Week 5 epiphany

In this week, we shoot and edited individual exercise in a group of three. We played different roles in others work, such as a cinema photographer, actor, director and so on. This is a really good chance to enhance our cooperation, also let us know what we need to do in our role.  I acted twice time in the project of Mona and Xiaochen. Being an actor, the most important thing is understood. Understanding the requirement of director, understanding the role you act, and the actor also need keep focusing the orders given by director during the shooting process. In addition, being a director, we need have a clearly plan about shooting.

I used the split screen in this exercise. I think spit screen is pretty cool and interesting. And generally analysis some usages of split screen:

1, strong comparison between different things. When people use their own eyes in daily life, it is hard to capture the lots of things in the same time, so they have less opportunity to directly compare the similarity from the different things whilst they seeing. Nevertheless, the usage of split-screen creates the opportunity to audience. Such as the man with a movie camera.

2. Showing more information in different perspectives to viewers in the same time, especially used in horror film or detective film. The audiences have an omniscient point of view when they see the film, they will easy feel excited.

3, The artistic visual effect in film.

4, showing the salute for traditional comics form, such as the Hulk.

In this time, I firstly try the first usage. It is a good way to compare the different life style in one day of two people. I shoot several single shoots of their action to reflect their daily life: sunglass/ glasses, Pick up garbage/ ignore garbage, Auto door/hand control door, walk to stair/ elevator, paly computer/ writing on notebook, ear phone/ headphone, drinking water/juice

In editing, I put those shots in a logistic sequence. In this case, it reflects a real school life of people. Even, my group members act those actions，but in fact they are so natural and realistic.

Actually, I met a little problem in the shooting process. As we know, the consistency of different shoots in split screen is significant. So, when we individually shooting their action, we must notice the compositions and focal length，the exposure whether reasonable or not. However, I have not draw the storyboard of it, I just remember it in my mind. During the shooting I feel a little bit confused about the composition of two compared shots, which I will put to one frame. Some problems also emerged in editing. For example, there are two shoots I respectively shoot inside and outside. When I put them together, I found the white balance of these two shots is different. It is might be a little bit strange.  Furthermore, the focal length or focal distances of each subject are used different. So, when I put them together, I found the size of subjects is distinct. I have to zoom in the small one through the PR, finding a balance between them. Though the edit, I fix the part of problems as soon as possible. Due to the particularity of those shots, I did not record sound of it. So I add lively music to it, I think it is so proper.

In general, it is not bad work I think. And I learned lots of thing from this exercise.