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Before I go off writing away about my experiences here and what I have learned, there is some technical and colloquial jargon I have to clear up for you. Let's start with the easier stuff.
Here at the film school, my classmates and I refer to ourselves as the
FSU CMPA BFA A&DA 1
Each one of these letters means something, so let me translate it for you:
The Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts Bachelor in Fine Arts Animation and Digital Arts First Year
But basically we abbreviate that to BFA 1. The reason that this is important is because there is also a class above us, better known as the FSU CMPA BFA A&DA 2 - or simply, the BFA 2's. Next year, I will become a BFA 2 and the current BFA 2's will become BFA 3's. You get the idea. So if I say "I was working with a BFA 2 on their project" all I basically am saying is that I was working with an upperclassman.
Now, this has the potential to get confused with another abbreviation system - the way we name our films. It's simple really; here at film school we make four films: Film 1, Film 2, Film 3, and Thesis. However, since filmmakers are like doctor's and for some reason can't stand to write anymore than they have to when it's not in a screenplay, we simply abbreviate the word "Film" to F. As a first year, I am currently working on my first film, my F1. The BFA 2's are currently working on their third film, their F3's.
Now let's move on to some of the technical stuff. If you have no interest in the technical specifics of anything I make, you can skip this part and move right along. But if you have no experience in filmmaking want to try to follow some of my more technical blogs, you might want to brush over this first. I'm just going to list some terms and define them:
- Adobe - Company that makes creative software
- Premiere Pro - The software made by Adobe that we edit our films in
- After Effects - The software made by Adobe that we use for animating and compositing
- Audition - The software made by Adobe for mixing sound in our films
- Photoshop - Graphic Design software made by Adobe
- Illustrator - Illustration software made by Adobe
- Speedgrade - Color Correction software made by Adobe
- CS6 - Literally "Creative Suite 6"; the collection of the above softwares we use at school
- CC - Literally "Creative Cloud"; the successor to Adobe CS6 and the software I use at home.
- GarageBand - Free music software by Apple
- Logic - Expensive music software by Apple
- ProTools - Sound editing software
- Nuke - High end special effects software
- Maya - 3D modeling software for special effects
- Z Brush - 3D modeling software for special effects
- Da Vinci Resolve - High end color grading software by BlackMagic Design
- 1080p - HD footage shot "progressively" which means there is no horizontal interlacing
- 24fps - 24 frames-per-second, the frame rate of film
- RED - A brand of super high definition cameras now used in Hollywood
- 16:9 - typical digital aspect ratio (the ratio of your widescreen TV)
- 4:3 - old school analog ratio (the ratio of your big old boxy square TV that Grandma watches)
- 2.35:1 - the aspect ratio of film (that's why you get black bars on the top and bottom of your TV when watching movies, because 2.35 is wider than 16:9)
That should just about cover it. I know that this is a relatively boring post, but I don't want you to get lost in jargon. So NOW you can start reading my blogs haha. It could potentially be a dark place... so May The Force Be With You!
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