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We had to shoot a two line script written by someone in our class. It was an interesting project which two groups shot each other. Although it was near the end of the course, I still have lots of space to improve and many technique skills want to study. There were a great deal of advantages in this project. No one would ever follow a pessimistic leader, and the same goes for team members. A positive, “can-do” attitude is critical for the good team member. We arranged the division of labor ahead of time, discussed how to shoot each scene and even noticed every detail. I’m still recording this time. We also filled in the sheet to match our scene with our videos and sounds which I found that useful when we are editing in the following exercises. We found a place where the light was good so that the tone and clarity of the picture were perfect. Not only the light was very good but also the small number of people made the audio very clear, and the details of the audio very clear. We shoot a lot of details and tried different angles of scene which is very helpful to our future editing. We used very little time to complete the shooting, which is inseparable from adequate preparatory work and tacit division of labor and cooperation. Although I think it is good enough, there was still had some problems. In the later editing, it was difficult to lip-synch and screen switching could also be more natural. The final product is better than we expected. I hope that through this experience, I can reflect and improve in the next video production process and it is better to solve the same problem.

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From this exercise, we need to shot a footage and sound stairs corner. I found that creating scenes has become increasingly more difficult, both in terms of production and editing. Our group worked out the shooting plan ahead of time so the whole process was not so rushed. Our group members worked efficiently. We discussed how to shoot every scenes together and we have work division at the same time. I was alone in recording and radio work this time. Although we succeeded in recording all the sounds and shooting all the different lenses, I think there are still some drawbacks in sound recording. There were a lot of  noise so that the audio is not very clear. Even though the radio is very close to the characters, it can’t receive the voices of both characters at the same time. We should find a few quiet place before filming that can make the whole scene tidy and the voice could be clean. If we can record the dialogue and the sound of cards, the quality of our video can be highly improved. There was an another problem which we recorded so many times. It was too hard to match the sound and video together. We also forgot to try to use different angles therefore it is localized and many details were not shot. As a result, our later editors did not have enough material. We took repeated shots of the same scene instead of switching between different scenes, thus wasting some time. The movement of the camera could also be improved. It could be taken from the first perspective of both sides to make the audience feel more interesting. I hope that I can pay more attention to the details and make the video more perfect at next time.

Clip 1

1.1 original

1.2- I raised the overall brightness and changed the whole tone to warm tone. The character’s emotion matches this tone perfectly. The deepening of contrast highlights the characters.

1.3- I adjusted the tone to a cool tone and deepened the shadows. But I also brightened the highlights so that we could still see the character’s face in a mysterious atmosphere.

Clip 2

2.1 Original

2.2- I lowered the contrast and saturation to make the green of the seat less obtrusive. The picture becomes soft because of the low contrast and the high brightness.

2.3- I lowered the brightness in order to create another atmosphere of terror and weirdness. In addition, I changed the overall tone to warm red, lowered the highlight and raised the shadow.

Clip 3

3.1 Original

3.2- I raised the highlights and lowered the contrast in order to make the characters stand out but make the whole picture soft.

3.3- I lowered the brightness but increased the contrast. In addition, I have lowered the saturation, which I think can create a tense atmosphere. Dark tones match the character’s expression more harmoniously.

From every music, stills, videos, lists, sounds that have inspired or form part of my development. In the film, in order to keep the narrative coherence and the performance of the characters uninterrupted, from another point of view, in order to keep the audience’s thinking when watching the film uninterrupted.From the producer’s point of view, it is impossible for a movie to complete the whole film shooting in one scene. From the viewer’s point of view, the audience can’t tolerate that the scene in a movie has not changed at all. However, because the scene is changed from one scene to another, it often interrupts the narrative coherence of the lens, resulting in jumping phenomena. Special consideration should be given to the quality of products. I find that music is a very important part which rendering the atmosphere of the whole film. The mood, rhythm and theme expressed by music are consistent with the mood, rhythm and theme presented by the image content in the picture. Color is an important element in film audio-visual language. There are two kinds of color appearing in movies: tone and local hue.

Videos

The scene shows the character becomes a black swan, the music is amazing.  It shows the transformation. The black swan is not a complete symbol of evil. It represents desire, struggle, not cowardice, and not hiding, not suppressing all desires. The only principle of Black Swan is to pursue pleasure.

(From2:00)

This scene shot the world is a kaleidoscope of surprise and joy for an 8-year-old boy, Isha, who is communicating with this strange world in all the ways he can think of, and enjoying the generosity of all things on earth. However, Isha is a problem child in the eyes of adults. His grades are not good. His ranking in the class is low, and his mind is full of all kinds of fantastic ideas.

Stills

These are stills from the movie I’m with Cancer. Four good young Adam’s life is very successful, work smoothly, family harmony, unexpectedly, only occasionally troubled by his back pain was diagnosed as a cure rate of 50/50 cancer. The attack of illness, the departure of Rachel’s girlfriend and the sadness of his mother made Adam, who was confident in facing the illness, gradually feel depressed and desperate. Only the dead party Kyle accompanied him in his unique way.

These are stills from the movie Lars and the Real Girl. It is under the influence of “she” (rather than “it”) that the previously silent Lars slightly opens the dusty heart window for a long time.

Location

Library- Focus on one student/ From outside of library into the library

Elevator- A short wait can also be a long ordeal

Bus station- A people just sit, missed so many bus but he is still sit there

Tram- The man wear earphone and that is clamorous/He relying on the glass window

Action

Running/ sluggish play mobile phone

Character

Workers with formal wear/Students

Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. The music ‘My heart will go on’ is the background music, it shows the charm of music and deepens the theme of the film. Slow melodies, elegant voices and scenes complement each other. It triggers people’s thinking about love, happiness and the value of life. The sounds of waves and boats are also used in background sounds. A combination of natural and aesthetic senses to shows the love. The epic clips of Jack and Rose flying in the bow are absolutely classic shot. The shooting of this scene is half real, half special effect synthesis. The intoxicating red sunset in the sky is a live shot, such magical moments are fleeting. At that time, the actors did not have time to rehearse at all. All the shots rushed to shoot, causing some of the shots to lose focus. But the beautiful sunset is really a gift from God. Dust color picture shows the age sense and the beauty of love. The close-up of their face were taken later and the details were added to the special effects, such as their hand in hand and kiss. Close-up, long shot, zoom in and medium shot are repeated switching and application. It not only tells the location of the protagonists, but also shows the details of their expressions. There are some shot are from the back of the protagonists, it makes people feel like in the first angle of view which have more sense of substitution. With the help of subjective lens, the audience develops with the characters in the play. In terms of the setting and what was captured visually, ocean, ship and sunset composite a beautiful picture scroll perfectly. For the camera movement, the details of scene are slow and protagonist’s movement are also very slow which shows the expect and nervous. The lengths are slow, and they are emotional. Such emotions need to be lengthened, so they tend to be slow. Their world time is full of love and hope, which slows down time. But I think it is flawed, could be improved upon. The lens were switch too fast that make the audience see things in a blur and can not immersed in the movie. And some lenses are out-of-focus and blurring may be caused by switching, or the light. Although this is a classic scene, there are a lot of spaces could be improve.

This is the scene

https://youtu.be/0PUPneeCGhs

Making and Reflection

Making and reflection

Deconstruction-

Deconstruction

Development of ideas

Ideas 1

Ideas 2

Idea 3

Reflection of ideas

Colour Grade

Color Grading

Inspiration

I got the idea from black swan, it tells a psychological thriller about personality splitting. Ballet actress Nina struggles with illusion and reality in order to create a perfect “black swan”. If the overload psychological pressure is not relieved, the social health psychological problems will be formed. So I have an idea about Social Pressure.

Setting

-I think library is a good place. Student is a huge group of stress people.

-Another location can be tram. There are various kinds of people take trams and office worker is another big group.

Two symbolic groups can show the social pressure more clearer.

Character& Clothing

The characters as I mentioned I want to show the details of people’s action, expression and psychology.

Shots

For the shots, I would like to use mid shot, close up and extreme close up. Caused it can show the details better.

Sound& Music

I will use mute to show the a sense of stress. Natural sound of scene to show the sense of reality. Quiet Music to make people thinking.