Video and Sound Production - Exercises
Video and Sound Production - Exercises
Wong Kai Yi (0340236)
Video and Sound Production
Exercises
1. LECTURE
Week 1 (17.04.2020)
Zoom session with Mr Martin and Mr RazifModule briefing by Mr Martin and Mr Razif. Mr Martin will be in charge of the visuals and video, while Mr Razif will be in charge of the audio.
Fig 1.1 Module Briefing
Project 1: Audio Editing Exercises
Audio Editing Exercise: 3-5 exercises, they are meant to build up fundamentals in audio. Project 1 is to fine tune the skills and understanding.
Project 2: 30 seconds Digital Magic W9 submission
Pick a Zach King video and dissect it / watch his Behind the scene tutorial video and pick a Zach King trick.
Final project: 30 seconds Stop Motion
Theme: PSA (Public Service Announcement); a short informational clip that is meant to raise the audience's awareness about an important issue
Theme: PSA (Public Service Announcement); a short informational clip that is meant to raise the audience's awareness about an important issue
Not a direct message
Tasks:
- Install Premiere Pro, Audition, After Effects
- Select a Zach King trick/video for Project 2 (with tutorial)
- Post 3 favourite stop motion videos on the blog (include reason)
- Choose not more than 3 PSA topics for final project
- Order a tripod
Week 2 (24.04.2020)
Storytelling in Film
Fig 1.2 Storytelling in Film
"I write in pictures, I show what others tell." - Jean Cocteau
Narrative: Chain of events cause-effect relationship occurring in time and space
Don't explain, just describe
We make sense of a narrative by identifying its events and linking them by cause and effect, time and space.
Story: The set of all the events in a narrative, both the ones explicitly presented and those the viewer infers, constitutes the story. (What happened?)
e.g. He is sad because he is facing a midlife crisis. He is called to fight a machine. - description
Plot: everything visibly and audibly present in the film, and material that is extraneous in the story world. (Why they happen? And how?)
e.g. He needs to fight the machine but it keeps getting stronger. He realized that he needs the whole family to defeat the machine. - explanation
Break down: Scene by scene, every scene is described briefly in a separate line.
reveal the film's overall structure and its smallest details.
We create the story in our minds on the basis of cues in the plot.
Week 3 (01.05.2020)
No class - Labor dayWeek 4 (01.05.2020)
Storytelling in Film
Fig 1.3 Storytelling in Film 2
Week 5 (15.05.2020)
Framing and Storyboard
Fig 1.4 Framing and Storyboard
New movie: 1917 (Released December 2019)
All done in 1 shot, continuous view shot by one camera without interruption
Sequence: series of scenes / shots complete in itself
Scene: place / setting where the action is laid; may consist of series of shots / sequences depicting a continuous event
Shots:
- Extreme wide shot EWS
- Wide shot WS
- Medium wide shot MWS
- Medium shot MS
- Medium close-up shot MCUS
- Close-up shot CUS
- Extreme close-up shot ECUS
- Over-the-shoulder shot OS - character
- Point of view shot - not a character but also leads direction
Shot list
Storyboards
Rule of thirds
Screen direction 180 degrees
Storyboards
Rule of thirds
Screen direction 180 degrees
Week 6 (22.05.2020)
Camera Angle & Composition
Jump cut - difference in image size must be decisive
Majority medium shots
How to avoid jump cut effect
can change the type of shot / change angle (more than 35 degrees)
Subject level - high angle, eye level, low angle
most comfortable shot - eye level
high angle - make a character look smaller, younger, weak, confused, childlike
low angle - bigger, stronger, more noble, impression of height
avoid high and low angle - might give a wrong impression for viewers
wide shot - slightly lower angle
Headroom - enough room for the subject's head
wide shot
medium close up, close up not necessary need headroom
Horizontal angle - avoid frontal angle, esp mcu
Frontal angle - confronting something e.g. boy - show me something, girl - twist (saw something) - took the impact entirely
Facial modelling 45 degrees (3/4 angling) to the camera
background - use corner to avoid one flat wall (a sense of space)
sometimes, you want to break the rules
WS 18-30mm
Zoom in
MS 40-50mm
MCU 45-55mm, never shoot with a 18mm (it will look distorted)
Lens:
Wide angle
Standard
Tele - horror, shallow depth of field
under and overexposed - avoid
underexposed - not bright enough
Week 7 (29.05.2020)
Change shot size and camera angle, but keep the 180 degrees rule
cut in and cut away shot: leads the eye to another scene
aspect ratio: 16:9
final project:
point of view: simplify, stop motion, art direction
2. INSTRUCTIONS
3. EXERCISES
Week 1 (17.04.2020)
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Week 2 (24.04.2020)
Plot segmentation (A4 size)Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rkn6rnsgc4
Plot segmentation exercise:
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| Fig 1.4 Plot Segmentation for REBOOT | Short Film |
Premiere Pro Editing Exercise 01
Tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRV9_TgRlVU&t=9s
My video after editing:
Fig 1.5 Mints exercise editing
Watch Toy Story
Analyze structure of the story (in class)
Analyze structure of the story (in class)
Week 3 (01.05.2020)
Doritos Exercise 02
Fig 1.6 Doritos exercise video
After editing, I realized that there are many short scenes although it's a very short video.
LALIN Exercise 03
Fig 1.7 LALIN exercise video
After editing, I am happy that I learnt how to do basic editing and it wasn't that difficult. I am also grateful for the effects that Adobe Premiere Pro had which saves time. I also like the navigation for Premiere Pro as it is easy to find and also user-friendly.
adding music + ripple edit tool
adding music + ripple edit tool
Fig 1.8 LALIN with music
Ake Demo Soap Ad Exercise 04
Fig 1.9 Ake Demo Soap Ad
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