Class Discussion:

Last Class!! I am glad that I have come to this class because this was the last time I can get feedbacks from everyone in this class, and the feedbacks I have received from this class were quite helpful for my further progression. Overall of the edited and non-edited video footages, I felt most satisfied with the Pink video clip, I was not quite sure whether the green does create an opposite meaning with a particular subject, so I have shown the video to the class.

Since we have different cultural background, Hannah has pointed out green can also mean uncomfortable or unwell to them. So she suggested me to add another shot at the beginning to let viewers expect at the beginning of the clip. Although I have to use the hand gesture at the beginning because I want to keep the constancy happening at the very beginning of each video, I might add a shot of real trees and leaves after the shot of hands but before the audience get to see the character’s face.  The next time if I feel the location needs to be brighter, I will use an LED light covering with cellophane papers. This way can help me to soften the sharp white colour from the light but match with the location at the same time. Most important of all is that this way of lighting worked very well in the Pink version.

 

(Orange)Yellow – fear

The inspiration for colour yellow has come from an advertisement that played before a YouTube video, I can’t even remember what was it advertising for, but I still remember the narrator used a delighted voice saying: ‘yellow is such a happy colour.’ Yellow is such a bright, vivid and eye-catching colour. Usually, we can see it used for a logo or a sign, use it to emphasize something like a highlighter for example. However, we don’t often see yellow to be used to represent something negative. According to the survey on colours, almost half of them associate yellow with lemon or fresh, these two were the most frequent answers I received. As a result, I have decided to use yellow to represent fear.

The reason my final video end up to have an orange background because I haven’t found the kind of yellow colour that I want, the yellow I saw these days were very soft, I did test shooting with the pale yellow colour but I wasn’t satisfied, I want the colour to be very eye-catching. One day,  when I went to the toilet at level 1 building 10, the wall in the toilet was in bright orange which stood out from rest of my day. I guess it’s because of the wall outside the toilet was black and white which have to make the orange to look even brighter, but anyway, I have decided to use orange, the colour that combines the freshness from yellow and the warmness from red as well.

Filming: 

I have used an orange soft light filter to cover the sharp white light, but it was too orange that almost became the same colour as the orange background, so I have layered one more yellow cellophane paper to bring out the yellow colour. And that’s what I want:)

 

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