance underneath the phone, you need to trace the light. You need to focus on two things. First is the hand, as we already mentioned in video 8, how to move your hand. In this video, you need to add one more skill is when you move your light, your phone also need to trace the light and you need to create a feeling of how to trace the lights that you want. At the same time, you need to constantly press the shooting button. You will see like this. You press a button constantly, you are finding your light. It need a lot of practice to find the right feeling. You need to double check when you get out you're not seeing the edge. You're not seeing the corner. You need to concentrate in this area and you should not see your torch. It'll be very weird. This is the things you need to be aware of and the rest of things is totally the same. Next video, we are going to make films. 11. Let's Make Films 01: In this video, we're going to talk about how to make films. Before we start everything with Premiere, I need you go to Projects and Resources to download the file, name is My Bursts. Once you download the file, you will able to see this photos. As you remember, that from previous video, we talked about how to select a picture from Burst photos, and open the Premiere. You go to New Project and type the name of Light Animation, and check the location. I usually put on the desktop, you probably have your preference, and then you don't need to do anything with the setting, you just need to hit ''Okay''. The moment you hit ''Okay'', you're going to see this panel and you are in Premiere now. But from now, I will give you very basic knowledge of Premiere, and this knowledge already capable for you to finish your light animation, but if you are already familiar with Premiere, I don't think that you need this video, then you can go onto the next video directory, see how I make the lights animation. Let's start it. There are few panel I need to double-check whether you can see it or not in your version. Definitely you are going to see projects with the name we just gave. Then timeline program, no sequence, effect controls, and the effects. If you can't see some of the panel in your Window, go to Window and double-check the name I just mentioned. Like for example, I just mentioned effects, and the effect control. If you can't see one of the panel in the Window, it might be not been ticked. Once you are sure all the panels are in the Window, then let's have a look what is project, and what is sequence. Before we started to edit anything, there are something I see, it's confused. Here is the project, and there is a name here we just created, but why in the timeline there's no sequence or a sequence. In the program there's no sequence and there are two panels here. It's confused. You can think about you are going to produce a TV show. To produce a TV show, you need to give your TV show a name. The moment you create the name to your TV show, it is the same idea as you give the name to your project. You create a project, is the same as you want to create a TV show. You can think project is your TV show. The name of the project, is the name of TV show. Now we come to the second part. Inside of the TV show, you're going to give an episode. You can either only produce one episode, or you produce 10 episodes. Imagine each episode is a represent to one video. Where is this video come from? This video is come from the sequence. Where can I find this sequence? You need to go to the timeline and find the material dropped into the timeline, so that you can create your sequence. Now back to the Premiere. As you can see in the timeline, there's nothing happening, and there's no sequence because you haven't done anything. In order to do anything in the timeline, we need to go back to the project about animation. Here, as you can see, import media to start. You need to import and media from somewhere. You have the file. For example, one way you can go to a media browser to find your file, but I prefer to double-click the panel, and search my file. I will search my burst, choose all the picture from the file I asked you to download, import all the picture into the panel. All you have to do now is select all the picture you just import into the project, and drag into your timeline. The moment you drive into the timeline, you'll see the working area, and on top you also can see the result of your working process. Here comes to effects controls and effects. I will reorganize the panel a bit. I need to double-check with the effect control, effects, program, timeline, and your toolbar. I put the effects and effect control together so that you can easily see later, you will know what I mean. Let's start with the toolbar. In this video, we will only use two tools. One is the selection tool, the second one is the razor tool. For the selection tool you can select your clips as much as you can. You can select one, you can select all, we can select few. For the razor tool is for cutting. For example, you think that your clip is too long, then you can cut it short until your desired length. Let's see how we are going to cut. As you can see, the clips are too small, I couldn't even find a right place to cut. That is because your vision is too small, so in order to change your vision you can go down, there is a scrolling bar. The moment you go down, you will see there is a circle, try to find a position until you see the hand. The moment your see the hand, long click your mouse left, until you see the double arrow that you can choose to drag right or drag left. If you're drunk right, then you will see your vision becomes smaller. We want to see the clip become wider, so we drag left. The moment you drag a left you see more information, but that doesn't mean you change the length of your clips. But what if you want to see more details about each clip? Then you come to the right-hand side there's also a scrolling bar, find the circle, do exactly the same as you did before. Drag down and drag up. The more you drag down you see more information. As you can see now, you even can see the picture itself, but I don't want to see that much, so I drag it back and drag right to my ideal size. Put the razor cut. As you can see, now you can do it. If you accidentally cut your clip the wrong way, then just do Command Z, then your clip we will come back. Another thing we need to do is to set up your sequence, which means we're going to set up your final video size. Let's go to sequence settings, and here there is a lot of information. I need you to change two things. The first thing is the Time base, make sure is 25 frames per second. The second thing go to Frame Size type, 1920 and 1080. This is the standard frame size, which means when you upload to YouTube, Instagram, it will be all right. Once you are sure, go to video preview, double-check, the width is 1920, the height is 1080. If they are all right, there you all sorted, then hit ''Okay''. It will ask some questions, you can ignore it and hit ''Okay''. Then now you got your frame size is 1920 multiple by 1080, there you all sorted. We already know the basic idea of what is this working area for, we can move on to today's most important part. Next video, we're going to use Premiere to edit your picture into film. 12. Let's Make Films 02: In this video, we're going to turn your light pictures into light animation. First, I need you go to a timeline and find this blue bar. This blue bar, I need you scroll back and forth. By scrolling back and forth, I need you scroll fast, slow, partially fast, partially slow. I need you to feel how your resulting video will look like by scrolling this time bar. Once you have a feeling about how it will look like, now we come back to this timeline, press the button, play. Oh my God, it's so slow. That is not what I want. I want it move. I don't want it shows each picture that I already know that I selected. That is because, when you choose one picture, press right-click, check speed and duration, you will see this is five second. Let me also give you the idea of those numbers. Here is hour, minutes, second, and how many frames in this duration. For example, with our setting, the maximum number of the frames will be 25. All I need you to focus is on second. We will talk a bit later. Then you hit "Okay". Now you know each picture costs you five seconds. So if you are going to run all of them, it takes ages. That is not what I want. I want it move. Then you will say, okay, then I change the duration of the picture. Let's say I change it to one second. I guess it'll move. It might be move, but you need to change each by each. It will take you 46 times because we have 46 pictures. No, sir, I don't want to do that. I want to do it in a quick way. Command, Z, back to the normal. The way I do is by select all the images and right-click, choose "Nest". Give your nest sequence a name, Nest01. Click "Okay". There is no squares in between. Yes. By doing nest, you put all the picture into one clips, but the speed is still very slow. Yes, you do the nest, it does mean you change your speed. But if you do the nest, you only need to change the speed once. Let's right-click, go to speed and duration. You can either choose speed, percentage, or choose to duration. But I don't want to calculate how many percentage of the speed equal to my current speed, so I'd only change duration. How long you want your animation? I want it 10 second. It's okay. Immediately, you see your clip become shorter. So what you have to do now is you zoom in your vision and check. For me, it's a bit too slow. No problem. We do again, speed and duration. I want a bit quicker. Let's say I want two times quicker, so two times quicker, five second. Play. It looks much better than what I want, but there's still one thing missing. The speed is all right, but something is wrong. The picture quality isn't all right. As you can see, there's a lot of noise. What you can do now is you go to Effect Control. Go to Effect and find Lumetri Presets. In here, choose Monochrome, and scroll your timeline bar to a place that you can equally see the dark and the light. Choose Monochrome Punch, click it, drag onto your clip. The moment you drag onto your clip, you play it, it's so much better, but it's still not yet reached my standards. What can I do? In Effect Control, you can find the detail that you can adjust. Move your timeline bar into somewhere that you can see a light and the dark and find Lumetri Color. Monochrome Punch, that is the one you add onto your clip. You come to Basic Correction, and come to Tone, find Exposure. In photography, exposure means how much light hit onto your camera sensor or film. As we are now use smartphone, so it will be the camera sensor. High exposure means you've got more light. Low exposure means you've got less light. There is another name as overexposure, which means your picture got too much light. As a result, a picture got too much light while shooting in the dark tends to get a lot of noise on the picture, which will directly make you feel it's a low quality picture. Our first step is change your exposure. Clearly, our picture is a bit overexposure. Lower exposure means you drag to the minus points. You minus the light coming in so that's your picture quality will look better. The moment you adjust a bit, then you scroll your timeline to feel where you still think this is all right. I'm okay with that right now. Let's move onto the next step. As you can see now, we only have five seconds. How can we make it longer? What you can do is you duplicate it. By press Option, you can duplicate the original clip. For me, the feeling is not something changed, it's just a bit like a loop. What you can do now is cutting half, keep one of the two part, and move the remaining close to the original one. It really extends the length of the video, but it doesn't really look much different. So I would do a second thing, is I move this clip to the upper layer and change the blend to lighten. Now we'll put in the middle. I thought it's actually quite cool, so I decide to move this one to here and to prepare this one again, and I cut this one to fit that one. Now we'll play it again. It's actually quite cool, and it extends the length. I want to put this at back side. I want the beginning has something a bit complicated, and it's a bit simple. I thought I want this one a bit quicker, so we do speed and duration. I want to change into three seconds, come quicker. Lets play a bit. That's good. The moment you finish this part, you can put this in nest again. It's okay. [inaudible] change the speed, reverse, and hit "Okay". Because I do duplicate and do the reverse, so as you can see the beginning and the end, and now it's the end and the beginning. I don't want it again, so I cut a little bit to fit and see how it will be. We finished the 10 seconds, the rest I leave you to play around. Next video, we're going to talk about how to insert a music and where you can use the light films. 13. Let's Make Films 03: In this video, we're going to talk about how to insert music, export your final film and where you can use this kind of light animation films. Let's start with this music films, as you are going to only produce 10 seconds. I will highly recommend this short film put as your intro or outro, if you want to select the music for your video. Logo music. What is logo music? [MUSIC] This is the logo music. Eye-catching, open your ears gives you some attention. To find a logo music, there are plenty of choice online. One is Royalty Free, which means that you can use and without any copyright issue. The other one you need to pay so you just follow the rules of the platform. To apply some music onto your clips, it's actually very easy. All you have to do is find your music, download and import into the Premiere, so like me, I already finished this process. All you have to do is just drag your music onto the soundtrack and find the right clip and cut in size. Get rid of the rest of them and that's all. Now we have music, but it feels like music just big cut and doesn't really like it's something. Now you need to think about where do you want to put your clips? You can put as an intro or outro, like our course video. What if I want to think this is an intro. If this is the intro that's changed the volume of the sound. Let's go to audio transition by Exponential Fade. Exponential Fade has its function to make your sound fade away or fade in, so as a intro you put in front can fill fade in, as an outro put in the end, you fill fade away. I want to show you the intro, so I put in front and again try. So much nature is fade in. Something is also missing because the video looks like being cut. We go to "Video Transition" and "Dissolve" and you can choose "Dip into White", so you can feel much nature. What if this is the intro of your company? You want to show a product as an advertisement. You want to put this as your beginning. It looks fancy. You find your logo, you drop the logo onto your clips. What I will suggest, you will put in the middle to the end and extend the length. What you have to do is around the logo is too big. So we change the size to 60 percent, smaller size is okay and we also gave a "Dissolve", maybe like this and try. It looks ice and here we are. We finished our intro. Outro is the same. You just put everything you put on the intro to the end. Once you finish your video, you think this is okay, now you can go to "File" "Export", you're going to export your film. "Media" first, choose H.264. It's a general format and give your output name let's say "My light animation 01" you maybe have a lot 01 and choose, "Desktop" and "Save". Now you see output name is My light animation 01, good. Export the video, export the audio, check the format, setting, "1,920" "1,080" like we do Frame Rate 25. We've all sorted, then you can hit "Export" and [MUSIC] we are done. Next video, I'm going to share some sweet tips for you. [MUSIC] 14. My Sweet Tips for You: In this video, we are doing something even more fun. I'm going to give you some tips, and the tips is very easy. The light source is fine you don't need to change. The background is fine. You still need to stick with the dark background. The rest of the things you don't need to change. You just keep it as usual. The only thing you have to change is your material. Why I put so many colorful things on the table? Because they are going to change your light color. Let's say this one. This one is one of my favorite. You turn on the light, you put in the sweater, and you try it in the dark. As you can see it's different. What if you do two layers? Let's say two layer. Wow, it's immediately turned into other world. What if I change this one? Look at this one. Have so many colors. First, let me try retro blue. Put on the table, and you have a look. It's a blue light. What if I want to mix up the blue light and something else? So I find this part. This part has a nude yellow-blue. You know what I mean now? If I change the cover of your light you can make a lot of different things. These are the things that I grabbed from my closet, and I found is really fun. For example is this bandanna. I really am a big fan of sweater because as you can see sweater has a lot of holes, and depends on the color and the pattern. You will see the result will be very different. Also you can do two layer because different layer has different types of holes. Once you do two layer your lights become weaker because you have double holes, and you will create another feeling of the light. I will highly recommend if you can find a lot of sweaters. Second things is the paper. Before we try wrapping tissue paper, and if you are not a person who like to dress very colorful it's fine you can try to collect these kind of things, like this packaging paper, or different colors of wrapping paper. This is cool. I really like to collect wrapping paper and different texture of paper. This is really beautiful. This is made by plants. Try your best to collect different kind of color, and if you can go to stationary shop they definitely will sell this kind of color sheets. You can buy as many color as you want. I love this kind of color sheets because it's so fun, and as you see that immediately can see your light changed the color. I think this so far is the material tips that I can give to you. Second thing is you can invite one or two people to join, and not too much people. Three I think it will be too much. One or two is okay. For example, person A used a plain light to play, and person B used a red light to play, and person C used a sweater. Three of you play together under the phone, and one of you guys press a button and burst the photos. I think that will be also very fun. I hope you can find somebody or find some of the color stuff to try an arrow. This is the most important part to do experimental art. You will never know what outcome it will be, and if you're willing to try then the good things is going to happen. I hope you like my tips. Let's go to the next video, where I'm going to say goodbye. 15. Final Thoughts: Hi, this is the end of the video. Congratulations, you made it. We cover quite large from abstract film, [inaudible] , and then we prepare a lot of material to set out to filming spots. After that, we are able to create the lights record light, import those pictures into premiere, and in the end, we made the film. I also gave you some sweet tips, and I hope you can discover more if you can find a time. Otherwise, I will be very happy to see your projects upload to the project gallery. 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