This was the last class exercise we did together and was probably the best one of all. We spent the longest time on setting up lighting, eventually using one white board and three black boards to get the ideal look. The effort we spent on these boards were definitely worth it because the final effect was really cool. The whole…
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Reflection on Exercise 15
Our group did the script BARNEY, which was a really intense scene like something from a Mission Impossible film. Here’s the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AS2bC0tpAgqVGy5u1D3MPqw8TlkYW4EX/view?usp=sharing We spent almost 1hr and 30 mins just to get the lighting right. It’s probably the longest time I’ve ever had on designing lighting and as a result, the lighting looked brilliant and perfectly suitable for the…
Reflection on Project 2
Here’s our original scene: Here’s the link to the script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10kBknzmSgpot3bC8ZsOMrtUO0V-xxHmq/view?usp=sharing Since we didn’t have to prepare a Mrs. Bates this time, we didn’t spend much time on props. However, we spent ages looking for an ideal location to film at. The problem we had for this one was the direction of the lighting. We filmed all of governor Kobayashi’s…
Reflection on Project 1
Here’s our recreation scene of Hitchcock’s Psycho: The worst struggle we had while shooting was to darken the background, which was the metal door. We could not recreate the scene exactly because the garage was really tiny and had a different structure than the basement in Psycho, so we decided to make Lila Crane appear from the dark. We spent a…
Assignment 3
Week 5 Reflection http://www.mediafactory.org.au/yuhan-liang/2018/04/16/week-5-reflection/ Week 6 Reflection http://www.mediafactory.org.au/yuhan-liang/2018/04/23/week-6-reflection/ Basic Research Project http://www.mediafactory.org.au/yuhan-liang/2018/04/27/basic-research-project-cinematographer-emmanuel-lubezki/ Presentation Summary http://www.mediafactory.org.au/yuhan-liang/2018/04/27/presentation-summary/ Response to a Group’s Presentation http://www.mediafactory.org.au/yuhan-liang/2018/04/23/response-to-a-presentation/
Presentation Summary
We decided to explore the use of lighting in different genres and how lighting speaks for a genre by decomposing and analyzing some lighting prototypes in representative films of their genres. Firstly we brainstormed different genres that we could possibly explore and then researched examples of each. We watched some clips of these different films, noting down on the common…
Basic Research Project – Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki
Emmanuel Lubezki, a Mexican cinematographer, who was nominated eight times for the Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards and won three times in this category for Gravity (2013), Birdman (2014) and The Revenant (2015). He is known for his innovative uses of natural lighting and continuous uninterrupted shots in cinematography. Lubezcki does not have a noticeable style as he usually…
Response to a Presentation
I especially liked Jacky, Brews, Max and Matt’s group. I think it’s because they haven’t come up with too many plans and give possibilities to . The idea of doing an intense dialogue in the context of a science fiction setting sounds really cool. Their inspiration are mostly clips from Blade Runner 2049 and The Dark Knight, both films are…
Week 6 Reflection
In this week’s practical class, we set up a dark set to test out different lighting’s effects on the subject’s face and learned how to achieve those effects. Sylvia and I were assigned to be on the camera. Our main task was to adjust the f stop every time for the camera to adapt to the lighting so it would…
Week 5 Reflection
This week we got into groups to film the same script in different locations. The purpose of this task is for us to figure out how the direction of the sun would affect the camera coverage. The locations are the east and west foyers of building 9. So in the morning the sun comes up from the east, the west…