It seems like rather than working towards one final product, I’ve leaned more towards creating a series of smaller experimental style exercises. This one explores my local main street at night, trying to capture some of the soft, romanticized atmosphere… Continue Reading
This was a quick exercise as ordered by Paul to re-edit the Home shots to incorporate voiceovers. Not sure if I like this, but the voiceover concept is definitely intriguing to me now. Home Version 2 from Jessica Xiao on… Continue Reading
During this semester in Film 3, I feel like I’ve gathered a bunch of helpful tips for editing. It became evident while I was going through these motions with my Home video that these lead to much more efficient and… Continue Reading
From Paul’s mini lecture on editing this morning, here are the three functions I learnt that I think will be really useful for future editing: 1) Expand all tracks (…) Not technically a keyboard shortcut but still useful. Instead of… Continue Reading
This is what I came up with for the colour grade exercise using the three way colour corrector: 1) Colour scheme: green // Lighting: outdoor, natural For the first test, I purely played around with the colour wheels for the… Continue Reading
In the wise words of Ron Swanson: Don’t half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing. Earlier this week, I was too lazy to go into uni and book a time slot at the edit suites, hence I had to resort to… Continue Reading
This past Saturday I helped Mimo out with one of her shoots along with Kiralee and Sam. This was my first time working as a semi professional (?) crew/collaborative effort outside of class in Film 3, and I found the… Continue Reading
After my slight existential crisis on Monday and subsequent discussion with Paul, he suggested that I start from what I know and go around to film where I live in Preston. I took this idea, along with inspiration from Nostalgia… Continue Reading
So I’ve decided to stop doing the ‘Week __ Tute __’ formula of posting on this blog, because as the risk of sounding like a pretentious art student, I felt like it became a chore and the material I was writing… Continue Reading
In today’s class, we were introduced to a typical three point lighting setup, and various lighting equipment. As usual the massive pile of equipment seemed overwhelming at first but by the end of the class I felt a lot better… Continue Reading