Getting dressed is another scene I made. I shot for two times and edited for three time for this scene. I shoot my friend Phoebe who is playing me in the scene wearing three different costumes. The clothes are mine, I ask Phoebe to wear them, and imagine herself is looking at the mirror.

When shooting, I was looking for different angles and framings. I kept some of the footages where Phoebe failed the acting. The reason I kept them is because it looks very natural. At first, I shoot two different costumes. They are two different styles. I shoot again later and added another costumes just to make it look more visual.

When editing, firstly I just simply cut the the two costumes. Then Paul suggested to cut back and forth between two costumes. And also cut down the duration of the scene to around 30 seconds. Cutting back and forth is a good idea, it is also actually in my mind. It can make the scene more visual to audience. The changing between two costumes will also make it less boring to watch. When it comes to time duration, at first I didn’t realize that it is too long. When I showed it to Phoebe, she said that she gets a bit boring to watch it at the end because it feels like too many repeating. Then I looked through it again and again, there are indeed some repeating in it, and this is not what audience wants. So I cut it down to 30 seconds the second time. It was much better, briefer and clearer. One thing I learned about editing in this is that cut tersely, give audience what they want to see and do not miss the key points, avoid repeating as much as possible. Also, learn to cut through the moments. There is not a beginning or ending of a moment. For example, when cutting, there is not need to cut right from ‘action’ to ‘cut’. You can just cut from ‘she is washing hands’ instead of ‘she is going to wash hands’, audience will get the message.

For the second time shooting of ‘getting dressed’, I used the ‘DE DO’ KIT to get some good lighting. It turned out to be a failure. During the shooting, I used all of the three lights. I was trying to apply the background light, fill light and key light theory into my practice. The problem I ran into is the overlap and nonuniform of lights. Finally it was too bright and too dark. So after few time of practices, I gave up. The other thing I might did wrong is to shut all of the curtains to avoid the sun lights. Finally I just shoot in natural day lights, it was ok. When I later talked to my classmate, Lisa. She said that Robin said if you don’t have much experience using DEDO KIT, you should start with using just one light. It is actually complicated to use three lights at the same time. For this, I decided to do some research about it, I will come up with another research post of three-point lighting.

For the audio of this one, I decide to use voice-over of me mumbling and whistling. The idea just jumped into my mind. And I really like the idea because what I’ve made is very personal and causal, so it totally fits. Because of doing one assessment in sound design, I found that we can record sound directly through quicktime player and the microphone down in edit suit. This made things much more convenient. When recording, I was too close to the microphone, so there is some buzz sound. To avoid that, to wrap some tissue and to be a bit further from the microphone are good ideas.