In this week, we learned three new elements of filmmaking – staging, blocking and camera coverage. We have watched some movies to help us to understand what the terms meaning is. Staging is the process of selecting, designing or modifying the performance space for a play or a film. In the movies, blocking means that the directors usually determines during rehearsal, tell actors where they should move for the proper dramatic effect, ensure the sight lines for the audience and work with the lighting design of the scene. The camera coverage is the amount of footage shoot and different angles used to capture a scene. Coverage is important not only to keep things dynamic and exciting within the scene, but also to decrease the editing process of the movie. I remember there was a clip we watched in class. It was a scene that a couple dialogue in the building. The camera set up in the central of the cross way, focusing on the protagonist’s face. When the young lady go right way to talk with his boyfriend, the camera turn to right way to shoot. It was impressive clip for me that how to do with a long shoot. I found this very interesting because we have done the film work with different angles, and we did the editing process after shooting. So it inspires me to try to consider how to do a long shoot with no editing, and it also looks so smoothly with more information from the screen. But I am always curious how the cinematographers chose where to set the camera because the cinematographer could not make a bit mistake. I guess it need much more shooting experience and a strong ability to camera control.

The first exercise was Robbin given us a script and let us to set the camera. The purpose of this exercise is to experience the dynamic range and to notice the light source from outside and inside. For instance, the first shoot, which is two actors walk from the lift to exit door. We perceive the lighting inside is too dark, so we borrowed artificial light to enhance the lighting inside so that we could match the outside lighting. However, we made a mistake, the 32K artificial lighting is too blue that couldn’t simulate the sunlight. We made some change in both clips for color temperature that could match each other, but it did not change too much. In the second part, we think we did a good work. We find if we use short focal length to shoot this, the outside area would be overexposure, so we choose long focal length. When the two actors walk through the sliding door, we turn up a bit the aperture to decrease the exposure.
Through this process, I recognize that we should use the correct artificial source in different weather. For the second part, I think it is a good challenge to achieve long shot, and we make a properly setting up on camera tp avoid the overexposure.

Task Four Reflection:

In task three, I picked up some photography and film one video on the night to explore the how the light changed on the night. So for the next division, I am going to film the time-lapse video to obviously show the light effects. But after the presentation, I got feedbacks from three teachers. They told me the time-lapse would show off more about the movement, it will be departing the topic that I explored at first. To be honest, I didn’t have ant idea for my final project when I got these responses because I have already make a whole plan for it. I was confused one week until I replay the record. I noticed one of the teachers said one word-movement. That is inspired me to rethink the final project and an idea comes up to my mind. That is how the light movement influence on the photography. But there is a point should be clear that how to ultimate present the light movement so that the audience could obviously notice the point through the photography. Different people have different perspective to observe this world, so the picture as well. When I picked up the first picture and share it with my friends. I got the feedback that is object movement and the light. That didn’t meet my expectation, I want to put these two elements together. So I take the photo again, this time I used long exposure (20s) of each photo. Then I got the last work which is a combination with light and movement.

We can obviously see the traces of light from the photos. The advantage of long exposure is to completely overlook the objects and ultimately capture the light of night so that people could draw attention to one point. I picked up two different types photos, one is original, another is long exposure. So these photos could make contrast to show what is the appeared and disappeared. That will let the people engage in it and to notice details that never noticed before.

The final project has concentrate on noticing because the three locations that I chose to picked up are places that we have passed by everyday. We might have seen it, but we didn’t use it to for a media production. I use the technical to take these photos, make the audience directly see the light movement. In addition, the light movement could bring a kind of mystery to photo. From another point of view, this also meet the subject of the course – seeing the unseen.

Studio Reflection:

Looking back to the start of the semester, we go through different tasks and every task related to each other. Initially, we began to observe everything in life, notice the change things around, and think of what we will gain. After further study and exploration, I slowly found the value of attention. If you live in a bland world every day, then life will be meaningless. The value of attention lies in the discovery of subtle things, the use of elements which associate the relevant things and then combined into a whole, or find the potential implication. Thus making the world rich and colorful. At the same time, this also applies to our study and work, only to every nuance of the work is done in order to create a perfect work. For media workers, all the world’s information needs attention and to explore the deep meaning. We can’t wait until something happens, we should notice some changes in advance. That is a sensitive to hot issues and everything around us.
Actually, different people notice different things because we grow up in the different family, different background and educational environment. When we think of what we interest is, we can’t find it quickly, but just focus on different part of things, we may notice our most interesting things like color, texture and pattern.

Through these tasks I did in this semester, I grasped the noticing as the experimental approach. To be honest, I didn’t find any differences in my daily life. However, when I step by step to complete each project, I realized that the energy was great. One step related to next step, noticing could help me to find new questions. It let me reconsider the project in a new perspective. This project I did would remind people to notice more things around us, even it is a normal thing, but if you stand in a different angle to view it, you may find new things.

In task three, I picked up some photography and film one video on the night to explore the how the light changed on the night. So for the next division, I am going to film the time-lapse video to obviously show the light effects. But after the presentation, I got feedbacks from three teachers. They told me the time-lapse would show off more about the movement, it will be departing the topic that I explored at first. To be honest, I didn’t have ant idea for my final project when I got these responses because I have already make a whole plan for it. I was confused one week until I replay the record. I noticed one of the teachers said one word-movement. That is inspired me to rethink the final project and an idea comes up to my mind. That is how the light movement influence on the photography. But there is a point should be clear that how to ultimate present the light movement so that the audience could obviously notice the point through the photography. Different people have different perspective to observe this world, so the picture as well. When I picked up the first picture and share it with my friends. I got the feedback that is object movement and the light. That didn’t meet my expectation, I want to put these two elements together. So I take the photo again, this time I used long exposure (20s) of each photo. Then I got the last work which is a combination with light and movement.

We can obviously see the traces of light from the photos. The advantage of long exposure is to completely overlook the objects and ultimately capture the light of night so that people could draw attention to one point. I picked up two different types photos, one is original, another is long exposure. So these photos could make contrast to show what is the appeared and disappeared. That will let the people engage in it and to notice details that never noticed before.

The final project has concentrate on noticing because the three locations that I chose to picked up are places that we have passed by everyday. We might have seen it, but we didn’t use it to for a media production. I use the technical to take these photos, make the audience directly see the light movement. In addition, the light movement could bring a kind of mystery to photo. From another point of view, this also meet the subject of the course – seeing the unseen.

After the presentation, I received some of the useful opinions of the teachers on my final project.
First of all, I get the first feedback is to try to shoot the day and night to extend the video to find the changes in the use of light. In Experiment 2, I did the video recording of the same place during the day and night, although I got useful information from it, I felt the daylight was more single, and the nightlight was relatively rich and attracted the attention of the audience force. At night, a variety of colors of light can bring a different visual experience, and the video is different from the photo is one of the continuity, space and the concept of time.

The second feedback I get is about the nature of the topic. The teacher told me that time lapse is actually more expression of the movement of objects than changes in light. From the movement of objects produced a change in light, this is the nature of time lapse. In my opinion, time lapse contains changes in light and the movement of objects, both inseparable. Light can affect the shape and pattern of objects, which can also be reflected in the delay in photography, especially at night.

In short, this feedback is really useful, so I have a new understanding of the final project. I will also reconsider whether or not to change the final project. Maybe I will change the subject of the exploration, possibly moving the object how to change the light will change better. I will concern about it and make a little change quickly.

The topic of task three is from the end of task two.
1. How to use light to draw audience attention?

From task two, I picked some pictures at the finder station. The more thing I noticed that is light. So in task three, I would like to explore more about the light impact of our life. How to use light draw audience attention? So the first experiment I took some pictures at night from state library to Flinders station. There is the photography I took.
At night, we can notice some things we often see but ignore. Like the street lamp, traffic lights and some high building lights. These places scenery in day and night is very different. Light has a great effect at night, not what we imaged at daytime. The light could illuminate the surrounding objects and make a new shape. for example, too many street lamps could create a light line. From this experiment, I realize that I should develop a kind of sensibility to pay attention to things around. If I didn’t do this task, I can’t see this beautiful light scenery. But I was wonder if I make a video how to trigger their attention like the photography, so I make a video in the second week. I took some pieces screenshot. This video I make it speed up to directly show the light change in a period of time. Also, u can see I did it contrast between daytime and night to obviously see how the light changed and the light affects the surrounding objects. From this experiment, I realized that the change of light is inseparable from the movement of objects. But I noticed one thing that is I shoot all full view, maybe the audience would feel mess in the frame, it is so hard if they want to focus on particular one thing. so I keep going to make one more video in the third week, which is shooting single luminous object. I have noticed the glass texture and light pattern go through this experiment. However, there is no movement, can’t give the audience a sense of beauty. For the final project, I would like to make a video, which is a form of time- lapse video. I will explore the relationship between the light and movement. to catch the picture that the eye can not capture.

Each experiment is obtained from the last test, the task of the three significant significance, although it may not need to run around, but it needs to constantly think about reflection, to find each test may exist problems and how to solve The The first test I personally like very much. If I have not done this experiment, I may never have seen such a beautiful scenery in the lens. At the same time I also found that I have a significant improvement in camera technology, I will use a different perspective to build a good framework.
In the second experiment, I really like the city in the night sky, light exposure to the building, different colors have different meanings, each person also has a different visual experience.
In the third experiment, I found the details of the changes in small objects, the meaning of light, although not the second test, but also let me start to focus on a single object, because the object is small, the eye is difficult to capture subtle things, through The lens can carefully observe the changes in light.
In short, from these three tests I noticed the details of the usual did not notice, but also learn how to use the lens to capture things often overlooked. Of course, now I see the surrounding things will be carefully observed and found that the light produced in different angles the effect.

Through this mission, I think I can continue to be used in subsequent learning in school to read way of thinking. In everyday life just seen it is likely to be forgotten, so do pay attention, marking, record. In addition, after the discovery of this information element, I can expand their thinking to find contact where possible, so as to draw a map in my mind, absolutely not just a media information element, but a series of information combined into.

Questions:
-This task I just take photographs, but if I do a video or audio, how could I collect the elements to trigger audience attention or notice more details?

-How to use the lighting and sound to trigger audience attention through video

Before I went to the station, I was thinking that there would be noise from the train and the sound of the staircase and downstairs, and the sound of the ticket machine. But when I arrived, I found more information, these information are often around us, often we are ignored. Such as posters on the wall, graffiti, exhibits, advertising information in the corner, cafe posters. When I approached the train station, I heard the drop of the ticket machine, and I found that the noise here is not as serious as I thought, but the footsteps are really clear.

From looking over Jemma’s media I found that she picked too many special elements like vegetables and wig hair, however, I just picked the more of environments. But overall, I don’t think we have any major differences in our noticed and recorded. We picked some different because the environment determines footage.

This mission reminds me of the Week 1 of reading. It is very useful to distinguish between ordinary-noticing or perceiving. We often notice things that we are interested in or we can think of things in our minds. Thus, this way of thinking would be influenced to our exploration of the world, we may ignore some special details around us, and these details some time in the future will have a huge role. (When I take the picture back home, I will reopen the photo and try to recall every detail because the memory will always be biased towards interest). I am thankful for this task because I will continue to enforce this kind of thinking in my further study.

When we play all of our media back, Jemma found that the light difference between the ground and underground, the pattern on the wall, pink color and the contrast of the street. Lots of graffiti. Light creates direction. Also, she has a strong observation about the geometric shapes. In her piece of pictures, I found the varieties of watching. A painting that the woman wears red clothes with yellow hair, this is a color contrast. In the shop, there are different color wig hair. Besides, it is about the market food and structures.

By contrast, we found that we photographed in the photos have some similarity. We both notice the light in the different places and the contrast of the new and old. The more interesting thing is we picked in different locations but we all get one point- advertising. The Victory market is a place of consumption, but the function of the station is transportation. There is a film festival post on the station wall. From another point of view, this is also a means of consumption. Honestly, I rarely notice these rich elements in normal life. Although in different locations, people can still find similar information elements.