In today’s workshop we finished off the Haiku exercise and Jeremy displayed several examples including my video. People literally laughed at how bad my haiku was and I didn’t even try to make it funny hahahaha it’s just a very bad Haiku that I came up with in 5 mins. And gladly, I got some feedbacks on my work by Carry. She said she really liked how the texts were positioned in order to fit the lines and structure of the architecture. She said that created a strong sense of visual unity and was pleasant to look at. And she really like the BGM I composed for that short video and was quite interested in starting on Garage Band to compose her own music. So I taught her what I knew about Garage Band and the most basic techniques.
Then we started the discussion on the reading of this week which is the comics called ‘Blood in the Gutter’ by David Gauntlett.
Notes from Class:
The different types of panel-to-panel transitions are:
- Moment-to-moment
- Action-to-action
- Subject-to-subject
- Scene-to-scene
- Aspect-to-aspect
- Non-sequitur
A non-sequitur refers to an invalid argument in formal logics.
After the discussion Jeremy showed us an example of PB2 from a past student. It’s called “Who Am I”. I enjoyed watching as it was neatly edited with close-ups on the movements of objects. The general atmosphere it gave out was a quite of a casual feeling, combined with a bit of a documentary style. It was very short so I couldn’t deduce much from it. But overall it was a well made video introducing what kind of a person s/he was.
Then we watched a video on Youtube called “How Does an Editor Think and Feel” by Tony Zhou. It explained several types of editing such as the classic Hollywood style of editing which is to cut to the rhythm/beat so the cutting seems invisible and the technique of close-ups and holding a bit longer to let the audience to feel the emotions of the character. There’s also a comparison between a Star War sequence and an Ant-man sequence. In the Star War sequence, Luke is trying to control his force for the first time, and music starts to build up, it is cut more and more quickly to create a tension and when he fails the speed of cutting comes down. While in the Ant-man sequence, when Scott attempts to use his ability for the first time, there’s no change in speed of cutting to build up the tension so the audience would feel nothing relating to the character’s emotions.
After watching the video we worked on PB2 and our blogs individually.