During the rough cut of my project, I was so struggle that how could I make a 7 mins film including all cats that I shoot. And I spend long time to review all of clips and select most interesting parts. I am done all the editing including background music. When I look at it, […]
One of the most important thing in a film was the color, it’s brings lots feelings to audience. For example, one of my favorite Chinese director Zhang Yimou often use strong color contrast to represent different themes in his filmmaking. For example, in the 2002’s famous film “Hero”, despite the use of stunning visual effects, Zhang […]
Today’s class we got three different cameras comparing their focus techniques. DSLR, SONY EX3 and SONY Z7, I am quiet familer with those three cameras, but today we used those three camera to focus on the same subject. The result makes me unhappy because Lisha and I used z7 and the focus can’t change. Each camera […]
Screener text: Inspired by the shooting style of Mitsuaki Iwago, I made a documentary focussed absolutely on the daily life of domestic cats. Critical to my investigation and expression was the development of an idiosyncratic Japanese voice over; the cadence and poetry of which informs the project’s overall rhythm, tone and sympathy with my subject’s […]
I was quiet familiar by using Premiere Pro to edit a film, by using different keyboard shortcuts, I found it’s very connivence for me. Just want to share some shortcuts that I know. Edit S Snap feature – turn on or off Edit Alt / Option Unlink Audio / Video [Holding down Alt Key while […]
Color is a very significant aspect in a film. Different color brings different feelings to audience and make the whole film style different. The color grading can have a powerful effect while audience watch the film. I did a small exercise on Three-Way Color Corrector on Premiere. Edit 1 I want to […]
Light always is the important part in a film, for me, light is a way to express emotion, color, the style of movie and the character. In a film, the light not only about bright or dark but also for the subject be visible. Lighting in the film can help create the composition of each […]
The class on this week mainly focus on two important things to me : collaboration and lighting. COLLABORATION: As I did ‘The scene in cinema’ last semester, I think I am a skilled staff. I clearly know each member’s job and how to achieve each member’s job. During this week’s collaboration, I think we didn’t […]
After I talked with Robin about my last week shooting, he gives me some advices that I need shooting outdoor make a contrast. So during this week, my cat become the actor, we went to the Flagstuff Garden did some outdoor shooting. Before that, I was so worried that she will unwilling do that because […]
Today’s class we watched plenty of interview documentary. Robin mentioned that mostly student wants to do interview while given the project. Just like mine project, when the first time I told Robin I will doing a cats documentary this semester, he asked am I gonna interview their master? The answer is NO. The reason is it’s very […]