Video and Sound Production - Final Project
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Video and Sound Production
Final Project
LECTURE NOTES
Lecture 6
2/10/2019 (Week 6)
Mr Martin taught us how to use colour correction.
Lecture 7
9/10/2019 (Week 7)
Mr Martin is telling us about an action and reaction shot.
Lecture 8
16/10/2019 (Week 8)
No lecture was conducted.
We were presenting our final project.
Lecture 9
24/10/2019 (Week 9)
The class was replace to Thursday as most of the class were doing assignment for MPU module.
No lecture was conducted as Mr Martin was looking through our test shot of the stop motion.
2/10/2019 (Week 6)
Mr Martin taught us how to use colour correction.
Lecture 7
9/10/2019 (Week 7)
Mr Martin is telling us about an action and reaction shot.
Lecture 8
16/10/2019 (Week 8)
No lecture was conducted.
We were presenting our final project.
Lecture 9
24/10/2019 (Week 9)
The class was replace to Thursday as most of the class were doing assignment for MPU module.
No lecture was conducted as Mr Martin was looking through our test shot of the stop motion.
Final Project
Week 6
Mr Martin gave us a tarot reading to give us a theme. Mr Martin said that we don't need to follow the theme, he just want us to get some inspirational ideas from it. After choosing cards, I got the Moon card.
The description is below:
After that I got some ideas for my stop motion. The material that I want to use is paper cut.
Idea 1: My idea of the stop motion is about a girl who likes reading. Reading lets you to image the scenarios of the story. So, my ideas is that the book absorbs her into the story. After getting sucked into the book, she became the protagonist of the story and perform a task to go home. The twist is that she wakes up from a dream. (Seems too long)
Idea 2: A girl that likes to draw and have a pen that can turn what she draws become real.
Idea 3: In a museum, a girl is admiring a painting but then was pulled into the painting. Then become one of the exhibition.
Week 7
Mr Martin gave us a tarot reading to give us a theme. Mr Martin said that we don't need to follow the theme, he just want us to get some inspirational ideas from it. After choosing cards, I got the Moon card.
The description is below:
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| Fig. 1.1: Tarot Card 1 (Moon) |
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| Fig. 1.2: Tarot Card 2 (Moon) |
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| Fig. 1.3: Tarot Card 3 (Moon) |
After that I got some ideas for my stop motion. The material that I want to use is paper cut.
Idea 1: My idea of the stop motion is about a girl who likes reading. Reading lets you to image the scenarios of the story. So, my ideas is that the book absorbs her into the story. After getting sucked into the book, she became the protagonist of the story and perform a task to go home. The twist is that she wakes up from a dream. (Seems too long)
Idea 2: A girl that likes to draw and have a pen that can turn what she draws become real.
Idea 3: In a museum, a girl is admiring a painting but then was pulled into the painting. Then become one of the exhibition.
Week 7
Museum (Wide)
· A girl is standing in front of a painting of a cat (facing the back)
Painting 1 (Cat)
· Girl’s eyes sparkling
· Cat moving
· Girl surprises and fascinated
· Cat stands and jumps to another painting
Running happily towards
Painting 2 (European Lady)
· Pick the cat and pats it
· Waves at girl
· Girl waves back
· Put the cat down and the cat jumps to another painting
Painting 3 (Boy with harp in a flower field)
· Cat plays with flower beside the boy
· Boy notices the girl, stands and offers hand to the girl
· Girl happily accepts
· Close up of hands
· Boy pulled the girl into the painting and plays together with the cat
· Showing the painting of the three of them, light is dimmed
· Boy looks out the painting and notices it and points out showing the girl
· The girl is sad and the boy pushes her out of the painting
· Bright light (White screen)
· Girl wakes up (close up) beside the painting of the boy (wide medium)
We divided the scenes and separately drew it. Then we put the drawings Adobe Premier Pro.
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| Fig. 2.1: Scenes 1 |
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| Fig. 2.2: Scenes |
Animatic Video:
Link to slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xzMCyK9uZHgaqcrO_0q9M8iTy1td9b_AKhmLM5T5JfA/edit?usp=sharing
Week 8
Test shooting of the scene:
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| Fig. 3.1: Scene 1 |
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| Fig. 3.2: Scene 2 |
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| Fig. 3.3: Scene 3 |
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| Fig. 3.4: Scene 4 |
Week 9
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| Fig. 4.1: Process 1 |
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| Fig. 4.2: Process 2 |
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| Fig. 4.3: Process 3 |
Video of test shot:
Storyboard renew:
Act 1 (9s)
WS (1s)
- girl standing in front of cat painting
OS (2s)
- girl in front of cat
- cat slightly moving
CU (2s)
- girl surprises with “WOW”
- rubbing her eyes
OS on MS (2s)
- looks at painting again
- cat is still
MCU (2s)
- girl questions herself
- walks by cat painting
Act 2 (21-24s)
WS (3s)
- Standing in front of boy painting
- appreciate painting
- boy stands
CU (1s)
- girl surprises
MS (2s)
- boy walks towards the girl and extended hand
- girl hesitates then smiles and accepts
CU (3s)
- taking hand
MWS (3-4s)
- pulls her in (disappearing)
- landed in his arms
MCU (3s)
- girl looks around
- checks herself
- smiles towards the boy
MWS (3-4s)
- boy shows magic by flicks his finger
- place change from day to night
- girl whirls around
OS (1s)
- boy looks happy seeing the girl
MCU (1-2s)
- boy shows firefly to girl
OS (1s)
- girl happy
- girl happy
WS (1s)
- them holding hands
- them holding hands
Act 3 (29-36s)
WS (2-3s)
- museum light dimming
- square of light slowly appear
OS (4-6s)
- boy looks at the light and is surprise
- realize it’s time
- taps the girl’s shoulder
- girl turns around
MWS (1s)
- boy takes girl’s hand
OS (3-4s)
- girl is curious
- saw the museum and realize it’s time
- stop in front of museum
MWS (2s)
- boy turns around
- takes the other hand of the girl
CU (1s)
- boy smiles faintly (sad)
OS (4-5s)
- boy kisses girl on the forehead
- girl blushes with eyes widen and smiles faintly and cry
- boy also smiles back
MS (2-3s)
- girl raises her hand and wave goodbye
- girl turns to walk towards the museum
CU (3s)
- hands letting go
MS (1s)
- girl walks out
OS (1s)
- square becomes smaller and disappear
CU (1-2s)
- girl slowly opens her eyes
- realizing she is back in the museum
WS (2-3s)
- the guard passes by and saw the girl sitting beside the painting
- the guard lets her out of the museum
We have renew the storyboard and the total of time to take is around 73 seconds (1 min 13 s). We can have it longer around 2 minutes.
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| Fig. 5.1: Storyboard 1 |
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| Fig. 5.2: Storyboard 2 |
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| Fig. 5.3: Storyboard 3 |
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| Fig. 5.4: Storyboard 4 |
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| Fig. 5.5: Storyboard 5 |
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| Fig. 5.6: Storyboard 6 |
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| Fig. 5.7: Storyboard 7 |
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| Fig. 5.8: Storyboard 8 |
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| Fig. 6.1: Wire removal 1 |
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| Fig. 6.2: Wire removal 2 |
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| Fig. 7.1: Simple Character Sheet |
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| Fig. 7.2: Process of making the boy |
I drew the boy and cat (Painting section) while Chan Hee drew the girl and the guard (Museum section), and also the props we divide the work for each section.
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| Fig. 7.3: Cat anatomy |
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| Fig. 7.4: MediBang Paint |
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| Fig. 7.5: Background |
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| Fig. 7.6: Props |
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| Fig. 7.7: Supporting Characters and more props |
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| Fig. 7.8: Main Character (Girl) |
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| Fig. 7.9: Second Main Character (Boy) |
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| Fig. 8.1: Shooting Process 1 |
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| Fig. 8.2: Shooting Process 2 |
*Note: Use a tripod. (My back hurts doing this for a long period of time)
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| Fig. 9: Frames |
So, we have to re-shoot.
Mr Martin also help us refine the storyboard.
Re-shooting:
Link to new storyboard:
Storyboard slides
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| Fig. 10.1: Re-shoot Process 1 |
After that our friend taught us, how to use it properly, so we shot on the floor because it would be easier to move the characters.
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| Fig. 10.2: Re-shoot Process 2 |
Week 13 - 14
Music (Mostly):
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| Fig. 11.1: Music and Sound Effects |
Chan Hee finds the musics and sound effects while I edit the video and audio.
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This is the website we use to get the music and sound effects from YouTube.
Link:
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| Fig. 12.1: Editing Process (Visual) |
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| Fig. 12.2: Editing Process (Audio) |
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| Fig. 12.3: Compilation of Visual and Audio |
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qgumPiiKbEb2Z8gV3Zl0zwSjQk7qk9wy/view?usp=sharing
Link to video (first version):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q3rc2M5qlOw2KRVqiQ52rkNaBP_mg6Bx/view?usp=sharing
The music in the video was too soft.
I think it was because I turn down the volume when I was using the headset, so that I would not hurt my ear drums.
So, I tried to not use the headset when editing sound.
Mr Martin help us the refine the storyboard again to shorten the time by cutting and merging some scenes.
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| Fig. 13.1: Guard Scene |
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| Fig. 13.2: Realization Scene |
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| Fig. 14.1: Photoshopping 1 |
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| Fig. 14.2: Photoshopping 2 |
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| Fig. 15: Night Ambiance |
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| Fig. 16: Adobe Audition |
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| Fig. 17: Adobe Premier Pro |
YouTube Link:
https://youtu.be/GsoZhK3sqSs
Link to (final version):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UmfsyzEIY9sH1t1eKXn9P5YQ50hvlteY/view?usp=sharing
FEEDBACK
Week 7:
Mr Martin said that add in the action and reaction shot of the girl and the painting of the lady.
Week 8:
Mr Martin said that the message of the world of painting should be stronger. The moment where the girl is pulled into the painting and plays with the boy should be longer. Mr Martin and Mr Razif suggested that we could use different medium to tell the difference between the world where the girl live and the world of painting.
Week 9:
Mr Martin suggested us to renew the storyboard and gave us some advice about making it better. He suggest us to change the camera angle of the girl entering into the portal to 90 degree angle instead of 45 degree angle. He had adviced us to make the beginning shorter and have the interaction of the girl and the boy longer and romantic.
Week 10:
No feedback.
Week 11:
Mr Martin told us that our photos were not enough to make a sequence because it's too short and need to have 24 frames per seconds.
Week 12 - 13:
No feedback.
Week 14:
For sound, Mr Razif said that most of our sound effects are muted by the background music. The footsteps sounds like it's working on a stage, it should be on concrete, add some more sound effects such as the question mark, exclamation mark and swooshing sound and also squeaking rubbing eyes. For the background music, we can have a harp music because the boy is holding a harp and should add the ambience sound for the museum and in the painting sound.
Tip: Make the sound effort first before the background music because the music might masked the sound effort, without sound effort the video looks dead.
For visual, Mr Martin said the visual is fine and we should continue to polish up the video.
Week 9:
Mr Martin suggested us to renew the storyboard and gave us some advice about making it better. He suggest us to change the camera angle of the girl entering into the portal to 90 degree angle instead of 45 degree angle. He had adviced us to make the beginning shorter and have the interaction of the girl and the boy longer and romantic.
Week 10:
No feedback.
Week 11:
Mr Martin told us that our photos were not enough to make a sequence because it's too short and need to have 24 frames per seconds.
Week 12 - 13:
No feedback.
Week 14:
For sound, Mr Razif said that most of our sound effects are muted by the background music. The footsteps sounds like it's working on a stage, it should be on concrete, add some more sound effects such as the question mark, exclamation mark and swooshing sound and also squeaking rubbing eyes. For the background music, we can have a harp music because the boy is holding a harp and should add the ambience sound for the museum and in the painting sound.
Tip: Make the sound effort first before the background music because the music might masked the sound effort, without sound effort the video looks dead.
For visual, Mr Martin said the visual is fine and we should continue to polish up the video.
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