Video and Sound Production - Exercises

28/8/2019 - 2/10/2019 (Week 1 - Week 6)
Vun Wan Min (0334263)
Video and Sound Production
Exercises

---

LECTURE NOTES

Lecture 1

28/8/2019 (Week 1)

Class started with a warm welcome from Mr Martin and Mr Razif, then following an introduction from us to introduce ourselves to Mr Razif. After the introduction, our lecturers gave us a brief introduction about the upcoming exercises and projects to us.

Lecture 2
4/9/2019 (Week 2)




Lecture 3
11/9/2019 (Week 3)




Lecture 4
18/9/2019 (Week 4)

Mr Martin let us watch some videos to give us some ideas of the introduction, climax and ending.

Lecture 5
25/9/2019 (Week 5)

No lecture was conducted.
We were filming for Project 2.

Lecture 6
2/10/2019 (Week 6)

Mr Martin taught us how to use colour correction.

---

INSTRUCTION

---

EXERCISES

Week 1

Video

Stop Motion Review

Mr Martin asked us to find 3 of our favourite/liked stop motion video on YouTube/Online.

1. The Maker - Christopher Kezelos

This video is about a strange creature creating life with music that was worth it's time. It has beautiful music, a good plot and a good background details. I liked the details they put in the characters, background and the props they used.

2. Negative Space - Jason Sondhi

In this video is about a neat and tidy guy that loves his father. He remembers how his father taught him to fill up all the empty spaces in a luggage. I like how the animation is smooth and the narration was a perfect fit for the plot. The plot is interesting and is methodically spoken. It has a low-key darkness in the plot.

3. Shaun The Sheep - Nick Park

A childhood favourite of mine, it is about a clever and mischievous sheep that lives at Mossy Bottom Farm with his flocks, that is located in the northern area of England. It is also from the same creator of Wallace and Gromit. I like the plot of the story, which is a comedy series of Shaun and his friends in their everyday life. I also like the animation of it, even without a line of speech, we can easily understand what they are trying to express through actions and observation.

Video Editing

Mr Martin gave us some clips to cut some scenes using Adobe Premiere Pro to help get started with the software.

Fig. 1.1: Good Shot Folder

With the video and the video taken from our seniors, we started to cut them.

Fig. 1.2: Screenshot of cutting video

Week 2

Video

We continue to cut the video into 50 seconds.

Sound
Our first exercise from Mr Razif is about testing our hearing. We were given some audio files and our exercise is to imitate the original sound and try to make it the same with the sound. Each audio was different.

Fig. 2.1: EQ 1

Fig. 2.2: EQ 2

Fig. 2.3: EQ 3

Fig. 2.4: EQ 4

Fig. 2.5: EQ 5

Fig. 2.6: EQ 6

Week 3
Video

Fig. 3.1: Shooting Reference 1

Fig. 3.2: Shooting Reference 2

Week 4

Discussing about Project 2.
We then had a shooting practice using a DSLR camera.

Week 5

Filming day.
Video: Project 2

Week 6

Fig. 5: Colour Correction

Mr Martin is teaching us about the colour correction in Adobe Premier Pro. For the 50 seconds video, we need to make a spooky colour to it.

---

FEEDBACK

Week 2: 
The video of The Maker makes a strong impression because of the character. Mr Martin said that the medium can be anything such as clay, paper-cut, lego, mixed medium and others.  

Week 3: 
Mr Razif told me that my EQ 5 is wrong and my EQ 6 is almost correct and to re-edit it.

Week 4:
No feedback.

Week 5:
No Feedback

Week 6:
No Feedback