This scene is divided into three parts, putting on make up, putting on accessories and removing make up. I started with three still image shots of bath room counter full of make ups and accessories, tooth brush, bottles of face cream, cleanser, etc. Again to show the environment. Before shooting, I did some staging, I put make ups, accessories and all these stuff to create a little bit messy looking. In my presentation before I said I will try not to show the face of the character, but a blurry one is fine. So I showed the blurry face with make up on at the end of the first part. The second part is made up by a series of montage shots, These shots are all close-ups and stylized. The third part is just a simple event, removing make up.

During the shooting, the lighting is tricky. We shot in the bathroom, I found it’s necessary to shut the bathroom door, otherwise there will be a slight influence on lighting. Also after you do the white balance, do not take the camera out of the place because the lighting will change immediately, then you will do white balance again. That’s why there are some slight differences among the first three shots in the scene. I used the color corrector later to fix that. another thing I learned is to mark the position of camera if it’s necessary. This works better for continuity. Or you can choose keep rolling and shoot to edit. What’s more, get familiar with the location. When shooting, I felt like not comfortable with all kinds of angles and camera movements. The reasons are firstly it is difficult to shoot in a narrow area with a big film camera, secondly I’m not familiar enough with the location, at least I didn’t check it and rehearsal in advance. If I did so, it will be better. What’s more, I learned one more thing about premiere, how to copy and paste the effect from one clip to another, right click copy on the clip, then right clip paste attribution on another clip.

For the audio, exercise ‘making tea’ reminds me of sound from radio in distance. Then I ask myself what I usually do when putting on make ups. I usually leave the tv show playing on my laptop while putting on make ups, and I can still listen to it. So I get the idea for audio. Again I used the microphone in the edit suit to record the sound of a Chinese tv show I usually watch and used it as the audio for this one.

When I showed it Paul, he suggested to cut down a bit more to around 40 secs. There are some time problems in it. For the shots that shoW Phoebe’s face, I should cut it like one longer than the other. Between the shots of she put on lipsticks and the shots show her face, there should be more shots of her choosing make ups.