Video & Sound Production

24/04/2024- 26.06.2024 (week 1 - week 10)

Liang Lina 0347076
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
Video and Sound Production - Week 1 - Week 10 /Exercise

INSTRUCTIONS

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LECTURES

WEEK 1

WEEK 2

WEEK 3

WEEK 7

Editing Exercise

WEEK 1: Video Editing Exercise

The teacher provided two Google Cloud Drive links and gave us a demonstration of one of them during the lesson, which I downloaded and practised after the lesson.

Editing Exercise 1：

Fig 1.1 Video Sorting Exercise Procedure (24.04.2024. - Week 1)

Fig 1.2 Video Sorting Exercise Output (24.04.2024. - Week 1)

Editing Exercise 2：

Fig 1.3 Video Sorting Exercise Procedure (24.04.2024. - Week 1)

Fig 1.4 Video Sorting Exercise Output (24.04.2024. - Week 1)

Off-site classroom test：

Fig 1.5 Off-site classroom test (24.04.2024. - Week 1)

WEEK 2-3: Framing & Storyboard
This week is Labour Day, May 1, so our lectures and exercises are posted online and we need to name the lens size for each shot.

Shots on pages 6-7

Wide Shot (WS)：

Fig 2.1 Wide Shot (WS) （2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Full Shot (FS)：

Fig 2.2 Full Shot (FS) （2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Medium Shot (MS)：

Fig 2.3 Medium Shot (MS) （2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Medium Close Up Shot (MCU) ：

Fig 2.3 Medium Close Up Shot (MCU)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Question: Why the bottom shot IS NOT an O.S shot?

Fig 2.4 Medium Close Up Shot (MCU)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Answers:

Because it is not showing the point of view from the perspective of the foreground figure, this is an over-the-hip shot. An over-the-hip shot is similar to an over-the-shoulder shot, but an over-the-hip shot places the camera on the foreground figure's hip while the focal subject is in an acceptable plane of focus.

Shots on pages 11-14

Extreme Wide Shot (EWS):

Fig 2.5 Extreme Wide Shot (EWS)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Wide Shot (WS):

Fig 2.6 Wide Shot (WS)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Full Shot (FS):

Fig 2.7 Full Shot (FS)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Medium Wide Shot (MWS):

Fig 2.8 Medium Wide Shot (MWS)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Cowboy Shot (CS):

Fig 2.9 Cowboy Shot (CS)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Medium Shot (MS):

Fig 2.10 Medium Shot (MS)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Over the shouler shot (O.S)：

Fig 2.11 Over the shouler shot (O.S)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Medium Close Up Shot (MCU)：

Fig 2.12 Medium Close Up Shot (MCU)（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Extreme Close Up (ECU)

Fig 2.13 Extreme Close Up (ECU) （2.05.2024. - Week 2）

15 Page of Question：

15-1： What are the foreground, midground, and background in composition? Provide an image for explanation.

Answers:

The front of the dunes is in the foreground, the main group of camels is in the centre, while the desert in the distance is in the background.

Fig 2.14 foreground, midground, and background in composition（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

15-2：What is depth of field?

Answers: When you take a photo, the part of the photo between the nearest and farthest objects that can be clearly imaged is the depth of field. Of course, this part happens gradually, that is, a range from unclear to clear.

15-3：What is deep depth of field? Provide an image for explanation.

Answers:

Fig 2.15 depth of field（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

15-3：What is shallow depth of field? Provide an image for explanation.

Answers:

Fig 2.16 shallow depth of field（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

16 Page of Question：

16-1：What is 180 degree rule (static screen direction)?

Answers:

The 180° rule applies to the relationship between one character and another character or object in all intra-pictorial spaces (right-left or left-right). The 180° rule is used to maintain consistency of screen orientation between one character and another in a given space.

16-2：What is continuity in cinematography?

Answers:

Continuity editing is an editing system used to maintain consistency of both time and space in the film. Continuity editing helps ground audiences in the reality of the film while establishing a clear and structured narrative.

The goal of continuity editing is to make the mechanisms of filmmaking invisible as to help the audience dismiss disbelief more easily.

Continuity editing, also referred to as three-dimensional continuity, is the predominant editing style among commercial Hollywood films.

16-3：Watch the video below. Does it adhere to the 180 degree rule?

Answers:

It doesn't fit, they don't face the direction of the screen together, but opposite each other.

17 Page of Question：

17-1：What is dynamic screen direction?

Answers:

When shooting a video sequence of a person walking, running, biking, driving or otherwise traveling from one location to another, the direction the subject moves across the screen is far more important than the direction the subject actually travels in the real world. In fact, continuity of motion has very little to do with the direction a subject actually moves. Video producers must always be mindful of the fact that continuity of motion is all about the position of the camera in relation to a moving subject. Depending on where the video camera is positioned, a subject who is actually walking in a straight line can appear to change direction, and a person walking in various directions can appear to walk in a straight line.

18 Page：

Shooting Exercise：Framing

In week 3 legde meneer Martin ons in detail het verschil uit tussen elk schot, zocht partners voor de schoten van week 2 en we moesten op elkaar schieten, waarna meneer Martin elk schot voor ons controleerde.

Fig 2.17 Framing（8.05.2024. - Week 2）

21 Page：

Editing Exercise: Edting Practise 3 (Lalin)

I downloaded the video, images, SMS alerts and Storyboard locally and then edited it in Adobe Premiere Pro, the requirement was to be within 35s, so I sped up the video to ensure the coherent integrity of the video.

Fig 2.18 Exercise Procedure 1（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Fig 2.19 Exercise Procedure 2（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Fig 2.20 Exercise Procedure 3（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Final Video：

Fig 2.21 Final Video（2.05.2024. - Week 2）

Analysis of triple-fold screen film

1：Lalin

1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 respectively? Describe each act with ONE paragraph only.

Answers:

ACT1: LALIN's first scene is her self-introduction, the isolation or bullying she has suffered because of her looks, and her lack of love, posting ps'd photos online to gain approval/liking from others

ACT2: The second act is when she remains alone, just one person, until she meets a boy who she often chats with and with whom she shares everything about her daily life. But one day the boy wishes to meet her and she is afraid to do so because of her low self-esteem.

ACT3: In the third act, Lalin sees the book that the boy gave him, which records that Lalin and the boy had met on Christmas Day and that Lalin had comforted the boy, and that Lalin had read the book after he had seen the book.

2.What is the inciting incident in the movie?

Answers:

Lalin has always been alone, riding the Ferris wheel alone, eating alone, all the while the online likenesses are growing, but Lalin is getting more and more lonely.

3.What is the midpoint scene in the movie?

Answers:

The midpoint scene is when she has a guy she talks to a lot and she shares everything about her daily life with him.

4.What is the Climax scene in the movie?

Answers:

Lalin learns that the boys and herself met and had a conversation at Christmas, and Lalin chases him out to find him.

5.What is the theme of the movie?

Answers:

In the age of the Internet, people are slowly learning to put on disguises, but the only way to live out the meaning of life is to face the world sincerely. We should accept our truest selves.

2：Everything，everwhere，all at once

1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 respectively? Describe each act with ONE paragraph only.

Answers:

ACT1: This scene is an introduction to Evelyn's family and background, and also the inciting incident, where she is haunted by her family and also struggles with her identity. Also the inciting incident, where she is swept up in the main event

ACT2: Act II depicts how Evelyn gradually begins to accept and understand her multiple identities. Through a series of fantastical experiences, she begins to realise that these identities are not mutually exclusive, but complementary.

ACT3: Act III shows how Evelyn finds balance through inner strength and courage in the face of life's chaos and challenges. As well as making peace with her own daughter and her husband.

2.What is the inciting incident in the movie?

Answers:

Attacks and sparring at the office and finding out his daughter is a villain.

3.What is the midpoint scene in the movie?

Answers:

Evelyn loses the fight, she gets frustrated and thinks she can't overcome it all.

4.What is the Climax scene in the movie?

Answers:

Evelyn discovers her true thoughts after a defeat and a supposed victory in battle.

5.What is the theme of the movie?

Answers:

In terms of cultural studies, the film refers to several themes. For example, it discusses the female characters represented by Evelyn, who are trapped and at the same time unwilling to accept the ordinary life, and rebel in various realistic and unrealistic ways, highlighting the power of "she" as a female master; for example, the film compares the behaviours of the characters in the parallel universe and real life, and shows the spiritual crisis of self-identity and other-identity, which is experienced by Evelyn and all of her family members. Also, the film compares the behaviour of the characters in the parallel universe and in real life, showing the spiritual crisis of self-identity and other people's identity that Evelyn and all her family members have, and it also raises the issues of family of origin, parent-child relationship, intergenerational communication, and the difference between Eastern and Western education concepts from the tense relationship between Evelyn and her father and daughter.

Off-site classroom test：

Fig 2.22 Off-site classroom test (09.05.2024. - Week 3)

Fig 2.23 Off-site classroom test (09.05.2024. - Week 3)

WEEK4: Audio dubbing

The folder consists of a muted video, and a Word’s file for the dialogues.

Off-site classroom test：

Fig 3.7 Off-site classroom test (18.05.2024 - Week 4)

Fig 3.8 Off-site classroom test (18.05.2024 - Week 4)

WEEK 5：

This week we adjusted the class time because it was a public holiday, meanwhile Mr.Martin taught us the use of filming and grouped us in the class, I was assigned to the first group.

WEEK 7：

Colour correction task

Fig 4.1 Color grading original video (05.06.2024. - Week 7)

Fig 4.2 Color grading original video 2 (05.06.2024. - Week 7)

Fig 4.3Color grading completed (05.06.2024. - Week 7)

Off-site classroom test：

Fig 4.4 Off-site classroom test (05.06.2024. - Week 7)

WEEK 10：

Shop-motion trial shoot

I was still in charge of filming during the week, this was to allow us to try and run a test for Final Project, so that we could get ahead of the process and become skilled in the process.

We're going to try both clay and paper cutting to do stop motion animation.

Fig 5.1 Clay (26.06.2024. - Week 10)

Fig 5.2 paper cutting (26.06.2024. - Week 10)

Share3 of my facourite Stop Montions rationales

REFLECTIONS

Experience:

During the exercise, I roughly connected how we make videos. We need a series of actions such as dubbing, music, color correction, etc. to serve the video in an attempt to achieve the final effect.

Observation:

During this period, I observed that these elements are all indispensable. Video is not just a video, it is made up of many things, especially the parts that need to be shot, which require multiple people to coordinate the matter.

Findings:

I found that cooperation and communication are the most important in making videos. A truly complete video requires the cooperation of many people. In our practice, we learned a lot about post-editing, which made us better understand video and sound. of production.

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