The color is really significant for a film. Undoubtedly, in the filming process, we have to consider about the exposure, white balance and lighting, through those right way we may got a good picture. But it is not means that we do not need do some color correction in post production. The good color correction must make our shot be more perfect and beautiful. So I am really want to know how to do a color correction in a right way. I researched some useful videos from YouTube, and from this video, we can learn how to use fact color corrector in a right way.

One good tip I learned is if we’ve got a problem with one color in our film, we have to go to one hundred and eighty degrees in opposite direction to get read of that color. In addition, in the correcting process, we have to remember two rules.

1. Look away often from our screen. Because, our eyes will easily get used at one color.
2. When we doing the color correcting, it is better to choose a room do not have sunlight. Because the sunlight always changing in different time. We may choose a room have a constant light source, no changing and shifting.

Moreover, we have to use reference monitor in our correcting process, such as the vector scope and YICwaveform.

I will keep learning the different skills of color correction, and used in my film production too.

When I learning film 3, I always feel struggle about what I need to create, will I do a documentary or a drama? Then I growly realized that I do not have to limited with the types of film. Actually, we may evoked some ideas from the exercises and just create our own ‘film’. We might apply the methodologies of drama production or documentary to the making of this short film. When I watching one film, I was attracted by the usage of split screen in it, I thought it is so different and interesting. So I was thinking that what if I make totally a split screen film. That might be so interesting and challenging. So I generally summarized some usages of spilt screen, I’ll use some clips to explain it. Firstly, showing the similarity between different things trough the comparison.

The Second usage is the artistic visual effect of scenery in film.

In addition, the director used spilt screen to show more information in different perspectives about one situation or place to viewers in the same time, especially used in horror film or detective film. The audiences have an omniscient point of view when they seeing the film.

In week 5 exercise, I already tried the first usage of spilt screen. It is too short but not bad. In the new project, I plan to combine more different usages of spilt screen. The theme of this short film is reflecting the overseas life of student. What they are seeing in Melbourne, how they conquer the trouble and adapt this new environment. In order to make this film more clear and logic, I divided this film to three parts. The first part is showing the cityscape of Melbourne. I’ll select some symbolic locations of Melbourne, such as the area of Flinder station, the crossroad in front of Building 80, and the graffito street.

The part two of this film is using comparison to show the normal people’s daily life in this city. So compare with the part one, this part is more emphasize the action of people. Such as the vehicle they chose, the walking step of them and so on.

The part three is the essential of this whole film. In this part I’ll temporarily designed some scenes to reflect how overseas student live in this strange city and how they adapt this new environment. Those scenes respectively are the first time they arrive in this city, the differences they realized in daily life such as the transport light, and the effort they made, such as improving English through different ways, and the embracing situation they get into. Those scenes come from the experiences of myself, I will contact my friends asking more good experiences of them and choose some suitable materials.

This film is really challenging for me. In order to successfully and naturally edit this split screen film, I have to shoot so many footages as soon as possible. Also, the design of sound is not easy. I’ll try to layer different soundtracks in the same time to create suitable soundscape. Moreover, I ‘ll design a monologue of one people in this whole film.

This whole film will shoot by Ex3, I responsible for director and photographer of this film. Also, I need at least two partners, one is the protagonist of part three, and another is the sound recorder. I’ll start shooting from this weekend, firstly, I will complete the part one. I will observe the shooting place in advance. In the rest of semester, I have to keep learning more skills through watching some examples, and get some inspirations to help my shooting and editing. I hope I can successfully complete this film.

In the beginning of this week, I have an individual talk with Robin. I showed the plan of my split screen film to him. In week 6, I just have a general idea, not so clear. But during the mid break, I finally confirm the theme of my project. I decided do a theme of overseas student’s life. This split screen film divide to three parts, I ‘ll combine different usages of split screen in those parts. Robin gave some advices about my project, like the suitable actor foe part three and the sound design of this whole film. Also, after this meeting, I know how to use a logic way to explain my project in presentation. Here is the draft of my project.

Though the presentation, I listened so many interesting ideas from other classmates. For example, the project of Mona is quite cute and adorable. She mainly documents different cats, their life, actions, traits and so on. I believe she will do a really good and cute film. Also, the idea of Chin Yee Kuan is interesting too. The social software deeply embedded in people’s daily life. So this theme must resonate with people, and the film style she chosen is relaxed, comic one, iwhich is so good. I really expect the final project of us, hopefully, we both can create a good film in the end of this semester.

Week 6

This week we wrote a short script about documentary, I already post this script on my blog. On Thursday class, my classmates went to shoot two short scripts, because I already did this exercise in last semester, so I stay in the classroom and discussed my previous project with Robin. Robin gave me a useful feedback. He supports the split screen idea, which I used in my project. As he said, we have to evoke some ideas from this class, and create our own ‘film’. However, the thing I should improve is the specificities of theme. In the design of split screen, I am mainly focus on the daily general routine of people, rather than a specific and meaningful area. So in the next split screen project I ‘ll try to find more specific area to present.

On Friday class, I wrote a basic draft of my next individual project. Undoubtedly, the style of this project is a split screen too. Before I did the project I generally analyzed the usages of split screen, however in the first exercise, I just focus on one of those usages. In the next project, I hope I can naturally and suitably combine those different usages together. For example, I may use the split screen to show the cityscape, which emphasize the artistic visual effect. Also, split screen is able to show different perspectives in the same time. So I will use split screen to instead of frequent shot cutting, this must be so interesting. Actually, this is a big challenge for me, because compare with the normal film, the split screen film must have more footage in the same length. And the director have to consider how to make the shot be logic and not chaotic. I will continue consider and design it in a clear way, I hope I can finally successful complete this special film.