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VSP Exercise

 24 September 2024 - 6 January 2024

CHONG CHENG TAO (0371072)
Video & Sound Production | Bachelor of Design in Creative Media | Taylor's University
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ASYNCHORONOUS CLASS MATERIALS

Week 1:

A camera shot is composed of the series of frames from uninterrupted shot. Camera shots are essential for filmmaking and video productions.

Type of Camera Shot Size:

Camera shot size refers to how much of the subject or scene is visible within the frame of the shot, determined by the distance between the camera and the subject.
  1. Extreme Wide Shot (ELS)
  2. Long Shot (LS) / Wide Shot (WS)
  3. Full Shot (FS)
  4. Medium Long Shot (MLS) / Medium Wide Shot (MWS)
  5. Cowboy Shot
  6. Medium Shot (MS)
  7. Medium Close Up (MCU)
  8. Close Up (CU)
  9. Extreme Close Up (ECU)
  10. Establishing Shot 



Type of Camera Framing:

Camera framing is the art and science of placing subjects in your shots. 

  1. Single Shot
  2. Two Shot
  3. Three Shot
  4. Over-the-Shoulder Shot (OTS)
  5. Point-of-View Shot (POV)



Type of Camera Shot Angel:

Shot angles specify the location where the camera should be placed to take a shot. The position of camera and the result would affect the way viewer perceives the scene.

  1. Eye Level Shot
  2. Low Angle Shot
  3. High Angle Shot
  4. Hip Level Shot
  5. Knee Level Shot
  6. Ground Level Shot
  7. Shoulder-Level Shot
  8. Dutch Angle Shot
  9. Birds-Eye-View Shot / Overhead Shot
  10. Aerial Shot / Helicopter Shot


Type of  Composition:

Composition refers to the way elements of a scene are arranged in a camera frame. Shot composition refers to the arrangement of visual elements to convey an intended message

  1. Rules of Shot Composition
  2. The Rule of Thirds
  3. Balance and Symmetry
  4. Leading Lines
  5. Eye-Level Framing
  6. Depth of Field
  7. Deep Space Composition



Quiz

Week 2:
Three Act Structure
  1. Act 1- Setup
  2. Act 2- Confrontation
  3. Act 3- Resolution
An important takeway of the 3 act is understanding that one event must lead to another and then to another, this unifies actions and meaning and creates the semblance of a story.

Act 1- Setup
The first act establishes the protagonist, their world, and the situation they find themselves in. This act typically ends with an inciting incident, which sets the story in motion and creates a problem that the protagonist must solve.

Act 2- Confrontation
The second act is the longest and most complex of the three acts. It's where the protagonist faces a series of obstacles and challenges as they work towards their goal. In the first half, the protagonist makes progress towards their goal, and the second half, where they encounter setbacks and complications (turning point).

Act 3- Resolution
The Resolution The third act is where the story reaches its climax and resolution. The protagonist must confront their final challenge or conflict and overcome it in order to achieve their goal. The climax is the most intense and dramatic part of the story.



Everthing Everwhere All at Once

Based on this movies, 
1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 respectively? Describe each act with ONE paragraph only. 

Act 1: 
Evelyn is struggle in her business and relationship with her family members. She felt her life is miserable and gradually falling apart. Then, she has been told by an alternate version of her husband, Waymond that she must stop a multiverse villain, Jobu Tupaki.

Act 2:
Evelyn thrust into the world of multiverse and gains power to confront Jobu Tupaki. Later, she found out that Jobu is the alternate version of her daughter, Joy. At the same time, her thought and the understanding of relationship with family has changed.

Act 3:
She relizes that kindness and love are the keys to defeat Jobu. She rejects nihilism, and choose to reconcile with Joy and Raymond. In the end, she back to the normal life, a place where she find peace and love. 

2. What is the inciting incident in the movie?
Evelyn is told by alternate Waymond in the IRS office that she must stop Jobu Tupaki and she was entangled into the multiverse conflict.

3. What is the midpoint scene in the movie?
Evelyn experiences acorss the multiverse and gained power and abilities to confront Jobu.

4. What is the Climax scene in the movie?
Evelyn reconciles with Joy in the parking lot, she choose love oever nihilism.

5.What is the theme of the movie?
The theme of this movie is although life are full of struggle and chaos, the love, kindness and empthy is all we need.

LALIN

Based on this movies, 
1. Which part is act 1, act 2, act 3 respectively? Describe each act with ONE paragraph only. 

Act 1: 
Lalin is a net idol who she always wear a mask in front of people, even at home. She can't stand looking at her own face. She was study in Japan, she feel Japan is a place that make her feel comfortable as wearing mask is normal there. More importantly, nobody know her.

Act 2: 
Lalin met a graphic novelist called Nut on social media. He wanted Lalin to translate his novel into Japanese. They were getting along well and build a good rapport.. One day, they plan to meet each other physically. However, Lilin felt ashamed because of heracne-covered face, she didnt show up to the meeting. 

Act 3:
Nut leave his novel for Lalin. By looking at the story, Lalin discovered the truth that Nut is the person he met at a Christmas Party. He was encouraged by Lalin to lose weight. Lalin felt regret. Eventually, they never meet in person again.

2. What is the inciting incident in the movie?
Lalin met Nut on social media, they were getting along well and build a good rapport. Later, Nut plan to have a physical meeting with her.

3. What is the midpoint scene in the movie?
Lalin shown her face in the film for the first time and she didn’t want to show up to the meeting with Nut.

4. What is the Climax scene in the movie?
Lalin discovered the truth that Nut is the person he met at a Christmas Party and she regret to not show up.

5.What is the theme of the movie?
The theme of this movie is you might feel inconfident and insecure of yourself, but never forget there is people that are helped, encouraged and influence by you to be a better person.



Week 3:


Storyboard in filmmaking is a visual representation of a film, animation, or video game. It is used to pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motiob graphic or interactive media sequence. 

A storyboard include:
  • Drawings, sketches, reference images or photographs to represent each frame.
  • A description of the shot (action, dialogue, or composition)
  • Shot specs (shot size, lens length, two-shot, etc). 
  • Arrows to indicate camera & character movement & how each shot connects to the next.
Fig 1.3 Example of storyboard


There is 2 basic versions of storyboard, 
  • Traditional storyboard: Include detailed information. 
  • Thumbnail stype storyboard: No images.
Most of the time, a storyboard is constructed to match what's already been written in the script but they can also become deeply tied to the actual storytelling process.

How to Make a Storyboard

1) Identify key scnes in the script
  • We need to break up the script and narrative we working on.
  • Mark the key parts of the sroty by higjlighting major beats (actions, locations, wardrobe, staging, narrative arches and major plot points)
2) Map out the key scenes
  • Map out the identifies scnes in the script, give each one a number and title. 
3) Add images or sketches
  • Idea lanscaping: Brainstorm the visual features of each beat within the landscape of a story.
4) Describe what happens in each frame
  • Try to conenct each frames and decribe the details of each scenes
  • Details including composition & framing, transitions, character blocking, emotion & expression, annotations and dynamic action
5) Share it with your team
  • Intive others to review the storyboard and receive feedback.
6) Finally, reference it on the day
  • Print the storybaord out or access it through digital devices.

Quiz



Week 4:

Asynchoronous class materials

Stages of film production:

1) Development
  • Idea generated by producer of screenwriter, and they begin to turn the idea into a movie/film.
  • Producer is responsible in collect the creative elements, called putting together a packagae. This include screenplay, IP. director and actors.
  • A package should reflect good sell-ability, which attract investment from the financier.

2) Pre-production
  • This is the stage that includes the necessary preparation before the filming begins. 
  • For example, budget management, gathering team and pre-visualizing using storybaord.
3) Production
  • This is the stage that the actual film take place.
  • This stage will include the call sheet (schedule for each department and what should they do), the set up (lighting, camera, make up and costume) and shooting.

4) Post-production
  • After capturing the footage, this is the time for post-production.
  • Thsi include tasks like picture editing, sound editing and additional visuals like VFX and CGI.
5) Distribution
  • This stage is often under-discussed in the film production stages. 
  • This stsage includes marketing and securing distribution.

Quiz


Week 5:

Asynchoronous class materials

Color Theory:
  1. A scientific principle that explains how color hues and saturations are created. 
  2. A creative discipline that examines how color is used to achieve emotional effect in visual art.
There is 3 types of color theory
  1. Color Wheel
  2. Color Context
  3. Color Harmony
Color has an enormous ability to affect how we regard the mood and tone of what we’re looking at.

Color Grading vs Color Correction

Color correction: 
  • Process of correcting or fixing colors in a video to get them back to what they should look like for your project. 
Color grading: 
  • Process of grading or editing colors in a video or film to give them a stylistic look.
Example of Color Grading & Color Correction

Color Correction

Color correction is usually first done as the raw footage tends to be oversaturated and need to be balanced out. The end goal is to make sure the footage looks exactly the way seen by human eye. Ideally, the footage should be shot as flat and underssaturated as possible.

These are the 5 basic steps to color correct:
  1. Normalize the footage as much as possible.
  2. Fix the saturation first.
  3. Fix the brightness and contrast.
  4. Set new white balance
  5. Double check the skin tones.

Color Grading

The right color grading will always help convey a visual tone or mood to heighten the narrative. The effect of color grading is done by using LUTs, look-up table. 

These are the 5 basic steps to color garde:
  1. Normalize the folate as much as possible.
  2. Follow the steps to correct the colors.
  3. Choose the desired look and style.
  4. Make the color adjustments in your editing program of choice.
  5. Double check skin tones and vectorscope.
*White Balance: The color temperature at which white object on film actually look white.

Quiz



Week 6:

Asynchoronous class materials

Mise en scène:
Mise en scène means everything that has to happen to make the finished image look the way it looks, which in turns helps your content feel the way you need. It’s pronounced meez-on-senn.

Mise en scène refers to the visuals of a film. It encompasses everything that appears within the frame or on stage and how these elements are organized to convey meaning, emotion, and narrative to the audience.

Mise en scene elements include: 

1. Setting and Location:
  • Physical Space: The environment where the action takes place, whether it's a realistic setting like a living room or an abstract, symbolic space.
  • Time Period: The era in which the story is set, influencing costumes, props, and set design.
2. Props and Objects:
  • Items used by characters or present in the scene that can symbolize themes, indicate character traits, or advance the plot.
3. Costume and Makeup:
  • Clothing and makeup that reflect a character’s personality, social status, occupation, or psychological state.
4. Lighting:
  • The use of light and shadow to create mood, highlight specific elements, and guide the audience’s focus. For example, high-contrast lighting can create a dramatic or tense atmosphere.
5. Composition and Framing:
  • How elements are arranged within the frame or on stage, including camera angles in film or the positioning of actors in theater. This affects how the audience perceives relationships and power dynamics.
6. Performance and Acting:
  • The actors’ physical movements, facial expressions, and interactions contribute significantly to the mise en scène, conveying emotions and subtext.
7. Color Palette:
  • The selection of colors used in costumes, sets, and lighting can evoke specific emotions or symbolize thematic elements.
8. Spatial Relationships:
  • The distance and arrangement between characters and objects, which can indicate intimacy, conflict, or hierarchy.
Quiz


Week 7


Sound is a tool to immerse the audience in a cinematic experience, or bring a fantastical creature to life, or ramp up the tension in a scene.

Follwing is the steps to sound effect techniques:

1. Create ambient sound
  • Ambeint sound does heavy lifting in the scene to let viewers heard what they expect to hear and immerse into the scene.
2. Establish some realism
  • It can be achieve by adding appropriate sound effects .
3. Use nonverbal storytelling
  • Viewers can hear a sound and understand a variety of meanings or suggestions.
4. Add sound effects for tension
  • Sound effect can tell the story of location or character. 
5. Shift audience emotions
  • Different type of sound effect can influence audience emotion.
  • Ambient sound effects help viewers make sense of what’s on screen, and nonverbal storytelling clues us in on the context.
6. Find sound effects
  • We could always find sound effect that fit our need from the internet.

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INSTRUCTIONS

This is the Module Information Booklet for this module: 


Exercises:
  • Exercise 1: Editing Exercise 1
  • Shooting Exercise: Framing
  • Exercise 2: Editing Exercise 2 
  • Storyboard Exercise


Exercise 1

We need to download all the footages from the google drive and import them into Adobe Premium Pro.

Steps:
  1. Download footage
  2. Create new Premium Pro Project
  3. Import footage into Premium Pro
  4. Arrange shots on timeline with proper order
  5. Export video
Exercise 1.1
Fig 1.1.1 Download footage

Fig 1.1.2 Import new fooatge & create new project

Fig 1.1.3 Arrange shots on timeline

Fig 1.1.4 Export sequences



Fig 1.1.5 Exericise 1.1: Editing Exercise



Exercise 1.2
For this exercise, we need to arrange the juggled up videos in order and export it.


Fig 1.1.6 Import new fooatge & create new project

Fig 1.1.7 Arrange shots on timeline

Fig 1.1.8 Export sequences

Fig 1.1.9 Exericise 1.2: Editing Exercise





Shooting Exercise: Framing

In this exercise, we are instructed to shoot a shot using different framing technics:
  1. Close-Up shot
  2. Frontal MCU (soft background)
  3. Frontal MS (soft background)
  4. Extreme Close-Up shot
  5. Side angle MS (soft background)
  6. 3/4 angling MCU shot (soft/blurry background)
  7. Low angle Wide shot
  8. Eye-Level Medium-Wide shot

Fooatges:
Fig 1.1.10 Footages

I import them into Premiere Pro and add the captions.

Fig 1.1.11 Import & add captions

Fig 1.1.11 Export Video

Fig 1.1.12 Shooting Exercise: Framing



Exercise 2

We are instructed to download raw footages from clips and edit them accordingly to 35 seconds sharp. I watch the original LALIN video and noted down some important point. 

Fig 1.2.1 Short Film Iklan Thailand: LALIN

Rough cut of the sequences:

Fig 1.2.2 Rough cut


After this, I add in the text graphic along with the text animation (move up & fade out).

Fig 1.2.3 Add in text graphic and text animation


For the part that the male protagonist fade out, I follow the tutorial and apply Cross Dissolve effect.

Fig 1.2.4 Cross Dissolve Transition

Fig 1.2.5 Cross Dissolve Effect

Lastly, I add in the texting sound effect and do some final adjustment to fit the clips into 35 second.

Fig 1.2.6 Texting sounf effect

Fig 1.2.7 Final adjustment

Fig 1.2.8 Exercise 2: LALIN



Storyboard Exercise

In this week, we are doing storyboard exercise as the practise for the next project. We can complete the storyboarding either using physical or digital tool.

We will need to:
  1. Select visual effects shot with tutorial supported.
  2. Build story around the visual effect shot (1 character, 1 continuous event).
  3. Break the story into plot segment.
  4. Describe shots with scene and shot size.
We are given the story with the shot size and scene.
Fig 1.3.1 Story with shot size and scene 1

Fig 1.3.2 Story with shot size and scene 2


Fig 1.3.3 Storyboard Exercise



Stop Motion Shooting Exercise 

In this week, we are going to do stop motion shooting exercise. We are given 2 stop motion videos and we will need to recreate a few scenes. 

Fig 1.4.1 Video 1_Adopt Dont't Shop

Fig 1.4.2 Video 2_Clays


I downlaod the image in JPEG and import it into Premiere Pro. 


Fig 1.4.4 Stop Motion Exercise 2_Clays



VFX Exercise

In this week, we are going to do VFX exercise in After Effect. 

Fig 1.5.1 VFX Exericse Tutorial

Following are the provided footages.

Fig 1.5.2 VFX Exercise Footages

I follow the tutorial to remove the green screen of the hand.

Fig 1.5.3 Fix Bad Green Screen Footage

Fig 1.5.4 Remove green screen

After that, I start editing the composition and add others effect to the video.

Fig 1.5.5 Final Timeline

Fig 1.5.6 VFX Exercise Video


REFLECTIONS

Overall, most of the exercises are simple and straightforward. It is made for students to have the basic fundamental and understanding to some concept and tools, which is essential in our personal projects.

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