Video and Sound Production - Exercise
29.8.2023 - 28.11.2023(Week1- Week 14)
Low Li Vern/ 0362678
Video and Sound Production / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
Exercise
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LECTURES
Week 2
Shot Size
The shot size determines how large the area that’s visible within the
frame.
-Extreme wide shot
-Wide shot
-Medium wide shot
-Medium shot
-Medium close-up shot
-Close-up shot
-Extreme close-up shot
1. Wide shot - W.S
A wide shot includes the entire subject and important objects in the
immediate surroundings. If it's used at the beginning of a scene it's
often called an "establishing shot”.
2. Medium shot - M.S
A medium shot shows the subject that are important to understanding -
Gesture and expression, from the person waist up, letting hands and the
lower half of his body fall outside the frame.
3. Medium close-up shot - M.C.U
Medium close up films subject character from approximately midway between
waist and shoulders to above the head.
4. Over the shoulder shot - O.S
The over-shoulder shot shows the subject from behind the shoulder of
another person.
5. Extreme wide shot - E.W.S
Shows a broad view of the surroundings around the character and conveys
scale, distance, and geographical location. It's used to show where
character is in his/her environment.
6. Medium wide shot - M.W.S
A medium wide shot shows a character usually cut off across the legs
above or below the knees. It is wide enough to show the physical setting
in which the action is taking place, it permit a nice balance of figure
and surrounding.
7. Close-up shot - C.U
A close-up is used to isolate the most important part of the subject. For
a speaker, this is generally the head, or small object. It emphasizes
facial expression, details of a object.
8.Extreme close-up shot - E.C.U
An extreme close-up single out a portion of the face magnifies a detail.
The object is to focus on important detail either to increase the drama or
impact on a situation or to allow the viewer to see necessary picture
information more clearly.
Camera Angle
Composition:
Rule of thirds divides the
frame into thirds both horizontally and vertically. The points where the
vertical and horizontal lines cross are aesthetically pleasing spots to
place subjects or to have perspective lines converge
Re-cap
-Story (What happened?): The set of all the events in cause-effect
relationship occurring in time and space, both the ones explicitly presented
and those the viewer infers, constitutes the story.-Plot (Why they happened? And how?): Everything visibly and audibly present in the film, and material that is extraneous to the story world.-Plot Segmentation: The best method for understanding a film’s narrative system is to create a plot segmentation, a scene-by-scene outline of the entire film.
Story Structure
3 – ACT Structure
1. Beginning:
Setup / introduction of a story
2. Middle:
Confrontation of a problem
3. End:
Resolution of problems
-Plot Point I: "the plot thickens"
•The "inciting incident"
•Turn the story in a new direction
•Sets up what Act Two is going to
be
•Raises the stakes
•Reminder of the narrative enigma;
presents the possibility of a different outcome
-Plot Point II: "the longest mile”
•The "Climactic Turning Point"
•Protagonist's quest reaches
critical mass
•Possible solution is presented
•Biggest cliffhanger: will the
protagonist win or lose?
1. BEGINNING/SETUP:
To introduce the world.
To introduce the main characters.
To establish the dramatic situation.
Leads to an incident that complicates the story
(PLOT POINT 1).
MIDDLE/CONFRONTATION:
Known as ‘Rising Action’.
To develop obstacles / complications.
Leads to climax of the story
(PLOT POINT 2).
END/RESOLUTION:
Ending of climax
Answer to all obstacles / problems
Tying the loose ends
Week 4
1. Composition: The deliberate selection of frames and camera angles that make up a shot.
2. Set Design: Everything the audience sees within a particular scene.
3. Lighting: Tool that conveys mood most clearly. - High-key lighting vs Low-key lighting
4. Costumes: One of the most useful tools in communicating a character’s thoughts and journey.
5. Props: An object with a function serves to drive the narrative or become a motif to underscore the themes of the film.
6. Depth of Space: The distances between objects, people, and scenery, influenced by their placement along with camera location and lens choice.
Week 5
Colour Correction: The process of adjusting each clip in a video to ensure a consistent look. It involves making whites appear truly white, blacks genuinely black, and maintaining even colour balance throughout.
RGB:
A colour model where red, green, and blue light are combined in different ways to create a wide range of colours.
Sensing, representation, and display of images in electronic systems.
Tutorials
1. Select Colour Panel.
2. Select Lumetri scope: RGB Parade, Waveform, Vectorscope.
3. Decide Luminosity Value.
4. See only highlight, midtone, shadow.
5. Adjust Basic Correction: Exposure, Highlight, Shadow
6. Right click and select Display Mode → Comparison View to see Before & After
7. Refer to waveform during adjustment.
8. Use the 1st adjusted clip as reference to work on the rest.
Colour Grading: Enhances visuals for storytelling. After ensuring a natural look, you can use it to establish a new visual tone, increasing contrast, saturation, and adding new colours.
Week 6
Stop Motion
Stop Motion is filmed one frame at a time.
Pre-production
- Prepare storyboard.
-Clock every shot.
-Start collecting sound clips.
-Prepare material and build puppets and background
Production
-Set camera on tripod.
-Use manual exposure and focus.
-Shoot during the day but use manual lighting.
Post-production
-Shooting Stop motion with DSLR
~Select jpeg L/Fine
~Resolution: 5K-6K
~DSLR photo default aspect ratio: 3:2. Change it to 16:9.
- Shooting Stop motion with Phone
~Use app to export video for editing
INSTRUCTIONS
EXERCISES
Week 2 Exercise
Shooting Exercise: Framing
-Low angle Wide shot
-Frontal MCU (soft background)
-Fontal MS (soft background)
-Extreme Close-Up shot
-Side angle MS (soft background)
-¾ angling MCU shot (with blurry/soft foreground)
-Close-Up shot
-Eye-Level Medium-Wide shot
We were assigned to explore the shot size in pairs. We help each other to
take a shot using different shot size. Through this exercise we can
understand and make sure we know how is it use.
Framing shooting Exercise Reminder
-Shoot wide shot with wide angle.
-The rest ZOOM IN to get soft background.
-Refer to the examples provided or google references for GOOD composition.
-Avoid overexposed or underexposed (too bright or too dark).
-Do the shooting during day time.
-Shoot landscape format video, 5 seconds per shot.
-Edit with CAPTION (Mention the shot size), export video for submission.
Premiere Pro Editing Exercise
Exercise: Shooting practise, shoot & editing (add caption: Adobe
Premiere Pro CC - Basic Titles for Beginners)
Week 3 Exercise
Exercise: Editing Practise 1(Lalin)
Following the post-shooting editing exercise, Mr. Martin shared a Google
Drive link with us regarding the short film "Lalin." Inside the folder, I
find resources related to shots, graphic elements, and audio for the film.
Our objective is to organize these materials in accordance with the
storyboard, ensuring the inclusion of necessary elements and smooth
transitions.
1.Exercise: Editing Practise 1(Lalin) Download the footage:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LGt1c2xPYia6gzLQGG_IuLnXgLvQnJvu?usp=sharing
2.View the Original video:https://youtu.be/dSvEKiRB8EY
3.Watch the Editing tutorial video:https://youtu.be/mmQHkApEREM
4.Lalin final cut: Edit to 35 seconds sharp.
WEEK 4 Act Structure
Exercise 1: GUANG
Week 9 Exercise
Exercise: Stop Motion Practice
Mr. Martin organized us into several groups, and our task was to create
a Halloween-themed stop-motion video. Our main character was a person
with a black ethnicity, and we added additional sub-characters to
enhance the storyline.
WEEK 10/ VFX Trial
Download footage & AE project file:
Editing Breakdown
1. Import shots into AE.
2. Arrange the shots in COMPOSITION following the tutorial video.
3. Variations: Pre-compose FLICK, JUMPING shots in different compositions, hence the two shots both need masking.
4. JUMPING shot: Use only the few frames that character floating in air.
5. JUMPING composition: Try time stretching to decide appropriate duration.
6. To match size/shape with BUMPING shot, apply Puppet tool to JUMPING’s composition, and add keyframes size/position.
7. Add adjustment layer to match colour for all layers.
THE END
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