The goal of the Video Editing & Motion Graphics Portfolio class and included mentoring sessions is to help students create a capstone project.
In design education, a capstone project is a culminating assignment that allows students to apply the skills, knowledge, and techniques they’ve learned throughout their program to a comprehensive, often self-directed project.
Capstone projects have several key features:
- Integrative: Combines various aspects of the curriculum—such as research, concept development, prototyping, etc..
- Self-directed: Students choose their own topic or problem to solve, giving them creative freedom and control over the final result.
- Portfolio-worthy: The project is designed to be a showcase piece for a professional portfolio.
- Real-world relevance: Capstone projects should be based on real-world design problems. Some even involve collaboration with external clients or organizations.
In the Noble Desktop Video Editing and Motion Graphics certificate program students are taught how to edit video in Adobe Premiere Pro and animate motion graphics and composite video with Adobe After Effects.
Deliverables
- Project Plan
The project plan is a roadmap that helps you figure out: what you are making, what steps you need to take to make it, and the schedule and steps for completion. - Moodboard
The moodboard is a visual collage that shows the look and feel of your project before you start it. It helps you figure out and show things like: colors, look and feel, typography, etc. - Style Frames & Storyboards
Styleframes are still images that show what your animation will look like when it's finished while a storyboard is a sequence of drawings that show what will happen in your animation in a step by step/sequential fashion. - Animatic
The animatic is a rough draft video that shows how your animation will play out, before you fully animate it. It is typically made by setting your storyboard to an audio track. - Final Project
Usually completed within several weeks of the end of instructor-led classes as part of the post-class mentoring process.