Tan Sing Yee/ 0359999 Exercise

25/05/2024 - (Week 1- Week 8)
Tan Sing Yee / 0359999
Bachelor of Design (Honours) Creative Media
Video and Sound Production VSP

INSTRUCTION

LECTURES

WEEK 1

Shot Sizes

1. Extreme Long Shot / Extreme Wide Shot = An extreme long shot make your subject appear small against their location.

2. Long Shot / Wide Shot = The long shot also known as wide shot, abbreviated "ws" is the same idea, but a bit closer.

3. Full Shot = This shot begins in a wide shot, moves to a full shot (seen above), and eventually ends in a cowboy shot.

4. Medium Wide Shot = A medium long shot frames the subject from roughly the knees up.

5. Cowboy Shot = A variation on this is the Cowboy shot, which frames the subject from roughly mid-thighs up. It's called a "cowboy shot" because it is used in westerns to frame a gunslinger's gun or holster on his hip.

6. Medium Shot = It's similar to the cowboy shot above, but frames from roughly the waist up and through the torso.

7. Medium Shot = The medium close - up frames your subject from roughly the chest up. So it typically favours the face, but still keeps the subject somewhat distant.

8. Close-Up = You know it's time for a close-up shot when you want to reveal a subject's emotions and reactions. The close-up camera shot fills your frame with a part of your subject . If your subject is a person, it is often their face.

9. Extreme Close-Up = An extreme close-up is the most you can fill a frame with your subject. It often shows eyes, mouth, and gun triggers. In extreme close-up shots, smaller objects get great detail and are the focal point.

Framing

1. Single Shot = A two-shot is a camera shot with two characters featured in the frame.

2. Two Shot = A three-shot features three characters in the frame.

3. Three Shot = A three -shot features three characters in the frame.

4. Over-the-shoulder Shot = Another element of camera shots to consider is the perspective of the shot. An over-the-shoulder shot shows your subject from behind the shoulder of another character.

5. Point-of-View Shot = AN over-the-hip shot is similar to over-the-shoulder in that the camera is placed with a character's hip in the foreground, and the focus subject in the plane of acceptable focus.

Camera Focus

1. Rack Focus/ Focus Pull = A rack focus is an emphasised focus pull, where the acceptable focus range is intentionally shifted from one subject to another.

2. Shallow Focus = In shallow focus is your subject is in crisp focus while the foreground and background scenery is out of focus. This limits your depth of field to create emphasis on your subject.

3. Deep Focus = Everything in you frame is in focus. This is when you need your audience to feel the scenery or particular scene elements.

4. Tilt-Shift = A tilt-shift lens rotates perspective within the lens and emulates selective focus. It can make parts of you image appear in sharp focus while others are out of focus.

5. Soft focus = Whereas deep focus keeps everything in focus, and shallow focus keeps something in focus, soft focus shots keep nothing in 100% sharp focus. This is caused by either a flaw in the lens itself or through special filters.

6. Split Diopter = A split diopter is an additional lens element that allow for two simultaneous focal lengths. You can also achieve shallow focus in the foreground in the background, while the middle ground remains out of focus.

Camera Angle

1. Eye Level Shot = When your subject is at eye level they're in a neutral perspective (not superior or inferior). This mimics how we see people in real life).

2. Low Angle Shot = Frames the subject from a low camera height looking up at them. These camera shots most often emphasise power dynamics between characters. A superior character with the upper hand is often framed from down low.

3. High Angle Shot = The camera points down at your subject. It usually creates a feeling of inferiority, or looking down on your subject. There are creative expressions of this type of angle the can vary depending on its context.

4. Hip Level Shot = Is when your camera is roughly waist-high.

5. Knee Level Shot = This is when your camera height is about as low as your subject's knees. They can emphasise a chracter superiority if paired with a low angle.

6. Ground Level Shot = Is when your camera's height is on ground level with your subject. Needless to say, this shot captures what's going on the goring your subject stands on.

7. Shoulder Level Shot = This is when your camera is roughly as high as your subject's shoulders. It actually much more standard than an eye-level shots, which can make your actor seem shorter than reality. A shoulder- level shot can maximise the feeling of superiority when paired with a low angle.

8. Dutch Angle = I zhen the camera is slanted to one side. With the horizon lines titled in this way, You can create a sense of disorientation.

9. Bird's Eye View Shot or Overhead Shot = Is from way up high, looking down on your subject and a good amount of the scenery surrounding him or her. This can create a great sense of scale and movement.

10. Aerial Shot = Weather taken from a helicopter or drone, this is a shot from way up high.

WEEK 2

Act I: Setup / Beginning
- To introduce the world.
- To introduce the main characters.
- To establish the dramatic situation.
- Leads to an incident that complicates the story (Plot point 1)

Act II: Confrontation or Build
- Known as 'Rising Action'.
- TO develop obstacles / complications.
- Leads to climax of the story (Plot point 2)

Act III: End / Resolution
- Ending of climax.
- Answer to all obstacles / problems.
- Trying the loose ends.

Week 2 Asynchronous Class Quiz:

WEEK 3

Lalin Three -Act Review

1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 repectively? Describe each act with 1 paragraph.

Act 1: Lalin introduces herself as a famous person in Japan. Contrastingly, she tells about her backstory of being bullied for her looks during her younger years. This made her self-conscious leading to her wearing a mask all the time. Finally, she moved to Japan where no one knew her, and wearing masks everyone was not weird.

Act 2: Times skips to summer and Lalin gains a lot go followers and fans on her social media, but she also faces new challenges, such as the struggles to live her normal day without feeling like she is being judged, and the feeling lonely. Lalin craves relationship from a partner. One day she received a message from a man named Nut, he was a graphic novelist from Thailand, and he wanted Lalin to help translate his work into Japanese. The man say the meaning of Lalin's name which means "the moon" and how it is similar to his drawings, this conversation makes Lalin had the interest in Nut. They started chatting very often and video call too.

Act 3: Nut ask her to meet her in person. She is anxious about it but she also agreed to meet him. On the day she was supposed to meet him, she felt really insecure about how she really looked and canceled their meeting. Despite that, the boy still asks the girl to read his book. While she reads his book it shows a flashback about how Lalin and Nut have interacted. In the flashback, Nut was wearing a Santa Claus costume because people told him because of his size. Nut was anxious about his size but at that time Lalin still talked to him. However, when they were talking everyone mocked them because of their looks.

2. What is the inciting incident in the movie?

The inciting incident in the movie is when Evelyn is pulled aside by and alternate universe counterpart of her husband named Waymond, who informs her of the multiverse's existence and her important role in stopping a cataclysmic event organised by Jobu Tupaki. It additionally thrust Evelyn into the centre of the struggle and sets the plot into action.

3. What is the midpoint scene in the movie?

The midpoint scene in the movie is when Evelyn meet Jobu Tupaki, who turns out to be her daughter Joy and they have a fight. Evelyn's realisation of Jobs Tupaki's actual character and the depth of her power defines it. Evelyn faces off with Jobs Tupaki's overwhelming nihilism, which puts doubt on her understanding of reality and her responsibility for preserving the multiverse.

4. What is the climax scene in the movie?

The climax scene in the movie is Evelyn and Jobu Tupokai in the multiunivercse. This scene reaches its peak when Evelyn, having understanding the futility of fighting anger with anger, instead choose to embrace Jobu Tupaki with compassion and empathy.

5. What is the theme of the movie?

The theme of the movie is "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" is love, empathy, and acceptance in the face of fragmentation of life, and we can lean to acceptance, forgiveness and strength of love.

Week 3 Quiz:

WEEK 4

Stage of Film Production

Development

- The creation, writing , organising and planning stage of a project.

- A preliminary budget is made, key cases are attached, key creatives are chosen, main location are scouted and multiple script drafts may be written.

- It's all the groundwork to show what the project will be and how much it will cost to make.

- Can take months or even years to get the project free-lit and move into pre production.

- The crew involved in the development stage is quite minimal, just a small group of creatives and executives crafting the story and associated budget.

Pre-Production

-The planing stage.

-Elements of video production such as the script, casting, location scouting, equipment and crew, and the shot list all happen during this stage.

- Having a strong concept is essential, spending the appropriate amount of time before full-scale production begins is necessary to nail down the concept.

Production

- The actual filming of the film, as known as the principle shoot.

- The production company brings the crew, equipment, talent actor and all necessary props out to the location and captures all the footage necessary.

Post-Production

- During this stage, the footage is edited, the sound is mixed, visual effect are added, a soundtrack is composed, titles are created and the project is completed, and prepared for distribution.

-Begins while the shoot is still going. This helps to identify problems with the footage or any gaps in the story while the shoot is still happening.

Distribution

- The process of making a movie available for viewing by the audience.

- The film may be exhibited directly to the public either through a movie theatre or television, or streaming.

Week 4 quiz:

EXERCISE

1. Download footage: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LI54P6zPIcdXOPpzChp637Fk3NRvVdoW

2. Create new premiere pro project

3. Import footage into premiere pro

4. Arrange shots on the timeline in the proper order

5. Export video

Exercise 1 - Mints

1. Create new project - Name mints project

2. Window - Workspaces - Assembly

3. Import the downloaded files by dragging in - Double clock the imported folders - Drag the video page from the program monitor to the timeline panel

4. Play the video to the end - Double click on the second Video - Click insert

5. Repeat the steps until all videos are inserted

6. Export the video ( File - Export - Media - Format: H264 - Change the Output Name - Export)

Figure 1.1: Process of the first exercise - Mints

Figure 1.2: Exporting the video - Mints

Final Outcome of Exercise 1 - Mints

Exercise 2 - Doritos

Figure 2.1: Process of the second exercise - Doritos

Figure 2.2: Exporting the video - Doritos

Final Outcome of Exercise 2 - Dorritos

WEEK 2: Editing Exercise - Lalin

For this exercise, we obtained the footage from Google drive File. Our task is to extract the required parts, trim them and combine them into a video. The final video length must be approximately 35 seconds.

Download Footage from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uWI7MHrD1OMf-ZTxtRMcD3HjJmOGVbgZ

How to trim video?

1. Use mark in toll to mark and in point: Drag the play hend to the frame that wanted. Click the mark in button or press the 'I' shortcut key.

2. Use mark out tool to mark an out point: Drag the play head to the frame that wanted. Click the mark out button or press the 'O' shortcut key.

3. Insert the trimmed video by clicking the insert icon in the source panel or citing the shortcut key ','.