VIDEO & SOUND PRODECTION
|| Leong Hui Xuan 0365793
|| 21/04/2025- 21/7/2025 (Week 1 - Week 14)
|| Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
|| Exercises and Lectures
Table of Content
INSTRUCTION
LECTURES
Week 1:
Camera shot: Camera sot is a sequence of frames captured
continuosly from the moment the camera begins recording until it stops. It
play a key role in filmmaking and video production by using a mix of
different shot types, angles, and movements.
Camera shot framing: A creative and technical process that
involves thoughtfully poistioning subjects within the frame. It's about
crafting a visually engaging composition that enhances the story you're
telling.
Camera shot angle: A positioned when capturing a scene. By
choosing different angles, filmmakers can influence the mood, tone, and
emotional impact of a scene.
Composition: Composition is about how the elements within a scene
ar eorganized inside the camera frame that clearly communicates the
intended message or emotion to the audience.
Week 2:
Cinematography
- Motion picture/ Film/ Video made by many shot
- Place the camera in the best position
- Continuous view shot by one camera
- Series of scenes/ shots
- Scene defined the place or setting
- Scene consists of series/ continuous event
Earliest Cinema
- Cinema technique is about manipulating shots and sequence in what order to see them.
Shot Size
- Extreme wide shot
- Wide shot
- Medium wide shot
- Medium shot
- Medium close-up shot
- Close-up shot
- Extreme close-up shot
Over the shoulder shot:
- This shot show the subject from behind the shoulder or another person.
- The aim is to present the point of view from the foreground character's perspective.
Depth of field:
- The size of the area in the image where object acceptably sharp.
Week 3:
Storyboard
- A visual representation of a film, animation, or video game.
- Plan shots, understand the narrative flow and communicate ideas.
- Include camera angles, character movements, dialogue, and special effects
or sounds.
- Storyboard is a tools that filmmakers bring their idea into
process.
What does Storyboard needs:
- Drawings, sketches or moodboard to represent each frame.
- Description of the shot of the action, dialogue or compositions.
- Shot specs about shot size, lens length, two - shot etc.
- Arrows/ labels to indicate camera or character movement.
Traditional Storyboards:
- Basic pencil sketches that include information or labels
for camera movements, characters, porps,etc.
Thumnail style Storyboard:
- Don't have writting , use term thumbnail in article that reffering tp the
image.
Week 4:
Production
- Production stages in filmmaking can broken down into 3 phase:
- Pre-production
- Production
- Post-production
Pre-Production:
- Refers to all the preparation necessary before filming. It's everything
happend between financing and production, includes tasks such as
writing the script, creating storyboards, casting actors, scouting
locations, designing sets and costumes, and hiring crew members.
Production:
- Actual filming take place. Team will work together to capture all
the footage with plans and preparations made during pre-production stages as
a guide. Involves coordinating with a large team of people and managing a
complex schedule.
Post-Production
- Edit ans assmbled the footage into a final product. Includes cutting,
arranging scenes, adding music and shound effects, colour grading, and
visual effects. It is a time consuming process as it requires carefull
attention to detail.
Week 5:
Mise en scène
- Mise en scène is a French term
that mean "placing on stage". It refers to the overall visual arrangement
and presentation of a scene. This encompass everything appears within the
frame on stage and how these elements are organized to bring emotion and
narrative.
Key Components of Mise en scène:
- Setting and Location - The physical space where the action takes place, whether it's a realistic setting like a living room or an abstract, sy,mbolic space. Time period which in the story is set, influencing costumes, props and set design.
- Props and Object - Items used by characters or present in the scene.
- Costume and Makeup - Clothing and makeup that reflect character's personality, social status, occupation, or psychological state.
- Lightning - The use of light and shadow to create mood, highlight specific elements, and guide the audience’s focus.
- 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.
- Performance and Acting - The actors’ physical movements, facial expressions, and interactions contribute significantly to the mise en scène, conveying emotions and subtext.
- Color Palette - The colors used in costumes, sets and lightning.
- Spatial Relationship - The distance and arrangement between characters and objects.
Week 6:
Colour Correction
- Refers to the process where every individual clip of a video
footage is edit to match colour temperature of multiple shots.
- It's to balancing colours and everything in between is nice and
even.
RGB
- An additive color model in which red, green and blue light are added
together in various ways.
- Purpose is for the sensing, representation and display or images in
electronic systems, such as televisions and computers.
Colour Grading
- Is about taking what you have done in color correction by altering
an image for aesthetic and communicative purpose.
- Once everything is looking nice them enhance story by manipulating colors
to create a new visual tone.
Colour grade:
- Teel and Orange
- Blueish
- Greenish
- Brownish
- Desaturation
- B&W, High Contrast.
Week 8:
Sound Shaping with EQ
Frequency Range:
- Hertz(Hz): Human hearing, frequency range from 20Hz to 20,000Hz.
Dinamic Range:
- Decibels (dB): The threshold of human hearing is measured as
0dB SPL (sound pressure level) and the threshold of pain 130dB SPL.
Space:
- Mono sounds are recorded using single audio channel, while stereo sounds
are recorded using two audio channels.
Muffled Sound Effects
- muffle sound usually by wrapping it with something. For
example to speak with a scarf over your mouth.
REVERB Sound Effects
- Sound in SPACE. Echo caused by the reflection of sound
waves from a surface.
- Decay Time: Specifies how many milliseconds the reverb takes to decay
60 dB.Longer values give longer reverb tails.
- Pre‑Delay Time: Specifies how many milliseconds reverb takes to build
to its maximum amplitude.
- Perception:Simulates irregularities in the environment.
- Dry: To add subtle spaciousness, set the Dry percentage higher to
achieve a special effect, set the Dry percentage lower.
- Wet: To add subtle spaciousness to a track, keep the Wet percentage
lower than the Dry percentage.
WEEK 1 EXERCISE
EXERCISE 1 - MINTS VIDEO EDIT
This exercise we need to follow the number of the video to edit the
video clips, and this video is about an ads of Mints.
Figure 1.0, Step 1
For the first exercise, we need to download the video from google
drive and import in Adobe Premium Pro.
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| Figure 1.1, Step 2 |
Then, we need to follow the number (mints01) of the clips and
click on the insert button add to the row.
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| Figure 1.2, Step 3 |
Last, after arrange all the video clips, we can export the video.
Final Video Link:
Figure 1.3, Final Video for Exercise 1
EXERCISE 2- DORITOS VIDEO EDIT
The second video is about the Doritos ads, but the number of the video
clips is wrong, so we need to based on the content of the video to
rearrange the video clips.
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| Figure 2.1, Steps 1 |
First step is same as the exercise 1, download the videos and import in
Adobe Premium Pro.
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| Figure 2.2, Steps 2 |
Then, listen to the audio and watch the video clips, find the first
video clips until the last video clips.
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| Figure 2.3, Steps 3 |
There is a different timeline in each video clips in F2.3 that I framed
in red, we can based on the timeline of the video clips to rearrange the
video clips. Besides, after we comfirm the video frames, can use the
insert button in F2.3, that I circle in blue.
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| Figure 2.4, Steps 4 |
Figure 2.5, Final Video for Exercise 2
WEEK 2 EXERCISE
3-Act Story Structure
Lalin Video
Act 1: The introduction
- The film start with a young women named Lalin， showing her social
media and sharing the daily to it. She use filter and beauty settings on
her photos everytime when she post to social media.
Act 2: Conflict and Rising Action
- She get a job about transfer the book to japanese, and the illustration
of the book is a moon. She getting interesting to the author because, her
name "Lailin" mean Moon also. Then they started chat and share the daily
life to each other. One day, the guys come to Lailin place and want to
meet her, but she is scared to show the face to him so she rejected
him.
Act 3: Climax and Resolution
- After Lailin rejected to meet him, he left a book on the table and
required Lailin to see. The book is about the guy and Lailin story, they
met each other in real life before. She finally know the guy feeling, and
try to get him back. The film ends with an atmosphere of mutual respect an
dcherishing the people in front of you.
Inciting Incident
- The inciting incident occurs when she was asked to take off her mask,
initiating a series of interactions that set the stage for the unfolding
narrative.
Midpoint Scene
- The midpoint is marked when the guy makes a bold move to express his
feelings. The moment shifts the dynamic between him and Lailin, adding
emotional and complexity to their relationship.
Climax Scene
- The climac happens when Lailin responds to the guy conffession, her
reaction is a turning point to revealing her true feelings to the
emotional peaks.
Theme of the Movie
- The theme of the movie revolves around unspoken emotions and the
complexity of relationships. It shows that getting along with people is
not just about appearance, and the idea that inner beauty is also
important. It calls on people to be themselves.
CLASS SHOOTING EXERCISE
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