I have been upload the videos which I have edited for week4’s practice in Google folder already. There are two versions in the Google folder.

Both versions, I used a bland black video clips before the boy standing, this means the boy is also struggling with asking the girl for dancing or not, he maybe is very shy and the next shot jumps to the boy, whom stands up to invite the girl. The first version pays more attention to the girl’s reaction, she is very unwilling and even very unhappy. The second version uses another shot about the reaction from the girls whom are dancing as the background, I used this shot because this shot can be a reflection of the boy’s courage. He encourages himself to invite the girl and the ending is not very happy.

Of course, still many mistakes while shooting, actor using different hand to invite, the sound problem and so on.

Last time, we have watched the videos from other classmates, everyone has their own versions and different editing made different feeling. So I decided to edit more than one version to show and feel different between them.

We are using audio mixer today in class and it is my first time to learn and use audio. We do can get a better and specific audio by using the audio mixer.

Now Chinese Television and film production, rarely used live soundtrack, but take post synchronization, post synchronization is not from the original actors, but to find a professional dubber. But I was not always involved when watching film and television like that, I always thought the actor recorded live soundtrack to the television movie works can increase the atmosphere in the work, can make you feel more integrated into the story.

However, audio mixer it is helpful to record a better audio for the film and television, but limitations are still existing. It is hard to get the clear audio in the fighting scenes, and also the long shot while people talking.

As I think, I can use the audio mixer to record the audio of the weather, to make the film and television more true to nature, wind howling, thundering etc.

The last thing is I need to practice more to remember how to set all the button on the audio mixer.

Camera coverage, in filmmaking and video production, is the amount of footage shot and different camera angles used to capture a scene. When in the post-production process, the more camera coverage means that there is more footage for the film editor to work with in assembling the final cut.

For example, we are going to shoot a live gig now, and I need to decide how many cameras I will use and all the place setting for the cameras. If the stage is very big, I will choose to use as many cameras as I can to cover all the possible SHOTS.

Extreme Wide Shots (EWS) act to establish the area.

Wide Shots (WS) show the entire person or area.  They’re great for establishing the scene and allow for good action of the characters.  Sometimes this is known as the long shot.

Medium Shots (MS) frame the subject from the waste up.  This is the most common shot and allows for hand gestures and motion.

Medium Close Ups (MCU) shots show the subject in more detail and are often framed from just below the shoulders to the top of the head.

Close Ups (CU) show a particular part of your subject.  For people this usually means the shot frames just the head!

Extreme Close Ups (ECU) are much tighter close-up shots in which you get detail greater than the human eye might be able to normally perceive.  An example of this shot might be of the mouth and eyes together.

As many shots i can cover, as many possible to work in the post-production. Also, except the cameras for the stage, we also need some cameras to shoot the reaction from audiences to increase the coverage for the while scene.

A film = A series of shots
A shot = A series of images

Research on Practice 1

We all were editing video footages from Tuesday’s class, because I was absent in Tuesday, so I did not shoot the scene with classmates. I chose the work from group B. I used to watch all the original footages and mark or rename the footages to help me getting easy to find and use next time. Then I would watch second time the whole footages to make sure nothing is missing. The third time what I watched are only the clips which I have chosen and I need to decide the clips I’ll use in order. Next step is editing, a girl’s eye is hurt by the sunshine and she is forced to accept a woman’ help, very short story and I only used 10 mins to edit the rough cut. I watched through the whole rough cut and found so many mistakes in it, some goofs and feel inconsequent while watching. I tried my best to avoid the goofs like the hand’s position between the shots, the mobile phone’s appear and disappear and also their gestures. Since fixing all of these, I looked through my fine cut again, I still felt a little bit weird, I tried some ways and decided to add blank space between few shots. Now I am home and I have watched the final cut in google folder and I am still not satisfied with my final cut. Sad~~

Scene analysis 1

Scene from movie: Like Sunday Like Rain (2014)

Characters:

Women: Eleanor (Leighton Meester)

Boy: Reggie (Julian Shatkin)

Storyline: LIKE SUNDAY, LIKE RAIN tells the story of Reggie, a 12-year-old rich prodigy who lives in a castle in New York, surrounded by wealth but living a lonely life as his parents are frequently absent. Eleanor is a young musician going through the pains of growing up, who is having problems with her boyfriend and was recently fired from her job. This is a beautiful story about discovery and acceptance.

The clip:

Eleanor hears someone is playing the cello, she walks towards to the sound. She opens the door and sees the boy Reggie is playing the cello. Reggie sees her and stops playing.

Eleanor

No no no no no no don’t stop, it’s beautiful

Reggie

No, it’s really not, not felling too inspired for the cello these days.

Eleanor

So this is where you practice?

Reggie puts the cello back into the holder.

Reggie

It’s the best place in the house, perfect acoustics.

Eleanor walks around.

Eleanor

This place…… I mean this house is incredible.

Reggie

               It was built by captain Francis Fowke in 1896. He also designed the museum of natural history. It was purely a fan of big, overbearing swimming pool.

Eleanor

Why is it empty?

Reggie

       Oh, my mom was going to get tiles handmade in my orchards, or something rather. Guess she hasn’t gotten around to it. A lot of things in this house she hasn’t gotten around to do as you can clearly see.

Eleanor

Yeah, but in the meantime you could be swimming in it.

Reggie

No, not me. Don’t know how.

Eleanor

What? Why?

Reggie

Guess nobody ever taught me.

Eleanor

Well that won’t do. I’ll teach you.

Eleanor and Reggie both smile.

Scene Analysis:

The first shot in this clip is a long and wild shot, Eleanor is walking down the stairs, as she walking the wild shot becomes a close up shot. While Eleanor walks down stairs, she walks from the light place to the dark place and show up again which gives me a feeling about cannot wait to see where does the sound come and who is playing.

Then, it is a shot for her back towards to the cello voice room, when she opens the door, the shot changes to a close up shot from her front, which adds more mystique to the sound.

The shot jumps to her back again in case to show her moving, and gives us a wild shot about the room as well. We can see Reggie is playing down the swimming pool.

The next shot shoots from Eleanor’s location. It gives us a visual perception about the space.

All the shots while they talking are subjective shot. Feel more connective between them.

One thing I think could be better is while Eleanor is walking closer, the voice of the cello could be louder.

WEEK 1 Tuesday & Wednesday

What do you understand this Studio to be about?  

Actually, I do not think I have study the formal studio course, because I am taking 2.5 years’ study period in RMIT to get a bachelor of communication (Media), so I took the Making Media course rather than Studio 1 in the first semester, then I took the Studio 2 in the summer semester for only 6 weeks, which was too rough to me, I even did not learn how to use the video camera specifically. Now, I am so happy in the first week about what I have learn, how to use the camera, how to shoot your own clips with the scene paper.

What do you hope to get from it?

It could be excellent to learn how to express the atmosphere or the mood by using the video camera, how to handle the light while shooting, because when I was learning photography, the use of light is one of the most important factor, and how to move the camera while shooting, up or down, left or right. Another thing which bothers me is will we learn how to use the Premiere software in class? I do know some basic functions but I have not learnt it specifically as well.

What skills, perspective and/or understandings would you like to have developed by the end of this semester?

The skills I want to learn the most are how to decide the shot we will shoot and how to shoot them well, and for this week, we only shot with the tripod, I also want to learn to shoot without the tripod, on my shoulders.

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