October 2014

There were 2 posts published in October 2014.

Film/ TV2 – Analysis/ Reflection 5 #2

“In 200 words or less please outline your goals, desires – what you want to get out of this semester. You will review this later in the course. You may rethink this dramatically – this is a good thing.”

You were asked this at the beginning of the semester. Now, could you review constructively what you got from this semester – has the course lived up to your expectations, delivered what you expected, maybe even surpassed it?

Documentary did not interest me as much as drama at first. I found so abstract from developing ideas to building up the film. We did not follow everything we planned in the treatment. Making documentary is way more intuitive and inventive than I expected. It is more like how we improvise the interviews or research we have about the subject throughout the production. There is way less planning to be done compared to making a fiction film. I feel totally different on the documentary structure while shooting and when I start editing. I always find many more other perspective to portray the subject if I arrange the same materials in another way. The feeling of the film changes everytime I watch it. Producing a document can be very much concerned with the filmmakers ‘ personalities and emotion responses rather than the factual information. Another interesting thing in making documentary is that how we evoke the subject’s desire to be in the film from wanting to be wanted. I feel successful when my subject becomes far more excited in showing and revealing more stuff in front of the camera. I fall in love with documentaries and the course has definitely surpassed what I expected.

 

Film/ TV2 – Analysis/ Reflection 5 #1

As per lecture –  in a sequence you’ve called ‘colour’ you will have clips that are indicative of a particular colour or lighting state. To the right of that clip you will have that same clip repeated 2 or more times with different colour grades on it. 

Take screen grabs of each clip then upload to your blog the series of stills that show us ‘before and afters’ of your colour grading. Provide a few different examples of at least two different clips – each with a description of what you did to the clip and why.

Before
After
 
 I adjusted the colour temperature to a small degree of cooler level to make contrast the kitchen scene with the warmer tone in the dining area. I lowered the brightness as the ceramic wall in the before clip was slightly overexposed. I increased the contrast to make the bamboo baskets more prominent from other objects.
 
Before
 
After
 
I used the Three-Way Colour Corrector by shifting the handle towards pink colour to neutralise the green cast in the background. The green tint makes the kitchen look rather unclean. I adjusted a little sharper contrast to remove the white mist like feeling in the before frame. The dumplings look undesirable dull and doesn’t look appetising. To enhance the colour of the dumplings, which should be kind of white in the clip, I used the white balance option in the Fast Color Corrector.  I clicked the eyedropper tool on the dumplings.