The problem of filming in the night is that the environment is quite dark. Thus, there are lots of hot pixels. The quality of the frame looks low and rough. As a result, lighting is an important part of filming in the night. When the camera is working, it will display the light level. Base […]

This three style is base on a Japanese movie called Yentown.  Fading is the main effect of this movie. There are three different temperature of my project. For achieving the cinematic effect, I bring up the exposure a little bit, keep the contrast, drop down the black and bring up the white. The most significant part […]

There is one kind of Hongkong movies is quite famous, which is vintage style. This type of movies is always with deep contrast. Base on this idea, I choose three different effects. Because of using effects, I didn’t change the temperature. Otherwise, it would look weird. Green color doesn’t work well with the vintage style. For this style, […]

  There are several color grading in different movies. Bese on these pictures, the short film color grades in different styles. However, there is no specific date for adjusting. The final result only relies on the feeling of the editor. It is notable that character’s face was also changed color when the editor did color […]

https://vimeo.com/233649571 There are two parts in this video. The first part is about how to tell a story by transferring the shot. The other one is a practice of camera movement. For part A, this scene is shooting after the research of some rules about filmmaking. Firstly, the wide shot can show the environment and […]

  Every movie has their own style of filming. Different methods of shooting can create a style of a movie even a style of a director. Some of them are really attractive. One of the methods for the shooting is that it films details of the scene first then show the whole scene. In other […]

This week’s topic is about camera’s movement. To start with, we did a lot of practice about shoot moving people. Middle shot and close up are easier than the wide shot because people have less movement in those shots. It is hard to follow the actor as the same speed if he walks so fast. […]

Real Gone (a short film by Seth Worley) To start with, a couple transitions of shots occur in this movie, such as the transition between the logo and the sun. There is a shot attracted me a lot. At the beginning, a man was standing at the beach. After that, he backed to reality because […]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw51mSQxoe_MOTZmLXFjS0ppeTA The great Gatsby is a impressive movie. There is a scene of dinner time attracting me a lot. I will analyse this scene in several aspects, such as use of camera and method of expressing the story and showing frames. To start with, I will analyse this scene from the use of camera, such […]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw51mSQxoe_MNkMxdkxabzFOT2s From this class, we start to use audio recorders. Besides, we also add log sheet in film-making process for recording rolls, scenes and takes of each shot. We did the dialogue of Lenny again with separating camera recording and sound recording. There was something wrong with our camera. The light of frames were too […]