Shooting reflection

Shooting reflection

Shooting reflection

For the overall shooting process, I felt a lot in many aspects, and I also realised some parts that need to be improved. First of all, our shooting sequence is based on the order of the previous storyboard, and in…

Lite panel practice

Lite panel practice

In this shooting process, I did both director and control the lite panel, however I reflected more on practicing lite panel this time. During the shooting process, our use of light is varied. We shot in the most of day…

final pitch ideas

final pitch ideas

Our team finally decided to make a short horror film. The idea is basically like the grudge and the ring, which presents the ‘karma’, so our story will present karma as well. The story A boy called Jack was punished…

lighting task reflection

This task of ‘lighting’ made me reflect a lot. I tried to shoot in different weathers to feel the difference of the lighting.  When I was shooting on a cloudy day, I felt that the footage was easy to become…

photography review & practice

photography review & practice

I’m always attracted and inspired by the colourful things. This photograph shows a little boy feeling hesitant to enter to the pool, the colours appearing in the photo are the three primary colours: red, yellow and blue, and the blue…

colour grading practice

colour grading practice

colour grading practice I tried to make it in a blue tone and gave it a cool feeling, then decrease the exposure and white to make the image darker, also I put the vignette to make the footage more look…

ideas development

ideas development

I watched a Youtube video by Jessica and I was inspired by her intro, which she used the computer scenes as the intro. This scene (as the pic below), presents her social daily life on the computer (both Face time…

movement task reflection

In the first class of studio we are given a task of shooting a set of 8 silent videos responding to ‘movement’, and it requires no dialogue or sound. Thus I tried to find different things or use different ways…

ideas development

ideas development

  Since the last semester’s work made me feel disappointed in both quality and whole making process (especially teamwork), in this semester I’ve made decision that I would put all my efforts on making a good film and avoiding all…