Video & Sound Production / Exercises
25.8.2021 - 24.11.2021 (Week 1 - Week 14)
Lew Se Win / 0347637 / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Video and Sound Production
Exercises
LECTURES
Mr. Martin started this week's lecture by giving us a detailed briefing about this module. Time-based project includes pre-production, production and post-production.
- Idea development
- Story
- Storyboard
- Visual reference
- Location/Props
- Lighting
- Costume
- Principal Shooting
- Offline editing
- Online editing
- Audio editing
Mr. Martin introduced the earliest cinema, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumiere Brothers, 1896). When the motion picture camera was invented, the filmmakers turned to dramatic presentations (filmed play). However, filmmaker soon realized that it was flat on 3 dimensional objects. So they break up the action into shots and sequences to create fragments of reality.
- Cinema technique
- Manipulating shots and sequence that isolating part of it to look at and in what order to see them. - Cinematography
- Motion picture/film/video is made up of many shots
- Each shot requires placing the camera in the best position for that particular moment in the narrative
- Shot is continuous view shot by one camera without interruption
- Sequence is a series of scenes or shots, complete in itself
- Scene defines the place or setting where the action is laid
- A scene may consist of series of shots or sequences depicting a continuous event
- Wide Shot (WS)
- Entire subject and important objects
- Beginning of a scene = "establishing shot" - Medium Shot (MS)
- Subjects that are important to understanding
- Gesture and expression - Medium Close-Up Shot (MCU)
- Midway between waist and shoulder to above head - Over the Should Shot (OS)
- From behind the shoulder of another person - Extreme Wide Shot (EWS)
- Board view of the surroundings around the character
- Convey scale, distance and geographical location
- Where character is in his/her environment - Medium Wide Shot (MWS)
- Character usually cut off across the legs above or below the knees
- Physical setting in which the action is taking place
- Nice balance of figure and surrounding - Close-Up Shot (CU)
- Isolate the most important part
- Head (expression)
- Small object (details) - Extreme Close-Up Shot (ECU)
- Single out a portion of the face
- Magnifies a detail
- Most important detail
- Increase the drama
- Increase impact on a situation
- Allow the viewer to see necessary picture information more clearly
- Rule of thirds
- Divide the frame into thirds both horizontally and vertically
- The points where the vertical and horizontal lines cross are aesthetically pleasing spots to place subjects or to have perspective lines converge - Subject Angle
- Facial modeling is best when the subject is turned 45° (3/4 angling)
- 3 dimensional solidity is most pronounced when 2 or more surfaces are photographed
- Parallel lines diminish and converge preferably toward the right to ensure that the viewer's eyes are carried into the distance
- Eye-level angle
- Low angle shot
- Make a character look bigger, stronger, or more noble
- Gives the impression of height - High angle shot
- Make a character look smaller, younger, weak, confused and more childlike
- Dynamic Screen Direction
- Constant screen travel depicts subject motion in one direction only
- Show progression - Static Screen Direction
- Relation to the 180° rule
- Enforce the camera to stay on a horizontal axis (Line of Action)
- Not cross-section
- Disorient the viewer
We are required to download some footage given by Mr. Martin on google drive. Mr. Martin guided us to arrange the shots on timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro with correct order.
Footage link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LI54P6zPIcdXOPpzChp637Fk3NRvVdoW?usp=sharing
After that, we are given another file with different footage. This time, we are required to arrange the shots by ourselves.
Footage link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wwRBWvPRQonTRY3YmAbumYNxMsTQwR32?usp=sharing
We are required to shoot 8 different shots to achieve the objective of shooting good composition in this exercise.
- Low angle wide shot
- Frontal medium close up shot (soft background)
- Frontal medium shot (soft background)
- Extreme close-up shot
- Profile medium shot (soft background)
- 3/4 angling medium close up shot (with blurry/soft foreground)
- Close-up shot
- Eye-level medium-wide shot
We are assigned to view the original video of My name is "LALIN" short film. After that, we are required to download the footage shot by seniors and edit the shots in order using Adobe Premier Pro.
We are assigned to watch "Bunny new burrow" on YouTube and write down the plot segmentation of the story.
Videos link: https://youtu.be/nOyKA4ip7TU
Plot Segmentation
- Bunny is planning her home design in the new burrow
- Marmot come into the new burrow
- Marmot showed her the detailed blueprint of his burrow
- Marmot invite bunny to his burrow
- Bunny compared her sketches with marmot's burrow
- Rat come in to invite her to the rat burrow too
- Bunny feel embarrassed with her sketches
- Bunny run away with digging a deeper burrow
- Bunny break into other animals' burrow (porcupine, frog, lizard and ants)
- Bunny do not dare to knock the door
- Bunny found a new place to build her house
- But, water flow into her burrow when she starts digging
- Bunny call for help
- Badger called other animals
- They helped bunny to escape
- Bunny appreciate their help
- Bunny showed them the floor plan
- Rats helped her to redesign
- Neighbors helped her to set up a new burrow
We are assigned to shoot a dance video with different shots and angles.
- Wide Shot - High Angle
- 3 Single Full Body Shots - Eye Level
- Medium Shot - Eye Level
- Medium Close-up Shot - Eye Level
- Close-up Shot - Eye Level
- Extreme Close-up Shot - Eye Level
- Wide Shot - Low angle
Week 3
Mr. Martin advised me to take a step back for a side shot. My legs should not be cut off.
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