Week 17

• Welcome
• Attendance

TFM 327 / 627

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Week 1

1. Welcome

2. Attendance

3. Screen section of “The Cutting Edge”

4. Screen “History of Cutting…”

Week 2

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Brief DV 101 presentation
• Davinci Resolve Survey Tour
• Project 1 assigned. Discussions in lab time.
• Reading
• How Hollywood Is Racing to Catch Up With Netflix
• TFM Alumni Chris Peterson on editing American Crime Story (link fixed)
• The Creators: Thelma Schoonmaker
• Full workflow for editing the #1 Feature Film, “War Room”

Week 3

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Workstation accounts, TFM Public server
• Davinci Resolve Survey Tour continued
• DaVinci Preferences
• Autosave
• Keyboard Shortcuts management
• Trimming in Edit Room
• Trimming Keyboard Shortcuts
• Greg’s Resolve Shortcuts
• More DaVinci Tutorials
•     Premium Beat Ultimate Resolve Guide
•     Blackmagic Design Channel
• Project 1 Meetings / Lab
• Reading 
• Soviet Montage Theory: Exploring the 5 Types of Montage

Week 4

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Editing the television commercial
• Project Folder organization
• Structure
• Templates
• Mac 101 basics lab
• Google shared drives
• Finder Prefs
• Window Views
• Show Status/Path
• Keywords
• Favorites
• Reading:
• Modern Post 3.1-3.3
• ART OF THE CUT with the assistant editors and VFX editors of Kingsman: The Golden Circle
• ART OF THE CUT: editing Grand Tour and Top Gear with Dan James

10 Lessons from the Top Film Editors

The History of Cutting and the birth of Continuity Editing

Week 5

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Workflow Presentation
• DaVinci Clone Tool demo
• Screening DIT clips
• “Redemption”
• The Wacky World of Codecs
• Project 2 Assigned
• Readings:
• Modern Post 3.1-3.3  (c0nt’d)
• Essential Tools for Digital Imaging Technicians
• DIT: The Unsung Heroes of Film Sets

Week 6

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Project 2 assigned. See canvas
• When to Cut Presentation
• “The Rule of Six” screening
• Screen “The Matrix” office scene
• discussion
• Project 2 discussions
• Readings
• Walter Murch’s “The Rule of Six”
• Modern Post 4.1-4.4

Week 7

• Welcome
• Souindsnap
• Audio in Resolve
• Audio in Edit screen
• Faders
• Trimming audio
• Setting mono/stereo attributes
• Panning
• Setting levels
• Audio Effects
• EQ
• Telephone simulation
• Reverb
• Clip vs Track effects
• Proper Levels
• Dynamics Limiters
• Noise Reduction
• Fairlight survey
• Best Practices for audio in NLE timeline
• Reading / Videos…
• What is Foley
• ADR Discussion

Week 8

• Replay week 7 due to class cancellation. Will do ADR/Foley in a few weeks
• Welcome
• ADR/Foley Lab
• Screen “Foley Artists How Movie Sound Effects Are Made”
• Foley demo
• Reading / Videos…
• What is Foley
• ADR Discussion

Foley demo fo0tage

BRING SOME PROPS FOR THIS SCENE

Week 9

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Color Correction I presentation
• Color Grading in DaVinci Part 1
• XML getting to Resolve
• Color page interface
• Node Tree
• Color Wheels / Primary Grade
• Scopes 1
• Power Windows
• Reading
• “How to Become a Colorist” – Interview about Color Grading with Colorist and Educator Ollie Kenchington Bato Prosic
• Color Grading Film and Digital for Wonderstruck By Michael Murie
• Free Online Training!
• How to create your own LUTs in Resolve
• Modern Post 4:3

Mondays: Color Grading Workflow & Essential Tools for Colorists

Week 10

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Color Grading in DaVinci Part 2
• Scopes part 2 in detail
• Contrast Control, Pivot Control
• Curves in detail
• Soft Clipping
• Hue vs Hue
• Hue vs Sat
• Qualifiers
• Tracking
• Node types
• The campfire (layering, parallel
• White balance tricks
• Skin Tones
• Readings
• How to Use Color in Film: 50+ Examples of Movie Color Palettes
• The Best Order Of Operations For Color Grading & Why It Makes All The Difference

Colorist Demo Reel examples

Week 11

Welcome

• Attendance
• Discuss Project 3
• Resolve Lab 3
• The campfire scene redux
• Using Keys to vary node effects
• Black & White manipulations
• Groups
• Versioning
• LOG wheels vs. Primary wheels
• Importing/Exporting LUTS
• XML Interchange
• Project 3 lab
• Reading:
• Inside Professional Editing Timelines
• ART OF THE CUT with the editors of “Westworld”
• Frontier Post on the Indie Feature Film “Bokeh”

Week 12

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Lab for Project 4
• Coloring Q&A wrap-up 
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Readings...
• How to Survive Your First Color Grade

Week 13

• Welcome
• Attendance
• Fusion Lab!
• Final Project footage FX
• Green Screen
• Tracking Demo
• Final Project discussions

Week 16

• Welcome
• Attendance
• PIZZA PARTY! 
• POTLUCK
• SCREEN FINAL PROJECTS
• Class Virtual Picture
• Thank You!