Last month, we had discussed on my high school’s time that involved with media, right? Here come the second episode (on the submission week again, perhaps that’s the time when I’m lack of ideas and brain overloaded), let’s move on my Higher diploma program in Multimedia and Advertising, which sounds been filled with different kind of media.
What I had learnt that time, were a combined of basic theories on different areas (such as marketing, design and directing) and a bunch of software how-to-use courses, that made me had a basic technique on most of the Adobe software, but not an expert on any of them (Ps, Ai, Pr, Ae, Au, Dw, Fl, Id and 3ds max), which made me feel that I could use any of them if I had been asked to, but without enough theory background on how to merge them with my knowledge perfectly. For example, I had a more than 4 years experience on Premiere, but still lack of the ability of making my video looks more ‘professional’.
Starting with the more artistic one, Photography. Actually, controlling a DSLR camera still being a difficult task for me, although I had been through a photography course for a whole semester, with too many technical terms, f/1.8, ISO, 35mm, etc. Anyway, here’s one of my project in photography, the nail snapper.
My first time of been to a field trip for only taking pictures, a park that’s pretty close to our campus, using one of your little stuff to create a set of black/white artworks. It took me like an hour to get used to the loaned DSLR camera, which I had totally wiped them out of my mind…
The first documentary video that I had been involved, was a group project that talks about how resistants feel about the recent changes in CheungChau, a famous tourist island in Hong Kong, quite a professional one, right? However, I wasn’t one of the cameramen, the interviewer or the editor, my post was (just) being the ‘best boy’ as there’re 7 members in each group, taken care of the lighting and the boom, well, another kind of experience, I guess, at least having free tofu puddings.
The next one would be a remake video of one of the remarkable short sections of the famous Taiwanese film, You Are the Apple of My Eye, as being a project of the Directing Course that taught about some basic theories in the movie industry. For shooting a remake video, by first noting down all the shots and dialogues in that 4 min extract (with totally 3 scenes and 40 shots in total), then asking friends of being the protagonists, with planning and shooting all of them by my own self. Through this ‘film making’ process, I had realised how difficult of being a ‘real’ film director, cameramen or scriptwriter would be, that took me like 4 hours to film this 4 mins tidy video. Also, as the main actor had a strong mandarin accents, I had to dub all his lines by myself in order to perfect the final product.
Here’s a list of my other clips produced in the multimedia program that I don’t have to time to share the experience of making them one by one in today:
I’m E. Nok (ver. 2, an observer)
A Little Happiness (music video remade)
Audio production project on a Cantonese song
Second-hand smoking advertisement
Website of Newport Circuit
Website of the Final Year Project
Other than sharing my experience on Media, the next episode might be the story of how I start being interested in Media, or a summerised reflection on this media 1 course, who knows? Yet, I guess it would still be released on the week of project submission 🙂